Rise Of A Shattered Luna (Natalie) by Kave Derry novel Chapter 355

Chapter 355 The First Fractine

Chapter 355 The First Fracture

Natalie’s POV

The silence inside Block Alpha didn’t last long.

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A sharp electronic alarm sliced through the steady rumble of the engines beneath my feet, shrill enough to echo off every steel wall in the holding corridor.

“Warning. Cell Eleven. Vital baseline anomaly detected.”

The computerized voice repeated itself, colder the second time.

“Subject stabilizing. Biological signature exceeding projected recovery threshold

I didn’t move.

Not a twitch.

Not even a blink.

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I remained exactly where they had left me, restrained to the reinforced chair in the center of Cell Twelve, my shoulders relaxed against the cold steel as though the warning had nothing to do with me./

My eyes stayed fixed on the darkness beyond the observation slit, their golden glow reflecting faintly against the damp concrete floor.

Across the corridor, Beth had stopped breaking.

I could feel it.

When I’d spoken to her… when I’d promised her that Donovan would not die forgotten beneath some abandoned warehouse… something inside her had changed.

Despair had been replaced by purpose.

Purpose always made a wolf stronger.

The Frost blood running through my veins wasn’t just an inheritance.

An ancient current that reached beyond walls and chains.

Beth had reached for it.

And my blood had answered.

Heavy footsteps splashed through the thin layer of water coating the corridor outside.

“What the hell happened?” someone barked.

The logistics clerk.

Even through the door I recognized his frantic breathing.

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He nearly slammed into the monitoring station mounted outside Beth’s cell, fingers flying across the illuminated display.

“No… no, that’s impossible.”

Three armed guards hurried after him, rifles raised more out of instinct than necessity.

“The silver restraints are still active,” one of them mattered.

“They’re reading full voltage.”

“Then explain why her body temperature jumped four degrees!”

The clerk’s voice cracked.

“She was crashing an hour ago! She was supposed to keep crashing until transfer!”

One guard crouched beside Beth’s observation slot, peering through the reinforced mesh.

“I don’t think it’s the restraints failing.”

“What?”

“It’s something else.”

He frowned harder.

“Look at the frequency pattern.”

The clerk leaned closer.

For a long moment neither of them spoke.

Then I watched understanding drain every ounce of color from the clerk’s face.

“…She’s synchronizing.”

His whisper barely carried across the corridor.

“With who?”

His head turned slowly.

Very…

Very slowly…

Until his terrified eyes met mine through the narrow slit in my own door.

Neither of us blinked.

My wolf lifted her head.

The golden light in my eyes burned brighter.

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The frightened woman they’d wheeled onto this ship had vanished hours ago.

Only the Frost Scribe remained.

The clerk stumbled backward.

“It’s her.”

His voice shook.

“The Frost woman.”

One of the guards scoffed.

“Impossible.”

“She shouldn’t even be conscious enough for that.”

“But she is!”

The clerk practically shouted.

“Look at the readings!”

He shoved the telemetry pad toward them.

‘Cell Eleven isn’t recovering naturally. She’s drawing strength through another frequency.”

His breathing grew ragged.

‘She’s using Natalie Frost as an anchor.”

Silence crashed over the corridor.

Even the guards looked uneasy.

One finally cursed beneath his breath.

‘Then gas both cells.”

His hand shot toward the emergency silver inanifold.

“Flood the corridor.”

“Suffocate them until both signatures collapse.”

He had barely touched the valve before the clerk grabbed his wrist.

“Have you lost your mind?”

“You heard me.”

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If Natalie Frost suffers structural damage before delivery, we’re dead!”

The guard frowned.

“What are you talking about?”

“The contract!”

The clerk’s voice rose into outright panic.

“The northern buyers aren’t paying for a corpse!”

His hands trembled violently now.

“And Blackridge is already auditing our coverage after Nightfang started collapsing!”

Another guard looked up sharply.

“What?”

The clerk laughed once.

A dry, broken sound.

“You think we’re transporting cargo?”

“We’re transporting the only thing keeping this entire operation solvent!”

He pointed toward my cell.

“Every lease.”

“Every offshore account.”

“Every registry connected to this shipment is bleeding money.”

“If she dies…”

His voice cracked.

“…our investors abandon ship before sunrise.”

Nobody answered him.

Because they all understood.

They couldn’t let me go.

But they couldn’t hurt me either.

A slow smile curved my lips.

Baron wasn’t destroying them with guns.

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Not yet.

The lead guard finally snarled.

“Then separate them.”

The words exploded from him.

“Break whatever she’s doing.”

He pointed toward Beth’s cell.

“Move the Alora woman.”

“Now.”

“Level B5.”

“Engineering holding.”

“As far away from this witch as possible.”

The clerk didn’t argue this time.

His fingers shook as he slammed an override token into the bulkhead console.

Hydraulics roared alive.

The entire corridor vibrated.

A deafening metallic groan echoed overhead before the massive watertight partition twelve meters away disengaged from its locking mechanism.

Steel screamed against steel.

Then-

BOOM!

The barrier slammed downward between the upper corridor and the lower section, shaking every wall around me.

A second later, Cell Eleven hissed open.

Three guards rushed inside.

Beth didn’t fight.

She barely had the strength.

Chains scraped violently across the floor as they dragged her into the crimson emergency lighting.

She looked exhausted.

Blood stained the corner of her mouth.

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Her wrists were raw beneath the silver restraints.

Yet when our eyes met…

I saw something different.

Hope.

Real hope.

“Natalie!”

Her scream tore through the corridor.

“Donovan!”

“They’re keeping him near the lower rail warehouses!”

“James-”

One guard struck her shoulder.

She stumbled but kept shouting.

“Don’t forget his name!”

My restraints crackled violently.

Silver needles burned through my wrist.

Nyx growled.

I stood.

The chair scraped backward across the concrete.

‘Beth!”

My voice rolled through the corridor with enough force that every guard froze.

“Hold your ground.”

The words carried something deeper than sound.

They carried command.

The suppression emitters overhead flickered.

One exploded.

Then another.

White sparks showered across the ceiling.

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“Darkness swallowed Block Alpha.

Only my eyes remained visible.

Twin golden flames burning inside the black.

“They will not take your son.”

Every syllable echoed through the steel.

“They will not make you sign.”

The guards actually hesitated.

They shoved Beth toward the freight elevator instead.

The chains around her ankles clanged against the steel floor as she disappeared inside.

“Natalie!”

“I’ll keep fighting!”

“I know.”

The elevator gates slammed shut.

Hydraulics screamed.

Then she was gone.

Silence returned.

Only the engines remained.

Deep…

Heavy…

Endless.

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I stepped closer to my own door until my forehead rested lightly against the cold steel.

I smiled again.

Moving Beth hadn’t weakened my position.

It had expanded it.

They had unknowingly handed me another section of their blueprint.

I leaned against the iron door and waited.

Somewhere beyond these walls, Baron was still following our wake through the darkness, patient as winter itself.

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And somewhere below me, Beth Alora was holding onto the promise I’d given her.

That was enough.

For now.

Because the countdown had already begun.

And neither the Atlantic…

Nor steel…

Nor fear…

Would stop what was coming next.

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Chapter 356 The Leak Value

Chapter 356 The Leak Value

Natalie’s POV

The first sign that something had changed wasn’t the sound.

It was the pressure.

The instant the cargo elevator carrying Beth disappeared into the lower levels of the ship, a dull pop echoed inside my ears.

It was subtle enough that an ordinary person would have dismissed it, but nothing inside my body functioned like an ordinary

person’s anymore.

My senses caught it immediately.

The atmosphere around me shifted, the air pressing differently against my skin, my lungs, even the tiny hairs along the back of my

neck.

remained seated exactly where they had chained me inside Cell Twelve.

The darkness swallowing Block Alpha was complete after the suppression conduits had short–circuited moments earlier.

Every overhead light had died, leaving the prison block submerged beneath an ocean of black.

It didn’t matter.

Golden fire burned quietly inside my irises, spilling across the steel walls in soft amber ribbons.

Every rust stain… every rivet… every puddle of stagnant water beheath my boots glowed beneath my vision with impossible clarity.

The air was changing.

It grew warmer.

Heavier.

Thicker.

Then came the unmistakable scent.

Salt.