LOGINLucien’s POVI stood at the entrance, unable to move.“Come in, Lucien.” The woman’s voice called out to me from inside the tent again.My fingers curled into fists. I had heard that voice in my dreams so many times that I had almost forgot how it felt like to hear it while I was wide awake.I stepped forward but before I was able to enter, one of the guards blocked my path.“Not here, Your Majesty. The commander wants to see you at the stronghold.”I looked at the tent. “Then why did she call me inside?”“She changed her mind.” He said coldly. I stared at him, but he didn’t bother to give me an explanation. Two guards held me tight and led me away.I could have asked that I needed to see her immediately, but I stopped myself. If Margaret was truly expecting me, the. there was no point in creating a fight before I understood what she wanted.We went through the camp, as we passed rows of tents and wooden buildings. I thought that I was going to see prisoners, weapons, and soldiers pr
Lucien’s pov My jaw went so tight at the mention of my uncles name. “Owen can wait.” I said. Adrian scoffed.“But your kingdom cannot.”“And neither can I.” I replied. Adrian looked at me for several seconds before shaking his head. “You are not thinking clearly.”“Perhaps not. But I know what I need to do.” I turned toward my warriors. “You will remain here until I return. If I have not come back by tomorrow morning, you will return to the palace and report everything you have seen.”One of the older warriors stepped forward. “Your Majesty, we cannot leave you to face them alone.”“You won’t be leaving me alone. You’ll be following my orders.”“But—”“There are no buts.” I stopped him. “That is an order.”He bowed his head reluctantly.Adrian came down from his horse and caught my arm before I could move an inch away from him. “Let me come with you.”“No.”“Lucien, this is madness.”“If I bring you into that camp, Margaret will see it as a threat. She has already made it clear tha
Lucien’s POVAdrian laughed. “More than anything your Majesty.” I climbed on my horse with my mind going back to Adrian’s question. What would I do if it isn’t Leah?… the honest answer would be: I don’t know. I had imagined finding her a thousand times. In some of my dreams, she forgave me. In the others, she turned away without saying a word to me. Sometimes, I woke believing that I had heard her voice.But then not once have I ever imagined what I would do if she stood before me alive, knowing I had spent five years grieving her.The gates opened and revealed the road was that leading toward Margaret’s territory. My warriors followed me behind as we rode beyond the palace walls, and for the first time in five years, I found myself praying to the Moon Goddess.Not for forgiveness.Not for my life.Only for one chance to see Leah again.I looked around my warriors, the silent satisfaction of being led by their king once more settled in their faces. That made me realize how much I ha
Lucien’s POV“Prepare the warriors. We leave before the sun sets.”The command sent the guards already rushing from the throne room. I almost didn’t notice them leaving, the only thing that my mind was fixed on was one thought and it kept on repeating itself until it became impossible for me to ignore.Leah.For five years whole years, I had told myself that still hoping was a cruel thing to do to myself. So I had buried it some time ago with the woman I loved, leaving nothing behind but guilt, anger, and the desperate wish that one day I would stop waking up.Now Adrian had come back from a battle with a face that threatened to reopen all the wounds that I already spent five years trying to bury.A woman who looked exactly like Leah.I held on to the edge of my desk as I kept waiting for the preparations to be completed. My hands were steady, but my heart was not. It kept on beating with a kind of force that I had not felt in years. It felt like some part of me had suddenly remembere
Lucien’s POV“What? No Lucien you could get yourself killed.” Adrian said. “I don’t mind dying!” I shouted back. Then I thought about it for a while and my voice went low. “Tell me the truth Adrian, Is Leah really alive?”Adrian stayed silent and that became more unbearable than any answer he could have ever given me. I grabbed his shoulders. “Answer me!”“I don’t know, Lucien. I only know that the woman leading the rebels looks exactly like her.”I released him and stepped back, shaking my head. “No. That’s impossible.”I had watched Leah fall and I stayed at the edge of that cliff when they could not find her. The curse had left my body few minutes after she left, what proof was there to show that she might have been alive?Leah was dead.I had spent five years of my life trying to accept that truth, even when it had destroyed every part of me that once wanted to live.“You must have been mistaken,” I muttered.“I’m not mistaken.” He said. “You saw her face in the middle of a bat
Adrian’s POVI was unable to move for the next few seconds. For five whole years, I had watched my friend and Alpha… Lucien destroy himself just because he had lost the woman that he loved the most. I had stood beside him on the days where he cried over it and I had watched him punish himself for five whole years just because he failed to save her. Now, the woman he kept on mourning was standing before me and was commanding an army’s that was trying to destroy our kingdom. It made no sense.Leah had fallen from the cliff. We had all watched her disappear into the ocean and we knew she was dead because the curse lifted off Lucien. We had searched for her and still could not find her so we all had to accept that she was dead. So why was her face staring back at me?“Who are you?” I demanded.The womana eyes narrowed at me. “You are standing on my battlefield, asking me who I am?”Her voice immediately snapped me out of my thoughts.I gripped my sword tighter. “I’m asking because I w







