The Rise Of The Betrayed Luna (Amorah and Holmes) novel Chapter 143

Chapter 143

Bethany POV

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I watched the security footage replay again from the cracked tablet balanced against my knees. The wolf caught attempting to steal the twins‘ bloodline records once worked directly under Holmes‘ father decades ago.

That terrified me more than the theft itself.

The abandoned safehouse smelled like mold, rust, and old wolf scent masking chemicals. Hidden beneath collapsed territory borders far outside the main city routes, it used to belong to rogue couriers moving illegal bloodline records between packs during succession disputes.

My shoulder still burned from the knife wound I took three nights earlier while escaping council wolves near the eastern borders. I cleaned the injury myself because trusting healers no longer felt safe.

A harsh cough escaped me while I forced myself upright from the narrow mattress. My wolf felt weak lately from stress, fear, and constant movement between safehouses.

I hated feeling weak. A secure notification flashed across the tablet screen from one of my remaining underground contacts. I opened the encrypted file instantly.

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Unauthorized archive breach confirmed.

Holmes‘ father–linked operative identified.

My stomach twisted immediately.

For years, I convinced myself Holmes only became dangerous after ambition consumed him completely. Now I understood something worse, he learned it from his father he realization made me feel sick.

And t I moved toward the underground communications terminal hidden beneath loose floor panels. Old bloodline symbols covered the rusted metal walls around the station, faded from decades of territory disputes and illegal succession trades.

The twins were never random children caught inside political chaos. They were hidden heirs connected to one of the oldest bloodline branches in the Alpha territories.

And Amorah’s family line had been tied to them the entire time.

I pressed trembling fingers against my forehead briefly. Even after uncovering so much, parts of the fruth still made my head spin.

Years ago, when Holmes first started obsessing over succession influence and bloodline inheritance, I thought he only wanted power. I never realized his father had already spent decades hunting specific bloodlines connected to hidden heirs before Holmes even became Alpha.

That obsession destroyed everything around us eventually.

A low warning growl left my throat when another surveillance alert flashed across the terminal. Rogue wolves traded scent records constantly through underground systems like this, especially during bloodline conflicts.

Tonight, several new searches targeted Amorah directly.

I pulled another encrypted file from the database carefully before opening it fully. The information came from old territory surveillance systems connected to erased pack archives.

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Must of the records should not have existed anymore.

But Holmes‘ father never deleted everything completely. Powerful wolves rarely did because they always believed they would control the truth forever

Idiots.

My eyes scanned quickly across transfer logs, hidden bloodline movement reports, and sealed protection orders tied to old succession disputes. Then one line made my pulse stop entirely.

Potential secondary child relocation delayed. Maternal guardian interference suspected.

I stared at the screen harder.

“No,” I whispered.

I opened the attached archive with shaking hands. Grainy surveillance images appeared one after another across the screen.

A younger version of Amorah’s mother moved through hidden territory checkpoints carrying medical files and bloodline seals. Beside her stood another pregnant she–wolf from the same maternal line connected to the twins.

My breathing became uneven instantly. The twins were not the only children meant to disappear during the succession conflict years ago. Amorah had been part of the plan too.

I sat back heavily against the cold wall behind me while my wolf paced violently under my skin. For the first time in years, genuine guilt hit me hard enough to hurt physically.

Holmes destroyed Amorah’s life without ever understanding what she truly was.

And I helped him.

A bitter laugh escaped me suddenly because the irony felt disgusting now. Holmes spent years chasing bloodline influence and hidden inheritance power while humiliating the one woman connected to it directly.

Amorah survived anyway. Not because Holmes spared her. But because her mother changed the plan.

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