THE LUNA WHO CONQUERED DEATH novel Chapter 56

Episode 33-2

“We’re running?” Lily asked, her voice small.

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“We’re being smart. Non–combatants go to safe houses, warriors stay to defend.” I met her eyes. “But we’re also going on the offensive. If they’re planning to attack in two weeks, we have two weeks to strike first.” “How?” Jade asked. “We don’t even know where their main base is.”

“Torres is finding it. Once we have a location…” I felt cold determination settling over me. “We destroy it. All of it. Before they can mobilize.”

“That’s suicide,” one of the older students said. “Attacking a Hunter base with their full forces present?” “No more suicide than waiting here for them to come to us.” I headed for the door, “Katherine said, coordinating evacuations. Elena, I need you to contact every reformed pack, every allied Alpha. We’re calling in every favor, every alliance. If the Covenant wants war, we’ll give them one they can’t win.”

The next forty–eight hours were chaos.

Torres worked around the clock, cross–referencing property records with satellite imagery. He found three possible locations for the Hunter base.

The students were evacuated in shifts. The younger ones went first, sent to safe houses scattered across allied territories. Lily, Jade, Maya, Riley, Hannah, and Simone insisted on staying.

“We’re not children anymore,” Riley said firmly when I tried to send them away. “We proved ourselves against Harrison. Let us prove ourselves again.”

“This is different. These are humans with military training and silver weapons designed to kill us.”

“Then we need every advantage. Every gift.” Jade’s voice was steady. “My emotional manipulation can stop humans just as easily as wolves. Maya’s visions can warn us. Riley’s shields can block bullets.”

I wanted to refuse. Wanted to keep them safe, far from the coming battle.

But they were right. We needed every advantage.

“Fine. But you follow orders. No heroics. If I tell you to run, you run.”

“Yes, Alpha.”

Diana arrived from Clearwater with twenty warriors. Other reformed packs sent what they could spare, five

here, ten there. By the end of the second day, we had seventy–three fighters assembled.

Against a Covenant mobilization that Torres estimated at over two hundred Hunters.

“Terrible odds,” Marcus observed, studying our force disposition.

“We’ve faced worse.”

“Have we though?”

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Adrian had been coordinating with his contacts in the human world. Now he entered the war room with a tablet and a grim expression.

“I found something. About the Covenant’s funding.”

He pulled up financial records, shell companies, and money trails.

“The Covenant isn’t funded by old family wealth. They’re funded by a multinational corporation called Apex Industries. Medical research, pharmaceutical development, biotech.“,

“What does a pharmaceutical company want with dead supernatural beings?” Katherine asked.

“Not dead. Harvested.” Adrian pulled up more files. “Apex has been developing drugs based on supernatural physiology. Healing factors, enhanced strength, and extended lifespan. They’re using Hunter research to create products for human enhancement.”

The implications hit me like a physical blow. “They’re not just killing us out of fear. They’re killing us for profit.”

“And if they successfully harvest enough supernatural tissue, if they perfect their formulas…” Adrian’s voice was dark. “They could mass–produce supernatural abilities for human use. Imagine an army of soldiers with werewolf healing and strength.”

“That’s an extinction–level threat,” Elena said. “Not just for us. For the entire supernatural world.”

Torres had gone pale. “I worked with them. I helped them. God, I handed them intelligence about pack locations, my daughter’s abilities…”

“Focus on making it right,” I cut him off. “Where’s their main research facility?”

“According to these files, the Apex Industries headquarters. Seattle.” Adrian zoomed in on a location. “Forty stories. The top fifteen floors are Covenant operations. The rest is legitimate business providing

cover.”

“That’s one of three possible base locations,” Torres confirmed. “And it makes sense. Hidden in plain sight, easy access to resources, defensible position.”

“It’s also in the middle of a major city,” Marcus pointed out. “We can’t assault a downtown building without massive civilian casualties.”

“Then we don’t assault it. We infiltrate.” I looked at my team. “Small strike force. Get in, gather evidence of their operations, expose them publicly,”

“As we did with Harrison’s estate,” Jade said.

“Exactly like that. Except this time, we’re dealing with humans who won’t hesitate to shoot us with silver

bullets.”

“When do we go?” Adrian asked.

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“Tomorrow night. Before they could mobilize for their attack on Crescent Moon,” I pulled up the building schematics Adrian had obtained. “Katherine, Elena, Adrian, and I. Plus Jade, Riley, and Maya. Seven total.” “You’re not going,” Katherine said immediately. “You’re seven months pregnant.”

“Which is exactly why I’m going. This threat needs to end before my daughter is born.” I met her objections with steel. “Besides, my bond manipulation abilities might be crucial. If there are Hunters who were supernatural beings before being somehow changed…”

“That’s a theory with no evidence.”

“Then we’ll find evidence. Or we won’t. Either way, I’m going.”

Adrian didn’t bother arguing. He knew that tone.

Marcus looked unhappy but nodded. “I’ll coordinate defenses here. If this goes wrong, if the Hunters attack while you’re in Seattle…”

“Then you hold the line until we return.” I gripped his shoulder. “You’re Beta. The pack trusts you.”

“The pack trusts you. I’m just keeping the seat warm.

“Then keep it warm for about twelve hours. That’s all we need.”

That evening, I stood in the nursery while Adrian and I had been preparing. Soft yellows and whites, moon and star decorations, a crib that had been my mother’s.

“Having second thoughts?” Adrian asked from the doorway.

“Constantly. But I’m doing it anyway.” I touched the crib rail. “She’s going to be born into either a world where we won, or one where we lost everything trying.”

“No pressure.”

“None at all.” I smiled despite everything. “Adrian, if something goes wrong tomorrow?”

“Nothing will go wrong.”

“But if it does. If I don’t make it back.” I turned to face him. “Promise me you’ll protect her. Raise her to be strong, teach her about her heritage, make sure she knows her mother died trying to make the world safer for her.”

“Sera”

“Promise me.”

His jaw tightened, but he nodded, “I promise. But you’re coming back. Both of you.”

“Planning on it.” I moved into his arms, letting him hold our daughter and me. “I just wanted to make sure you knew. In case Maya’s vision…”

“Maya’s visions show possibilities. You said it yourself. We’re making a third path.”

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“Then let’s make sure it’s a good one.”

We stood together in the quiet nursery, the mate bond wrapped around us, both of us trying not to think about prophecies that split between bad and worse.

Tomorrow, we’d infiltrate a Hunter base.

Tomorrow, we’ll expose the Covenant’s operations.

Tomorrow, we’d either end this threat or die trying.

I’d conquered death once before.

I just hoped I wouldn’t have to do it again.

TO BE CONTINUED…

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