Marked as Theirs
Chapter 54
Seth's POV
You never forget a sound like that.
No matter how young you were when you heard it the first time, or if you were just old enough to know what it meant. It plants itself into your head like a thorn that won’t rot or release.
The ancestral bell of two chimes.
Which meant only two things—a Luna had returned, or a Luna had died.
And I didn’t know which one terrified me more.
I stood in the living room, still halfway dressed from the late patrol I’d taken on myself.
The past was rising into my throat.
That bell hasn't rung in twenty years. Not once since the War ended.
So why now?
I turned slowly to look at my parents. My mum was frozen, like the sound had rooted her to the ground. My father’s hand had instinctively moved to the dagger on his
