Rise Of A Shattered Luna (Natalie) by Kave Derry novel Chapter 300

Chapter 300 The Frost

Baron’s POV

Shauna had gone completely silent on the other end of the transmission.

The entire situation smelled wrong.

Not dangerous in the ordinary sense.

“A dwarf?” Shauna finally muttered through the static, her voice thin with stunned realization.

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I could practically hear the furious clicking of keys in the background as her intelligence teams rewrote their search parameters the fly.

“By the ancestors… I didn’t even think to evaluate skeletal density or compressed growth ratios from that angle.”

Her breathing sharpened.

“If someone utilized a high–grade illusion token to alter physical dimensions, then our standard female registry filters would’ve erased them automatically from the candidate pool.” Another pause. “Damn it. We’ve been tracking the wrong body type this entire time.”

“You’ve been tracking the obvious answer,” I corrected flatly.

And obvious answers rarely survived this long.

Whoever had infiltrated that hospital years ago had crossed a heavily monitored threshold, manipulated birth records connecte to multiple elite bloodlines, and vanished so thoroughly there wasn’t even residual metadata left behind.

No ordinary operative possessed that level of structural clearance.

Even the Blackridge intelligence divisions couldn’t erase a person completely without leaving fractures somewhere in the netwo

But this shadow?

Nothing.

Like a ghost had walked into the hospital, rewritten fate itself, then disappeared back into the dark.

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Shauna inhaled sharply. “I’ll reopen the filters immediately, Alpha. I’ll pull every hidden roster we have access to.”

“Do that.”

The line disconnected with a sharp metallic click.

Silence flooded the corridor again.

I slowly lowered the phone from my ear.

Not finding this person felt fundamentally wrong.

Raze let out another low rumble.

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The Shadow behind the infant–switch case wasn’t retreating

It was watching.

Waiting

And every step Natalie took toward the truth was pulling us closer to its claws.

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I exhaled slowly through my nose before pushing away from the wall and stepping outside onto the rear veranda to clear the suffocating scent of war from my lungs.

The moment I crossed the threshold into the evening air, the tension in my chest loosened instantly.

Because she was there.

Natalie stood near the edge of the sprawling lawn completely unaware of the storm I had just been navigating through encrypted shadows.

The sunset behind her looked almost unreal.

The wind lifted strands of her hair across her cheeks while her winter jasmine scent drifted lazily through the clearing.

For a long moment, I simply stood there beneath the shadow of the roofline and watched her.

Natalie tilted her face upward toward the glowing sky, her golden eyes widening slightly in quiet awe before a soft smile curved against her lips.

Then, with quick excitement, she pulled her phone from her coat pocket and began taking photos of the sunset before the light disappeared entirely.

The sight hit me directly in the chest.

After everything she had survived, after eighteen winters trapped inside cages built from neglect and cruelty, she still found joy in

sunsets.

Still stopped to admire beautiful things.

My wolf practically purred beneath my skin.

I reached into my pocket, pulled out my own phone, and quietly lifted the camera toward her instead.

Click.

One photo.

Then another.

Natalie laughing softly while struggling to capture the clouds.

Natalie pushing loose hair behind her ear while the sunset painted gold across her skin.

Natalie standing in the grass looking freer than any queen I had ever seen.

Raze practically rolled onto his back in smug satisfaction.

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Mine.

I slipped the phone away before she noticed and crossed the lawn toward her.

The gravel crunched softly beneath my boots.

Natalie turned slightly when she sensed me approaching, her expression warming instantly the moment our eyes met.

“You were gone a while,” she murmured.

“Had to settle a few tracking issues.”

Her gaze sharpened slightly because she knew me too well, but she didn’t press.

Instead she simply slipped her fingers into mine naturally, effortlessly, like they belonged there.

And maybe they did.

We walked slowly down the countryside road together while twilight deepened around us.

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Unfortunately, peace never survived long in our household.

The second we stepped back onto the villa porch, chaos exploded.

Through the large foyer windows, Susie spotted us first.

Her tiny face pressed dramatically against the glass before her eyes widened in absolute horror.

“Oh no,” she gasped loudly.

Beside her, Sean turned toward the doorway.

The two pups looked at each other.

Then immediately burst into synchronized panic.

“UNCLE FLYNN!” they screamed together before sprinting across the living room like tiny fugitives escaping federal prosecution.

Natalie froze.

I blinked once.

Then realization struck.

The driveway incident.

Specifically, the unfortunate moment when Flynn had caught me kissing his sister against my truck while the twins accidentally witnessed the entire scene.

Natalie’s cheeks turned violently crimson.

Raze nearly died laughing inside my head.

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The twins disappeared down the hallway barking accusations about “Daddy attacking Mommy again” while Flynn’s distant voic immediately roared from somewhere deeper inthe villa.

“BARON GUNN.”

Natalie slowly turned toward me with the expression of a woman moments away from committing a felony.

“You,” she said very calmly, “are not speaking for the rest of the night.”

I bit the inside of my cheek to stop smiling.

“My queen, I fail to see how this became

my

fault.”

Her golden eyes narrowed lethally.

“You traumatized my children on the driveway.”

“I kissed my mate.”

“In front of Flynn’s surveillance range.”

“Ah,” I muttered thoughtfully. “Operational error.”

Natalie looked genuinely offended by my lack of remorse.

Then Flynn’s heavy footsteps started approaching rapidly down the corridor.

Natalie immediately abandoned me to my fate and escaped toward the sitting room with astonishing speed.

Traitor.

I barely had time to brace myself before Flynn appeared holding Sean under one arm like a football while Susie pointed at me dramatically from behind his shoulder.

“That’s him,” she accused.

Flynn stared at me with murderous silence.

I sighed heavily.

Life in the countryside really was beautiful.

NATALIE’S POV

The peaceful quiet of the countryside vanished the moment we returned to the Nightfang pack.

The transition was brutai.

One moment i had been walking through open fields with Baron beneath sunset skies.

The next, I was standing inside the archive hall, surrounded by the rhythmic rustle of turning pages and the soft thunder of stamping presses sealing official records, under pale archival lighting that hummed like a restrained memory.

The air carried the scent of ink, aged paper, and wax seals cooling into permanence.

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My mind adjusted automatically the second I stepped back into work mode.

Because this mattered.

This scribe line wasn’t some vanity project crafted for social prestige.

It was the financial foundation of our independent household. Our future. Our children’s security.

And failure wasn’t an option.

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I stood beside the central inspection table while scribes moved across the archive floorcarrying trays of freshly completed records beneath the pale overhead lights.

The moment my eyes landed on the finished collection, my breath caught slightly.

Beautiful.

The inkwork was immaculate, each line of script pressed into parchment with flawless consistency, seals stamped cleanly without fracture or smudge.