Rise Of A Shattered Luna (Natalie) by Kave Derry novel Chapter 371

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Sharon Summers didn’t exist.

And perhaps…

That was exactly what made me dangerous.

I walked out of the hospital without anyone trying to stop me.

No alarms.

No security team.

No doctor shouting my name.

Just cold wind and silence.

The rain had eased into a thin drizzle, leaving the cracked pavement slick beneath my bare feet.

Every step sent a dull sting through the cuts on my soles, but compared to everything else I’d endured over the last month, it ba registered.

I paused at the edge of the road and looked back.

The building that had stolen months of my life stood motionless beneath the gray sky.

I should have felt relieved.

Instead…

I felt empty.

That place had taken everything from me.

My freedom.

My reputation.

The future I’d once believed belonged to me.

And Jensen had signed it all away with a single order.

A humorless smile tugged at my lips.

How ironic.

He had locked me inside these walls because he thought I had become a liability.

Now he was the one rotting behind bars.

Perhaps there really was such a thing as karma.

The sharp blast of a horn shattered my thoughts.

A weathered pickup truck came skidding to a stop a few feet away, its tires spraying muddy water across the roadside.

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The passenger door swung open before the vehicle had fully stopped.

“Sharon!”

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The voice cracked with emotion.

I froze.

That voice…

Slowly, I turned.

My breath caught.

turned

My father sat behind the wheel, gripping it so tightly that his knuckles had turned white.

Beside him sat my mother.

For a long moment…

None of us moved.

The last time we’d stood this close, our family had been falling apart.

I remembered every hateful word.

Every accusation.

Every terrible choice.

I remembered hiring someone to poison my own mother because i believed she stood in the way of everything I wanted.

I remembered watching her collapse.

I remembered feeling nothing.

The memory should have disgusted me.

Instead…

It simply reminded me of the woman I used to be.

My mother’s eyes filled with tears,

“Come here.”

Her voice trembled.

“Please…”

I hesitated.

Why?

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After everything I’d done…

Why were they here?

Why weren’t they pretending I had died?

She climbed out before I could answer and crossed the short distance between us.

Her hands shook as she reached for me.

“You’ve lost so much weight.”

She cupped my face with both hands.

“My baby…”

I searched her expression for anger.

For hatred.

For blame.

There was none.

Only relief.

Something inside my chest shifted uncomfortably.

Not guilt.

Not yet.

Confusion.

Why would she still love me?

“…”

The words caught in my throat.

She pulled me into her arms.

For a second, my body stiffened.

I couldn’t remember the last time anyone had hugged me without trying to restrain me.

Slowly…

Very slowly…

I allowed myself to lean into her embrace.

My father climbed out of the truck.

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He looked older than I remembered.

Much older.

The proud Alpha who had once commanded entire territories now wore faded clothes, unshaven stubble, and the exhausted expression of a man who hadn’t slept in days.

He walked toward us and stopped.

“I’m sorry, Sharon.”

I looked up sharply.

“What?”

His eyes lowered.

“I failed you.”

The words stunned me.

“I should’ve seen what Jensen was doing.”

“I should’ve protected this family before everything fell apart.”

Silence settled between us.

Finally, I spoke.

“He’s been taken.”

Father nodded once.

“So I’ve heard.”

A slow smile threatened to spread across my face.

I forced it away before either of them noticed.

Good.

Let him suffer.

Let him spend years staring at concrete walls the same way I’d stared at mine.

He deserved every second.

Mother gently took my hand.

“We should leave.”

I glanced toward the abandoned hospital.

“No one’s coming after me.”

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“They don’t have anyone left to send,” Father replied quietly.

“We’re all running now”

I climbed into the truck without another word.

The cabin smelled of damp wool, engine oil, and old leather.

Nothing like the luxury vehicles our family once owned.

As Father pulled back onto the road, I studied the cracked dashboard and rust creeping along the edges of the doors.

The Summers family had truly fallen,

For several miles, none of us spoke.

Rain tapped softly against the windshield.

The silence wasn’t peaceful.

It was heavy.

The kind carried by people who had lost everything.

Finally, Father exhaled.

“The pack is gone.”

I frowned.

“What do you mean?”

“Our pack.”

“Our land.”

“Our influence.”

“The council stripped it all away.”

“They froze every account connected to our name.”

He laughed bitterly.

“We couldn’t even afford to get you out of that hospital.”

Mother lowered her eyes.

“I sold almost everything I had.”

“My jewelry.”

“My mother’s heirlooms.”

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The last of our savings.”

“It barely kept us alive long enough to come for you.”

I stared out the side window.

So this was what remained of one of the most powerful families in the South.

A rusted truck.

Three fugitives.

And nowhere to call home.

For a brief moment…

I almost pitied us.

Almost.

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Then another thought surfaced.

If Jensen had truly lost everything…

If the Nightfang had collapsed…

If the Southern Council had abandoned us…

Then someone else was standing at the top now.

Natalie.

The name drifted quietly through my mind.

Her face.

The thought lingered longer than it should have.

But because opportunity often hid inside disaster.

I didn’t say another word.

Not yet.

Some plans needed time before they were spoken aloud.

The truck continued down the empty highway, disappearing deeper into the morning fog.

No one spoke.

The windshield wipers swept back and forth in a slow rhythm, breaking the silence every few seconds before it settled over us again.

I rested my forehead against the cool window.

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For the first time in months…

I could think without someone forcing pills down my throat.

The world had changed while I was locked away.

Jensen had fallen.

And Natalie…

Natalie had risen.

I almost laughed.

Who would’ve thought?

Father finally broke the silence.

“We don’t know what comes next.”

His voice was hoarse.

“The council has abandoned us.”

“The neighboring packs won’t take us in.”

“We have no land.”

“No allies.”

“No money.”

Mother quietly nodded.

“We’re starting from nothing.”

I slowly turned to look at them.

“No.”

They both looked at me.

“We’re starting with one thing.”

Father frowned.

“What?”

“A chance.”

He gave me a skeptical look.

“What chance?”

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“Natalie.”

The truck became quiet again.

Mother’s expression softened immediately.

“I don’t think she’d even want to see us.”

“Why wouldn’t she?” I asked calmly.

Father looked at me as if I’d lost my mind.

“Because we already tried and she refused.”

Mother closed her eyes.

“I should’ve protected her.”

The guilt in her voice was genuine.

I watched both of them carefully.

Then lowered my gaze.

“You’re right.”

“I failed her too.”

That much wasn’t a lie.

I had.

I’d made her life miserable.

Competed with her.

Hated her.

Tried to destroy everything she loved.

Even after all that…

She was still standing.

While I had lost everything.

A bitter feeling settled inside my chest.

Why did she always win?

I buried the thought beneath a sigh.

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“We should apologize.”

Mother looked at me in surprise.

“You mean that?”

I nodded slowly.

“Yes.”

And I did.

At least…

Part of me did.

The other part was thinking much further ahead.

Natalie was no longer just Natalie Summers.

She was Waylon and Ruby’s daughter.

The future leader of the Nomadic Pack.

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One word from her…

And doors would open that remained forever closed to everyone else.

Protection.

Resources.

Influence.

An entire army.

Everything our family had lost….

She now possessed.

Father rubbed a tired hand across his face.

“If she forgives us…”

He couldn’t finish the sentence.

I did it for him.

“We survive”

Mother whispered,

“And if she doesn’t?”

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Hooked back out the window.

“Then we accept it.”

That was what I said aloud.

Inside…

My thoughts were very different.

Natalie would help.

She always had a weakness for family.

For loyalty.

For doing what she believed was right.

If we approached her broken…

If we admitted our mistakes…

If we convinced her we’d changed…

She would lower her guard.

She always did.

I almost smiled.

Almost.

Once the Summers family had rebuilt itself…

Once we had land again…

Once we had influence…

I would find the Witch Doctor.

The greatest surgeon alive.

If he could suppress a wolf…

He could restore one.

Someone with enough skill could bring her back.

And when she returned…

Everything Natalie had built would become mine.

She had taken my place once.

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+wouldn’t allow her to keep it forever.

This time…

I wouldn’t rush.

I wouldn’t let obsession expose me.

I’d wait.

Smile.

Apologize.

Earn her trust.

Then…

I’d destroy her with her own kindness.

Mother reached across the seat and squeezed my hand.

“We’ll be a family again.”

I looked at her and gave the smallest nod.

“I hope so.”

She smiled through her tears.

Father pressed harder on the accelerator, the old truck carrying us north through the endless fog.

Neither of them noticed the smile that disappeared the moment they looked away.

Let Natalie save us.

Let her believe we’d finally learned our lesson.

Let her rebuild the Summers name from the ashes.

Because when I reclaimed my wolf…

When I became whole again…

I would take back everything she thought belonged to her.

Including the future.

The hunt hadn’t ended.

It had only changed direction.

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