When The Luna Broke Her Chains novel Chapter 61

When The Luna Broke Her Chains

Chapter 61 Bloodcall

[TEO- Knox’s Wolf]

The ground flies beneath him.

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Dirt breaks and scatters under his paws. Wind unfurls against his fur, cold and sharp, carrying the layered smells of the forest–old bark, damp leaves, something frightened, something wrong. Every sound reaches him at once: the snap of twigs, the flutter of startled birds, the distant rush of water.

His human is restless.

The feeling claws inside Teo’s head, loud and unsteady, nothing like the controlled weight his hy usually carries. It was that restlessness that made him abandon the council chamber,

m the table while other humans protested with raised voices and useless words.

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witness.

oint. They had lost their mate years ago, and with her, much still remembered the smell of her fur. The sound she made e world had split open when she died.

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And the curse.

The changeling’s voice still echoes in Teo’s memory–pleading, confused, too late. They’d thought it was a stag. The blood had told the truth only after.

Since then, things had never settled properly.

And now they are spiraling.

Teo feels it clearly. They are close–too close.

The pull tightens, no longer a distant tug but a force, drawing him forward like a thread tied straight through his chest. It doesn’t just touch his heart this time.

It pulls at his power. Like suction. Like something drinking.

Teo huffs sharply and skids to a halt, claws tearing into the soil as pain lances through his head.

That scream, his human says inside him, sudden and raw. Xena. That’s her.

Teo tries to move–but something stops him.

A presence blooms inside his mind.

Not his human.

Another wolf.

Vera?

She materializes without warning, like a memory given shape. Gold–eyed. Black furred.

No, Teo thinks, startled. How-

She is gone before the question finishes forming. Vanished like a huff in winter air.

Teo doesn’t hesitate again. He launches forward, chasing the scream.

The clearing opens too suddenly.

Teo halts so hard his hind legs slide, instinct screaming danger. It doesn’t scare him, but it intrigues him too much.

In front of him is something that shouldn’t exist. A shadow with arms.

This thing is solid, thick, moving with intent. A living shadow. It reaches forward, stretching,

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thinning–trying to pierce.

The woman stands before it.

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She is breathless, chest heaving, feet braced into the earth. Tears streak her face, but she’s not trying to run. She holds a dagger between them, arms shaking with effort. The blade catches the light–and Teo’s instincts snarl.

That sharp glint shouldn’t be there.

Power hums along the edge of the weapon, wrong and right all at once.

The shadow surges.

Xena growls. It’s not a human sound. Her eyes flare molten gold.

Te stumbles back as something answers.

She snaps her arms downward, and the blade–no, something invisible cuts clean.

The shadow splits, tearing apart with a sinister sound, collapsing into itself, hissing as it hits the ground. Smoke coils upward before dissolving into nothing.

Silence slams down.

Teo barely has time to process before another presence barrels into the clearing.

A brown wolf. Her panic hits Teo immediately. She rushes toward the human without slowing.

Teo steps forward, a low snarl tearing from his chest.

Mine.

The urge

is sudden and absolute. It doesn’t come from his human this time.

It comes from Teo.

Protect the human.

His human stands frozen inside him, stunned. ‘Did she just-‘ the thought breaks apart. ‘Did she channel from the wolf?‘

Xena’s glow fades. The dagger slips from her fingers. She yelps a sharp, broken sound, like she’s been burned from the inside out. Then her legs give way.

She collapses.

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