The Rise Of The Betrayed Luna (Amorah and Holmes) novel Chapter 91

Chapter 91

Amorah

I stayed awake long after Conrad fell asleep beside me. The warning about enemies challenging our child before birth kept replaying in my head until anger slowly replaced the fear.

Bethany had started this long before I entered Conrad’s life. Now she wanted to shape the future of my child the same way she tried controlling the twins.

I turned carefully beneath the blankets and looked at Conrad beside me. Even asleep, tension still rested across his face

The succession pressure was wearing him down faster than he admitted aloud. I noticed it every day now.

My attention dropped briefly to the hand resting against my stomach. He had fallen asleep touching me again without realizing it.

The quiet moment should have comforted me. Instead, it strengthened something colder inside my chest.

I was done reacting to Bethany.

The next morning, I joined Conrad’s intelligence wolves inside one of the lower strategy rooms beneath the main territory building. Several files already covered the table when I entered.

Darius looked up first. “We gathered everything connected to Bethany’s financial activity over the last six years.”

“I want all of it,” I replied while taking a seat.

Another wolf pushed several folders toward me carefully. “Most of her movement patterns overlap with unstable territories or weakened Alpha families.”

I opened the first file slowly while listening closely. “She does not move randomly.”

“No,” Darius agreed. “Bethany always positions herself where fear already exists.”

That matched everything I had started realizing recently. Bethany never created chaos from nothing.

She found weakness first.

For hours, we reviewed trade routes, hidden accounts, council favors, and private alliances connected to her name. The deeper I looked, the clearer her methods became.

“She builds dependency before loyalty,” I muttered quietly while scanning another report. “That is why wolves keep following her.”

Darius leaned against the table slightly “You understand her psychology very quickly.”

“I had no choice.”

The room fell quiet after that. Everyone there knew Bethany had spent months trying to manipulate my life through the twins, the rituals, and Conrad himself.

Now I finally understood the larger pattern underneath it all.

The door opened behind us later that afternoon. Conrad stepped inside still dressed in dark council clothing from his earlier meetings.

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His eyes moved across the room before settling en me iminediately. “You skipped lunch.”

I blinked once. “How do you even know that?”

“Because food was sent to my office instead.”

A few intelligence wolves exchanged quiet looks before returning their attention to the reports very quickly. Conrad walked over beside me and placed a container on the table.

“Eat first,” he instructed calmly.

“I am busy.”

“So am I.”

I looked up at him in annoyance, but he did not move. Eventually, I opened the container with a quiet sigh.

“You are becoming difficult,” I muttered.

“That sounds familiar.”

Darius suddenly cleared his throat awkwardly. “We can continue reviewing the western trade routes later.”

Conrad barely looked away from me. “Continue.”

The room stayed silent for several seconds after that.

I ate while reviewing more documents beside him. At some point, Conrad’s hand settled lightly against the back of my chair without either of us acknowledging it.

The touch felt natural now.

By evening, exhaustion finally started catching up to me. Conrad noticed before I spoke a word.

“You are done for today,” he said quietly.

“I still need to review the Varken records.”

“You can review them tomorrow.”

I leaned back tiredly. “You sound exactly like the healer.”

“She is usually correct.”

I narrowed my eyes slightly. “That was rude.”

A faint look crossed his face before he gathered several files from the table himself. “Come upstairs.

This time, I did not argue.

Back inside the private quarters, the twins were already waiting near the dining area. Kyra immediately looked chair when she saw me.

“You were gone forever,” she complained.

“It was one day.”

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Zane sat nearby scrolling through something on his tablet. “She says that every time you leave.”

Kyra ignored him completely before noticing the exhaustion on my face. “You look tired.”

Conrad answered before I could. “Because she refuses to rest properly.”

I frowned at him immediately. “You are making me sound irresponsible.”

“You are being irresponsible.”

Kyra smiled slightly like she was enjoying the conversation far too much. Zane looked between us before shaking his head.

“You two argue like married wolves already,” he muttered.

The room went completely still.

Kyra’s eyes widened instantly while I stared at Zane in disbelief. Conrad remained calm, though I noticed the slight shift in his expression beside me.

Zane looked horrified a second later. “Forget I said that.”

Kyra burst into laughter immediately.

Later that night, after the twins returned to their guarded rooms, Conrad and I finally sat alone inside the private living area. Dinner remained mostly untouched between us while council files covered the table again.

“You have been quieter today,” Conrad observed.

I looked down at one of the reports before answering honestly/“I keep thinking about Bethany.”

His expression sharpened slightly. “In what way?”

“She spent years preparing for this,” I replied quietly. “Every move she made was calculated long before we understood what she was doing.”

Conrad leaned back slightly while listening carefully.

“She manipulated bloodline politics better than most Alphas,” I continued. “Now she is trying to shape the future through our child too.”

“She will fail.”

“I know.”

The confidence in my voice surprised even me slightly.

Conrad studied me for another moment before speaking again. “You are thinking differently now.”

“I am done surviving her.”

Something shifted in his expression after that. Pride maybe.

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