All Chapters of Loving Luna : Chapter 61 - Chapter 70

Darius Blake had faced death without flinching.He had walked into wars knowing entire armies wanted his head.He had challenged gods.Fought primordial creatures.Been stabbed.Possessed.Killed.Temporarily.Luna would never allow him to forget that word.But none of those things had prepared him for his mate crushing his hand while screaming—“THIS IS YOUR FAULT!”Darius stared at her.“My—”Another contraction hit.Luna’s fingers tightened.Darius heard something crack.He decided it was probably his hand.“Yes.”He nodded immediately.“My fault.”Seraphina looked up from the end of the bed.“Darius.”“Yes?”“Stop agreeing with everything.”Luna glared at her.“Why?”Seraphina reconsidered.“Continue.”“Excellent.”Darius wiped Luna’s forehead with a cool cloth.She was exhausted.Hours.It had been hours.Too many.Far too many.Darius hated every second of it.Not because of the screaming.Not because his hand might never function correctly again.Because he couldn’t do anything

“No.”Luna’s voice cracked through the forest.Darius stopped.He didn’t turn around.The First Alpha smiled.Around them, thousands of chained wolves remained on their knees beneath the nine blood-red moons.Lyra stood frozen.Silas had managed to push himself onto one knee, but the ancient command still crushed against him.Vaelor’s claws tore trenches into the earth as he fought to rise.Aurora burned inside Luna.Silver wolf fire wrapped around her body.And in Silas’s arms—Auren began to cry.Nyra answered from Vaelor’s embrace.Darius closed his eyes.His children.Luna saw his shoulders tighten.Then he continued walking.“Darius.”He stopped again.“Look at me.”Slowly—he turned.Luna hated the calm in his eyes.She knew that calm.It was the same expression he wore before battle.Before sacrifice.Before doing something he had already decided was necessary.“No,” she whispered.Darius looked at her.“If this ends the command—”“No.”“Luna.”“You don't even know what surrend

“Luna?”Aurora growled.Darius had heard that growl thousands of times.In battle.In anger.In protection.He had heard it directed at enemies, gods, monsters, kings, and once at Lucien for stealing food from Luna's plate.Never at him.Until now.The massive white wolf stood twenty feet away.Her fur burned beneath the moon.Not ordinary white.Silver-white.Phoenix fire moved beneath every strand.Her claws dug into the earth.Her lips pulled back.And her eyes—nothing.No Luna.No recognition.No mate.Darius's heart stopped.“Luna.”Aurora lunged.“DARIUS!”Elias slammed into him.They hit the ground.Aurora's claws passed through the place Darius's throat had been.Darius rolled.Elias scrambled backwards.“She's trying to kill you!”“I noticed.”Aurora turned.Darius rose slowly.He didn't draw his sword.Elias did.Darius's head snapped towards him.“Put it away.”“Darius—”“Now.”“She almost took your head off!”“She's my mate.”“She doesn't know that!”Darius looked at Auro

The black sun remained open.An eye above the world.Watching.Luna stood beneath it with Auren in her arms and felt something she had not felt since Gareth Vale had stood over her as a child.Not fear.The memory of fear.The First King's presence crawled across her skin like an unwanted hand.Her Phoenix recoiled.Aurora snarled.Terra disappeared deeper.And that—more than the black sun, the dragons, or the threat against Darius—made Luna furious.“Get out.”Darius looked at her.“What?”Luna stared at the sky.“Get. Out.”The First King's laughter entered her mind.YOU SPEAK AS THOUGH THIS BODY BELONGS TO YOU.Everything inside Luna went still.Darius felt it through their bond.“Oh,” he murmured.Silas glanced at him.“What?”“He chose the wrong sentence.”Luna handed Auren to Darius.Carefully.Very carefully.Then white fire ignited around her feet.“You don't get to say that to me.”The First King laughed.CHILD.“I've been called worse.”YOU CARRY WHAT MY KINGDOM CREATED.L

The world stopped.Not literally.The wind still moved through Black Moon.Leaves still trembled beneath moonlight.The First Tree still breathed silver-gold light into the night.But wolves—every wolf—froze.Elias stood in the centre of the clearing with Auren in one arm and Nyra in the other.Around him, warriors stopped mid-step.Mated couples turned towards each other.Some touched their chests.Others gasped.One woman dropped the basket she had been carrying.A warrior whispered—“Where is she?”His mate stood three feet away.Her face went white.“I'm here.”“No.”He touched his chest.“The bond.”Silence.Then another voice.“I can't feel him.”Another.“Mine too.”“What happened?”“Alpha!”Panic spread.Fast.Elias looked down at the twins.Auren blinked innocently.Nyra smiled.Elias stared.“What did you do?”Nyra kicked.Auren yawned.Elias closed his eyes.“Of course.”Across Black Moon, wolves began shouting.“My mate!”“The bond is gone!”“Someone find the Alpha!”“Wh