Chapter 6
A deafening roar split the night as a blazing rain of meteors crashed into the earth.
The ground convulsed like a living beast. Buildings crumbled into rubble, flames erupted in an instant, devouring everything in their path.
Chloe froze, her mind shattering as she watched a woman who’d been laughing moments ago reduced to a smear of blood and ash beneath a falling fireball.
“No… no, this can’t be happening!” Chloe screamed, her voice raw. “Charlotte, you lying bitch! Didn’t you say your pup was the true heir–the child of destiny?! Why isn’t he stopping this? We’re going to die! We’re all going to die!”
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Mad with terror, Chloe lunged toward Charlotte, clawing for her throat–but a warrior at Charlotte’s side slammed a boot into her ribs, launching her straight into the path of another meteor.
The fireball engulfed her instantly.
The heat was so fierce it stripped away her flesh and fur in seconds.
Rolling and howling in agony, Chloe smelled the sickening scent of burning flesh–and in her delirium, her mind slipped back to years ago, to that wretched moment when she’d been dragged half–dead out of a rogue camp, reeking of the same charred stench.
It had been me.
I was the Luna who gave her a second
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chance, a new life within Shadowmoon Pack.
And yet… she’d betrayed me. Believed Charlotte’s poison–that only Charlotte’s unborn pup was destined to be Alpha.
Amos’s dying words rang in her ears. One by one, the faces of packmates she had helped doom flashed before her.
He’d been right all along.
With my death, the Moon Goddess’s wrath had truly fallen upon them.
It was Chloe’s betrayal–her hands–that had doomed them all.
“Luna…” she sobbed, her charred fingers reaching toward the altar, “I’m sorry… I swear I’m sorry…”
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Another meteor slammed down, obliterating her entirely, leaving nothing but smoking ashes on the wind.
All around, warriors and pack members shrieked, stampeding for their lives as fire and molten rock rained down.
“The Moon Goddess is punishing us!”
“Where’s our Luna? Someone save us!”
But I was already gone.
The moment the first fireball struck, my body had released its last fragile breath.
No prayers would be answered.
Fate had already been written.
I’d spent years bending destiny for others,
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saving lives that should’ve been lost.
Now, the Moon Goddess was simply collecting a debt–her rage scorching the earth, reclaiming what had been stolen from her.
I closed my eyes, yet my soul found no peace.
Something tethered me to this cursed world, unfinished, unresolved.
Drawn by an unseen pull, my spirit turned- and there he was.
Alpha Raymond.
Charging through the chaos like a beast possessed, his massive frame crashed through walls of fire and panicked wolves, his voice shattering the storm:
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“Grace! Grace!”
It struck me then…
I couldn’t remember the last time he’d called me by name.
For so long, I had been nothing more than his title for me–his Luna.
Now, I watched as this hulking man, this Alpha feared across territories, clawed his way toward the altar with madness in his
eyes.
“Alpha, stop!” his Beta Gordon screamed, tears streaking his soot–covered face. “You’ll burn alive! There’s no saving her now!”
Raymond shoved him aside, his voice
breaking into near–delirious rage.
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“The Moon Goddess won’t let Grace burn! She’ll send rain–I know she will!”
He jabbed a shaking finger toward the altar, his face twisted and wild.
He didn’t believe Amos’s prophecy.
Didn’t believe the old tales of a Luna’s death bringing divine punishment.
No. To Raymond, it was all lies.
Because how could I die… before giving him the child he thought would make him invincible?
Ancient scrolls whispered that a powerful Luna’s pup would secure an Alpha’s dominance for centuries.
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And we had no pup yet.
He would not–could not–let me die.
His roar cracked the night, feral and desperate.
“We haven’t had our child yet, Grace! You can’t leave me!”
The memory cut through me like a silver blade–his face the day he learned I carried his pup.
Cold as ice.
“Pregnant?” he’d spat, voice a low snarl. “Then keep it.”
And yet…
When he drove the poisoned silver dagger
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into my swollen belly, when blood drenched his hands, he had laughed.
Laughed.
“This cursed thing should never have been born.”
My heart wrenched with a grief so savage it felt like claws tearing me apart.
I saw the tiny shoes I never finished making.
The way my child’s small hand would press against my womb.
The soft little voice in my dreams calling me “Mama”
Tears streamed–not from my eyes, but from my very soul.
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And the Moon Goddess wept with me.
Thunder cracked, and a torrential rain poured from the heavens, dousing flames in sheets of silver water.
Raymond’s face twisted in wild, manic relief.
He bolted forward, losing one boot in the mud, barreling toward the altar with reckless abandon.
“Grace! I see it now! I swear I see it!” he screamed, his voice breaking on the wind. “I’ll banish Charlotte! I’ll tear her apart if you want! I’ll never fight you again–we’ll live in peace, you and me and our pup–no… no!”
The sound of his howl–raw, mournful, utterly broken–shook the burning earth.
But even as he screamed my name…
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The sky tore open once more.
A massive meteor, wreathed in blinding flame, plummeted like divine judgment.
It struck the altar with cataclysmic force, annihilating everything–my body, the stone, the ground beneath it–leaving only an inferno where I once lay.
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