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Book 2: Chapter 16

Author: JM Snap
last update publish date: 2026-07-07 22:56:01

Darren

I had locked the crowned heads of the known world in my ballroom overnight, and the room I walked back into was a diplomatic catastrophe wearing party clothes.

Hundreds of dignitaries in wilted finery, sealed behind my guards since the fireworks. Kings detained like suspects. Alphas separated from their packs, envoys from their escorts, nobody fed properly, nobody told an

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    AllissaThe room breathed. And into that breath, with the regret of a surgeon, Anton spoke.“Then let me say the ugly thing,” the werebear prince said, “so no one worse says it later. The crowns in this room believe the dragon royals. The territories not part of the kingdoms and the gossip about it will not. Word is already on the roads, a dragon took the lycan princess, and by tomorrow, every village will have decided not to trust dragons. If the delegation moves freely through this castle while the search runs, people thinking like Corven grows by the hour, and the alliance cracks exactly where our enemy struck it.” He turned to Gunnar, and he bowed his head as he said it. “I propose the dragon delegation withdraw to the guest wing under honor guard. Publicly, for their protection. Squall steps back from the visible search. The crowns know the t

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    AllissaThey convened the war council before midday because I would not wait, and I walked into it knowing the room wanted blood and had already chosen whose.The chamber held every banner of the alliance and every ruler still under our roof, arrayed down the long table in the order the steward’s seating charts had agonized over for a celebration. Now the same chairs held a tribunal. I had not slept, and it showed; grief sat on me like a second skin and I had stopped trying to hide it. I had fed Mira at first light with my hands shaking and my body going through the oldest motions it knew while my mind ran north along an empty sky, and then I had put on the queen the way other women put on armor, because my daughter needed the queen functional and the mother had already spent the night on the floor.The search had not paused to wait for us. Through the chamber’s high windows the sky still carried fliers, harpies and fairy seekers running their grids, and runners came to the doors on t

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    AllissaThe longest night of my life had no end that I could find. It simply went on, hour after hour, in the cold ruin of my daughter’s bedroom, until the dark outside her window began to gray and I understood that the world intended to have a morning whether my child was in it or not.We had not slept. There was no version of the night in which we slept.I had spent it moving, because moving was the only thing that kept me from coming apart. I checked the twins until Hessa gently took my hands off the cribs. I walked the corridor where the guards had fallen. I went back to Lyra’s room and stood in it and breathed her in, and somewhere past the third or fourth hour, the queen who had held the castle together all evening finally cracked down the middle, and what was left was just Lyra’s mother.“I have to go after her.” I was already moving toward the window, toward the cold sky that had swallowed her, as if I could simply climb out into it and follow. “Right now. Every hour we stand

  • A Luna for the Lycan King   Book 2: Chapter 16

    DarrenI had locked the crowned heads of the known world in my ballroom overnight, and the room I walked back into was a diplomatic catastrophe wearing party clothes.Hundreds of dignitaries in wilted finery, sealed behind my guards since the fireworks. Kings detained like suspects. Alphas separated from their packs, envoys from their escorts, nobody fed properly, nobody told anything, every one of them watching every other one with the arithmetic of fear, and over it all the knowledge, spreading mouth to mouth since midnight, that the princess was gone and the thing that took her had wings.I stopped first at the healers’ hall, because four of my best lay in it and a king owes his fallen his face.They had been carried down from the nursery wing and arranged in clean beds

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    AllissaThe nursery wing corridor was lamplit and warm … and silent. The first guard lay crumpled at the mouth of it like a dropped coat.The second lay three steps past him. The two on her door had fallen where they stood, one still half against the wall. No blood. No wounds. Their chests rose and fell, slow, even, deaf to the world, four of the best soldiers in my kingdom sleeping like children while her unofficial fifth guard screamed past them through a door that should have been open two fingers wide and stood gaping.Cold came out of my daughter’s room. Cold in midsummer.I don’t remember crossing the corridor.The window stood open. The curtains breathed in and out of it, slow, like the room itself was panti

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    AllissaWhen I saw it, I couldn’t believe my eyes. Descending majestically before me was an enormous dragon, its sheer size casting an imposing shadow across the ground. Its scales shimmered like polished obsidian, reflecting the moonlight with an otherworldly gleam. Two vast black wings unfurled fr

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    The months slipped away, barely recognizable, barely there, and then suddenly it was as if I’d always been alone, like it was normal to pad through the halls without Darren by my side. Calls, messages, each one fleeting, each one hurting as much as it healed. I touched the place where he should hav

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    “This is the future queen, Lady Allissa. Once she is crowned, I expect you all to refer to her as her highness or her majesty. For today, Lady Allissa will be just fine.” Winifred patted my hand with a smile.“We should have a toast to our future queen,” Cleo said, motioning one of the servers over

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    I slowly licked his arm where the traces of blood were. “Pay attention to me.” I whispered. The next minute I was yanked forcefully from Lyle and into his arms. I stumbled from the lack of strength in my legs.“What happened to her?” Darren’s voice was instantly concerned. He lifted my body up, cradl

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