Rebirth of the Broken Luna A Second Chance at Luna's Heart novel Chapter 171

Chapter 171

ZADE

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I watched in complete awe as Lyn performed what could only be described as a miracle. The air around us was humming with raw magical energy. This was the first time that I had seen a witch work so close to me and Lyn’s magic aura was filled with pure energy, soothing and calming. Not the usual nefarious, dark choking energy aura of witches that we often met on the battlefield.

I had shut this down without even letting him show me how magic could be used for good and now I was getting a front row to just

how powerful he actually was.

The aura was so thick and potent that I could taste it on my tongue and feel electricity dancing across my skin, goosebumps present

on every part of my body.

Deep down I knew how dangerous this magic was, despite the good aura and every instinct I possessed as an Alpha was screaming at me to intervene, to protect my mate from the forces he was channeling, but I forced myself to remain still and silent.

This was Lyn’s domain, his area of expertise, and my interference could mean the difference between life and death for Ollie.

So I stood there like a sentinel, watching blood pour from my mate’s nose and eyes as he poured everything he had into severing whatever dark connection was slowly murdering an innocent child.

There were so many things I wanted to say to him at that moment, so many things that I had kept hidden because I didn’t want him to see me as someone who cared about his existence. I wanted to tell him that I didn’t hate him, that the way I’d been treating him all these years wasn’t about him personally but about my own inability to accept what the mate bond had given me. I wanted to explain that watching him risk his life like this, not because he cared about Ollie particularly but because he thought it would make me happy since it concerned Lumina, wasn’t what I wanted at all.

The truth was, I’d been a coward. For years, I’d treated Lyn like he was somehow less than what I deserved, like the moon goddess had made some kind of cosmic mistake in pairing us together. I’d convinced myself that pursuing Lumina was about genuine feelings, but deep down I knew it was really about avoiding the complicated reality of being mated to someone who challenged everything I thought I

knew about myself.

I knew exactly what it felt like to suffer from unrequited love, and I’d been inflicting that same pain on Lyn without even realizing it,

Hell, the way we’d first met should have told me everything I needed to know about the kind of person he was. I’d found him in an alley behind a bar, arguing with some asshole who was trying to force him into participating in some kind of public sexual display.

At first, I’d thought Lyn was being harassed by a stranger, so I’d done what any decent person would do and punched the guy Into next week. It was only afterward that I learned the creep was actually Lyn’s boyfriend, and that Lyn had been standing up for himself against someone who was supposed to care about him but was instead trying to coerce him into doing things that made him

uncomfortable.

That should have been my first clue that Lyn was someone worth knowing, and someone worth respecting.

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Instead, I’d spent the following years making him feel like he had to prove his worth to me over and over again, like his love wasn’t

enough because it came in a package I hadn’t expected.

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Now, watching him literally bleeding for a child who wasn’t even ours, putting his own life at risk because he thought it would earn

my approval, I felt like the biggest asshole who had ever lived.

Lyn deserved so much better than what I’d been giving him, and if we both survived this magical working, I was going to spend the

rest of my life trying to make up for my years of emotional neglect.

The magical energy in the room suddenly exploded outward like a bomb going off, and I had to throw my hands up to shield my eyes from the brilliant light that filled every corner of the hospital room. Even through my closed eyelids, the illumination was so intense it felt like staring directly into the sun. The air itself seemed to vibrate with power, and I could hear the windows rattling in their frames

from the force of whatever Lyn was unleashing.

When the light finally began to fade, I lowered my hands to see Lyn stumbling backward, his face pale as death and covered in blood from the magical exertion. His eyes were unfocused, his knees buckling as the massive spell he’d just cast took its toll on his body.

I lunged forward just in time to catch him before he hit the floor, wrapping my arms around his thin frame and lowering him gently to the ground. His skin was cold and clammy, his breathing shallow and irregular, but he was alive. That was all that mattered.

“Lyn?” I called softly, brushing his dark hair away from his bloodied face. “Are you alright? Talk to me.”

His eyes fluttered open, struggling to focus on my face. When he spoke, his voice was barely above a whisper, but there was

satisfaction in his tone despite his obvious exhaustion.

“I saved Ollie,” he said, a weak smile crossing his lips. “I did it, Zade. The connection is severed. He’s going to be okay.”

Relief flooded through me so powerfully that I felt tears spring to my eyes. “You incredible, amazing, stupid man,” I said, my voice

thick with emotion. “You nearly killed yourself doing it.”

Lyn’s smile widened slightly. “Worth it,” he murmured, his eyes beginning to drift closed again. “Anything… for you…”

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