The Luna You Betrayed Is No Longer Yours

ena'

arkos estate disappear in the

e the illusion that nothing had changed. She would keep the lamps burning in my chambers, carry

thin de

needed to la

outer gates when two gua

iver b

ened beside

y ca

e passed over the plain car before settling on

on the weapon at his belt. "I'm afraid no o

hose

n lasted less

a Kae

cou

believing he could contain

mile touch

that ord

n half an

pecificall

lanced at h

said no one was to pass with

ll the Luna o

s,

nduct pack business without requesting pe

ords settle

s lowered, but

cult," he said. "If the Alpha

out my duties," I interrupted, "y

stirred ben

part of myself so completely that no one in Moonreign remembered the

side the c

s neck bent before he seem

me, Kyra lif

like it," s

e gate,"

ards o

e was not the sam

e husband I wanted to leave. He was al

uch difficulty. The absence of a completed bond meant there was no spiritual ti

ges were judged

onreign, Kael

bunal would answer to him. Even if an elder dared to support

him simply because his pride

in the region whose author

lpha

ar

hink about him. But Kaelen had stripp

erturn, I would have to go to the on

building did not display her name, nor did it need to. Its understated luxury was exac

when the private

swept ove

h disappeared

e," sh

este led me into the living room. She did n

and pulled aside the si

ngers

ng the drive. The marks of his han

this?" Ce

es

e dangerously c

d not

tried to cover the bruising with powder,

hand and turned

wen

on," I said. "He believed that if he consumma

a wounded so

nd tightened

he su

N

I arrived, some of the te

bond remains incomplete. H

t y

yes. She underst

ll try

es

. Below us, the city glittered beneath the night

cure," she said. "Kaelen won'

ill only

d give u

elders I had abandoned my Luna duties in a jealous rage. He would

ck to me. "Then w

ro

nge a meeting with

ra went

ong moment, searching for

what you're as

d

ital dispute. Kaelen will be notified. His conduct, your marriage, an

t t

nd answers you have

rnings stirred

e. Never give powerful men a

ntil obedience bec

l not decide whether I remain his wife. My mother will not decide how much of myself I am

pression shi

mething in retu

d I will decide whether

ile touche

are," she

hose words caused. "How soon

y? Sever

have seve

to the bruises around

hed for

"That is all I ca

he screen. "I'll s

from memory and plac

ang

man a

ged with an authority that made

ena on t

art s

not told him