Luna Forsaken (Arya and James) novel Chapter 109

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James’s POV

My jaw was still tight from the conversation in Arya’s room when I walked out into the corridor.

Everything in me felt scraped raw.

Regret. Anger. Suspicion. The sickening shape of possibilities I should have questioned earlier.

I had spent too long drowning in what I’d done and not enough time dragging the truth into the light.

That ended now.

I pulled my phone from my pocket as I moved and hit Nixon’s contact first.

He answered on the second ring. “Alpha.”

“Where are you?”

“Lower garage. Devin’s with me. Archie’s nearby.”

“Good. Get Archie and his team. I want all of you ready in five.”

A brief pause. Nixon knew my voice. He knew when I was angry, when I was thinking, and when I was

one bad answer away from breaking something.

“What happened?” he asked.

“Nothing that can wait. Move.”

His tone changed instantly. “On it.”

I ended the call and kept walking, boots striking hard against polished concrete as I cut through the

inner hall toward the command side of the packhouse. Guards straightened when they saw me. Staff

moved out of my way before I even looked at them. The atmosphere around me shifted with that quiet

instinct people had when they sensed an Alpha carrying the wrong kind of silence.

I didn’t stop until I reached the smaller operations room near the garage corridor

Glass wall. Steel table. Maps on the digital screen. Secure line unit mounted by the far door.

Modern enough to look clinical.

Cold enough to suit my mood.

The door opened less than three minutes later. Nixon came in first, Devin behind him, Archie at his shoulder. Two of Archie’s men waited outside the door, visible through the narrow glass panel, already

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armed and alert.

Nixon took one look at my face and didn’t waste time. “What do you need?”

I didn’t sit. I braced both hands on the table and looked at all three of them.

“I want you to go to Silverfang,” I said. “Now.”

Devin’s eyes sharpened.

Archie’s brow furrowed. “For what?”

“Lisa and Margaret.”

The room went still.

Nixon’s jaw flexed once, hard. He already understood where this was going.

I kept talking before any of them could interrupt.

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“I want confirmation of their punishment. Not rumours. Not what someone claims they heard from a

guard’s cousin or a drunk courier. I want facts.” My voice came out flatter than I felt. “If they were truly

punished for serving Leah poison, I want to know exactly what was done, when it was done, who

ordered it, and who witnessed it.”

Archie swore under his breath.

Devin crossed his arms, watching me carefully. “You think the story is dirty.”

“I think too many things happened too perfectly,” I said. “Leah gets poisoned. The so-called Union

officers are there. The signing stops. Chaos starts. Arya gets buried under accusation before anyone

has time to think.”

Nixon held my gaze. “And now you’re thinking.”

The words landed like a hit because they were deserved.

I didn’t flinch. “Too late, maybe. But yes.”

For one beat, none of them spoke.

i could feel what sat unsaid between us. They all knew what Arya’s name did to the room now. To me. To the pack. To every decision that came after that night.

I straightened and dragged a hand over my mouth.

“I needed action,” I said, lower. “I needed facts. Because deep down…” My throat tightened, but I

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forced the words out anyway. “Deep down, I believe I wronged Arya.”

Nixon’s expression shifted, less surprise than grim confirmation.

Devin looked away for a second, jaw hard.

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Archie muttered, “You did,” then immediately shut his mouth when Nixon glanced at him.

I didn’t correct him.

Because he wasn’t wrong.

I looked at Nixon again. “I was fixated on the signing. On the Union. On getting this pack secured and recognised. And those so-called officers being there made everything worse. It turned the whole thing

into an almost-signing that didn’t happen because someone got poisoned.” My chest tightened. “I let urgency decide what I was willing to believe.”

Nixon exhaled through his nose. “You want us to move quiet?”

“Yes.” I pointed at him. “You, Devin, Archie’s team. Two vehicles. No pack-marked jackets. Go in like

men asking questions, not like we’re preparing for a raid.”

Archie nodded once. “And if they stonewall?”

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