Chapter 5

BENEDICT'S POV

Maybe it was luck. Maybe fate or the moon goddess still had use for me– I'd never believed I was a threat to anyone let alone the Moomicrant not till they misused the power their position held, oppressing the people at any given opportunity.

I'd barely escaped death by a cat's whiskers but it was barely enough to come up with a plan– I'd never thought to have. Not until…her. As I sat in the dungeon they had thrown me into, awaiting the death penalty, my mind flooded with thoughts of her.

The paleness in her eyes, the way she scrunched her nose and stiffened her shoulders when he pulled her close said one thing– she didn't want to be there.

While I sat by the corner of the dark room. All I could think of was her– she was the most beautiful creature I'd set eyes on. I could deny the anger that welled by a good degree when I noticed the bulge–

You barely know her.

I tried to shove aside the thought but the more I did the more it nipped at my nerves. Just one moment with h