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Chapter Seven
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2026-05-28 05:41:37
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AylaLugh’s half of the bed is cold. My hand drags across the wool sheet before I am properly awake, a reflex the body engages while the mind lags. The fabric is flat, the bed not yet disturbed by him. I pull my hand back, my gaze catching the slit windows directly above the head of the bed. They let in the thin, indifferent grey of early morning light; a grey so early it doesn’t warm anything yet.Below, in the stone courtyard, one of the stable boys is scraping his iron shovel over the cobbles, hitting the same pitch on every third stroke. I hear the voices of two others near the hay loft, murmuring too low to pick up words, while silence rests heavy outside our chamber door because Lugh stayed down at his midnight watch.The hearth fire is out.I stand beside it, pulling on the left boot by habit, easing the metal buckle at the ankle over the toe. My fingers are clumsy with the morning chill. The jagged edge catches the wrong way twice on the skin below my thumb, nipping hard befor
Cursed Luna, Rejected Mate Chapter Eleven
SeleneMy fingers were raw from scraping grease off the pewter plates. I used the rough hemp rag, and my nail beds flaked into tiny white scales against the grainy wood of the wash tub. In the kitchen of the Green Gable, the smell of burned cabbage and wet timber mingled with the sour tang of second-rate ale that the drivers drained from their leather jacks after the afternoon service.Every time a gust of wind sneaked in through the heavy oak door in the hall, the wall-mounted candles, wick coated in a sheen of soot, flamed with the force of a miniature bellows. I had a dull throb right behind my eyes, a pressure that made the low grease lamps near the larder shimmer until it was hard to look. I couldn’t recall the name of the road that had brought me into this valley three months before.The thought slipped from my head like wet boots in mud. A space was vacant in the place where yesterday belonged, a foggy greyness like that which rose off the river flats on cold mornings. My thumb
Cursed Luna, Rejected Mate Chapter Ten
AylaThe silver bands did not go easily onto our fingers. Lugh’s knuckles were swollen from the training rings, the skin over the joints yellowed by old bruising. When he held his hand out to me before the high table, his elbow remained locked. His arm stayed so stiff that I had to move forward into his space just to push the cool metal home. His hand was cold. His skin smelled faintly of the river water he had used to scrub the horse sweat from his neck before the elders arrived.Elder Thomas stood behind the hearth. The skirt of his wool wrap swept the cold ashes as he mumbled the lineage rite. He talked about the northern borders, the winter stores, and the strength of a house needing an heir before the spring melt brought the river traders back up from the south. He kept his palms flat on the surface of the stone altar. His voice was raspy from the draft that always settled into the lower logs of the hall during these months.Lugh looked over the elder’s shoulder. His eyes were f
Cursed Luna, Rejected Mate Chapter Nine
AylaLugh remained by the treeline, his fingers hooking into the soft opening of his green dress coat. He shifted his weight from side to side, the heels of his boots pressing down until he left patches of pale earth in the flattened grass. He did not turn around when the simple wooden gate clattered against the post, though his shoulders rose a fraction.I stopped three paces behind him, my hands coming together over the front of my skirt. The fabric of my hem was still damp from the morning dew along the back path, sticking slightly to my ankles as I stood there."You don't owe me an apology, Lugh," I said, my teeth pressing into my lower lip until the skin went pale. "Selene is gone."His hand dropped from his collar to hang loose at his side. His jaw moved twice before he looked at me, his eyes focused entirely on the corner of my mouth."Gone how?" he asked, his voice catching on the first word so that it came out dry and thin."She left last night," I said, taking half a step clo
Cursed Luna, Rejected Mate Chapter Eight
Selene My forehead throbbed right between my eyes, a dull, heavy ache that made me blink every time the sun hit the metal signs across the street. I sat on an upturned wooden crate behind the bakery, tucking my fingers deep into the armpits of my oversized coat to keep them from shaking.I raised my hand, my thumb rubbing along my jawline, then down the bridge of my nose. My skin felt thick and strange under my fingertips, like I was wearing someone else’s face over my own. I couldn't remember the name of the tavern I had walked past an hour ago, or why my shoes were covered in forest mud instead of river silt.Martha came out the back door carrying a basket of stale loaves, dropping one into my lap without a word."You’ve been sitting there since the morning bells rang, girl," Martha said, wiping her floury hands on her apron. "Are you going to buy something or just look at the stones?"I picked up the loaf, my fingers sinking into the hard crust. "I don't have any coin, Martha.""Th
Cursed Luna, Rejected Mate Chapter Seven
Some fates need a little helpAylaWe sit together for a while after that. She brushes at the ceremony, her apologies for not knowing what to say when Lugh slid her hand into hers. She comments on the way the elder women looked at her afterwards. She questions me again about my well-being, and I assure her I am fine, and the second time she seems to believe me. The potion takes a while to take effect. She doesn‘t notice the sleepiness as it begins to blanket her in the same way it would as if she had been awake a long time last night. Her eyelids feather down. Her words wind up at the end. By the time she‘s finished saying she‘s got to get to bed, she‘s almost falling to one side.I put her back into the pillow and I draw the cover over her. She says something. She shut her eyes.I go to the window first: the candlelit on the windowsill is enough for me to work in. When I summon my magic, it arrives with the dull heat behind my sternum that I‘ve learned to accept in the past two years
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