The Cursed Alpha's Fifth Luna

Nina stood in front of the window, watching the courtyard empty as darkness swallowed the last traces of evening. One by one, the heavy wooden doors of the pack house chambers shut with dull thuds that echoed through the night.

Then silence. An eerie, unnatural silence settled over the courtyard until there wasn’t a single soul left outside.

Nina rubbed her arms, trying to chase away the sudden chill. Rodrigo had promised he would return before nightfall, but tonight was a full moon. She wasn’t sure if he’d said it just to keep her from worrying, or if he had truly meant it.

Nina exhaled and turned to the bed, she’d barely taken a step when it came.

A loud dong sounded from afar off. Nina turned back to the window, and right in the middle of the sky was the full moon.

She had four full moons left.

Her heartbeat quickened, as her fingers bit into the skin of her arms. The Vothraki was in the Alpha’s Vault, that she knew, but she didn’t know where the Vault was or how she was going to get inside, and take it?

Even though Rodrigo had said that he trusted her, she wasn’t sure he trusted her enough to let her into the vault.

Nina’s mind raced. And if she tried to steal the seal herself, and he found her, then their little trust would be broken forever.

She couldn’t risk that.

Nina shut her eyes. What was she going to do?

Suddenly a wolf growled somewhere in the outskirts of the pack house, and then a few more followed, the sound rolling through the mountains until every hair on Nina’s arms stood on end.

Quickly, she pulled the curtains shut, sealing away the sight of the moon.

Her chest heaved.

Nina turned away from the window—and then she felt something warm trickle over her upper lip.

Tap.

She frowned and raised her hand, wiping under her nose, and her face drained of color when she saw the blood.

“No… not again.”

Her lashes fluttered as the blood kept pooling out of her nostrils. She swallowed a gulp as she looked around the room, her eyes fell on the bed, as she dragged her legs towards it.

Then suddenly she stopped.

Nina’s feet pinned to the ground as her eyes widened with dread. No, she must have been mistaken.

Her heart slammed against her chest as she slowly turned to her reflection in the mirror, and then she froze.

In the dim light of the chamber, a soft, ethereal silver luminescence began to bleed through her strands of hair. It started at the roots, pulse by pulse, before spilling down the length of her blonde hair like liquid moonlight.

Nina stumbled back as all color drained from her face at her reflection in the mirror.

“No… this is not happening…”

Nina ran to the mirror, both hands flying into her hair as panic seized her entire body. Her reflection stared back at her, and for a terrifying moment she could only stand there, frozen, unable to breathe. Her strands shimmered beneath the candlelight, glowing with an ethereal radiance that seemed to pulse from somewhere deep inside her chest, shimmering brighter with every passing second.

“No… no, this can’t be happening,” she whispered to her reflection, shaking her head violently as though denying what she saw would somehow make it disappear.

Why? Freya mentioned it only happened inside the three realms! What the hell was going on?

Out of every place in the world, right inside the Alpha’s chambers!

Her heart pounded so violently against her ribs that it ached. If he walked through that door anytime now, he would know what she was.

Her stomach twisted into a sickening knot.

A sharp pressure built behind her eyes and a warm trickle of blood slid down again.

Nina lifted the back of her hand and wiped it away.

Her breathing turned shallow, ragged. She was losing control.

If she passed out—if Rodrigo came back and found her like this, unconscious with glowing hair, she was done.

He would find out who she was.

Everything would fail.

No… Move, Nina. Think. Think.

She forced her shaking legs into motion, hurrying across the room as she threw open the closet. Her hands worked frantically, shoving aside Rodrigo’s neatly folded clothes as she searched for somewhere—anywhere—to hide herself. But the wardrobe was shallow. No matter where she hid, if Rodrigo came back, he would find her.

Nina ran back into the middle of the room.

Dropping to her knees, she searched beneath the bed, but the carved wooden frame sat too low against the floor.

There wasn’t enough room to squeeze underneath.

Shit, shit.

Nina cursed under her breath.

“There has to be somewhere…”

Her voice cracked with desperation, she was running out of time.

She scanned every corner but there was nowhere she could hide. The only way was to lock herself in until she was back to normal.

Nina’s eyes lifted at the thought, and then she turned toward the door, before she could take a step toward it.

A thunderous crash exploded, so powerful that the stone beneath her knees trembled, sending a jolt up her spine.

Nina jerked upright, her breath catching in her chest.

She lifted her eyes, and the chamber doors had just caved in.

All the hairs on Nina’s body stood on end, as she watched the doors drop to the ground with a loud thud.

Nina scrambled back toward the closet, her hands trembling as she held onto the handle.

What was happening?

Before she could process the thought, a deep, savage growl sounded in front of her, then it was followed closely by another.

The dust of the fallen doors settled slowly in the silence, and then emerging from it slowly, were two black wolves.

Their eyes locked directly on her.

Dread coursed through Nina’s face, her hands trembled as she stared at the wolves.

Before she could make a sound, they leapt towards her.

Hi zhis.

How are you all doing?

So a quick one. I just saw that the version of chapters I uploaded was the previous version I had written. That is from chapter 139 to this chapter. So sorry. The sequence of events is minor but not really minor.

You can go back and read, but if you don’t want to. The correct sequence is that Cersei gave Nina a pill that altered her memories of the three realms and so she lied to Rodrigo believing it was the right thing to do. Thanks for reading this story so far, and so sorry for the little hiccup. XOXO