Rise Of A Shattered Luna (Natalie) by Kave Derry novel Chapter 359

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Baron’s POV

The mate bond changed.

One heartbeat it carried the muffled resistance of silver

The next…

It blazed.

Warmth struck my chest with such force that every muscle in my body locked for the briefest second.

Natalie.

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Free.

The broken connection that had spent hours fighting through steel collapsed completely, replaced by something clear, steady, and fiercely alive.

She wasn’t merely conscious anymore.

She was moving.

Nyx had returned.

A slow breath left my lungs.

The waiting was over.

Rain lashed across the windshield of the interceptor as another Atlantic swell lifted us toward the towering black hull of the Sovereign Leviathan.

The digital timer mounted above the navigation console rolled to zero.

00:00.

No alarms sounded.

No warnings flashed.

The silence itself became the signal.

I eased the throttles forward.

The twin engines answered instantly, their roar cutting through the howl of the wind as our interceptor surged across the water.

Behind us, three more shadows emerged from the darkness.

Flynn climbed onto the forward weapons platform, rain pouring from his tactical jacket as he secured the magnetic housing around the rail launcher.

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He didn’t look at me.

He didn’t need instructions twice

“The bond?” he called over the storm.

“Clear.”

A grin spread across his face.

“About damn time.”

The deck trembled beneath our feet as another wave slammed against the hull.

Ahead, the Leviathan listed farther toward port.

Even from this distance I could see it now.

Every attempt to recover her heading pushed her farther off course.

The flooding Natalie had predicted was doing exactly what she’d calculated.

Renee’s voice crackled through the encrypted channel.

“Confirmation received.”

“Nightfang has entered complete collapse.”

She paused only long enough to verify another stream of incoming data.

“They’re abandoning one another.”

Exactly as expected.

Money had always been the glue holding that empire together.

Take away the money…

…and loyalty dissolved with it.

Flynn locked the final power cell into the launcher.

“Target acquired.”

The guidance system projected a pale blue outline across the Leviathan’s stern.

A single successful strike there would leave thirty thousand tons of steel helpless against the Atlantic.

“They’ll never outrun us after this,” Flynn muttered.

“They were never going to.”

Theld the wheel steady as another wall of water crashed across the bow.

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Spray exploded over the windshield before the wipers tore it away again.

The mate bond pulsed.

Then another feeling slipped quietly across the connection.

Relief settled over me without softening anything else.

She’d done it.

She’d gone back for the woman exactly as I knew she would.

There had never been another possible outcome.

Flynn Lowered himself behind the launcher.

“Say the word.”

I watched the Leviathan climb the face of another enormous swell.

Its stern lifted clear enough for the rudder housing to expose itself beneath the waterline.

Perfect.

A muffled sound interrupted… Three sharp knocks.

Behind me.

Jensen.

The iron security container shifted violently as another wave struck our interceptor.

A weak voice escaped through the ventilation slits.

“…Baron…”

Nobody answered.

“…Please…”

The plea was almost drowned out by the engines.

“I know she’s free.”

His breathing grew uneven.

“You’ve already won.”

I kept my eyes on the flagship.

“You don’t need this anymore.”

Silence.

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Then another desperate whisper.

“My family…”

“They’re already captured.”

For the first time since we’d taken him alive, there wasn’t an ounce of arrogance left inside his voice.

His arrogant mother has been captured by my people after the raid.

He had finally reached the place every tyrant eventually found.

The moment where power disappeared…

…and reality remained.

Flynn glanced toward the security box.

“Want me to shut him up?”

“No.”

I answered without hesitation.

“He stays awake.”

Jensen’s breathing caught.

“He hears everything.”

Every explosion.

Every alarm.

Every scream.

Every piece of the empire his family had built collapsing into the Atlantic.

That was his sentence.

“Fire.” I ordered.

The night exploded.

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Four flashes erupted across the Atlantic almost simultaneously as Blackridge’s interceptors released their first coordinated volley.

The ocean itself seemed to split apart.

Hyper–accelerated tungsten rounds screamed through the rain, crossing the distance in the blink of an eye before disappearing into the Leviathan’s stern.

For one impossible heartbeat…

Nothing happened.

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Then the entire ship convulsed.

Steel shrieked.

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The explosion rolled beneath the surface before bursting upward in a towering column of seawater and shattered metal.

The stern lurched violently sideways.

Warning sirens echoed faintly across the storm.

One after another…

They died.

“The steering assembly’s gone!” Flynn shouted.

“Direct hit!”

The Leviathan no longer answered her own helm.

She drifted broadside against the waves, enormous and helpless as the Atlantic immediately began turning her against herself.

Exactly where we wanted her.

I pushed the throttles farther.

The interceptor leapt forward.

“Phase Four,” I said quietly.

“No survivors among the syndicate leadership.”

“No escape.”

“No second chances.”

The Blackridge fleet answered as one.

They accelerated into the storm.

Straight toward the dying ship.