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CHAPTER FIFTEEN: First Walk
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Too Skinny To Be Luna CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Draven's Bad Idea
Draven's POVI've had four cups of the strongest wine the pack cellar keeps, and it still isn't enough to drown out the sound of Kaelan's voice from the courtyard, calm and cold and utterly final, telling me exactly what I already knew and hoped, foolishly, might not be true.“She deserves someone who chose her before he had to be convinced.”I pour a fifth cup and don't bother diluting it.The tavern room adjoining the pack house isn't usually this full at this hour, but half of Blackmoor's off-duty warriors seem to have found their way here tonight, drawn by the same restless energy that's had the whole territory on edge since a King walked out of our tree line and turned our world inside out. Nobody bothers me. I'm still Alpha, whatever that means these days, and the space around my corner table stays respectfully, carefully empty.I don't want it empty. I want to hit something.I've spent weeks — actual weeks, not the performance of effort but genuine, grinding work — trying to b
Too Skinny To Be Luna CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: He Doesn't Mention Her
Lyra's POVSomething's different about him after Soren's message.I notice it first at dinner — small things, the kind only someone who's spent the last several days learning the particular rhythms of a person would catch. He laughs a beat too late at something one of the Elders says. He answers a question about tomorrow's council meeting and then, a moment later, seems to forget he already answered it, repeating himself with a distracted little frown before catching his own mistake."You're somewhere else tonight," I say, low, leaning toward him while the Elders argue amongst themselves about grain stores for the coming winter."I'm right here." He smiles, and it's a good smile, practiced and warm, but I've spent enough time watching him now to recognize the difference between the smile he means and the one he's using to smooth over something else."You're not, actually." I keep my voice light, testing. "You've been somewhere else since your Beta pulled you aside this afternoon."So
Too Skinny To Be Luna CHAPTER SIXTEEN: A Letter from the South
Kaelan's POVThe days since the garden have taken on a rhythm I haven't allowed myself in longer than I care to admit — mornings spent in council with Blackmoor's Elders, afternoons spent, more often than not, finding some excuse to be wherever Lyra happens to be.Today it's the training yard, empty at this hour, the late sun slanting gold across the packed dirt. She's practicing a sequence a pack warrior taught her weeks ago — footwork, mostly, nothing that engages the power sleeping beneath her skin — and I've told myself I'm here to observe her progress as a matter of strategic interest.I'm not entirely sure I believe that anymore."You're watching my feet wrong," she says, not looking at me, correcting a stance before I've said a single word about it."I'm not watching your feet at all," I say, honestly, and have the satisfaction of seeing her falter half a step, color rising faintly in her cheeks before she recovers."That's not better.""I didn't say it was better. I said it wa
Too Skinny To Be Luna CHAPTER FIFTEEN: First Walk
Lyra's POVHe finds me an hour later, sitting alone on the low stone wall that borders the eastern gardens — the quiet part of the grounds nobody bothers with, all overgrown hedges and a fountain that hasn't worked properly in years. I didn't expect anyone to look for me here. I definitely didn't expect him to find me on the first try."May I sit?" Kaelan asks, hovering a polite distance away like he's genuinely prepared to accept no for an answer.I consider making him work for it. Then I sigh and shift over on the wall, which he apparently takes as sufficient permission, settling beside me with far more grace than a man his size has any right to possess.For a while, neither of us says anything. The broken fountain gurgles weakly beside us, and somewhere overhead a bird finally, cautiously, starts singing again — the first birdsong I've heard since the ground started shaking two days ago."You handled that well," he says eventually. "Back in the courtyard.""I yelled at two grown A
Too Skinny To Be Luna CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Old Wounds, New Audience
Lyra's POVI see it a half-second before it happens — the way Draven's shoulders drop, the way his breathing changes, sharp and shallow, the way his hands, still clenched at his sides, suddenly aren't hands anymore.Claws.Fully extended, glinting wickedly even in daylight, sprouting from fingers still attached to a human arm — a half-shift no sane wolf attempts in casual anger, painful and reckless and entirely, dangerously deliberate."Draven—" I start, but it's already too late.He lunges.Not at me. At Kaelan — a full, committed strike aimed at the throat, the kind of blow meant to end a fight in a single motion, humiliation and fury driving every inch of it. The crowd gasps as one, several Elders stumbling backward, someone screaming for guards who are already too far away to intervene in time.Kaelan doesn't even look surprised.He shifts his weight a fraction of a second before the claws would have connected — not a full step back, just enough of a lean that Draven's strike sl
Too Skinny To Be Luna CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The Alpha's Objection
Lyra's POVThe courtyard holds its breath.Draven doesn't stop at the edge of the crowd. He pushes through it, warriors and Elders alike stepping aside more out of instinct than respect, until he's standing close enough to the dais that I can see the muscle working furiously in his jaw."Draven." My voice comes out sharper than I mean it to. "What are you doing?"He doesn't look at me. His eyes are fixed entirely on Kaelan, still kneeling with my hand in his, and something in that stare makes my stomach twist."I have the right to speak before this claim is finalized," Draven says. His voice carries, formal in a way I've never heard him use with me, though I recognize it from council matters — the register of an Alpha invoking law, not emotion. "Pack custom allows any prior-bonded mate to raise objection before a new courtship is sealed."The Priestess's staff lowers slightly, her expression unreadable. "That custom exists, Alpha Draven. Though it's rarely invoked.""I'm invoking it."
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