Rise Of A Shattered Luna (Natalie) by Kave Derry novel Chapter 249

Chapter 249 The Truth In The Flames

Chapter 249 The Truth In The Flames

Jensen’s POV

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I sat paralyzed at the edge of the Stone family’s hillside territory and on the seat beside me, the phone lay face up, the screen still illuminated with the chat.

The last message from Natalie stared back at me.

And beneath it lay the files – the video attachments she had sent.

“Jensen, watch these. Then tell me if you still think I could ever forgive you.’

I reached out, my thumb hovering a mere millimeter above the first thumbnail, but a sudden, violent wave of terror seized my chest.

My breath caught, my lungs straining against an invisible weight.

Cairn had abandoned me to my humanity, leaving me stripped of the primal courage that usually ran in my veins.

“Cairn… please.”

Silence.

For the first time in my life, I felt a paralyzing fear of the truth.

I was indeed alone.

Those video files… they had to contain things I didn’t yet know.

Things I hadn’t even begun to investigate.

What had already come to light today – Sharon’s explicit chat logs with Dr. Johnson, the timeline of her betrayals, the staggering revelation that our entire marriage was built on a foundation of calculated deception was almost more than my mind could

handle.

My pack pride was shattered, my dignity dragged through the mud.

As for what I hadn’t uncovered yet, what lay hidden within the data Natalie had just dumped into my lap – I felt a suffocating wave of dread at the very thought.

My chest tightened with a full-blown panic.

If I opened these videos right now, blindly, without any preparation, I knew the revelation would break whatever was left of my sanity.

I needed leverage.

I needed answers from the source before the fire consumed me completely.

Instead of watching the playback, I forced my trembling fingers to open my contacts and sent Hansel a frantic, urgent message, “Take Johnson’s son and that Diane woman somewhere secret… Move them out of the pack’s registry immediately. Keep the boy

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in the highest-tier isolation treatment and get as much information out of Diane about Johnson’s private records as you can. Don’t let the Nightfang elders or my mother find out where they are.”

A minute passed, the three dots dancing on the screen before Hansel’s text popped up.

“Understood, Alpha Jensen. I’ll handle the relocation personally under a corporate alias. But the boy’s leukemia is advanced. The bone marrow degradation is serious. He’ll need an mediate transplant to survive the month, let alone the week.”

My eyes narrowed.

“Then find a match… Use the entire pack’s database if you have to. Check the regionat pack registries, buy a donor from the black market, I don’t care about the cost. Save the child, and Diane will spill everything we want to know about her mate’s dealings with Sharon. Do it now.”

Only after giving those orders did I feel steady enough to brace myself.

I leaned my head back against the headrest, closing my eyes for a single, long second to let the cool air settle the burning in my lungs.

At last, I opened the chat again.

I tapped the first file.

The video flared to life.

The camera angle was steady, clearly extracted from a hidden security feed.

The setting was an alleyway behind the old design studio five years ago.

My breath hitched as the screen focused on Sharon’s face.

She was standing before Clark – one of my former guards as she handed them a thick envelope of cash.

Clark had been punished for the attack on Natalie.

“Make sure she’s useless,” Sharon ordered, her eyes gleaming with a petty malice.

“But don’t touch her face. I want her soul muted. Make sure she can never hold à Scribe’s pen or draw a single line again. Let’s see how much Jensen loves his perfect little scholar when she’s entirely useless to the pack.”

A cold sweat broke out across my neck.

I remembered that night.

I remembered Natalie shouting that Sharon had muted her soul and I had shielded her.

But I… what had I done?

I let her go free all in the name of debt.

It was in that exact moment that the truth struck me like a physical blow.

It was at that moment Natalie truly gave up on me.

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She hadn’t left me five years later; she had died to me right there, under my own watch.

Watching Sharon’s twisted expression, a wave of guilt crashed over me

How had ever been so blind?

How had I convinced myself that Sharon was harmless and was just jealous?

My fingers shook as the first video ended, automatically transitioning into the second attachment.

The background changed.

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This one was compiled from internal hospital surveillance footage – specifically, the private examination rooms of Dr. Johnson’s clinic.

The timestamps matched the weeks leading up to my mate ceremony with Sharon.

The camera showed Sharon and Johnson alone in the office.

There was no medical equipment in use, no signs of the terminal treatments she had claimed were destroying her body.

Instead, Sharon was pacing the room with a healthy grace that made my stomach churn with a sudden nausea.

“Johnson, make this case look real,” Sharon’s voice came through the speaker.

She walked over to the desk where the doctor sat, leaning down and flirtatiously circling a single finger over the fabric of his shirt, right against his chest.

“Best if you tell Jensen my cells have spread. Tell him the metastasis is accelerating and I need family around me more often. He’s starting to ask too many questions about the original charts.”

“Sharon, to fake metastasis you’d need a real patient’s case file to clone the markers. Right now, we don’t have an active terminal case at the hospital; I can’t just invent the laboratory sheets out of nothing. We’re walking on a knife’s edge here.”

The sight of her finger tracing his chest made the blood roar in my ears.

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