Hades' Cursed Luna novel Chapter 424

Chapter 424: Lies Of A Tyrant

Hades

With a guttural but low growl, I flapped hard, muscles coiling as I dragged the tree upward, roots dangling like veins.

"Hold!" I barked. Kael was barely audible behind me as I rose again—fast, violent, like a storm ripping through the sky. The weight pulled at me, but I clenched harder, lifted higher.

Then I let go.

The tree plummeted.

It hit the edge of a patrol outpost with the force of a meteor. A burst of sound cracked the silence—wood against metal, concrete splintering, alarms blaring, and Gamma shouts echoing up from below.

From above, I watched chaos unravel.

Spotlights spun in confused spirals. Orders screamed through comms. Patrols broke formation and regrouped in threes, heading toward the impact zone. Searchlights redirected. Vehicles mobilized—most racing for the source of the sound.

"They think it’s us," Kael muttered through the wind. "Perfect."

Like moths to a fire, the entire western flank drained into the crater we’d created.

We circled high above the city, unseen.

No one was left to watch. Now, on to the next.

"Hang on tight."

Kael’s grip tightened. "You don’t have to tell me twice."

I swooped low, the cold air harsh against the membrane of my shifted skin—but nowhere near enough to affect us. It didn’t take long to get back above the alley where I had left the woman and the Gamma.

If I had been on land, I would have come to a screeching stop.

The plan hadn’t worked completely. The Gamma was supposed to follow the rest of his team at the sound of the diversion we created.

But he was still there.

And now they had both shifted.

It wasn’t hard to see who was who.

The large black hound towered over the small grey one—one hind leg missing.

She whimpered beneath the onslaught as he forcefully mounted her.

My blood turned to ice. Heat crept up my spine.

My claws clenched.

Kael didn’t need instruction.

I dropped like a stone.

Wind screamed past my ears as the city blurred beneath us. I wasn’t graceful—not yet—but I was fast. Terrifyingly so. Wings tucked just enough to cut drag without stalling. The ground pulled closer in dizzying rushes.

"Now," I growled.

We leveled out a few stories above them.

Kael let go.

He jumped, coat billowing, body turning midair.

His bones snapped mid-fall—wolf overtaking man in a brutal, seamless shift.

The moment his paws hit the concrete behind the Gamma, the air cracked like thunder.

The larger hound froze.

But only for a second.

Kael was already lunging—fangs bared, claws forward, fury unleashed.

He hit the Gamma like a wrecking ball, ripping him off the smaller wolf with a snarl that echoed through the alley.

Flesh tore.

Snapping jaws collided with bone.

They rolled, claws scraping, fur flying, as Kael drove him into the wall hard enough to leave cracks.

I banked mid-air, unleashing a thunderous roar that shook the windows—buying Kael the seconds he needed.

The grey she-wolf collapsed to the ground, trembling, panting, unable to move. But she was alive. No longer pinned.

Kael didn’t give the Gamma a second chance.

He tore into him.

The fight wasn’t fair.

It wasn’t meant to be. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

The Gamma twitched on the pavement, his neck broken, face frozen in surprise.

His broken body shifted back slowly, human once more.

Kael panted as he raised his head to look at me hovering above.

The woman raised her gaze and screamed—but cut herself off when she saw my eyes. She darted her gaze between me and Kael, shaking.

Bright red eyes. Not werewolf.

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