Rise Of A Shattered Luna (Natalie) by Kave Derry novel Chapter 305

Chapter 305 The Midnight Horizon

Chapter 305 The Midnight Horizon

Natalie’s POV

The villa was quiet in a way that almost didn’t feel real.

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I sat curled into the corner of the leather sofa near the floor–to–ceiling glass panels overlooking the rear veranda, a sketchpad resting loosely against my knees.

My mechanical pencil remained trapped between my fingers without moving.

Outside, evening had nearly swallowed the horizon whole.

For the first time in several days, I was completely alone inside the house.

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Baron had driven out to the private landing strip nearly an hour ago to receive my parents and escort them safely through the pack perimeter.

Flynn had disappeared with Sean and Susie sometime earlier that afternoon after the twins demanded another “combat ration expedition,” which apparently translated into buying enough snacks to sustain a small militia battalion.

The entire villa had finally fallen silent without the twins stampeding through the hallways or Flynn pretending not to indulge them while secretly carrying both children on his shoulders.

A faint smile tugged softly at my lips.

Somehow, without me even noticing when it happened, this place had become home.

Even sitting alone in the quiet, I didn’t feel abandoned.

Baron had changed that.

My gaze drifted toward the darkening horizon as my fingers absentmindedly brushed the edge of the sketchpad.

The old version of myself seemed almost unreal now.

Terrified of losing a male who had never once feared losing me.

A bitter ache briefly twisted through my chest.

Not because i still loved him.

But because i finally understood how little I had loved myself back then

The sharp vibration of my phone suddenly shattered the silence.

My brows furrowed instantly.

The phone testing beside me iluminated the dark room with a pale glow, the unfamiliar routing number flashing across the screen in the white text

No regresad identity but something deep aside my stim to lightened haechately

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Jensen

A slow exhale left my lungs as I stared at the incoming call without answering.

The terminal buzzed again.

And again.

Persistent.

Erratic.

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Almost frantic

1 leaned back against the sofa cushions, exhaustion washing heavily through my chest as I watched the screen pulse inside the dim

room.

It was honestly bewildering.

During the entirety of our bond, Jensen had never once chased me like this.

Never.

Not when I spent nights waiting for him at empty dinner tables.

Back then, I had been the one calling him.

The one asking if he was coming home.

The one begging for scraps of attention like a starving animal waiting beneath a king’s table.

Now suddenly, after everything had collapsed, he behaved as though losing me had ripped the ground from beneath his feet.

The irony would have been laughable if it wasn’t so tragic.

I closed my eyes briefly.

Maybe this wasn’t even love.

Maybe it was simply ego.

Jensen had never imagined I would truly leave.

Pie genuinely thought i would remain waiting behind the gates forever

And now that I had finally walked away?

Now that another man treasured the exact things he discarded so carelessly?

His wolt couldn t tolerate the loss

The phone vibrated apas)

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This time, I silenced it completely and tossed the device onto the far end of the sofa.

The room returned to stillness.

But a faint heaviness lingered in my chest

Not longing, just… mourning.

Mourning the girl I used to be.

A sudden gust of cool wind brushed lightly against the glass panels.

Then, faintly through the mate bond, warm pine and iron wrapped around my senses like thick winter fur.

Baron

My entire body relaxed instinctively.

The contrast between the two men felt almost cruel.

Jensen had taught me how deeply neglect could wound a soul.

Baron had taught me what safety felt like.

The difference was night and daylight.

One male had spent years making me feel replaceable.

The other guarded my peace so fiercely that even an unanswered phone call from my past triggered surveillance alerts across hait the northern intelligence network.

My lips curved softly despite myself.

Ridiculous overprotective tyrant.

The mate bond pulsed again with calm reassurance, warm and steady against my consciousness.

And just like that, the lingering ache inside my chest eased.

BARON POV

I parked beside the terminal hangar and killed the engine with a sharp twist of the ignition.

The moment silence settled inside the vehicle, Raze lifted his head behind my ribs.

Natalie’s escort detail had already confirmed her safe arrival back at the villa nearly twelve minutes ago.

Chris’s convoy encountered no surveillance tails, no interference, and no hostile tracking signatures along the downtown perimeter

My mate was homel

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That singular fact alone loosened something primal and possessive inside my chest.

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I stepped out into the cold evening wind, adjusting the dark cuffs of my coat as the terminal gates slid open ahead of me.

Waylon Stone emerged first from the private arrival corridor.

Even beneath the harsh industrial floodlights, the oder Alpha carried the overwhelming presence of a sovereign predator.

Time had silvered portions of his dark hair, but it hadn’t dulled the crushing authority rolling off his frame.

Behind him came Ruby.

The moment her scent touched the air, I immediately understood where Natalie inherited her warmth from.

Even exhausted from travel, her eyes glowed with unmistakable maternal anticipation.

She wanted to see her daughter.

I crossed the tarmac in long strides and inclined my head respectfully.

“Dad. Mem.”

Waylon studied me carefully for several silent seconds before giving a single approving nod.

“The route is secure?” he asked.

“Completely.” I replied smoothly, taking two of the heavier luggage cases from the escort enforcers before they could protest. “Our scouts cleared the downtown corridor ahead of schedule. No southern surveillance teams breached the perimeter.”

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