Rise Of A Shattered Luna (Natalie) by Kave Derry novel Chapter 318

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Chapter 318 The Guarded Hearth

Natalie’s POV

The doors closed behind us with a heavy click

Almost instantly, the cold from outside disappeared.

The tension lingering from the courtyard, the lingering reminder of Jensen… All of it remained outside the villa.

Warmth wrapped around me instead.

Home.

The scent of cedarwood drifted through the air.

For a moment, I simply stood there and let myself breathe.

Then Susie exploded into motion.

“Grandma!”

Her voice echoed through the hallway as she grabbed Ruby’s hand.

“No, come this way! You have to sit here!”

Ruby laughed, allowing herself to be dragged forward.

“Do 1?”

“Yes!”

Susie sounded deeply offended that anyone would question her authority.

“You get the biggest chair.”

“Why?”

“Because you’re Grandma.”

That apparently settled the matter.

Susie pointed dramatically toward the living room.

“Mommy says important people get the best seats.”

Timmediately groaned.

Ruby’s laughter doubled.

Waylon chuckled under his breath.

“And what about Grandpa Ruby asked.

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Susie tooked toward Waylon, her tiny face became serious.

“Grandpa gets the bench”

Waylon raised an eyebrow.

“The bench?”

“Your shoulders are too big.”

For a second, silence followed.

Then Flynn nearly choked laughing.

Even Sean’s lips twitched.

Waylon stared at my daughter before slowly nodding.

“Fair assessment.”

Satisfied, Susie resumed dragging Ruby deeper into the villa.

I watched them disappear toward the sitting room.

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Something tightened in my chest, because for most of my life, moments like this had existed only in my imagination.

Family dinners… grandparents… children running through hallways

I had imagined it countless times, now I was standing inside it.

The realization nearly stole my breath.

Waylon followed after them more slowly.

Sean was still in his arms.

My son hadn’t asked to be put down, hadn’t complained.

Instead, he sat there calmly, observing everything with the same quiet curiosity he approached most things with

Every now and then, he glanced up at Waylon.

Waylon glanced back.

Neither spoke.

Yet somehow they seemed to be having an entire conversation.

It made me smile.

They looked oddly similar together

Both quier both observant, both stubborn in ways they rarely advertised

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Two generations separated by decades yet somehow carved from the same stone.

Behind me, Flynn folded his arms.

“Wow.”

I glanced at him.

He shook his head dramatically.

“The disrespect is incredible.”

I laughed.

“What now?”

“I risk my life escorting the royal convoy through enemy territory.”

He gestured toward the living room.

“And not one grand–pup says hello.”

“Tragic.”

“Exactly.”

“How will you recover?”

Flynn sighed.

“I may never emotionally heal.”

I rolled my eyes.

“Go eat before Susie claims everything.”

His expression immediately changed.

A look of genuine concern appeared.

“She would do that.”

“She absolutely would.”

Flynn pointed toward me.

“See? That’s the problem.”

Then he disappeared toward the dining room.

Aoment later, his voice echoed through the villa.

“Susie! Leave some food for normal people!

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His groan followed immediately after, I couldn’t stop smiling.

Neither could Baron.

The hallway slowly emptied, the laughter moved deeper into the villa.

Voices blended together.

Dishes clinked.

Someone laughed agai

And then it was a

The moment

my mind, my attention returned to him completely.

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n had mostly closed already.

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food still stained his skin.

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softened.

alie.”

gnored him.

Instead, I walked toward the hallway cabinet and opened it.

A medical kit sat exactly where it always had

I grabbed disinfectant, gauze and

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“No.”

A small laugh escaped him.

I walked back toward him.

“Sit.”

His eyebrow lifted.

“That sounded suspiciously like an order.”

“Sit, Baron.”

His smile widened.

But he obeyed.

Which only made my heart do something completely ridiculous.

Nyx practically purred.

Lignored her.

Mostly,

Taking his hand carefully, I examined the scrape again.

The moment my fingers touched his skin, something settled inside me.

The same thing that always settled when he was close.

The same thing I’d been trying not to think about since the bond deepened.

Baron said nothing.

He simply watched me.

The intensity of his gaze made it difficult to focus.

I concentrated on cleaning the wound.

“You should have been more careful”

His expression became innocent.

An act

A terrible act

“With Jensen?”

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