Viorica
rst So
m, and for once, I couldn't t
hind Lucian's desk. I kept my expression calm, refus
underworld had taught me one thing: n
lf, Commander,"
adel, the Moon Temple's sacred seal shattered. Golden flames
e shift
ngs to the Fir
wiped out three centuries ago. The Moon Temple used th
d the seal r
no a
gn was nothing more than a legend. Yet something inside me stirred at
ands an audience wi
expressio
emands in m
room, and even Radu stif
id quietly. "L
, his amber eyes stil
at man noth
is incident to destroy our treaty. I've spent five years preparing for this negot
ied me befo
ll face hi
loser, his v
'll forget every reason I
elf, my hea
my ally, and the man who had given me a place when the r
was e
Great Hall, with R
oors, Cyprian's voice r
e! I demand to se
nt prince who had once severed our
ice interr
rritory you're sta
s calm voice carried a warnin
ened th
floor. Obsidian guards stood along the wa
nded by four knights. Mud stained his silver ar
the remains of a
had burned itsel
of the S
w me, he went c
inc
ing until I stoo
ng, bring a dangerous religious artifact into my home, and disrup
rely ackno
d, staring at me. "It shattered t
es with damp weather," I replied. "Stone breaks, Prince. It
re wr
pped f
aura swept through the hall. Cyprian's knights drop
n kept loo
parchment from inside his cloak. "I've spent five years searching for answers
d him ca
o the
ghtened around
idn't die of f
uck harder th
ed him, accepted his death, and eventually lea
did yo
. Your power predates the Moon Goddess herself. You can rewrite
l fell
man inventing stories to save his kingd
something I never
to one knee
council manipulated me, and I let them. I'll make you my prin
red a
everything. I would have believed his apolo
t girl
broken relic and
but every word carried through the hall. "Don't look so su
ore he could respond, the
oked
ight deepened into a fierce crimson,
, Lucian
. His amber eyes blazed, and for the first time since
thing pul
und my heart, drawing me toward him. Lucian's familiar
ed throug
rose from the symbol, wi
back, but my fee
expression mirrored the sho
d away, droppin
spered. "Tha
ers brushing my neck as though
me out rough
recogni
saw something in his express
e
nd
bel
ispered, "you'r
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