I Refuse To Be Your Luna (Flourish and Harold) novel Chapter 68

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Chapter 68 A Call From Outside

Daly Flourish’s POV

The door didn’t budge. Locked from the outside. I tried the handle again anyway, already knowing it was pointless, my wolf growling beneath my skin, claws pressing at my fingertips as anger burned off the last of whatever weakness Lydia’s drug had left in me.

She wanted me trapped. The window confirmed it. Two wolves stood guard in the back garden, one near the rear entrance, the other by the wall separating the villa from the neighboring property, both carrying the alert, controlled posture of trained enforcers. Even through the glass I caught their scern.

Lydia had planned this down to the detail.

‘I opened a mind link with Davina. Dev, my stepmother locked me up. Probably because I tried to break the betrothal, Can you send someone? I need to talk to your grandpa in person about the rite. I owed Alpha Magnus that much, telling him myself instead of vanishing or sending a messenger.

She answered almost instantly. What? Is she crazy? Hang on, I’ll get someone to you right away.

Relief loosened my chest for a second. Hurry.

I will.

The link closed. I stayed at the window watching the guards below until one of them looked up, and I stepped back before he could spot me, my wolf lowering herself on instinct. Neither of us liked being watched.

I’d already tried my father before Davina. He’d actually hung up on me. I’d stared at the phone afterward waiting for a callback that never came.

My wolf snarled, and I wanted to throw the thing at the wall. Instead I reached for Mira through the link.

Mira?

Nothing.

I tried again. Still nothing.

Before I could try a third time, a voice came from the hallway. “Flourish, stop with the mind links already.”

Selene. I moved closer to the door and heard her footsteps stop outside. “You’re interfering with mine,” she complained.

I rolled my eyes. Apparently being locked in my own bedroom wasn’t enough, I was also supposed to make myself invisible so she could have a peaceful day.

“Besides,” she said, cheerful now, “Dad already said he’s not letting you out.” I could picture the smug look on her face without needing to see it. “What’s so bad about Alpha Harold anyway? You really think you’ll do better after breaking up with him?”

My wolf flattened her ears, my nails digging into my palms.

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Chapter 68 A Call From Outside

“You shouldn’t be so greedy, Flourish.” A soft laugh. “Otherwise you’ll end up with nothing.”

dn’t answer. No point wasting breath on her. After a moment her footsteps faded and the hallway wen quiet again.

Several minutes later, slower footsteps approached. Lydia, her heels unmistakable, on the phone and taking loud enough that every word carried down the hall.

“Flourish isn’t making a fuss anymore, is she?”

My father’s voice. I went completely still.

“Don’t worry,” Lydia said, gentle in a way that made my skin crawl. “I gave her a little moonleaf extract in the

car.”

Ty stomach dropped. Every olf knew moonleaf, small doses calmed an agitated wolf, larger ones

suppressed it entirely, mad sluggish response. My ble

“She probably can’t eve The Luna Rite goes a

So that was why I’d my wolf on purp

Then another v

here?”

car impossible to summon or shift. I reached for mine and got only a weak,

cold.

on her wolf right now,” Lydia went on. “I’ll adjust the dosage on the big day. anned. Don’t worry, Garrett.”

Since she brought me home. They hadn’t just locked me up. They’d weakened

rough the phone, young, soft, a little too sweet. “Alpha, why are you hiding out

1 froze. Sile

“Garre

A co

on the other end.

tone shifting, “where are you right now?”

Society.” My father answered too fast. “Just a waitress. Don’t worry, Lydia.”

wned. Something was off, and Lydia clearly thought so too, because a moment later she else. “Is Alpha Garret at Midbridge Society right now?” I couldn’t hear the answer. She away, heels sharp and quick down the hall, definitely angry now.

eran engine started. Then another. The sound faded past the villa gates.

e window. Lydia was gone, which meant only the servants and guards were left inside.

her head. An opening. I looked down at the two guards still posted below. If I was going to get

chow.

zzed. I glanced down, blinked, looked again. My wolf sat straight up. The picture on the screen and my heart skipped before I even answered.

he calling me.

“Hello, Alpha Damian.”

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