The Lunar Queen (Lyric and Mason) novel Chapter 10

Chapter 10

“She asked me not to,” Dr. Grant says.

“She is a pup.” Beta Donovan snarls.

“Alpha, if I may?” she asks my dad.

My father nods.

Dr. Grant folds her arms.

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“With all due respect, Beta, Lyric has been coming in here for years with different injuries. Every time I questioned her, she had an explanation. Every time I suggested telling you, she begged me not to.”

Beta Elizabeth goes still.

“A broken arm. A broken rib. Concussions. Cuts. Bruises,” Dr. Grant continues. “And every single time she insisted she fell, tripped,

or got hurt during training.”

The room falls silent.

“At some point I stopped believing the explanations,” Dr. Grant says quietly. “But I never stopped trying to get her to tell the truth.”

Beta Donovan’s face drains of color.

“How many times?” he asks.

Dr. Grant holds his stare.

“Enough that I should recognize your daughter’s footsteps coming down this hallway.”

Nobody says a word.

“If you’ll excuse me, I need to check on Lyric,” she says before walking away.

Years of injuries.

The words don’t process right away-they just sit there, heavy and wrong.

What has she been going through all these years?

How did we all miss it?

How did I?

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Her mother breaks down crying.

And for the first time, anger isn’t just there-it’s focused.

Lyric POV

I wake up to the sound of beeping.

“Ugh, what happened?” I say, grabbing my head.

“Hey, try not to move,” Mason says, and I freeze.

That voice-too close. Too familiar.

What is he doing here?

As everything floods back to me, I realize he carried me here, in front of the entire pack.

Oh no.

What did he do?

“Mason, what are you doing here?” I ask weakly.

“I just needed to make sure you were okay; you passed out in my arms, Lyric,” he says, his voice cracking.

The crack in his voice makes something in my chest tighten-and I hate that it does.

“Who did this to you? Who’s been hurting you all these years?” he asks.

My head snaps to him at the last question.

“What did you just say?” I ask slowly.

“Who’s been hurting you all these years?” he repeats, slowly, through clenched teeth.

There’s something different in his tone now-something darker.

“Who told you I’ve been hurt?” I ask.

“Lyric, enough,” he says through clenched teeth.

“Don’t sit here and pretend this is nothing.”

That tone-alpha, commanding-too much. Too fast.

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I turn away from him.

“I’m sorry, Sunflower. I didn’t mean to yell at you,” he says, coming closer.

Sunflower.

He remembered.

He just never cared enough to use it.

And that hurts more than it should.

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“Our mate loves us,” Nova whispers.

“That’s the mate bond making him feel that way. Two days ago, he couldn’t even be bothered with me,” I tell her.

“Mason, I’d like for you to leave,” I say almost in a whisper.

“Lyric, please. I just want to help,” he pleads, grabbing my hands.

His touch burns in a way that has nothing to do with pain.

“If you want to help, please leave me alone,” I tell him.

“Winter, where are you?” I link Winter.

“Outside your room,” she responds.

“Can you find out when I can leave?” I ask her via link.

“Mason, please, GET THE F* OUT!”** I yell, and he flinches.

The flinch hits me harder than anything else,

But the look on his face breaks me to my core, and I have to look away to stop myself from telling him to come back in and

apologizing.

Nova whimpers inside my mind.

“I’m sorry, Nova. It’s either him or us,” I tell her.

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“I know, but it still hurts. I want our mate,” she whines.

“So do I, but being around him right now isn’t safe,” I reply.

And that’s the truth I can’t ignore.

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Winter enters.

“The doc said you’re good to go. No training for the next three days. Take it easy,” she says, glancing at Mason.

“Please,” she adds.

He looks at me one last time before turning and walking out of the room.

And something in me wants to call him back. I don’t.

“Ready to go?” she asks.

“Very much so,” I reply, and we head out of the pack hospital, returning to the pack house.

Because now he knows something’s been happening to me all these years…

and Mason isn’t the type to let something like that go.

Which means staying away from him just went from hard… to impossible.

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