From Betrayed Luna to Wolf Queen (Lillian) novel Chapter 281

Chapter 281

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Chapter 281

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By the time Lylah reached the penthouse, night had already settled deep over Lunaris, draping the city in quiet shadows. She didn’t pause or linger. She moved with quiet purpose, crossing the space and retreating to her room, where she began packing f her visit to the Moonclaw estate the next day.

Clothes. Essentials. Small things.

Her movements were precise, but distant–her mind elsewhere.

So much so that she didn’t notice the Alpha who followed her inside.

Ezra remained a few steps behind, silent as a sentinel. The air around him felt wrong tonight–colder, heavier. But it wasn’t dominance.

t was fear.

He watched her as she packed–every fold of fabric, every quiet motion–and something twisted violently in his chest.

His wolf stirred.

A sharp, instinctive panic clawed through him.

‘Lylah…” His voice came out rougher than he intended. “Are you angry with me?”

The question hung between them.

.ylah didn’t look up.

‘No, Ezra,” she said softly. “Why would I be?”

She meant it. But her voice was too light, too distracted. Her attention had already shifted to her wrist

There had been three bracelets yesterday.

Now, there were only two.

A small frown creased Lylah’s brow

She moved quickly, pulling open a drawer and retrieving the velvet jewelry box tuckest ovvide The brow within, its star shaped diamond pendant atching the light the one she had meant to giver kizra

But hers

The red one with a crescent moon charme that had once tested against lurkin

Lylah straightened slowly condusion settling in

Behind her, Ezra watched everything

But he didn’t notice the bracelet nor her condusun How only atesta

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instincts surging wildly.

He knew she was upset.

And the thought of losing her-

It struck something primal.

Without warning, he moved.

Ezra crossed the space in a heartbeat and pulled her into his arms. Tightly. Desperately.

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‘I made a mistake,” he said, the words breaking free before he could stop them. “I won’t deferid myself. You have every right t angry with me. But please…” His grip tightened, almost shaking. “Don’t leave. Not like this. If someone has to go, I’ll be the or disappear. I’ll stay gone until you forgive me, I swear it.”

His voice fractured–raw and unsteady.

‘I can even call him here… if that’s what you need. Just–please don’t walk away from me.”

ylah frowned, caught off guard.

“hey pulled apart slightly.

For a moment, she simply stared at him.

Her confusion lingered–but now recognition surfaced beneath it.

Ezra was shaking.

Not with anger, but with something far more unsettling.

ear.

Ezra…” she said slowly, her voice softer now, searching. “I don’t understand. What are you talking about? Who is he

Ezra’s gaze locked onto hers.

The usual steel was gone–stripped clean.

What remained was something bare. Vulnerable Almost fragile

Like moonlight trembling over dark water

Rowan Blackfang”

The name settled between them like a shadow

“If his presence makes you calmer happiet Ezra continued quietly Then it all born with wi

me

Lylah’s eyes moved slowly over his face, reading what the words had lyft behold. The right to so hard to conreal, the look of a woll who had vald more than he intended and was now as

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“You’re terrified,” she said, her voice lowering. “And you’re saying things that don’t make sense. This has something to do with Rowan, doesn’t it?”

Her eyes narrowed slightly.

“Something that happened the night I dropped Tiara at the hotel.”

Because that was the night.

She was certain of it now.

That was when the air around Ezra had changed–when he returned carrying something invisible and heavy, something that clung o him the way fear does when it has just been earned.

Tell me what happened.”