When The Moon Hides Her Crown novel Chapter 232

Chapter 289 The Polator

SERAPHINA

The Council’s wolves lay scattered around me, barely moving on the floor, their limbs twisted at impossible angles. Thankfully Ronan did not kill them. However he threw them in this room where they planned to cage me.

Smoke curled from the cigarette between my fingers as I sat amidst the wreckage, the eye in the storm of chaos.

“I didn’t know you smoke,” Finn’s voice drawled from the doorway.

I didn’t look up at first. His people were nearly killed, and such chaos happened in the corridor no wonder he came.

“Three months of fake friendship doesn’t give you the right to know more about me than I allow, Alpha Finn Hart,” I replied, my tone as cold as the air between us.

When I finally met his gaze, his face was as blank as ever devoid of warmth, emotion, or regret. As if he’d never learned how to feel. Cladded in black suit, he looked so different and this blue aura of his made him look completely a different person. Almost like royalty.

Suddenly the memory of the day when that evil thing possessed him during our group task flashed in my memory. That evil thing chose only Finn and possessed him because it wanted someone noble, someone stronger to hold his evil soul. Someone who had guts to bear it.

“I never make friends but with you I was different,” he said simply.

“But you sure loved to toy with me.”

His lips curved faintly. “I loved knowing you.”

A bitter smile tugged at my mouth. “Knowing me, so you could betray me in the worst way possible?”

“Betrayal? Think carefully Seraphina. Is it really a betrayal? Didn’t we officially end the things between us?” he tilted his head slightly.

My hand froze recalling his kiss from that day when he said, “Since you already ended things by your choice…then it’s only fair I end them by mine, right?”

“I’m ending things officially from my side too, Seraphina.”

I clenched my fist at my side secretly. So that’s what that kiss meant? He ended our friendship and returned to being the Head of the Council from that point on.

He held my stare for a few seconds, silent and unreadable, before crossing the threshold. The air shifted as his aura filled the room, cold and commanding. He crouched in front of

Chapter 232 1he Predator

me, his eyes roaming over the wolves laying broken on the floor.

“Did you beat these wolves?” he plucked the cigarette from my hand, and slowly crushed it on the floor.

“Yes,” I replied.

He stared at me meaningfully and silently, “Is that so?”

I kept my expression unwavering. “Yes.”

“Then give me one good reason,” he said quietly, “For raising ‘your‘ hand against the Council’s people.” He glanced at me meaningfully when he said “I” raised my hand to the Council’s people, making me realize he knew the truth behind these beaten wolves. Not because of Ronan’s scent on the cigarette or in the air but the way those wolves were beaten. He probably knew it the moment he entered.

But I kept my expression straight.

“I didn’t let them capture me because they were capable of it,” I said, my voice low and sharp. “I allowed this. But I will never let them treat me like a dog that they can lead around on a leash.”

Finn’s gaze flicked toward the chain hanging by the window. “Any other reasons?”

My lips twitch bitterly. He knew I lied. “They had been throwing vulgar comments on me and insulted me,”

The next he looked over his shoulder. “Austin,” he called, “Get rid of all of them.””

I froze for a moment. Get rid? How?

I got my answer from the broken wolves‘ fear and their eyes wide with terror. They were going to be killed.

“Alpha, please!” one of them could barely speak as he only had the better part of his jaw intact the rest was broken, he fell to his knees. “We’re sorry! We were acting under Elder Ozan’s orders-”

“Including Elder Ozan,” Finn added coldly. His tone dropped to something lethal. “Quickly. Quietly. I don’t want a single sound reaching my ears.”

At once, Austin raised his hand, signaling the hidden Council wolves. Several wolves appeared like the shadows and dragged the trembling Council wolves out of the room. Their muffled pleas vanished down the corridor.

But Finn didn’t look away from me.

Chapter 232 The Predator

I shifted my gaze to meet Finn’s. “And now this? What’s this act supposed to be? Playing hero?”

“Doeas it look like that? That would be a first, someone calling me a hero instead of a monster.” He tilted his head, his tone unreadable.

Phina stilled in my mind, a rumble of instinctive warning. He wasn’t the Finn I’d known for the past three months. This man was colder. Sharper. Someone stripped of pretense. He was way more dangerous than he appeared to be when in front of me.

“Everything about you was a lie,” I spat. “The second son of an Alpha? Your gentle smiles, your hatred of violence, every kind word, every possessive look, it was all part of your disguise. You were a predator the whole time, waiting for the right moment to pounce on your prey,” I inhaled sharply, my voice trembling between anger and disbelief. “And what about the bond? The first love you talked about? Was that part of your plan too?”

“Well,” he smoothly interrupted, “Everything can be faked but not the confession of a first love.”

My breath caught.

He met my gaze, his expression changed slightly, “Falling in love was never part of my plan. But it happened…long before I realized it.”

“Then you betrayed me because I chose Ronan and rejected your love?” I raised an eyebrow, masking the tremor in my chest.

“This rejection,” he said quietly, “Is what I chose.”

My eyes narrowed. “What do you mean by that?”

“I needed that rejection to awaken my true self that had slept for a while blinded by your charm and boldness,” he exhaled slowly, voice low and measured. “At first, when I discovered who you really were I thought I’d let you play your little game just long enough to fail a trial, leave the Academy quietly. And that you would return to your pack. You’d return safely, your secret intact. But then…” He paused, his gaze flickering with something darker. “Then I realized my forbidden feelings for you as I spent time with you. So I changed the plan. I decided to let you play until the end, until you won the supreme Alpha throne. Then I would expose you. Because by then, the King wouldn’t be able to touch you… and I could keep you.”

My heart clenched, but I forced myself to keep my expression blank.

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