Chapter 44: Luna’s Choice
Luna POV
The shadow creature’s voice slammed into my mind like a hammer.
"Kill them all."
My body moved without my permission, my hands going for the knife at my belt. No, no, NO! I screamed inside my head, but my fingers wrapped around the handle anyway.
Around me, other wolves from my pack walked like robots toward the Sacred Grove where Lily was tied up. Their eyes were empty, just like mine probably looked. But inside, I was fighting harder than I’d ever fought in my life.
The shadow thing had been controlling us for three days now. Three days of being stuck in my own body while it made me do terrible things. Three days of watching myself hurt people I cared about and being unable to stop.
But something was different tonight. The control felt... looser somehow. Like the thing was distracted by whatever it was doing to Lily in that bright, scary light.
"Move faster," the voice ordered, and pain shot through my skull.
I stumbled forward with the others, but inside my mind, I was remembering. Remembering who I really was before this nightmare started.
My name is Luna Morrison. I’m nineteen years old. I used to think I was better than everyone else, especially Lily Carter. I was wrong about a lot of things.
The memories came flooding back - not the fake ones the shadow thing had been feeding us, but the real ones. How I’d been jealous when Lily got the Triple Moon Mark. How I’d worked with rogues to try to get rid of her. How ashamed I felt when she forgave me instead of letting the pack punish me.