All Chapters of THE REJECTED LUNA’S RISE : Chapter 1 - Chapter 6

Sera’s POVThe silence in the grand hall of the Pack House was thick enough to choke me. Hundreds of eyes pinned me in place, but the only gaze that mattered belonged to the man standing on the elevated stage under the glowing light of the full moon.Alpha Lupus Kai.He stood tall, his powerful frame radiating absolute dominance. His expression was cold as stone, his piercing blue eyes fixed somewhere beyond me, as if I was not even there. Weeks ago, those same eyes looked at me with warmth. Now, he looked like a stranger wearing the face of the man I used to love."Lupus," I whispered, though my voice was drowned out by the tense murmurs of the pack.For weeks after he marked me, he had been growing distant. I thought it was just the stress of running the pack. I never imagined it would lead to this. To my ultimate humiliation in front of everyone I knew.My eyes flickered to the front row of the crowd, landing on my parents. My mother's lips trembled. My father's eyes practically be

Sera's POVBy the time I reached the pack border, the guards stared but did not stop me. They had already heard what happened. Of course they did. News travels faster than the wind in a pack full of gossiping wolves. Their eyes said everything their mouths refused to: shame, pity, and disgust.I walked past them with my head held high, pretending their stares did not burn. But inside, I was breaking. Every step toward my family home felt heavier than the last. My heart whispered one painful thing over and over again. He did not even hesitate.When I finally arrived, I stopped at the front door. My hands trembled as I pushed it open. The warm scent of wood smoke and my mother's cooking filled the air, but it brought no comfort this time. It only reminded me of the one thing I had completely lost. Belonging.The door creaked, and my mother turned immediately. Her eyes were already red. She had been crying. She had seen everything. They both had."Sera..." she whispered, her voice breaki

Sera's POV I woke up screaming, and not from a nightmare. My hands were on fire. Golden flames curled around my fingers like something hungry. I scrambled backward across the floorboards, heart slamming against my ribs, waiting for the burn that never came. The fire should have turned my skin to ash. Instead it felt heavy and warm, almost like an embrace. "What's happening to me?" The flames flickered and died as quickly as they'd come. No burns. No scars. Just the faint smell of smoke clinging to my skin like it had always lived there. The fire is awakening, Lira said. The Phoenix rises. Phoenix. The word echoed in my skull, foreign and heavy. I'd heard the old whispers as a child, stories about a bloodline that could summon fire from its own destruction. I'd never believed any of it was real. Now it was under my skin. I stumbled to the basin in the corner and looked down at water that didn't show me anymore. My eyes had changed. The steady gold brown was gone, replaced with