All Chapters of The Alpha’s Shadow Luna: Chapter 121 - Chapter 130

LeahThe shadows poured from me like a dam breaking.They moved with purpose, wrapping around my hand as I pressed my palm flat against the rune on my chest. The glow pulsed against my skin, resisting, the magic that forged it clinging to me like something alive. It burned cold.Get it off. Get it off, now.I pushed harder. The shadows sank into the rune like fingers prying open a lock, finding the edges of the magic, pulling at the seams. The glow flickered and stuttered. I felt Andromeda surge forward inside me, her power flooding into my hands, into the shadows, amplifying them with something that made the rune scream.Not a sound, but a burning vibration.I ripped it free.

 LeahI woke up to the sound of something exploding.My body jerked upright, shadows instinctively rising from my skin before my brain caught up with my surroundings. I was in my bedroom. Sunlight pouring through the windows. And Keanu, sprawled across the armchair in the corner with his legs draped over the side, a bowl of cereal balanced on his stomach, watching television.The explosion had come from whatever movie he was streaming on the flatscreen mounted to the wall. A car chase, from the looks of it. He was completely absorbed, his spoon halfway to his mouth, milk dripping onto his shirt without him noticing.I let the shadows sink back beneath my skin and pressed my palm to my forehead. My body felt like it had been filled with sand. It felt heavy and sluggish. Every musc

 Leah“You just got shell in the batter.”“Calcium.”“That's not how that works.”“It is in my kitchen.”“This is my kitchen.”“Our kitchen.”We fell into a rhythm. He measured sugar with approximate accuracy. I sifted flour and tried not to micromanage his technique, which was generous in spirit and chaotic in execution. He found chocolate chips in a cabinet and poured half the bag directly into his mouth before adding the rest to the bowl.“Those were for the cookies.”

DarienThe airplane was delayed and I was impatient.I stood near the gate with my phone in my hand, scrolling through the photo Leah had sent me that morning. Her and Keanu in the kitchen, flour everywhere, Keanu looking like he was a powdered donut. She was laughing in the picture. That full, open laugh that crinkled her nose and made her eyes disappear into crescents. She looked happy. She looked healthy. She looked like everything I was desperate to get home to. My heart ached, wanting to be with her.“Stop staring at your phone like a lovesick teenager.” Cain dropped into the seat beside me, two coffees balanced in one hand. He held one out. “You've looked at that picture nine times since we sat down.”“Twelve.” I took the coffee.“Twelve.” Cain snorted, shaking his head. “Even worse.” He stretched his legs out and crossed his ankles, settling into the plastic airport chair with the ease of a man who could fall asleep anywhere. “We should be able to board in twenty minutes. You'l

LeahI couldn’t sleep.Darien’s voice was still in my ears. The steadiness of it, the way he’d kept his tone even while telling me a pack had been burned. The way he’d said “bad” like it was a door he was holding shut with both hands and everything behind it was pressing to get through. He’d given me enough to understand what happened but not enough to see it. I knew that trick.He was protecting me. And I was letting him because I didn’t have the energy to fight it tonight.I rolled onto my side. The bedroom was dark except for the glow of my phone on the nightstand. He texted me right before bed.Remember, we have a date. I’ll see you in my dreams.I pressed my fingers against the bond in my chest. He was far away but I could still feel him. The warmth was muted by distance, stretched thin like a thread pulled taut across hundreds of miles, but it was there. Steady. Hurting.Sometimes I could feel the bond strongly and sometimes it went unnoticed. I was sure the longer we were mated