Rise Of A Shattered Luna (Natalie) by Kave Derry novel Chapter 379

Chapter 379 The Sanctuary Of Secrets

Chapter 379 The Sanctuary Of Secrets

Yvonne’s POV

“What?”

“My younger brother stole everything from me?

1 frowned. “You mean Waylon.”

“I mean the man everyone worships.” His voice carried decades of bitterness. “When our father died, I was the elder son. I should have inherited the Nomadic succession… I should have led our people.”

His fists clenched.

“But Waylon had Ruby. He had allies. He had influence. They convinced the council I was too ruthless They stripped away my birthright. They crowned my younger brother instead.”

His laugh was hollow. “Then they expected me to kneel.”

His eyes burned with hatred. “I refused.”

He turned back toward me. “So I made certain his perfect future never existed.”

He pointed toward the convoy on the monitor. “When Natalie was born, I took her.” I felt sick. “I replaced her with a dead infant. They buried an empty future.” His smile returned. “And they never knew.”

I stared at him in horror. “You destroyed countless lives-”

“I corrected an injustice.”

“No.” My voice trembled. “You created one.”

His expression hardened. “I watched Waylon spend twenty years mourning. I watched Ruby cry herself to sleep. I watched their empire slowly crack.” He sounded-proud. I enjoyed every moment.

The words hit me like a slap. “You-” I whispered. “You’re a monster.”

His eyes narrowed. “No. I am simply the only one who refused to forgive betrayal.”

Behind me, Kaelenen shifted slightly.

It was barely noticeable.

Bur 1 felt the change through the mate bond.

Before I could speak again, alarms suddenly flashed across every monitor in the bunker.

Red warning lights bathed the room. A mechanical voice echoed through the underground sanctuary

“Warning. Nomadic Convoy has entered outer canyon. Estimated arrival six minures”

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My father’s smile slowly returned. “They’re here.”

He looked directly at me. “And now, daughter-” His voice became cold.”–it’s time for you to decide which family survives.”

Baron’s POV

The mate bond between Natalie and me had become little more than a broken thread.

It no longer carried warmth or comfort. It hurt.

Every heartbeat felt like pulling on rusted wire embedded beneath my ribs.

She was still alive… I knew that much. If she wasn’t-I wouldn’t be breathing.

But distance had never felt so cruel.

somewhere ahead, charging toward an enemy she didn’t fully understand, while I remained miles behind, chasing shadows through mountains wrapped in fog.

med my foot harder against the accelerator.

engine answered with another violent roar.

pha.” Renee’s voice crackled through the communications system. “We’ve confirmed the coordinates.”

didn’t take my eyes off the road. “Report.”

The unidentified transmission originated beneath the granite basin

My jaw tightened. “There shouldn’t be any infrastructure out there”

“There shouldn’t,” Renee agreed, “but satellite imaging has detected abnormal geothermal signatures beneath the mountain. Whatever is hidden there has been masked for years?

“A bunker.

That’s our conclusion.”

My fingers tightened.

Someone had built an underground fortress less than a day’s journey from Nomadic territory without anyone noticing.

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“Our surveillance de

I frowned, “What d

cans” She paused. “They disappeared”

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“No explosion… No signal loss. They simply… vanished.”

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Cold spread through my spine. Whoever was hiding inside that mountain possessed technology sophisticated enough to erase surveillance drones without leaving debris behind.

“Alpha.” Renee spoke again, her tone sharper now. “We’ve intercepted another signal.”

“What kind?”

“It originated inside the bunker.”

The dashboard display flickered before lines of encrypted code raced across the screen. I recognized the encryption immediately. My pulse spiked.

“No-it can’t be.”

I’ve already verified it twice.” She sounded just as unsettled. “The encryption belongs to Yvonne.

oment, everything inside the cabin became silent.

refused to believe it. “Run the verification again.”

ready have.”

Again.

Several seconds passed. Then-

The result is unchanged.” She inhaled slowly. “The signal is definitely hers.”

Questions collided inside my mind.

Had she betrayed us? Had she willingly joined whoever was hiding inside that bunker? Or-had she been forced?

The Yvonne I knew wasn’t ambitious.

She wasn’t greedy. She wasn’t power hungry. She had spent years quietly serving everyone around her. asking for nothing in return. Something wasn’t right.

“Can you tell what she’s doing?”

Renee’s fingers flew across her keyboard. “I-“She hesitated. “-I’m receiving fragments.”

“Read them.

Another pa

Every ma

to access the Nomadic convoy’s navigation systems.

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“They’re targeting Natalie.”

“It appears so… They’re trying to override the steering controls remotely

A dangerous calm seuled over me.

Whoever was behind this wasn’t planning an ambush.

They wanted an accident.

Sean. Susie.

My heartbeat thundered.

hispered the word before roaring into the communicator. “Renee!”

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Natalie immediately

ve tried. No response.

Damn it!” My fist slamm

They’re already insid

Three minutes. I lo

“Alert every tra abandoning

Silence an

“Every it. If you

The

terference is blocking every transmission.”

dashboard. The impact cracked the reinforced display.

1. Approximately three minutes from the bunker”

thing but winding mountain roads. Not enough. I needed more speed

dropped into the cold register every rogue soldier recognized. “We’re

eat. Then Renee spoke. “…Alpha?”

est route. Ignore designated roads. If you have to drive through the forest-do idge-do it. We reach that bunker before anyone lays a hand on my family.

antly.

ether. One by one, the transports broke formation.

into the pine forest. Others climbed steep rocky slopes no sane driver would No complaints. Only obedience.

distant mountains disappearing beneath layers of gray mist

hiding there for twen

ed to Natalie’s sto

ning inside the

patiently for this exact moment.

day to reveal itself.

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Because this time, I wasn’t arriving to negotiate.

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I was arriving to destroy everything standing between my family and the future they’d fought so hard to reclaim.

I shoved the accelerator to the floor. The transport surged forward like a cannonball, disappearing into the fog as the granite basin finally appeared on the horizon.

And somewhere beyond those cliffs-the truth was waiting.

The granite basin came into view like the jaws of a sleeping monster.

Even from nearly a kilometer away, I could see why no one had ever discovered it.

To

gcliffs rose on every side, their jagged faces swallowed by sheets of rolling fog.

ove, it would have looked like nothing more than another forgotten stretch of wilderness.

nstincts screamed otherwise. Someone had hidden an entire operation beneath that mountain. ne patient enough to remain invisible for decades.

Renee’s voice crackled sharply through the communicator. “Our thermal scanners have finished onstructing the terrain.”

Report.

There is definitely a structure beneath the basin.”

A three-dimensional map materialized across the cracked display mounted on my dashboard. The image made my blood run cold.

The bunker wasn’t small. It stretched deep beneath the mountain like the roots of an ancient tree, with tunnels branching in every direction.

Multiple reinforced chambers surrounded a massive central facility protected by blast doors thicker than the armored plating on my transport.

Whoever built it hadn’t been preparing for months. They had been preparing for years.

“Estimated age?” I asked.

“At least twenty years.

My grip tightened.

Twenty years.

The same lengt

Walen from her family.

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I couldn’t be a coincidence.

The truth had been waiting here all along.

Another warning flashed across my console. SIGNAL INTERFERENCE INCREASING.

Renee cursed under her breath. “They’re expanding the jamming field.

“How long before we lose communication?

“Less than two minutes.”

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I looked ahead. The basin entrance was still frustratingly far away. Not far enough to give up. Far enough to be dangerous.

he Nomadic convoy?”

eached the outer perimeter.”

beat skipped. “What?”

yre already there.”

e words landed like a hamme

imagined Natalie sitting insi unaware of what waited ben

Or perhaps Natalie alrea

She had always posse

That realization

Instead, it fille

chest.

ansport. Waylon beside her. Ruby. Sean. Susie. Completely

els.

at defied explanation.

red me.

cause Natalie never hunted unless she intended to finish the job.

enly. “We’ve intercepted internal movement.

Alphal Re

Inside

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pulated with blinking markers. One. Five. Ten. Twenty. More continued appearing

efensive positions.”

ing us.

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“It would appear so.”

I exhaled slowly. No. Not us. They had been expecting Natalie,

The realization ignited something cold inside me.

This wasn’t an ambush born from opportunity. It had been carefully planned.

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Someone had been moving pieces across the board long before any of us realized we were playing

My jaw tightened. I was late. Again.

Every instinct urged me to accelerate harder, to crash straight through anything standing between me and Natalie.

But charging blindly now would accomplish nothing except starting a war before anyone understood who

real enemy was.

orced myself to think

The enemy wanted

shadows. I wouldn’

inted two powerful packs colliding head-on while they escaped through the

that satisfaction.

“Rence.”

“I’m here.”

“Order e

A bri

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it to hold outside visual range.”

Fred….Hold?”

secondary perimeter. If anything escapes that bunker-” I looked toward the decades of lies had finally begun to unravel.”-nothing leaves alive.”

through the convoy.

own vehicle to a stop atop a rocky overlook. From there, I could see almost the entire basin.

had narrowed to this single battlefield.

es of buried secrets,

ane hand against the steering wheel and stared into the thick wall of fog curling around the

The name left my lips a

Foever they are- My a

my family

“I don’t know who’s waiting for you in there. bout to learn what happens when they

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