The Alpha King And His Chosen Luna novel Chapter 276

The missing three hundred years

(Isla)

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Lyrienne led us inside and closed the door behind Raith. The home was small, but books and old records filled several shelves along the walls. A table stood near the window with papers spread across it. My mother had clearly spent years working here.

“Sit with me,” she said.

I went to the table and took the chair beside her. Caius sat on my other side while Zeron and Rach remained nearby. I still held Lyrienne’s hand. Part of me wasn’t ready to let go.

“What happened to me?”

Lyrienne looked at our joined hands.

“Corvin took you from the wolves bringing you to Silvermere.”

I already knew that part. Mara had seen him carrying me away, and the records confirmed what she’d witnessed. Corvin had eventually taken me to Ashcrest. What happened between those moments was what nobody had explained.

“Then he left me with Derek and Helene.”

“No.”

I stared at her.

“What?”

Lyrienne looked at Caius before facing me again. Corvin had taken me to Ashcrest, but not to Derek and Helene. The couple raising a child under the Thorne name more than three hundred years ago had been different wolves.

“Then who had me?”

“A couple named Garron and Elira Thorne.”

I looked at Caius. He seemed just as surprised as I was. Derek shared their surname, which couldn’t be a coincidence. Suddenly the history of the Thorne family mattered much more.

“Were they related to Derek?”

“His ancestors.”

I pulled my hand away without meaning to. Everything I’d believed about my childhood was

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beginning to change again. Derek and Helene hadn’t been the wolves Corvin originally chose. M connection to the Thorne family went back centuries.

“How was I still a baby when Derek got me?”

Lyrienne looked at me.

“Because you weren’t awake.”

I frowned.

“What do you mean?”

Lyrienne got up and walked toward one of the shelves. She removed an old book and returned to

the table. The divided circle was carved into its cover. She placed it between us.

“Celestial children are different from other wolf children.”

I waited.

“Different how?”

Lyrienne opened the book. Several drawings showed infants surrounded by symbols I recognized from the cavern. Another drawing showed a stone chamber. My attention remained on it.

“Celestial blood can protect itself when the child is in danger.”

“Protect itself from what?”

“Almost anything.”

I looked at Caius. Vorak had become interested through our bond, and Vaela was listening to every word. Neither of them seemed surprised by what Lyrienne was explaining. Maybe Vaela already understood something I didn’t.

“What happened to me?”

Lyrienne touched the drawing of the chamber.

“You were placed into a protected sleep.”

I stared at the page.

“For three hundred years?”

“Almost.”

That explained something I hadn’t known how to ask. I hadn’t lived three hundred years without remembering them. I hadn’t been walking through the world while my mother searched for me. I

The missing three hundred years had been asleep somewhere.

“Who did that to me?”

“We don’t know.”

I looked at her.

“Not Corvin?”

“I don’t believe so.”

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Lyrienne explained that Corvin had delivered me to the original Thorne family. Soon afterward, every record of me disappeared. When she reached Ashcrest months later, Garron and Elira had no child. They denied ever receiving one.

“You believed them?”

“No.”

I smiled despite everything. That sounded exactly like the woman whose trail I’d followed across three territories. Lyrienne had searched their land anyway. She found nothing.

“What happened to Garron and Elira?”

“They died without telling me.”

I looked at the book again. If they’d known where I was placed, they had carried the secret until their deaths. Their descendants had remained in Ashcrest. Centuries later, Derek had somehow

ended up with me.

“How did I wake up?”

“That’s what I never discovered.”

I thought about my earliest memories. Derek and Helene had always been there. I couldn’t remember arriving or anyone explaining where I’d come from. I had simply believed they were my parents because that was what I’d been told.

“Could Derek have found me?”

“It’s possible.”

Caius leaned closer to the book.

“Where would a Celestial child be kept during that sleep?”

Lyrienne turned several pages.

The missing three hundred years “Somewhere protected by old magic.”

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I looked at the symbols. The same markings covered the cavern we’d passed through before finding her. If someone had known enough about Celestials to place me into that sleep, Corvin’s accomplice knew much more than we’d realized. This hadn’t simply been an abduction.

“Could I have been here?”

“No.”

I looked at Lyrienne.

“How do you know?”

“Because I would have felt you.”

Vaela agreed immediately. A Celestial could recognize another Celestial nearby. That explained how she’d recognized Lyrienne before I did. Whoever hid me had chosen somewhere far from my

mother.

Caius looked at Lyrienne.

“Why wake her twenty years ago?”

Lyrienne shook her head.

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