I Refuse to Be Your Luna

Ch. I Refuse to Be Your Luna 303 I Refuse to Be Your Luna 303

303 The First Door

Apha Damianan

The message erremained on Rhys’s screen, and no one spoke for several seconds. Is

“The first do oidor has opened.”

I read it agaigail. The words were simple, but I did not trust them.

“Lock the the building down,” I said. “No one enters or leaves without clearancele

The Daarwood wolves moved immediately. Their Alpha bond carried my or order th

ry exit. every within moments, guards were posted at

Floulourish stayed beside Rhys while I took control of the security respressonse. She was for for employee records, contracts, and access histories.

SheShe handled F–Tech better than anyone else could because she unriensterstood both th pepeople working inside it.

“R“Keep the corporate systems running,” I told her. “But nothing conconnects to an outs

$ She nodded. “Already done.”

Rhys enlarged the message.

“The wording may mean more than a warning.”

“What are you thinking?”

He brought up the silver bracelet we had found mean car the Dartwood border.

“The symbol on this bracelet appeared in the Sio Stonehedge tunnels. If the person b the bloodline, ‘first door‘ could refer to the sanane network.”

Flourish looked at the screen.

“You think the symbol is a door?“”

“Maybe,” Rhys said. “Or whatever the did phd accords called it.”

I picked up my phone and called Rag Ragnar.

“Report.”

ists,” he said. “No confirmed breach.”

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ked up my phone and called Ragnar.

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ve doubled the border patrols,” he said. “No confirmed breach.”

rch every old structure along the western and southern borders.”

e was a short pause.

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For what?”

“The symbol from the bracelet.”

Ragnar understood immediately.

“Understood.”

“Use scent teams. I don’t want cameras alone. If someone has been moving through old tunnels, technology won’t give us the full picture.”

“We’ll send the trackers.”

I ended the call.

Finished

Within minutes, Dartwood’s scent teams were moving across the border. They worked differently from ordinary security units. Each team carried scent records from recent intruders, old border patrols, and known enemy wolves. Their wolves were trained to separate overlapping trails, identify disturbed earth, and follow traces left beneath human smells.

I stayed on the security feed while Flourish worked beside Rhys.

Then Ragnar called.

“We found something.”

I straightened.

“Where?”

“Western border. About two kilometers from the old watch station.”

“Describe it.”

“An underground access point. It was covered with earth and brush, but the ground has been disturbed recently.”

Flourish looked at me.

“We’re going.”

I was already reaching for my jacket,

“No argument,” she said.

“I wasn’t going to make one.”

We left with four Dartwood warriors and Ragnar guiding us by phone. The drive was short, but the silence inside the vehicle wasn’t comfortable. I kept checking the security feed on my phone while Flourish watched the road.

When we reached the old watch station, the scent teams were waiting.

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Ragnar pointed toward a slope behind the ruined structure.

“The entrance is there.

One tracker crouched and touched the ground.

“Fresh scent. Two males. One is from the border group we’ve been looking for.”

That was enough.

We followed the warriors down the slope until we reached a narrow opening between rocks. Stone steps disappeared into darkness.

Flourish’s female wolf stirred.

“Careful.”

I felt my own wolf wake fully.

“Stay close.”

We entered,

The passage was older than the pack structures above it. The walls were made from large stone blocks, and there were no modern lights. Our warriors switched on lamps while the scent team moved ahead.

After several minutes, the passage opened into a chamber.

I stopped.

Symbols covered the walls.

They weren’t Dartwood markings. They weren’t Stonehedge markings either.

Flourish moved closer.

“Do you recognize them?”

She shook her head.

Rhys’s explanation came back to me.

The first door.

I walked along the wall until I found the same symbol carved into the silver bracelet.

“There.”

Flourish came over.

The marking was larger here. It had been cut deep into the stone, surrounded by sn looked like names or territorial signs.

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reached toward it.

ught her wrist

it.”

looked at me.

eed to know what it does.

don’t know what it does.”

now.”

gently pulled her hand free and touched the marking.

rything changed.

urish gasped.

r knees gave way.

ught her before she hit the floor

ourish.”

r skin was cold, and her breathining had become uneven. Her female wolf pushed forward so hard that I ild feel her presence through bourbond.

hat do you smell?” I asked.

e closed her eyess

don’t know.”

ell me anything

le swallowed.

omeone.

Who?

dactilow.”

ein mind tightened around my sleeve.

fotects familiar, but I’ve never smelled them before.”

A wolf growled.

Take her out.”

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a Flourish and carried her back toad the passage.

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rotested weakly.

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time your bloodline reacts, I feel like the past is trying to take you away from ned

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going to.”

on’t know that.”

wone thing.”

ot going anywhere.”

her hand.

If relaxed slightly.

he ground beneath us shook.

th turned toward the entrance.

> sound came from underground.

arriors outside shouted.

moved inside the chamber.

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ming from dough the ancient markings until every symbol began to glow.ro glow.

theer of the chamber.

en beneath it, covered in lines and symbols.

other.

‘pack territories appeared across the surface sabiace, all connected by the same bloodline

er hand.

own us that our two territories were were only part of something much larger.

esponding to Flourish’s blood, thood then whoever built this place had expected rn. I didn’t like that thought lowghted wanted answers before anyone else could reach

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