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At Midnight, I Stopped Being His Luna Chapter 10
The next New Year’s Eve, I met Rowan at the royal ferry landing.Gabriel and I were taking Ivy to my aunt’s winter house. Rowan had come for his holiday visit before heading north to Noah.Ivy reached for him as soon as she saw him.“Hello, little sprout.”He lifted her carefully, letting her pat the carved wooden wolf tied to his coat.“Noah made that,” he told me. “With considerably more enthusiasm than accuracy.”The wolf had one enormous ear. I smiled.Our visits had become predictable. Sometimes awkward, sometimes warm, always arranged in advance. He returned Ivy when he said he would. If the border roads closed, he called before we were left waiting.Those things mattered to her.They did not restore our mating, and he no longer behaved as though they should.Gabriel checked the ferry board.“We have ten minutes. I’m getting pastries. Any requests?”“Something without cinnamon,” I said.He raised an eyebrow. “A challenge. I accept.”Rowan watched him go.“Are you happy?”“Yes.”T
At Midnight, I Stopped Being His Luna Chapter 9
My daughter was born in late summer.Nina stayed on my left. My aunt stayed on my right. When the healer laid the baby against my chest, the whole room seemed to narrow to her warm cheek and furious little mouth.“Hello, Ivy,” I whispered.I had chosen the name myself.Rowan met her the next afternoon, at the time we had agreed. He washed his hands twice and looked almost frightened when I showed him how she liked to be held.He cried quietly.I watched him without wishing the sight belonged to a different life.Gabriel arrived later carrying dinner for four and a bag of clean laundry. He didn’t ask to hold Ivy until I offered.Over the months that followed, he became someone I looked for at the end of the day. We argued about books, walked along the river, and learned to eat supper one-handed while the other person held the baby.He had work of his own, friends I hadn’t met, opinions that occasionally annoyed me. Our lives came together slowly enough that I could see what I was choosi
At Midnight, I Stopped Being His Luna Chapter 8
Elena POVA package arrived from the northern settlement in early spring.Inside was an old draft of a letter and a note from Mara.He wrote this before sending the final version to Blood Moon. I kept it because I thought it proved he had chosen me. I was cruel to you about the name and the amulet. I knew what they were. I’m sorry.I don’t expect you to answer. This should never have been mine to keep.The letter was dated five days after I lost my first baby.I received the dispatch about Elena. The border is quiet enough for me to return, but Mara’s fever hasn’t broken and Noah is weak. Mother and Elena’s father are with her. Elena will understand. I’ll write when things settle here.I read it twice.I had known he knew about the miscarriage. I hadn’t known he could have come home.For years, I had imagined an impassable road, an attack, a duty that made returning impossible. There had been sick people near him and a grieving woman far away. He had chosen the people whose need he cou
At Midnight, I Stopped Being His Luna Chapter 7
RowanI stayed in the royal district for four days.Elena declined the flowers. She declined the meals. The mediator accepted my details and gave me an appointment for the following week.“There is no appointment available sooner,” she said.At Blood Moon, people rearranged their days when I entered a room. Here, I was a man asking for a time slot.Then the message came from home.Noah had been feverish for two nights. The healer was monitoring him. He kept asking when I would return.I packed immediately.At the inn door, a court clerk recognized me.“I saw your former Luna at the riverside this morning. Vale was showing her the houses there. Perhaps she’ll be moving out of her aunt’s soon.”I stood with my bag in my hand.I told myself I only needed to find out where she was going. I had a right to know where my child would live.By the time I reached her aunt’s house, Elena had gone to work.I waited.When she returned, it was nearly dark.“I thought you were going home,” she said.
At Midnight, I Stopped Being His Luna Chapter 6
ElenaMy first patient at the Royal Infirmary was a kitchen apprentice with a burned hand.He stared at the name on my door.“You’re the new chief healer?”“Unless you know something I don’t.”He laughed nervously. I pulled up a stool and asked him how he had burned himself.By lunchtime, I had forgotten to wonder whether Rowan had called.The work was demanding. There were treatment protocols to review, younger healers to supervise, an entire wing asking for equipment. But when I requested help, people came. No one called needing an assistant a failure of devotion.At my own examination that afternoon, the obstetric healer moved the listening crystal across my stomach.A rapid beat filled the room.I gripped the edge of the bed.“That’s the baby?”“Strong and steady.”I closed my eyes.For weeks, I had been carrying fear so tightly that relief almost hurt.Gabriel found me later in the courtyard behind my aunt’s house. She had lived in the royal district for twenty years and insisted
At Midnight, I Stopped Being His Luna Chapter 5
Rowan POVFor a moment, I thought she was somewhere in the house.The curtains moved in the draft. Her cup stood beside the washbasin. If I turned quickly enough, she might be behind me, telling me I had tracked snow across the rug.I reached for her through the bond.Nothing answered.“Where is she?”The housekeeper stopped in the doorway. Her gaze dropped to the milk soaking into the carpet.“She left before dawn, Alpha. Royal transport.”I picked up the papers.My signature. My blood seal. The last page in the folder she had handed me without trembling.I had asked whether she had checked everything.She had.Outside, a guard caught my arm before I reached the truck.“The north road is closed.”“She isn’t going north.”For the first time in three years, I had no idea where Elena wanted to go.The gate log gave me the answer. Royal district. Eastern crossing.I drove until the engine protested, then abandoned the truck at the snowbound approach to the river and ran.The royal ferry w
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