Rise Of A Shattered Luna (Natalie) by Kave Derry novel Chapter 386

Chapter 386 The Shadow ledger

Chapter 386 The Shadow Ledger

Natalie’s POV

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Loretta’s manic laughter scraped against the radiator grille of her grey transit truck. Baron’s right hand was still locked around he throat with crushing, predatory torque, his bare chest heaving in ragged, shallow cadence, but his long tactical blade remained completely stationary mid-air.

“The deeds, Baron!” Loretta shrieked, her bloodshot amber eyes flaring with suicidal pride.

“The absolute boundary signatures for the Blackridge territory! The immediate transfer of the entire wealth to the Moon Pack registry blocks! You have sixty seconds to sign the clearing over to my fingers, or my infiltration guards will close the accounts on your children inside that nursery!”

Behind my ribs, I could feel his pulse hammering against his ribs like a trapped beast.

He was ready to rip his own name off the pack standard, ready to hand the entire pack gold reserves over to this parasite, strictly to keep our babies’ pulses alive on the lane.

I stepped off the iron running board of the lead rig, my long wool coat sweeping through the frost-rimed weeds.

My gold eyes were locked entirely on the dark, quiet windows of the upper nursery wing.

Analysis activated.

To an ordinary wolf, the house was a blind box, completely unmonitored and blocked by the Moon Pack’s low-frequency signal dampers.

But to a high-tier Scribe processing matrix, the physical structure of the estate was nothing but a transparent grid of density and

mass.

1 expanded my ancestral marrow, projecting my processing cells straight through the heavy granite walls, tracing the thermal heat signatures bleeding through the cedar floorboards.

Two distinct, predatory mass blocks were moving through the secondary hallway.

One stood directly beside Sean’s small bed frame; the secondary block was anchored near Susie’s cradle. They were holding short, high-density chemical kinetic blades.

“Don’t move a single muscle, Baron,” I rumbled into bond.

Loretta’s laughter choked in her throat, her amber irises jerking toward my profile as she felt the pressure

“You have no leverage here, Scribe! Your math cannot stop a blade from dropping!”

“Your script is full of errors, Loretta,” I whispered, my gold eyes flaring with brilliant, predatory fire that completely short cir the manual transponder loop clipped to her cloak harness.

I did not look back at my parents, but my mind wove a seamless, silent vector link straight into Flynn’s neid rocking channels,

The willow grove drainage shaft, I sent through the wire, my processing cells mapping the ancient so utily jy al bypad the nursery floor tentions entirely. The secondary guard in running a tow aucipline shythm, Take the tank.

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Flynn did not give a single line of verbal confirmation.

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I took a slow, deliberate step toward the grey transit rig, my leather boots grinding a loose shard of concrete into fine gray powder

I needed to hold Loretta’s focus for exactly forty-five seconds to let Flynn clear the utility shaft.

“You think Jensen was a useless partner because he let his obsession with my marrow blind his defenses, Loretta,” I said, my voice vibrating through the stone facade with clinical, terrifying calm. “But your calculation error was exactly the same. You brought thirty low-tier marsh scavengers into a Blackridge clearing, thinking a false hostage wire could force a sovereign lineage to sign away its boundary stones.”

“It’s not a false wire!” Loretta bellowed, her fingers clawing frantically at Baron’s iron forearm. “My guards are elite Moon Pack enforcers! They are loyal to my signature alone!”

“They are loyal to a bankrupt sheet,” I rumbled back, my gold irises pinning her pupils with absolute northern authority that physically forced her inner wolf to cower behind her ribs.

“Look at your terminal screens, Matriarch. The Blackridge wealth you came to steal doesn’t exist in a physical vault to be transferred by signature. It is woven into the very bedrock of this territory. The second your enforcers touch my children, the entire clearing will lock down into an absolute stasis loop that will bury your lineage forty feet beneath the clay.”

A sudden, sharp flicker of absolute doubt rippled through Loretta’s tattered face.

She turned her skull frantically toward the dark nursery window, her mouth opening to scream the execution command into her wireless harness.

Click.

Before the first vibration could leave her tongue, the heavy mahogany rear terrace doors of the main house slowly swung open.

Baron’s POV

The copper scent of old mechanical grease and wet limestone dust seemed to vanish entirely from the clearing, replaced by Mie clean, sharp scent of fresh mountain pine.

Flynn stepped out onto the stone steps of the porch, his ancestral short blade held loosely against his thigh, his gray eyes completely cool and expressionless in the red dawn light.

Held securely against his left arm, her small fingers tightly wrapped around his leather collar, was Susie.

She wasn’t crying. Her small shoulders had stopped shivering against the gale.

She was holding her plush wolf toy firmly against her chest, her routines completely logging that the danger had been systematically written off the sheet.

Directly bind Flynn’s Ilank, walking with a slow, stubborn cadence that perfectly matched my own stride, caine Sear

with that silent, unyielding discipline he had carried since the warehous

tion guards did not follow them onto the porch

Flyna rumbled into the cleaneg

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The Violent, suffocating pressure behind my ribs instantly dissolved.

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The snapped wire of our mate’s bond flooded my marrow with a sudden, overwhelming rush of pure adrenaline that turned my bloodshot eyes into two pools of brilliant gold fire.

The helpless panic that had frozen my muscles was completely liquidated.

I turned back toward Loretta, my fingers tightening around her throat with crushing, murderous torque that physically lifted her entire frame six inches off the steel bumper of her grey trans truck.

“No…” Loretta wheezed, her manic pride evaporating into a pale, trembling mask of absolute, primeval terror as she looked at the safe children and then at the long tactical blade in my left hand. “Baron… wait… I am your father’s wife… I carry the Moon Pack standard.”

“Your

that

inceled, Loretta,” I growled, my voice dropping into a register so dark, so heavy with five winters of buried rage,

shards from the broken gate lanterns violently hissed and dissolved into powder around our boots.

oser to her shivering ear, my bared fangs brushing against her skin.

eils are finished,” I whispered fiercely into the wind. “You came to my house to execute my children for an empire yours to hold. Your contract is officially settled on the gravel.”

en, explosive exertion of my Raze current, I violently threw her frame sideways, sending her crashing flat onto her back silt of the driveway debris.

my heavy tactical blade, the iron edge catching the harsh crimson light of the rising sun as I stepped forward to deliver the inical foreclosure to her bloodline once and for all.

on, stop.”

atalie’s voice cut through the clearing like a sheet of solid granite, instantly freezing the downward arc of my blade less than three

ches from Loretta’s throat.

I turned my head, my amber-gold eyes flaring with wild, unyielding friction as I looked at my mate.

My chest was bare, bleeding, and heaving with an untamed wolf’s fury. “She came to execute our babies, Natalie! Her lineage needs to be deleted from the master sheet!”

“The execution line does not waste ink on a zero-value asset, Alpha,” Natalie rumbled softly, her gold-irise/carrying that absolute northern authority that left zero room for negotiation.

She walked to the center of the pavement, her long wool coat sweeping through the frost-rimed weeds as she stopped just two paces from Loretta’s shivering, broken form

She looked down at the old matriarch with an expression of pure, clinical indifference.

“Your partner Jensen is locked in a cage. Your Moon Pack tokens are completely written off the continental net, Natalie sand, her low voice echoing with freezing finality off the valley cliffs. “You have no wealth lett to buy passage, and you don’t possess a single acre of boundary stone to call your own. Taking your life today would only stain our children’s gravel with sales trash

Natalie reached out for long elegant fingers, tracing a final, clinical foreclosure use through the cold air is directly before

Loretta’s face..

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systematically locking downliet care channels and fronting her spil

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tokens until her administrative name blinked out of existence on every regional registry on the continent.

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“Take your bleeding enforcers and crawl down the lawless waste until your fuel lines flatline,” Natalie commanded, her voice dropping into a register that turned Loretta’s breath into fine white ice shards.

“Your registry is blank. You are an outcast on the dirt road completely foreclosed, exiled, and finished forever. If your tracking token ever registers within three leagues of my family’s clearing again, the execution line will finalize your sheet in blood.”

Loretta didn’t find another line of text to write back.

She weakly scrambled into the shattered cabin of her lead grey transit truck, her hands shaking so violently she could barely tum the ignition.

The four gr

iron gate

let out a desperate, smoking screech against the wet limestone dust as they turned and fled through the broken

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