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2026-10-04 02:10:58
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He Called Me Barren Luna, But I Bore His Brother’s Heir CHAPTER SEVENTY FOUR
Kiara's POVFor a long moment nobody in that cold stone cell moved, and the only sound was the slow drip of water from a crack in the ceiling, counting out seconds that felt like years. I stood with the ring of keys biting into my palm, looking at the man whose forehead had rested against mine only hours earlier, and I searched his face for any trace of the warmth I had mistaken for love."Say that you are lying," I whispered at last, and my voice cracked on the final word. "Say that this is some elaborate scheme to fool Maelor, and that Amelia is wrong about whatever she thinks she knows.""I wish that I could." Cassian stepped through the doorway, and Tilda moved aside for him with the practiced obedience of a woman who had done so many times before. "Every word she told you is true, and I would give my right hand to be able to stand here and swear otherwise."Amelia rose from the straw with the iron manacles sliding from her wrists and clattering on the floor. She rubbed the redden
He Called Me Barren Luna, But I Bore His Brother’s Heir CHAPTER SEVENTY THREE
Kiara's POVThe woman pulled me behind the pillar before I could cry out, and in the shadow of the stone I recognized the freckled face of Tilda, the laundress who had once covered for me when I wept in the pantry after my first miscarriage. Her knuckles were white against my wrist, and her breath came in shallow, frightened bursts."Come with me, and keep your head down," she hissed, tugging me toward a narrow door half hidden behind a stack of wicker baskets. "Every guard at the main gate has been given a description of this exact cloak, down to the torn hem on the left side."I stumbled after her into a damp alcove that smelled of lye and wet wool. My mind spun, because I had put on the cloak less than an hour earlier, in a shrine buried beneath a mountain, with no one beside me except a frail old woman who had trembled with every word she spoke."That cannot be right," I whispered. "Nobody saw me take this cloak, and nobody knew I meant to leave the shrine at all.""Someone knew,"
He Called Me Barren Luna, But I Bore His Brother’s Heir CHAPTER SEVENTY TWO
Kiara's POVI did not sleep that night. I lay on the straw with my hand resting on my belly, listening to the faint, impossible rhythm of two heartbeats that I could now feel more clearly than ever, and every time I closed my eyes I saw Amelia's fingernails scraping across the stone.Cassian left the shrine before dawn. He kissed none of my doubts away and offered no comforting words, but before he disappeared up the stairs he knelt beside me for a long moment and pressed his forehead gently against mine, and I felt the weight of everything he could not say.I woke to the sound of footsteps echoing down the staircase, and I sat up so quickly that Morwen, dozing in her stool beside the altar, nearly toppled to the floor. Cassian strode into the chamber with dirt on his boots and a dark, furious expression that told me the news was terrible."Tell me she is alive," I begged, scrambling to my feet. "Tell me that you found her, and that she is hiding somewher
He Called Me Barren Luna, But I Bore His Brother’s Heir CHAPTER SEVENTY ONE
Kiara's POVFor a long moment, none of us spoke. The candles guttered softly, and the silence inside the shrine was so complete that I could hear Morwen's wheezing breath and the distant, rhythmic trickle of water falling somewhere beneath the floor."Explain yourself," Cassian said at last, and his voice was low and controlled. "You will tell us the name of the man who delivered that seed, and you will tell us everything he said, because I will not leave this chamber until I know exactly who has been manipulating my family."Morwen twisted the hem of her shawl between her bony fingers. "He wore a hood and a glove on his left hand, and he never let me see his face, but I recognized his voice because I have heard it a hundred times in the council hall, giving speeches about duty and loyalty and sacrifice.""Zek," I said, and the name tasted like poison. "I knew it the moment I saw the northern crest beneath his glove, and now I hear that he spent years wat
He Called Me Barren Luna, But I Bore His Brother’s Heir CHAPTER SEVENTY
Kiara's POVI do not know how long Cassian carried me through the tunnels beneath the mountain. Time slipped and stretched in the darkness, and the only measure of it was the steady rhythm of his footsteps and the faint drip of water that echoed from somewhere far above us.When he finally stopped, I was too exhausted to cry anymore, and my throat was raw from screaming Amelia's name. He lowered me gently onto a bed of dry straw, and a soft golden light spilled across my face from a row of tall candles burning inside a round stone chamber."Where are we?" I asked, though my voice sounded like gravel. "This does not look like any part of the pack that I have ever seen, and it smells of herbs and old incense.""It is a shrine to the Moon Goddess that my grandmother carved into the mountain before the first Alpha built the pack house," Cassian explained, crouching in front of me. "Only a handful of people alive know it exists, and none of them serve Maelor."I stared around the chamber.
He Called Me Barren Luna, But I Bore His Brother’s Heir CHAPTER SIXTY NINE
Kiara's POVThe first thing that returned to me was the sound of my own heartbeat, thudding slowly through a thick, ringing silence that felt as though my head had been submerged in deep water. Dust filled my mouth and nose, and every breath tasted of ash and burned iron.I tried to lift my hand to my belly, but something heavy pinned my arm to the floor. Panic surged through me, and I twisted violently until a broken beam rolled aside and I could finally cradle the swell of my stomach, feeling for the small, stubborn movements that told me my child was alive.The baby kicked once, sharply, and a sob of relief tore out of my throat."Kiara, listen to me," a voice said close to my ear, muffled at first and then growing clearer as the ringing faded. "You are not badly hurt, and I need you to keep breathing slowly while I lift this stone away from your legs."Cassian knelt over me with blood streaming from a gash above his eyebrow, and his hands were shaking as he heaved a slab of rubble
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