Triple Moon Rising: An Omega's Destiny
Chapter 62: The Greater Good

Chapter 62: The Greater Good

Lily POV

The cracking Moon Stone burst with power that felt like swallowing lightning. Every wolf bond in the world – millions and millions of connections – rushed toward me and Caleb like a tidal wave of pure feeling.

"Hold on!" I screamed, gripping his hand harder as the flood of love, loyalty, and family ties poured into us. A mother’s worry for her sick pup in Alaska. A grandfather’s pride in his grandson’s first hunt in Russia. Twin girls giggling together in Australia. Every single wolf relationship on Earth ran through our bodies at once.

It was beautiful and terrible and completely overwhelming.

Caleb’s face twisted in pain as he tried to help me hold it all. "There’s too much!" he gasped. "We can’t hold every wolf connection that exists!"

He was right. The power was tearing us apart from the inside. I could feel our own mate bond straining dangerously thin as we tried to become vessels for the entire wolf world’s love.

But I also felt something else through all those links – the corrupted ones were healing. Wherever Morrigan’s shadow magic had touched, my Triple Moon power was burning it away like sunshine destroying darkness. Families were remembering they loved each other. Packs were feeling their unity return. Mates were falling in love all over again.

"It’s working!" I told Caleb. "The corruption is being cleansed!"

Morrigan screamed with rage. "No! I won’t let you undo everything!" She poured more dark magic into the air, trying to re-corrupt the bonds as fast as I could heal them.

That’s when I realized the horrible truth. As long as she kept fighting me, this would never end. The power would keep growing until it killed me and Caleb both. And then every wolf link would die with us.

There was only one way to stop this.

I had to destroy the cause of corruption – Morrigan herself.

"Caleb," I said quietly. "I need you to let go of my hand."

"What? No!" His grip tightened. "We’re in this together!"

"The only way to end this is to point all the power at her. But if you’re connected to me when I do it, it’ll kill you too."

Through our bond, he felt my choice before I even finished explaining it. His eyes went wide with fear. "Lily, no. There has to be another way."

"There isn’t." Tears streamed down my face. "Every second we wait, more wolves suffer. Children can’t feel their parents’ love. Mates look at each other like strangers. I can’t let that continue just to save myself."

"What about us?" His voice broke. "What about our future? Our children? Our life together?"

I pressed my free hand to my heart, where our mate bond burned bright and strong. "I’ll carry our love with me always. Even if the tie breaks, even if we become strangers, I’ll remember every moment we had."

"That’s not enough!" he shouted. "I want to grow old with you! I want to see our pups take their first steps! I want to fight with you about stupid things and make up by kissing you under the stars!"

His words broke my heart into a million pieces. I wanted all of that too. I wanted it so badly it felt like dying.

But then I felt a tiny link through the mass of wolf bonds – a little girl in Canada who couldn’t understand why her daddy looked at her with empty eyes. A new mother in Japan who felt nothing when she held her baby. An elderly couple in Germany who sat in confused quiet, unable to remember sixty years of love.

They were all counting on me. They didn’t even know I existed, but their happiness rested on what I did in this moment.

"I’m sorry," I whispered to Caleb. "I love you more than life itself. But I love them too."

Before he could stop me, I yanked my hand free from his.

The full force of every wolf bond in existence slammed into me alone. The pain was indescribable – like being hit by lightning while drowning in an ocean of fire. My Triple Moon mark blazed so bright it lit up the entire grove.

But I held on. I gathered every link, every love, every family tie, and shaped them into a weapon of pure light.

"This is for everyone who’s ever felt alone!" I screamed at Morrigan. "For every child who needs their parent’s love! For every mate who deserves to be treasured!"

I hurled the concentrated power of millions of wolf bonds straight at her.

The shadow power surrounding Morrigan crumbled like paper in a hurricane. She stumbled backward, her eyes wide with shock. "Impossible! My power comes from pain! Pain is stronger than love!"

"You’re wrong," I said strongly. "Pain makes you want to give up. Love makes you fight even when it’s hopeless."

The silver fire reached her, and for a moment, I saw past the corruption to who she really was – a broken woman who’d lost everything and chose to spread her misery to the world. She’d been hurt so badly that she’d forgotten love was even possible.

"I can heal you too," I offered gently. "You don’t have to carry that pain alone anymore."

For just a second, I saw hope flicker in her eyes. The real Morrigan, buried under generations of bitterness and rage.

Then something terrible happened.

Instead of taking my healing, she smiled coldly and did something I never expected. She opened herself fully to the cleansing power, but instead of letting it heal her corruption, she absorbed it all into herself.

"If I can’t have love," she snarled, "then I’ll become love! Every wolf bond in existence will belong to ME!"

The silver fire that was supposed to heal her instead fed her power. She grew brighter and more terrible, stealing every connection I’d tried to repair.

"No!" I reached out desperately, but it was too late.

Morrigan rose into the air, her body crackling with stolen love from millions of wolves. "Now I control every pack bond, every mate connection, every family tie! I am the new Moon Goddess!"

The real Moon Goddess’s voice whispered weakly in my mind: She has turned your healing into victory. Every wolf in the world is now her tool.

I looked up at Morrigan in horror as she laughed with victory. I’d tried to save everyone, and instead I’d given our greatest enemy complete control over every wolf that lived.

The world hadn’t been saved.

It had been enslaved.