Chapter 164

The night Selena chose to move, the Moon did not hide.

It watched.

The first sign wasn’t an attack. It was absence.

A border patrol failed to return. Not dead—just gone. No scent trail. No struggle. The wards hadn’t broken. They had stepped aside, as if recognizing something older than themselves.

Kaia felt it in her sleep.

She woke with a sharp inhale, hand pressed to her chest, heart racing—not in pain, but awareness. The curse within her wasn’t warning her of ...