Rise Of A Shattered Luna (Natalie) by Kave Derry novel Chapter 162

Chapter 162 The Ghost

Chapter 162 The Ghost

Jensen’s POV

Her voice cut through the air.

Familiar yet so wrong.

“Sorry to keep you waiting.”

A sharp crack split the air.

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The porcelain fractured in my grip, thin lines racing across its surface before giving way completely.

Heat spilled over my fingers.

Down my wrist.

Dripped onto the floor.

I didn’t feel it.

I couldn’t take my eyes off her.

The girl who once spent her Sunday mornings ironing every wrinkle from my shirts now idly brushed gloved fingertips across the table.

Her movements were slow, deliberate, and entirely devoid of the warmth I had spent five years taking for granted.

The delicate chain dangling from the side of her mask swayed suddenly as she tilted her head.

The air left my lungs in a sudden, violent rush.

My wolf howled in pain as he noticed the ring she had on.

It was the mate band.

The very ring I had slipped onto Natalie’s finger with my own hands.

She had kept it

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Cairn roared again in my mind.

‘Ours! She is ours!”

But as I looked at her face, I knew he was wrong.

She wasn’t mine.

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I shot to my feet, my chair crashing backward, and lunged toward her, my hand reaching for the mask on her face.

Natalie’s POV

Jensen was unravelling.

I watched him from behind the mask, seeing the way his pupils vibrated with a frantic, desperate hope.

Then, he broke.

He shot to his feet and lunged across the table, his hand trembling as it reached for the silver mask.

Before his fingers could even brush the cold steel, Chris was there.

He simply stepped into Jensen’s space, his hand catching Jensen’s wrist in a grip that looked like a casual gesture but clearly something else.

“Alpha Jensen,” Chris said, his voice a low, warning rumble. “Please control yourself.”

Sweat broke out across Jensen’s forehead, the beads glistening in the harsh overhead light.

His

gaze was fixed on the exposed half of my face, searching for a reaction.

He refused to give up.

He fought against Chris’s grip, his muscles cording under his suit jacket.

“Natalie?” he gasped, the name sounding like a prayer he hadn’t said in years.

“You’re Natalie, aren’t you? I know those eyes. I know the way you breathe. Tell me it’s you.”

I tilted my head, the delicate chain on my mask swaying.

“Why are you so agitated?” I asked.

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I sat down, crossing my legs with a slow, predatory grace.

I didn’t wait for him to be released.

Jensen’s throat tightened, his Adam’s apple bobbing in a rhythmic, pained motion,

A thousand words seemed to flood his mind but he couldn’t get a single syllable out.

A faint mist of tears shimmered in his eyes.

Nyx was quiet as if she wasn’t interested in the interaction.

“Heh…”

I let out a soft, mirthless laugh.

I waved my hand, a small, dismissive gesture.

Chris immediately released Jensen’s wrist and stepped back, retreating with respectful precision to stand exactly two behind my chair.

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He became a shadow

Only then did Jensen seem to truly take in the room.

His confusion warred with his obsession.

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“Natalie,” he whispered, leaning over the table, his hands braced against the wood as if he were afraid he might collapse. “It’s such a relief you’re alive. I didn’t know… I didn’t know you were in the warehouse that day. If I had known, I never would have left. I never would have

“Alpha Jensen,” I interrupted, my voice flat and cool. “Perhaps you’ve mistaken me for someone else.”

He froze.

The joy on his face faded.

“Yes,” I said calmly.

“My name is Natalie.”

A pause.

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Just enough for hope to bloom.

Then-

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“But not the one you’re thinking of… I am Natalie Stone. Daughter of Waylon Stone and sister of Flynn Stone. I am the daughter of the Stone Pack. I’ve spent my entire life in the North, Alpha Jensen. I’ve never been here before; this is my first time.”

The silence that followed was absolute.

I watched the light go out in his eyes.

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