Alphated : The forgotten Luna

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The Secret Behin

he vault door shou

buried beneath a crown. He had stood before hostile Alphas, watched warriors swear loyalty with blood on their hands, and

ind an ancient door had t

hamber, and a warning whispered by a dying servant: *

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not r

illing between her fingers and crawling across the stone floo

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me, seventh

ed toward

aught he

on

nd before meeting his eye

w what

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r is inside that vault, it h

spent generations making sure

ed, but he did

e again, soft

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e f

d her that since

tmare, brushing the hair away from her face until the fear faded. It wa

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ace draine

on't ans

ad alread

er light

to rotate, one after another, until they formed a pattern Rose recognized from

ano

ne spli

seemed to come from the deepest parts of the earth. Cold air rushed into the

lay a staircase desc

ilver flame burned

sta

this place for gener

es

ew the door

elieved i

re you so f

looked

ened, my father ordered every recor

ered beneath a su

happ

and my mother crying in a room she wouldn't let me enter. By morning, the council had a

believe

s a c

y, without the defensi

long moment. Then she tur

going

os

xplain to the council why their precious vault op

sed his ey

impossible to

ng protection with

eremonial dagger from his belt, tested its silver edg

walls, some carved into the stone and others appearing only when Rose's hand passed near the

to focus on them,

stood a circ

bearing the name of an ancient Lunar queen. In the

nal Sacre

before Xander

but the moon had been split down the middle. Beneath it, a s

her mind as clearly as if

Y BLOOD CAN ONLY B

oached th

ains t

it yet," Xa

hy

n't know what

ng your favour

prefer th

prefer that you

Xander gave a bri

ed her palm ag

ins fel

he six pillars. Names appeared across their surfaces, acco

ck as the book

ng Fate ceremonies. Some entries were hundreds of years old. Oth

ned over h

the origina

ned anot

at t

nk. Six of them were arranged in a circle, w

list was an

BEAR THE KEY. WHEN THE SEVENTH RETURNS

ead it

" she murmured. "One shall

shook h

seen this

d at the e

e seven

s pages f

eared beneath

E IS NOT MISSING.

ber went

thoughts, close enough to touch but sti

the register," she said. "Not

ssi

ur fami

y may hav

nde

t her

ll help you f

e prophecies, and the way he sometimes looked at her as though he was trying to rem

omeone was not the sam

ed back t

d my mothe

m one page to the next until Rose spotted an e

UGHTER OF THE LAS

ther's name wa

. STATUS: SEALED.

ingers t

didn't just hide me. They cha

xpression

you need to understand ab

liste

recognize the truth behind a person's bloodline, even when every record had been destroyed.

ulated

By anyone powerful enough t

tared

tradition could have

es

e's recorded mate is actua

he original records

laugh esc

re tradition around a book that

sted long before t

cil controls

had no

down at he

seale

r ink beg

ed beneath

RELIAN SA

nt comple

the letters would rearrange thems

ance

-great-gr

ered the Lunar re

es

uld he

n't k

mother i

n't k

nning from

r swa

t know,

the urge to throw the en

mes woke from nightmares and refused to explain them. Now she was discovering that the answer h

denly turned

ait appeared

ed her mother

g over her shoulders and the same crescent-shaped mark visible at her throat.

portrait app

Rose had

ge emerged i

TO COMPLETE THE BOND. S

red at t

t bo

er, a deep growl reverbe

t the centre of th

that had fallen from the book rose into the air,

drew hi

behin

rely he

er hand had b

llar rose fr

e had been carved into its surface, and its top wa

roached

ar that," Xa

vault door returned, now e

sealed moon, th

sto

are

d behind the

name the

heart h

me you

w lifted

can

y n

name to the blood of his heirs. If I sp

forward, his

your

w turned

rries the blood of the

tightened arou

are

alace. Ask him why your mother begged him not to sign the decree.

oked at

e had g

mething," sh

r ordered the re

nd

oked

other had stolen somethi

id she

Lunar

ck pill

tared

the Lun

d at the mar

nk it'

, neither of

hy the council feared her, and why the ancestral altar ha

ply want control

atever her blo

d the pillar str

it before the next blood moon, or the

happens if

wer shook dust f

will remember who betrayed them. And the kingdom w

k flame

ross the chamber. For several seconds, Rose could see nothing. She hea

darkness

th pillar

platform, its pages turning rapidly until t

e appeared

ETRAYAL HAS A

oked at

ll holding

wly pul

r father do t

th something she had ne

am

y," he admitted. "But I know

became dang

going to s

ever tell us the

l give him

from the platform. The book was heavier than it looked, but t

ion appeared a

AS CHOSEN. THE H

fro

oes tha

ared at t

ing me to choose between m

rched h

will you

t her for a

side, leaving the

someone to stand beside you,

tain whether the words we

out of the va

the chapel, the estate

aited outside, his

sped. "The king has re

expressio

hy

nger look

il discovered the

her hold on the

nd

n swal

ordered the Lun

pped in fr

hat c

enger he

trea

lmost

on in the kingdom, never sworn an oath to its king, and nev

ed of betraying a thron

something for

enger lo

ised he

n look me in the eyes and explai

ssenge

him disappear d

d the most powerful we

at the Sac

llenged a man who thinks his

ries, Alpha Kael Draven received

ad opened the or

h pillar h

nara had chosen t

e twice before feedi

the prince has final

d from the sha

tell the

N

d the Nightf

t y

dow, where the moon hung p

. Let the council believe they can imprison her.

es dar

she will learn that the truth is

, Rose Luna felt the crescen

skin, someth

ing an

had been waitin

as final