All Chapters of Loving Luna : Chapter 81 - Chapter 90

Auren opened his eyes.Luna stopped breathing.She wasn't supposed to know that.He was still inside her.Still unborn.Still protected beneath her heart beside his sister.And yet—she saw him.Not through a vision.Not through the Phoenix.Not through some ancient prophecy forcing its way into her skull.She saw her son.A tiny boy floating in warm golden light.Dark hair.Small curled fists.And eyes—blue-grey.Darius's eyes.Luna's knees weakened.Darius caught her immediately.“Luna?”She couldn't answer.The celebration around them continued.Black Moon wolves laughed.Children ran between adults.Fenris was arguing with Lyra about whether a castle could reasonably accommodate his wolf form.Lucien was already attempting to convince Astra that expanding the dining hall was “architecturally essential.”Silas was pretending he had somewhere else to be.Nobody noticed.Except Darius.He always noticed.His hands tightened around Luna.“What happened?”She looked at him.“Auren.”E

Three weeks later, Luna stood before a mirror.And hated everything she owned.“No.”Darius looked up from the chair beside the window.Luna threw another dress onto the bed.“No.”A second joined it.“No.”A third.Darius watched silently.Luna turned toward the wardrobe.“Absolutely not.”Darius finally spoke.“You haven't put that one on.”“I don't need to.”“How do you know you dislike it?”“I can feel it.”He stared at her.“You can feel that you dislike a dress?”“Yes.”“Is this Phoenix-related?”Luna slowly looked at him.Darius immediately raised both hands.“Genuine question.”“No.”“Wolf?”“No.”“Terra?”“Darius.”“I'm narrowing possibilities.”She grabbed a pillow.His eyes narrowed.“Violence in front of the children?”“They're asleep.”“Excellent point.”She threw it.He caught it.Of course he did.Then smiled.Luna glared.“Don't.”“I said nothing.”“Your face did.”“My face is innocent.”“Your face has never been innocent.”His smile widened.Luna turned back to the mi

The nine moons were gone.Luna stared at the sky.Not hidden.Not eclipsed.Gone.Where silver light had always touched Black Moon, there was only darkness.Absolute.Ancient.Wrong.In her arms, Nyra had stopped glowing.Across from her, Auren lay against Darius's chest.His gold light was gone too.And both babies had spoken the same impossible word.Grandmother.Nobody moved.Then Luna looked at Terra.“What do you mean, yours?”The earth beneath them trembled.Terra didn't answer.“Terra.”Silence.“Do not start doing that ancient-being thing where you reveal something horrifying and then become mysterious.”Mira made a strangled sound.Under any other circumstances, Luna might have laughed.Not now.Terra finally whispered—She existed before I had a name.Luna's blood chilled.Creation appeared in the courtyard.Not through a doorway.Not with light.She simply—fell.She struck the ground hard.Elara appeared seconds later.Then Destruction.Time.All four looked terrified.Dar

Luna woke because someone was staring at her.She knew it before opening her eyes.Not danger.Not Phoenix instinct.Not Terra.Mother instinct.She opened one eye.Blue-grey eyes stared back.Darius lay beside her.Too close.Completely awake.Luna frowned.“What?”“Nothing.”“You're staring.”“Yes.”“Why?”“Checking.”Her sleepiness disappeared slightly.“Checking what?”“That you're here.”Her heart softened.Yesterday.Hunger.Vaelor.Elyndra.The End.Time being erased.Eira.The twins rewriting primordial laws before they were old enough to hold their own heads up.Apparently even Darius Blake had limits.Luna reached out.Touched his face.“I'm here.”His eyes closed briefly against her palm.Then reopened.“I know.”“Then stop watching me sleep.”“No.”She stared.“That's unsettling.”“You snore.”Her mouth fell open.“I do not.”“You do.”“Darius.”“Very softly.”“I do not snore.”His mouth twitched.“Phoenixes apparently snore.”Luna shoved his shoulder.He laughed.Actually

The world screamed.Not in pain.In release.Luna felt it happen everywhere at once.Across Black Moon.Across Silver Creek.Across territories she had never visited.Across human cities where wolf blood had slept for generations.Across mountains.Across oceans.Across kingdoms that had forgotten the first wolves had ever existed.Millions of bonds—snapped.Luna gasped.Her hand flew to her chest.“Darius.”He staggered.One arm tightened around Auren while his other hand reached for her.“Luna.”Something was wrong.The mate bond—was gone.Luna froze.No warmth.No familiar pull.No awareness of Darius at the edge of her soul.Nothing.“Darius?”His face changed.He felt it too.Around them, chaos erupted.Wolves howled.Humans screamed.Some collapsed.Others shifted without warning.A woman near the gates fell to her knees.“My wolf!”A man screamed—“I can't feel her!”Talia grabbed her chest.The wolf who had promised to wait vanished from her mind.“No!”Fenris spun toward hi