All Chapters of The Last True Luna: Chapter 91 - Chapter 97

Aria's POVI stared at the coordinates for a long moment and then put the device back in my pocket and walked down the rise toward the camp.The six wolves below were still turned toward me with that involuntary attention and I walked through them the way you walked through a door, directly and without hesitation, and they parted without being asked. Not afraid of me. Something more complicated than fear. The same thing I had felt from the guards in the clearing when they howled back without choosing to. A deep biological recognition that bypassed every instruction they had been given and answered something older.I reached my father and crouched in front of him and looked at his face.He looked tired and frightened and relieved all at once and his bound hands were shaking slightly which he was trying to hide and not succeeding."Are you hurt," I said."No," he said. "Aria I am so sorry. I should not have left the compound. I keep making the same mistake of thinking I can handle thin

Aria's POVI ran back to the compound as fast as my white wolf could carry me.The forest blurred past me on both sides and my paws hit the ground hard and steady and my mind was already at the compound before my body was. Bram Vale. My great uncle. Sitting in the main hall with a document case that belonged to my father. Everything I had just learned from Sera was still settling inside me like something finding its place and I needed to see him before it fully landed because seeing was the only thing that made things real for me anymore.Garrett had the gate open before I reached it.I shifted back to human form and walked through and he fell into step beside me without being asked."He has not moved since he arrived," Garrett said quietly. "Just sits there with that case in front of him. Would not talk to anyone. Would not eat. Just asked for you and waited.""How does he seem," I said."Like someone who has been waiting a long time," Garrett said. "And is not sure what to do now t

Aria's POVForty wolves.I stood in the dark forest with Marcus beside me and counted them again through my True Luna senses because the first count had felt too large to trust. The presences were spread across a wide area of the northern forest, not clustered together the way Creek's fighters had been clustered, but spaced deliberately with the kind of spacing that spoke of military training and coordinated positioning rather than a group of wolves that had simply gathered in the same place.These wolves had been placed.By someone who knew exactly what they were doing."They are not moving," Marcus said quietly beside me. He had his eyes closed slightly the way he did when he was pushing his own Alpha senses outward. "Not attacking. Not retreating.""Watching," I said."Watching," he agreed.I pushed my senses deeper into the northern forest and felt the particular quality of the forty presences more carefully. Not the hot urgent energy of wolves preparing to fight. Something colde

Aria's POVThe compound erupted into movement the moment I said the words out loud and the controlled chaos of it was almost beautiful in the way that things were beautiful when every person in a space knew exactly what they were doing and did it without hesitation. Marcus's Alpha command went out simultaneously with Garrett's defensive signals and Elena was already moving through the compound directing wolves to positions before the echo of my warning had fully faded from the air. The Redwood pack responded the way a well trained pack responded to its Alpha, not with panic but with purpose, every wolf finding their assignment and executing it with the quiet efficiency of people who had been preparing for exactly this.I stood in the middle of the compound and kept my True Luna senses wide open and tracked Aldaine's wolves as they closed in from every direction. The picture my ability painted was more detailed than anything I had felt before, not just positions and numbers but someth