Chapter 152 1/5 AURORA I was so cold .


    Everything hurt .


    All I could see was a zing field of white .


    I moaned and blinked .


    My mouth tasted like blood .


    I tried to move and cried out in pain .


    My eyes finally came back into focus , and I looked up .


    Iy at the bottom of a cliff in the snow .


    It was morning .


    There was blood sttered all around me .


    I coughed and then cried out .


    It felt like my ribs were broken .


    I blinked up at the cliff , to the tower that loomed above .


    Had I … fallen ? I should be dead .


    My fingers closed around something , and a wave of relief washed over me .


    The pearl pendant was in my hand .


    But how ? shes of memory came back to me .


    Cold and blood .


    My memories being stolen .


    That moment with Dane … Dane ! Chapter 152 I tried to breathe again .


    Other memories came rushing back , patchy and jumbled .


    The Nameless taking me .


    2/5 Dane , finding me like he promised he would .


    Dane making some kind of deal a deal I thought the Nameless would never take in a thousand years .


    But he had .


    And as the shadows swept from me and closed over him , he had shoved the pearl into my hand .


    And then the Nameless had shoved me off the tower , and I had fallen over the cliff .


    If my ribs didnt ache so badly , I would have cried out in despair .


    Snow crunched .


    A shadow loomed overhead .


    A mans voice said , There you are , my dear .


    Ive been looking for you .


    ***** Time passed in a blur after Winston found me .


    He nursed me back to health , at least in body .


    My mind was still lost .


    My heart broken .


    We stayed in a hidden cave on High Alpinend .


    Dane had done what I begged him not to .


    Somehow , he had gotten the Nameless to take him instead of me .


    Then the Nameless had pushed me out of the tower .


    I should have died .


    Maybe I had , for a minute .


    Maybe Holden had , too .


    And stayed dead .


    Because I seemed to Chapter 152 be free of whatever bond he had put on me .


    Free , just in time to lose Dane again .


    3/5 Winston was the one who told me that Dane had descended down to the High Alpine pack house and taken control of most of the pack .


    They might not have gone to him I was still their Luna but Lilliana had taken one look at the incredibly sexy , powerful Alpha offering to hand them the whole world and jumped to join him .


    Of course , she had .


    If my cousin had two weaknesses , they were power and handsome men .


    Only a handful of wolves were still under mymand , and most of them were far , far away on missions for my grandmother .


    But she was dead now , and I didnt know if theyd follow me .


    There was only one thing to do .


    When I was recovered , I said , Were going back to Georgia , and youreing with me .


    I wont abandon my children or the Blue Ridge Pack .


    What I didnt say , but what I knew , was that I also had to return to that stone and retrieve the relic atst .


    With Dane as his weapon , the Nameless was about to sweep across the world in a wave of fire and blood .


    We had to be ready .


    As I left my familys ancestral homnd , I looked back over the Chapter 152 mountains .


    4/5 Dane , I promised , Ill find you again .


    Just like you found me .


    No matter what it takes , or how long I have to search to find a way .


    ***** TWO AND A HALF YEARS LATER Aurora DeVere the Luna heir of High Alpine was dead .


    Aurora Montague , Luna of Broken Ridge thebined packs of Blue Ridge and Broken Forest was on the rise .


    When I took over Danes packs , it only seemed right that I take his name , as well .


    To honor his sacrifice .


    I stood in the war room , looking over maps .


    The shadow packs had swept over Europe since Dane became their Alpha , taking over all but a few strongholds that were left .


    And now … Trajan , my beta , entered the room .


    Luna .


    Theyvended .


    Theyll be here in a few hours .


    I snapped my gaze up to meet his .


    Dane ? Yes .


    Hes leading them .


    Not one of his generals , though a few are with him .


    I nodded .


    My face was calm , but butterflies danced low in my Chapter 152 stomach .


    He was here .


    Back in the States for the first time since hed traded himself to the Nameless .


    That creature that had fooled us into unlocking its cage and now sat in itsir deep underground … somewhere .


    I had a coven of witches and my best wolf / witch half bloods working on where , but so far , it was nowhere to be found .


    5/5 Once I did find it , I would crush the Nameless once and for all and get my husband back .


    Our situation was desperate .


    Wolves all over the world were falling to the shadow .


    I couldnt let that be our fate .


    For tonight , I had to let Danee here .


    Had to negotiate with him and his shadow wolves .


    I had to see if there was anything left of him to save All right , I said to the other wolves gathered in the war room .


    I didnt have to raise my voice to get their attention I never did .


    Everyone get ready to host a ball for the most dangerous wolves in the world .