Rebirth of the Broken Luna A Second Chance at Luna's Heart novel Chapter 460

Chapter 460

LUMINA

I didn’t know why. Didn’t know how. Didn’t know if it was coincidental or if someone-something-had deliberately sent me back.

Supernaturals existed. Werewolves, nightwalkers, werewitches, fae. Magic was real. Time manipulation wasn’t outside the realm of

possibility.

But who would do it? And why?

Was there a price to pay?

That question kept me awake some nights. The nagging fear that this second chance wasn’t free. That somewhere, somehow, I’d accumulated a debt that would eventually come due.

Had I already paid it? Was all the chaos and danger and near-death experiences the cost of getting to keep my family?

Or was there something else? Some future payment hanging over my head like a sword waiting to drop?

I’d never told anyone about this.

Not Xenois. Not even after everything with Sophia had been resolved, after Riley’s parentage was revealed, after the truth came out about the manipulation and lies.

I’d had opportunities. Moments when the conversation naturally led toward discussing impossible things and unexplainable

Occurrences.

But I’d stayed silent.

ecause how did you tell someone you’d died and been sent back in time? How did you explain that you’d watched your child die already and were desperately trying to prevent it from happening again? How did you admit that every decision you made was luenced by knowledge of a future that no longer existed?

They’d think I was insane. Or lying. Or experiencing some kind of magical psychosis.

And what if telling someone broke whatever magic had brought me back? What if speaking about it out loud caused the timeline to collapse, sent me back to that moment of death, took away this second chance I’d been given?

I couldn’t risk it.

So I carried the knowledge alone. Watched this new timeline unfold with the constant awareness that I’d seen a different version. Made choices based on information I shouldn’t have. Prevented disasters before they could fully form because I remembered them

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happening before.

And I lived with the fear that whoever or whatever had brought me back had done it for a reason. That there was some purpose I was supposed to fulfill. Some debt I’d eventually have to pay.

‘Mama!”

The shout yanked me out of my spiraling thoughts. I turned to see all three of my sons running toward me-Ollie in the lead, Riley and Lake just behind, all of them moving with the kind of chaotic energy that meant they’d been up to something.

“What did you do?” I asked, setting down my coffee.

“Nothing!” Ollie said, far too quickly to be convincing.

“We definitely didn’t accidentally portal into Alpha Chen’s territory and scare his guards,” Lake added.

“Lake,” Riley hissed. “That’s the opposite of denying it.”

“Oh. Right.” Lake tried again. “We definitely didn’t do that thing I just said we didn’t do.”

I closed my eyes and counted to ten, reminding myself that I had specifically wanted my children alive and causing chaos. This was what I’d wished for in that previous timeline. This was the second chance.

Even when it was exhausting.

“How did you accidentally portal to another territory?” I asked.

“I was practicing long-distance portals,” Lake explained. “And I thought I was targeting the woods behind our house. But I guess I was thinking about Alpha Chen because Dad was talking to him this morning, and the portal went there instead.”

“And you all went through?” I asked.

ed to see if it worked,” Ollie defended.

Work, Riley added. ‘Very effectively. Though Alpha Chen’s guards were not expecting three five-year-olds to appear in their enter.”

“I imagine not,” I said dryly. “Did you at least apologize before coming home?”

“We explained it was an accident,” Riley said. “And that Lake is still learning portal control. They were very understanding after their initial alarm.”

“By ‘initial alarm you mean they drew weapons and called for backup,’ I guessed.

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“There may have been some weapon-drawing, Ollie admitted. “But no one got hurt!”

“This time,” I said. ‘But Lake, we’ve talked about this. You need to be very careful with where you open portals. What if you’d landed in the middle of a hostile territory? Or in someone’s private quarters? Or somewhere dangerous?”

‘I know,” Lake said, looking properly chastened. “I’m sorry, Mama. I’ll be more careful.”

“Make sure you are,” I said, pulling all three of them close for a hug. I can’t handle losing any of you. Not again. Not ever.”

“We’re not going anywhere,” Ollie assured me, squeezing back.

“We’re very hard to kill, Riley added matter-of-factly. “Lake can portal us away from danger, I can see threats coming, and Ollie is surprisingly good at talking our way out of problems.”

“That’s not the reassurance you think it is,” I said.

Xenois appeared from somewhere in the house, his expression shifting from concern to relief when he saw us all together.

“There you are,” he said. “I heard we had an incident with Alpha Chen?”

“Already?” I asked. “That was fast.”

“He called to make sure the boys were safe and to ask that we maybe give him warning before randomly portaling into his security

center, Xenois said. “He was very polite about it.”

“See?” Ollie said. “Everything’s fine.”

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