Rise Of A Shattered Luna (Natalie) by Kave Derry novel Chapter 90

Chapter 90 The Betrayal

Baron’s POV

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My wolf, Raze, surged to the surface, his claws aching for blood.

I turned to Natalie, my hand lingering on her waist for a fraction of a second too long.

I needed her away from the line of danger.

“Get back to the sterile wing. Now. If she stays,” I barked at the nurse, “you die.”

Natalie’s eyes, wide and filled with understanding, met mine.

She didn’t argue. She knew that in her current state, she was a liability – a target that would split my focus. “Baron, be careful,” she whispered.

“I will,” I promised, my voice dropping an octave.

Then she was gone, escorted through the hidden corridor toward the safety of the reinforced wing.

I turned back to the entrance, Shauna braced herself, her hand hovering over the sidearm at her hip.

Beside her, Finn stood like a ghost, his face a mask of hollow resignation.

For this moment, personal grudges and betrayal meant nothing – there was only the defense of the Pack.

The front doors opened with a violent crash.

I bared my claws, ready to launch but the roar in my throat died before it could escape.

I froze.

Two small, familiar figures stood in the doorway, framed by the late afternoon sun.

Their aura was way too much for two four year olds.

“…What are you doing?” I managed to choke out, my voice sounding foreign even to my own ears.

Susie and Sean.

My children.

Behind them, four of my elite bodyguards stood looking like they had seen a spirit as they saw Shauna and Tready to attack.

They were pale, their hands trembling on their holsters.

“Papa,” Susie asked, her voice small and trembling.

Her wide eyes darted from the blood on the floor to the surgical knife I hadn’t yet hidden “What are you all doing in here? Why is it

so cold?”

“Nothing, Susie,” I said, my heart hammering against my ribs as I slipped the scalpel back into my sleeve with a flick of the wrist.

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Shauna awkwardly lowered her fighting stance, looking at her boots, while Finn’s hands hovered in the air.

“Why are you here? You were supposed to be at the training grounds.”

Sean, always the more observant of the two, didn’t look at me.

He looked at Finn.

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Then his gaze drifted toward the corner of the room where the white sheet draped over the cooling table couldn’t hide the shape of a human form.

“We heard… we heard about Ms. Yvonne,” Sean said, his voice cracking. “The servants were whispering… we wanted to see.”

At once, Susie’s lip began to quiver as she saw the table, and her tears spilled over.

“Papa, is it true?” she wailed, her voice ending the silence of the room. “Is Ms. Yvonne really gone? Will I never see her again? She was going to teach me how to braid my hair! I want Ms. Yvonne!”

I felt Finn flinch beside me.

He couldn’t meet her eyes.

He couldn’t meet anyone’s eyes.

I bent toward my daughter, my voice fake with a forced calm. “Susie, don’t cry. Listen to me… Ms. Yvonne wouldn’t want to see you like this. She’d want you to be a brave wolf.”

But Susie wasn’t listening.

She tore away from the guard’s hand, running toward the corner where Yvonne’s body lay. “Ms. Yvonne, wake up! You promised! You promised to play jump rope with me when the sun went down! Please, Ms. Yvonne, get up!”

Sean’s eyes glistened with unshed tears.

They hadn’t been in the pack long, but Yvonne had always been there.

Sending them treats.

Talking to them over video back when they were still on the island.

She was family and now she lay lifeless, a victim of the very man standing five feet away.

Sean turned on Finn, his grief suddenly turning into a sudden, explosive anger.

“This is your fault!” he shouted, his small chest heaving, “I heard them! I heard Papa say you sent her to the hotel! Why did you send her out? If not for you, she’d still be playing with us. I hate you! I hate you!”

Sean lunged and before any of us could react, the boy was throwing himself at Finn, his small fists flying, kicking and pounding against Finn’s legs and chest.

And Finn – the man who could snap anyone’s neck with a single hand didn’t fight back.

He stood there like a stone pillar, absorbing the blows.

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He deserved every one of them… heck, he deserved worse.

But then, something shifted Finn’s eyes.

He looked at me, then at the door.

He knew the plan.

I had banished him.

I had told him he was to be hunted so he couldn’t leave quietly. If he walked out now, the elders would never believe he was. exile.

He needed a crime so heinous that his bridge back to me would be burned forever.

My blood ran cold as I saw his hand clench.

In one swift, blurred motion, Finn reached down and seized Sean by the arm, yanking the boy off the ground as if he weighed nothing.

A knife appeared in Finn’s grasp as he pressed the edge of the blade against my son’s throat.

“Stay back!” Finn roared, his voice cracking with desperation that I second guessed if this was still the plan. “One more step and ‘ open his throat! I swear it!”

The room froze.

Everyone froze in their steps… even Susie.

“Finn!” I snarled, my voice vibrating. “If you scratch him, if you even draw a single drop of his blood… I swear to the Moon you won’t leave this room alive.”

“Alive, dead… what’s the difference now?” Finn laughed, an ugly sound. “I’ve already betrayed you, Baron. I’ve already lost everything… Why should I care about taking one more down with me? All these years I’ve carried the weight of this pack. I bled for you! I killed for you! While you sat at the top, playing king. And now, for one mistake, you cast me aside? You treat me like garbage? You’re ruthless!”

Murder glinted in Finn’s eyes—a performance so perfect it terrified even me.

Shauna staggered back, shock sweeping over her face.

She didn’t know the plan i had whispered to Finn moments ago. To her, this was a total mental collapse.

“Finn, don’t do this!” she pleaded, her voice trembling. “Put him down! He’s just a boy! Don’t scare him like this!”

Susie’s sobs hitched into violent hiccups. “Hic… hic… Finn… put down… hic… my brother!”

She tried to stumble forward, her small hands reaching for Sean, but i lunged and scooped her up by the collar, pulling her into the crook of my arm and holding her tightly against my chest. “Susie, stay back! Do not move!”

She thrashed in my grip, her tears soaking my shirt, screaming for her brother.

Sean’s voice was small, and I could see the blade pressing into his soft skin, but he forced a terrifying strength into his tone,

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this godforsaken pack”