All Chapters of The Tattooed Luna: Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

They came for her three days later.Not the tall one. Not the shorter one with the split lip. A different team ... four of them, two women and two men, all in dark clothing, all wearing the same flat expression that said they'd done this before and didn't expect it to be interesting.Sera opened her apartment door before they knocked.The woman at the front didn't blink. "Seraphina Vale.""You people really love saying that name," Sera said."The Alpha has requested your presence at Ashveil.""The Alpha requested it last time too." Sera leaned against the door frame. "I said no.""That was a request," the woman said. "This is an escort."Sera looked past her at the other three. They were spread out ... not blocking the hallway exactly, but covering it. Someone had thought about this. Someone had considered the possibility that she might run and had positioned people accordingly.She looked at the woman again."Do I get to pack a bag," she said.Something shifted in the woman's face. N

They moved her to a proper room that afternoon.Not the locked one. This one had a window that opened fully, a desk, a narrow wardrobe, and a bathroom with hot water that actually stayed hot. It was at the end of a corridor in the east wing, away from most of the foot traffic, which she appreciated. She didn't know if the distance was deliberate ... a kindness or a quarantine ... and she didn't ask.She unpacked her bag in four minutes. There wasn't much to unpack.She sat on the edge of the bed and listened to the estate around her. Footsteps in the corridor. Voices somewhere below ... she couldn't make out words, just the rhythm of a conversation. A door closing. The sound of the training yard drifting up from outside, the impact of bodies and the occasional sharp command.A pack in motion sounded different from a city. She hadn't expected that. Cities had noise but it was random ... it didn't have direction. This had direction. Everything here moved like it knew where it was going.