Rise Of A Shattered Luna (Natalie) by Kave Derry novel Chapter 328

The school drama was over.

But the real war for our family was only beginning.→

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Chapter 328 The Northern Vector

Chapter 328 The Northern Vector

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Baron’s POV

The academy disappeared behind us.

One moment its stone towers were visible through the windshield.

The next, they were gone.

Swallowed by fog and distance until nothing remained except winding mountain roads and the low hum of the convoy engines.

Three transports moved together across the valley bypass.

Flynn’s vehicle led the formation.

Ours occupied the center.

The final escort remained behind us, close enough to respond instantly if anything breached the perimeter.

A perfect defensive triangle.

The way it should be.

My hand remained over Natalie’s on the center console.

Outside, the mountains rolled past in shades of gray and pine green

Inside, the cabin was quiet.

For now.

Flynn’s voice crackled through the communication channel.

“The regional council chair’s wife is running.”

I glanced toward the dashboard display.

“Already?”

A rough chuckle answered me.

“Our scouts spotted movement at the tolt stations twenty minutes ago. Personal vehicles leaving the estate.”

A pause.

Then Flynn added,

“You scared her, Alpha.”

I almost laughed.

Not because he was wrong… but because he wasn’t.

Chapter 328 The Northern Vector

Vanessa had spent years believing her pack occupied an untouchable position inside the valley.

The kind of people who measured power through old names and older power.

The kind who thought status could protect them from consequences.

Today proved otherwise.

“She’s leaving because she understands what happens next, said.

Natalie shifted beside me.

Her gaze remained fixed on the passing tree line.

“She’s going to blame us.”

“Of course she is.”

“She’ll tell everyone she’s the victim.”

“Of course she will.”

That finally earned a smile.

I squeezed her hand once.

“None of it matters.”

The silence that followed was comfortable.

Until it wasn’t.

“Dad.”

Susie’s voice floated from the back seat.

I checked the mirror.

She was practically hanging over Sean’s shoulder again.

Sean, predictably, looked unimpressed.

“What?”

Susie pointed at his screen.

“Your trucks are going to get trapped.”

“They aren’t.”

“They are.”

“They aren’t.”

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“They are”

Sean sighed.

Patiently.

Like he was speaking to a particularly stubborn instructor.

“The river crossing creates a bottleneck.”

Susie folded her arms.

“Mom says we always take high ground first.”

“Mom is talking about real combat.”

“And?”

“This is a simulation.”

Susie frowned.

“I think you’re losing.”

Sean looked at the screen.

Then at her.

Then back at the screen.

“I am winning.”

“You don’t look like you’re winning.”

I looked away before either of them noticed the smile threatening to form.

The academy had no idea what to do with my children.

Neither did most adults.

Sean adapted to systems.

Understood them.

Mastered them.

The academy’s tactical instructors had spent three months trying to determine whether he was gifted or simply abnormal,

Susie never bothered learning systems.

She simply ignored them.

Which, somehow, was worse.

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watched them through the mirror for another moment before my attention shifted back to the road.

Back to Natalie.

For years, I had carried it alone.

The Witch Doctor.

The surgery.

The mountain laboratory.

The twins.

Natalie knew now.

Everything.

Sean and Susie were her children.

Every piece of them.

The dashboard chimed.

Once.

My gaze dropped to the console.

Red.

Priority encryption.

Renee.

I accepted the transmission.

“Talk.”

Her voice arrived immediately.

“The secondary financial pressure campaign triggered a response.”

My eyes narrowed.

“What kind of response?”

Several files appeared across the display.

Corporate registries, asset movements and liquidation notices,

Then the name I expected.

Lady Gunn.

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My stepmother.

Of course.

Renee continued.

“Her primary holding pack officially filed for bankruptcy protection this morning.”

I wasn’t surprised.

The only surprising part was how long she’d lasted.

For months, Blackridge had systematically dismantled everything she’d built.

Every shell pack.

Every hidden account.

Every protected asset.

One by one.

The empire she’d stolen from my father was collapsing around her.

And now she was running out of options.

“What is she doing?” I asked.

The answer came immediately.

“Everything.”

The files changed… New data appeared, vehicle registrations, financial transfers and even weapons purchases.

My expression hardened.

Renee noticed.

“So you’ve seen it.”

1 had.

She’d sold whatever remained of her future to finance one last attempt.

A final roll of the dice.

“What are their vectors?

Silence.

Then:

“They aren’t moving toward the pack.”

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My grip tightened fractionally around the steering wheel.

“They aren’t targeting corporate assets.”

The display shifted again.

New coordinates appeared;

School transit paths.

My jaw locked.

Renee’s voice lowered.

“They re mapping the school routes, Baron.”

For several seconds, I said nothing.

Beside me, Natalie became very still.

She always noticed.

Her hand tightened around my forearm.

“The North?”

I nodded.

“My stepmother.”

She didn’t ask another question.

Didn’t need to.

The answer was already written across my face.

Natalie’s eyes sharpened immediately.

The softness from earlier disappeared was replaced by something older.

“They’re targeting the children.”

It wasn’t a question.

“No.”

Her voice dropped lower.

Colder.

“They won’t touch them.

I looked at her.

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