Lahat ng Kabanata ng His Mate, But Not His Luna: Kabanata 161 - Kabanata 170

Lysera“Lady Lysera.” The words wrapped around me softly, almost dangerously gentle coming from him. My pulse stumbled harder.Henry was still holding my hand. His lips had only just left the back of it, yet warmth continued spreading through my skin like fire racing beneath my veins. I could still feel the pressure of his mouth there. Still smell cedarwood and smoke surrounding me completely now that he stood this close.Moon Goddess. I hated how strongly my body reacted to him. The bond was getting stronger. Why? I couldn’t come up with any answer.The mating bond pulsed heavily inside my chest, warm and alive and painfully aware of every inch separating us. My wolf had completely woken now. I could feel her pacing restlessly beneath my skin, no longer sleepy or buried deep inside me like before.She was thrilled.Traitor.Her emotions tangled more tightly with mine that it became difficult separating where my own reactions ended and hers began. The result left me dizzy enough that

LyseraThe next week passed strangely fast.Every evening, Henry came to the estate. At first, I kept expecting the visits to stop. I told myself he would eventually grow tired of pretending this version of us was normal and finally tell me why he was here but he kept returning anyway and never said why.Sometimes he stayed only an hour. Other times he remained until the candles burned low and the servants quietly disappeared from the hallways to give us privacy neither of us acknowledged aloud. And somehow, without meaning to, we slowly settled into something that almost resembled a routine.He would arrive in the evening. I would pretend I was not waiting for him. Then we would sit together and talk about everything except the things truly hanging between us.The weather, the estate, the elders currently under investigation and businesses my father secretly owned that I was still struggling to understand.Sometimes Henry spoke about pack matters while I listened quietly from the couc

LyseraAfter Sienna left, Henry did not come that evening.At first, I told myself I did not care. The thought came immediately and stubbornly, almost defensively, the second the sun began lowering outside the estate windows and the familiar pull of the mating bond remained frustratingly quiet.He was the Alpha of course he would miss a day eventually. Important things existed outside these strange little evening visits we somehow built together over the past week.Still, as the sky darkened completely and the servants quietly began lighting candles throughout the mansion, disappointment settled heavily inside my chest no matter how much I tried pretending otherwise.Traitorous bond.I sat inside the living room long after dinner had ended with a book open across my lap that I had not read a single line from in nearly forty minutes. Every time footsteps echoed somewhere down the hall, my head lifted automatically before irritation followed immediately afterward.It was so absolutely r

Lysera “I think I started liking you a while ago,” he admitted. “Even before I learned the truth about everything.” A humorless smile touched his mouth briefly. “At first, I thought it was only my wolf’s feelings bleeding into me.”The bond pulsed warmly between us.“But now,” Henry said softly, “my heart is open enough that I finally understand the difference.”My throat tightened unexpectedly with feeling. For a second, I genuinely did not know what to say.Henry liked me.The words echoed strangely inside my head because they felt so impossible coming from him. This was Kingston. The same man whose footsteps used to make fear crawl violently through my stomach. The same man who once looked at me like I was something unfortunate standing in the way of his perfect future.And now he was standing in front of me admitting that somewhere along the way, his feelings changed. The realization left me feeling oddly fragile.“You’re making this very difficult,” I whispered before I could st

Lysera’s POVI nearly changed my mind three different times before leaving the estate for the Council Induction Ceremony.The first time happened while one of the maids, Mira, brushed my hair that morning. The second came when Timothy casually mentioned that almost the entire pack would gather afterward to witness the formal induction of the new elders. The third happened while I stood frozen at the bottom of the staircase staring at the front doors like walking through them might somehow destroy the fragile peace I had managed to build around myself these past few weeks.“Lady Lysera,” Mira said carefully from behind me, “the Alpha is here.”My stomach twisted instantly, not from nausea this time but from nerves.Moon Goddess. I hated this.The entire estate felt strangely alive this morning. Servants moved quickly through the halls carrying ceremonial cloaks, council documents and silver trays while distant carriage wheels echoed faintly outside. Everything felt too loud. Too overw