[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-lunar-curse-a-second-chance-with-alpha-drave":3,"chapter-the-lunar-curse-a-second-chance-with-alpha-drave-the-lunar-curse-a-second-chance-with-alpha-drave-chapter-200":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","The Lunar Curse: A Second Chance With Alpha Draven",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},923922,1212,"Chapter 200: No More Guilt","the-lunar-curse-a-second-chance-with-alpha-drave-chapter-200",200,"\u003Cp>Draven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And when I looked closer, really looked, my heart stopped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her breathing wasn’t shallow anymore. Her nose, which should have been swollen and bleeding fresh, was only stained with dried blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I took another step forward, letting the first aid box drop softly onto the floor. The soft thud echoed between us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She flinched, just slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Look at me,\" I ordered, my voice low.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She hesitated. That hesitation spoke volumes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I reached out, ignoring her recoil, and tugged the collar of her shirt down over her shoulder, exposing pale skin where bruises should have already bloomed dark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My hand brushed down her arm, then to her back, searching. But there was nothing. No bruises. No broken ribs, no trembling breath from pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only one explanation coiled in my mind, sharp and ugly: Meredith had a wolf, and she had hidden it from me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fury burned through my veins, boiling hotter than anything I’d felt in years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Meredith,\" I rasped. \"How long?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She swallowed, eyes stubborn and guilty all at once as she rearranged her shirt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"For how long have you had your wolf?\" I pressed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"For the past two months,\" she admitted, voice barely above a whisper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two months.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My mind flashed back: to that night she asked about Serena, the ancient warrior Queen. The curiosity, the oddly specific questions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was that when her wolf surfaced?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My jaw clenched so hard my teeth hurt. Betrayal gnawed at me from inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How could you keep this from me?\" I demanded. \"How could you lie?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I never lied to you,\" she shot back, voice rising. \"I only... kept it from you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And what is that if not a lie?\" I snarled. \"You broke my trust, Meredith.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She stepped forward, her eyes sharp, wet with unshed tears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And what about you? You betrayed me too!\" Her voice cracked but didn’t falter. \"You made Wanda train me today—without telling me, without even asking me if I was ready!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I inhaled, my chest tight. \"I did it for your sake—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don’t care!\" she shouted, the words tearing from her. \"Do you know what it felt like? Standing there and realizing the man I trusted most handed me over to my enemy?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That was the point,\" I growled. \"To show you what a real enemy looks like, how they fight. You needed it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She shook her head, hair falling across her face, eyes blazing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And you didn’t even think to warn me?\" Her voice dropped, hoarse. \"Why, Draven? Why her?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I opened my mouth, but she didn’t stop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You want to know why she volunteered?\" Meredith spat, her chest heaving. \"Yesterday morning at breakfast, she called me worthless, a bedwarmer—right in front of the servants. And I fought back. I grabbed her hair and slammed her face into her plate. Then I punched her. That’s why.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My breath caught.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She did what?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meredith watched the surprise flash across my face, and she seized it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This wasn’t training for her. It was revenge.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My hands curled into fists. Rage flickered in me—not at Meredith, but at Wanda.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But I forced myself to lock it down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She still showed you what you were missing in combat,\" I muttered. \"I had good intentions for you, Meredith. But what good intentions did you have for me by hiding the fact that you had gotten your wolf?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her laugh was short and bitter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And what good intentions did I have by hiding my wolf, huh?\" she demanded, eyes wet. \"Do you think I need to give you a reason for that?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My chest constricted painfully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And did you think I wouldn’t find out?\" I rasped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Of course, I knew you’d find out one day!\" she fired back. \"But until then, it was my secret. The only thing that was mine alone.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Silence slammed between us. Our chests rose and fell, ragged, caught between fury and something rawer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, I realized we stood on opposite sides of the same battlefield. Both of us felt betrayed. Both of us had our reasons, and neither of us was willing to yield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My pulse thundered. Rhovan’s voice whispered low in the back of my mind, urging me to stop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the words stuck in my throat. I bent down, grabbed the first aid box from where it lay forgotten on the floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I hope you are happy,\" I told her, my voice rough. \"And that your happiness lasts forever.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then I turned and walked out, shutting the door behind me harder than I meant to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sound echoed down the hall, but her silence echoed louder in my chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Of course, I will be happy forever, or are you wishing that I would be sad and miserable?\" I heard her angry, muffled voice ask.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But I ignored it and simply walked into my bedroom and shut the door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I dropped off the first-aid box in my walk-in closet and walked into my bathroom for a cold shower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I needed it to cool down my boiling emotions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was nothing wrong with Meredith finally having a wolf after being tagged ’wolfless’ all these years. However, my anger stemmed from the fact that she had hidden this truth from me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why on earth would she do that?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wasn’t an outsider. I was her husband. Her mate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If she had reasons to keep her wolf a secret, then I shouldn’t be included. She should never have kept me in the dark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Now, I know why we felt something off about her that time,\" I said to Rhovan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike me, he didn’t feel betrayed, just totally astonished by the situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But, I’m more worried about how she was able to hide her wolf, making us unable to sense her all this time we were together.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rhovan finally growled.\"Her wolf must be powerful, that even I couldn’t sense her, though she was hiding.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was a trace of unhappiness in Rhovan’s voice. He felt disappointed in himself for not being able to sense Meredith’s wolf.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And Meredith would rather endure the beatings and pains from Wanda instead of revealing her wolf...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This made me insist on the fact that there must be a tangible reason for Meredith to have hidden this information from me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And for once, I no longer felt guilty for letting Wanda kick her ass.\u003C\u002Fp>",1054,"2026-06-03T06:41:07.525Z","2026-06-03T06:41:13.871Z",1,"novelbin.me","f250d90b0bca4deeb792164c621fb0356a6fb7c1a780ab1e4218b2c3041273ca","the-lunar-curse-a-second-chance-with-alpha-drave-chapter-51","the-lunar-curse-a-second-chance-with-alpha-drave-chapter-199",685,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-lunar-curse-a-second-chance-with-alpha-drave-cover.jpg"]