The Lunar Queen (Lyric and Mason) novel Chapter 123

Chapter 123

-just as houses start blowing up.

The ground shakes under our feet. Smoke hits my lungs. Screams cut through the air.

“Grab some warriors, check the houses, make sure everybody is out and in a safe room,” I say to Logan and Micah.

Hunter and I shift and head for the border.

Our parents are already there, in the thick of it.

Rogues and bears pile in from every direction.

I grab one by its neck and shake hard. He drops instantly.

Blood sprays across my muzzle-hot, metallic-but there’s no time to react.

I make quick work of a lot of the rogues.

I notice one sneaking up behind Uncle Donovan.

I run and grab him by his flank before he can reach him. He howls in pain and Donovan’s wolf turns and nods. He clamps down on

the rogue’s neck and snaps it.

Two more jump on him.

“They are targeting you. Where is Auntie Liz?” I ask.

He whimpers.

Because just as I ask-

we all feel it.

The exact moment her bond snaps.

Uncle Donovan and Hunter howl in agony.

The sound rips through the battlefield, raw and broken, forcing every wolf within range to feel it.

Uncle Donovan tears the rogue on his back off and rips his head off.

I bite down on the other’s underbelly and tear my head away and he drops.

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We both take off in different directions just as another explosion comes from my left

I run in that direction, taking out rogues as I go.

The warriors Cole sent run into the chaos just as another explosion erupts in town.

“Dad, where are the explosions coming from?” I link my father.

“I don’t know, son. I have warriors searching,” he links.

I see a pup running toward the pack house just as a rogue creeps up on him.

1 charge. Kane roaring in my head.

We slam into its side.

The pup looks back-then bolts.

Kane slashes his paw across the rogue’s side. We bite down on its throat and snap its neck.

Another explosion goes off.

Kane howls in my head as we feel the bonds of our pack members break.

One after another. Too fast. Too many.

Running back into the fight-

We stop in our tracks.

Because something worse hits.

Beta Donovan’s bond snaps.

Silence hits for half a second-then the entire pack erupts.

Howls break out across the pack.

Hunter’s howl is louder than any of us. It cracks-grief, rage, disbelief all at once.

Kane growls. “we need to end this.”

We charge back in-but something feels off.

“Their retreating,” I link my father.

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“Kill as many as you can. Keep one alive and lock him in the cells,” my father says.

I kill as many rogues as I can.

“Got one Alpha,” a warrior says.

“Something is off about this attack,” Kane growls.

“They targeted the Betas,” I say back.

Not random. Not chaos. Planned. Precise. Personal.

When we are sure they are off our pack grounds, we stand in the middle of town.

Houses destroyed. Blood and bodies everywhere.

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Bears. Rogues. Warriors. Innocent pack members who couldn’t get out fast enough.

The smell of death hangs thick in the air. Smoke burns my lungs. The ground is soaked.

Hunter runs over, shifting back.

“They killed both of my parents,” he growls.

His voice is too calm. Too controlled. That’s what makes it dangerous.

“I will fucking kill that rogue king myself,” he snarls.

“This was deliberate. I told Uncle Donovan they were targeting him. When he killed one, two more appeared,” I say.

“My office. Now,” Dad links us both.

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