Rebirth of the Broken Luna A Second Chance at Luna's Heart novel Chapter 166

Chapter 166

XENOIS

Silvia reached out and placed her hand on my cheek, a gesture that should have been comforting but somehow fet to the po My eyes narrowed at her at this. Was something going on?

I wanted to open my mouth to ask her more but she stopped me.

‘I’m here now,” she said simply. I’ll take Sophia home tonight. You should go

‘Go where?’

“To the woods. To find the truth about what happened to Riley. Her eyes met mine directly for the first time since the dares, and

I saw something odd that has never been there before. Almost like she was seeing everything from a new viewpoint.

“The person who needs you most right now isn’t in this hospital, Zenois. Riley needs his father.

I felt something cold settle in my stomach at her words. “What do you mean? Riley it… the rogues took him. We don’t even know if

he’s…

“Go,” she interrupted, her voice gaining strength as she pushed me back with her hand as the continued speaking

“Trust me, Go to the woods and find Thorne. Find the answers you need.”

I searched her face, looking for some explanation for her strange behavior, but all I saw was a determination that reminded me of the mother who had raised me strong, unwavering, protective of her family above all else.

–

“Are you sure you can handle Sophia? She’s been through a trauma, and-”

‘I can handle Sophia, Silvia said, and there was something almost grimly satisfied in her tone.

‘I’ve been handling women like her my entire life. Go, Zenois. Don’t waste any more time here.”

I wanted to argue, wanted to demand answers to the hundred questions spinning through my mind, but something in my mothers manner convinced me that she was right. There was no time for me to waste here. I had stayed because I didnt want Sophia to be alone especially when there was no news. But if my mum was here, then I would not feel guilty.

Besides whatever was happening in those woods, whatever Thome had discovered, it was more important than standing around this

hospital waiting for news that might never come.

I kissed her forehead quickly, breathing in the familiar scent of her perfume mixed with her natural scent, something that I had used to identify her and found soothing since I was a child.

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“Thank you, Mom. For everything.”

She smiled then, the first genuine expression I’d seen from her since she arrived. “Take care of yourself, son. And remember – not

everything is as it seems.”

I didn’t understand what she meant by that, but I didn’t have time to ask for clarification. Every instinct I had was screaming at me to get to those woods, to find Thorne and discover what had sent him racing back there with such urgency.

The drive back to Blackwood Forest felt both endless and too short. My mind kept cycling through worst-case scenarios – Riley dead, Thorne injured, the search teams finding nothing but bodies. But underneath the fear, there was something else, a strange sense of anticipation that I couldn’t explain.

As I got closer to the forest, following the same route the search teams had taken earlier, I found myself thinking about my mother’s tears, about her strange behavior and cryptic words, followed with behaviors that I have never expected from her before.

She’d seemed almost… relieved when I’d told her about Thorne’s location, as if she’d been hoping he would be far away from whatever was happening at the hospital.

I was so lost in thought that I almost missed the light.

It started as just a glow on the horizon, barely visible through the canopy of trees. At first I thought it might be the search teams with their high-powered flashlights, but as I drove closer, the light grew brighter and more intense, taking on an otherworldly quality that made the hair on my arms stand up.

By the time I reached the forest road, the light was so brilliant it was like driving toward a small sun. The beam cut through the darkness with a precision that was hard to miss, rising from somewhere deep in the woods like a beacon calling me home.

I had to swerve to avoid being completely blinded, pulling my car to the side of the road and throwing it into park. Even with my eyes squeezed shut, I could see the light through my eyelids, pulsing with a rhythm that seemed almost alive.

My wolf was going crazy, pacing back and forth in my mind and whimpering with a mixture of fear and recognition. This wasn’t natural light – this was something else entirely, something that spoke to parts of my soul I’d thought were buried and forgotten.

I climbed out of the car on shaking legs, using my hands to shield my eyes as I tried to locate the source of the illumination. It seemed to be coming from the direction of the cliff, the same area where Sophia claimed the rogues had attacked them.

As I stumbled through the underbrush, following game trails and trying not to trip over exposed roots, I found myself thinking about everything that had led to this moment.

Riley’s sudden appearance in my life, Ollie’s unexplained illnesses, the way I’d felt pulled in two different directions for months without understanding why.

The light was so bright now that I could see individual leaves on the trees, could make out the texture of bark and the patterns of moss growing on fallen logs. It was beautiful and terrifying at the same time, like standing at the edge of something infinite and

unknowable.

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And then, just as suddenly as it had appeared, the light began to fade.

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I ran toward where it had been strongest, crashing through bushes and jumping over fallen branches in my desperation to reach

whatever was happening before it was too late. My heart was pounding so hard I could hear it in my ears, drowning out the sound of my

footsteps and ragged breathing.

When I finally broke through the tree line and reached the cliff edge, I saw them.

Thorne was kneeling beside a small figure on the rocks below, and next to them was a woman I didn’t recognize, her hands glowing with residual magical energy. But it was the child between them that made my legs give out, sending me sliding down the rocky slope

without caring about the cuts and bruises I was accumulating.

Riley.

My son was found.

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