Rise Of A Shattered Luna (Natalie) by Kave Derry novel Chapter 10

Chapter 10 I’ll Marry You

Natalie’s POV

I didn’t stay.

He was on the balcony, his shadow casting dark grooves on the floor.

I could hear the low rumble of his voice as he spoke into his phone.

The moment his back stayed turned, I moved.

My movements were frantic but silent.

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I grabbed my shoes, clutching them to my chest like a lifeline until I had slipped out of the suite.

The hotel corridor felt miles long.

Every shadow looked like a guard; every chime of the elevator sounded like a warning bell.

I didn’t wait for the lift.

I pushed through the heavy fire door and took the stairs, my feet slapping against the concrete as I spiraled down floor after floor.

By the time I burst through the lobby and onto the rain–slicked street, the cold air hit me like a physical blow,

I didn’t mind the cold, I just ran.

A cab slowed at the curb.

I scrambled inside, my hands shaking so hard I could barely pull the door shut.

“The villa,” I rasped. “The Love Villa, Please.”

The driver glanced at me through the rearview mirror but he didn’t ask questions.

He pulled away from the curb, and I collapsed against the seat.

I pressed my forehead against the glass, watching the city smear into streaks of neon light.

My life was currently sitting in cardboard boxes at the villa, reduced to neat stacks.

Just a few more days.

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That thought was the only thing keeping my knees from buckling.

Just a few more days and I would be gone.

The cab pulled up to the iron gates of the villa.

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I paid him with the last of my crumpled bills and stepped out into the oppressive silence of the estate.

I went straight to my room.

I looked at the boxes lining the walls.

I sat on the edge of the bed, staring at them, trying to imagine what came after this.

A life where I wasn’t constantly looking over my shoulder.

A life where I wasn’t the stray.

I lay back, closing my eyes, but sleep didn’t come.

The silence was too loud.

Then, the front door opened downstairs.

I knew his footsteps immediately.

Jensen never knocked.

I sat up slowly, drawing in a steady breath as he walked in.

When I looked at him, I didn’t feel anything.

Not anymore.

“Are you here to force me to apologize to Sharon?” I asked. My voice came out calm.

He stopped a few steps away, his presence filling the room the way it always did.

“Natalie,” he said, “yesterday spiraled because you refused to listen.”

“If I had listened,” I replied, “I would still be blind.”

His jaw tightened.

“You’re letting emotions cloud reason.”

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A quiet laugh slipped out of me.

“You call what she did emotion?”

He exhaled slowly, like I was being unreasonable.

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“Sharon lived eighteen years outside the pack while you lived in her place. When she came back and saw what you had, she snapped. It was instinct.”

“She chained me in a cellar.”

“She was just a pup.”

“So was L”

He stilled.

“If that hadn’t happened,” he said, his voice tightening, “you would still be nobody. No status, No home.”

I didn’t look away.

“I would rather be nobody than yours.

The silence that followed felt different.

Something in his expression shifted into something closer to disbelief.

His hand moved.

A document hit the table between us.

The villa deed.

The edge of the paper brushed my cheek as it passed, sharp enough to cut.

I felt the sting as blood slid slowly down my skin

His gaze flickered to it.

Paused.

Then hardened.

“Get dressed,” he said. “We’re going to the Council station. You’ll retrieve the recordings and destroy them.”

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I didn’t move.

“You’ll erase Sharon’s confession,” he added. “You’ll end this.”

I just looked at him.

“If you do,” he continued, “we move forward. We finalize the bond.”

My breath caught despite myself.

“You will be my Luna.”

The words hung between us, heavy with everything I had once wanted.

“That’s what you wanted, right?” he pressed. “A name. A future. A place beside me.”

He stepped closer, close enough that I could feel the heat of him.

“Let go of the past,” he said quietly. “I’ll marry you.”

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