Rebirth of the Broken Luna A Second Chance at Luna's Heart novel Chapter 510

Chapter 510

Afterward, we lay tangled together, her head on my chest, my arms wrapped around her protectively-as if I could shield her from cosmic forces through sheer determination.

“We need to tell the boys, Lumina said quietly. “About the other timeline. About Janice. They deserve to know what might be coming.”

“They’re five, I protested. And seventeen in Shawn’s case. How do we explain cosmic debts and time manipulation and necromancers to children?”

“The same way we’ve explained everything else,” Lumina said. “Honestly. With age-appropriate details. Riley especially-his precognition might already be showing him possibilities. Better he hears the truth from us than tries to figure it out alone.”

She was right, as usual. Our children had already experienced too much to be sheltered from this.

“Tomorrow, I decided. “After you’ve rested properly. We’ll gather everyone-the boys, my parents, Thorne, maybe Zade. Everyone who needs to know. And we’ll explain everything.”

And then what?” Lumina asked.

And then we fight Jerome with everything we have,” I said. “We execute the offensive operations, we dismantle his coalition, we end this threat as quickly as possible. Because the sooner we finish with Jerome-

The sooner Janice comes to collect, Lumina finished. ‘I know. It’s strange, isn’t it? We’re rushing toward the very thing I’m terrified of because delaying it won’t change the outcome.”

“We don’t know that,” I argued. “Maybe if we take longer with Jerome, if we give ourselves more time-

*Time for what?” Lumina challenged. “To find a way to fight a necromancer who exists outside normal reality? To discover some magical loophole that lets me avoid payment? Xenois, we both know there’s no escape. The only variable is when it happens and how we face it.”

I pulled her closer, pressing a kiss to the top of her head. “I hate this. Hate that we finally got everything right and now it might be taken away.”

“Me too, Lumina admitted. “But I’d rather have this-these months of happiness, of building our family properly-than never have had the second chance at all. Even if it costs me everything in the end.”

“It won’t,” I said stubbornly. “We’ll find a way. We always do.”

“Maybe,” Lumina said, but she sounded tired. Resigned. Like she’d already accepted what I was desperately trying to deny.

We lay together in silence for a while, listening to each other breathe, feeling heartbeats sync, existing in this fragile moment of peace.

Outside our room, I could hear the pack house settling into evening routines. The boys voices drifted up from downstairs-Riley explaining something to Lake in detailed technical terms, Ollie laughing at whatever Shawn had said. Normal family sounds in a family that had been built through impossible circumstances.

This was what I’d been fighting for. What Lumina had died and been resurrected to protect.

And I’d be damned if I let some necromancer take it away without a fight.

‘Xenois? Lumina’s voice was drowsy now, exhaustion finally catching up with her.

1724

1:02 pm

Chapter 510

‘Yeah?’

04

“Thank you. For today. For loving me even when it’s terrifying. For being the mate I needed in both timelines.”

“Always, I promised. “In every timeline, every version of events-I choose you. I choose us. I choose this family.”

I know, she whispered. “That’s why I came back.”

She fell asleep in my arms, her breathing evening out, body finally relaxing after the stress of the past two days.

I stayed awake, watching her sleep, counting breaths, feeling the steady beat of her heart against my chest.

Tomorrow we’d tell the truth. Tomorrow we’d plan our offensive against Jerome. Tomorrow we’d start the countdown to whatever reckoning Janice had planned.

VERIFYCAPTCHA_LABELVerify