Chapter 239 – Reverse
–WARNER’S POV–
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Zane was still holding her. Kneeling on the floor with Lia in his arms like the world had ended and he was the only one left in it. Her blood stained his shirt, trailing from her nose, her ears, soaking into her hair. And still, she was whispering something about helping, about fixing it.
She couldn’t even stand on her own, and she was still trying to
fix it.
I felt something twist hard in my chest.
I’d thought… I don’t know what I’d thought. That she was losing it? That the power had gotten to her head?
I’d seen her bark orders and glow like some ancient, divine thing and had genuinely believed she was turning into one of them—one of the monsters, the ones who forgot what it meant to care. I’d assumed she was changing. That she would no longer
be the Lia we met.
But now she looked like she was about to die from the burden of
it all.
Her lips were cracked and trembling. Her hand was twitching on Zane’s chest like she was trying to apologise with just her fingers.
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She wasn’t some power–hungry lunatic. She was just a girl who’d been pushed too far.
I swallowed back whatever that feeling was. Guilt, mostly. Regret too.
I turned away from them and went back to my phone, rubbing my forehead and checking the last number I hadn’t tried yet. There were still people we hadn’t reached. Still lives hanging in the air, waiting for someone to say the right thing before they did something irreversible.
I couldn’t undo the way I’d judged her. But I could do this.
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–ZANE’S POV–
I held her tighter.
Her blood was warm against my shirt, and I hated the way it kept coming. Nose. Ears. Even a little from the corner of her eye. Like the curse wasn’t just hurting others now—it was turning on
her.
She kept whispering things about helping, about how she could still do something, how she had to. Her breath was shallow, her voice slurred. And I could feel her magic shaking under her skin like it was cracking open.
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I felt like I was watching her fall apart and couldn’t catch all the pieces.
I was supposed to protect her.
That was the whole point of being Alpha. The whole point of my existence. But every time I tried, I just ended up watching her bleed. Watching her hurt. Watching her scream, or cry, or break.
What kind of goddess lets this happen to her own daughter?
And yeah—that thought hit me harder than it should’ve.
Because what if she wasn’t? What if Lia was not the Moon
Goddess’s daughter? What if this whole time, we’d been following a lie?
When I’d died, the Moon Goddess hadn’t come for me. No glowing presence, no silver light, no comforting hand. Just cold. Nothingness. Silence.
And now, people were dying—not from wolves or humans,
but from a command Lia gave thinking she was saving us. She thought she was doing the right thing.
And it was killing her. Literally,
I clenched my jaw, fighting the panic crawling up my spine.
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Think, Zane.
There has to be a way to fix this.
She gave a command.
Then we undo it.
But how?
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How do you talk to that many people at once? Some of them weren’t even here anymore. Some of them might be hiding. Some might not even know who we were.
Then the idea slammed into me.
“Warner,” I said, suddenly breathless. He looked over. “Call Sapphire. Ask if there’s a way Lia can speak to everyone in town at once. Some sort of—I don’t know—magical channel. A broadcast, but in the mind. She’s sent you magical letters, left glowing marks on you, changed rooms right before our eyes. If there’s anyone who will know what to do, it’s her.”
He blinked, then nodded. “Like… a psychic override.”
“Exactly. Lia can’t go door to door. She’s not strong enough. But if she speaks in their minds—if she takes the command back herself—it might stop the curse from pulling her apart. It might save the rest of them too.”
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Warner didn’t ask any more questions. He just grabbed his phone and dialled.
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