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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
He Called Me Barren Luna, But I Bore His Brother’s Heir CHAPTER SIXTY EIGHT
Kiara's POVCassian did not drop his sword immediately. He stood motionless with the blade still raised, and the muscles in his jaw flexed as though he were grinding his teeth to dust, while Amelia's breath hitched against the knife at her throat."Let her go, Maelor," I said, and the trembling in my voice was not an act. "She has never harmed you, and you gain nothing by spilling the blood of a girl who has barely begun her life.""She is a traitor's daughter," Maelor said, "and the pack has already condemned her to execution, so I am only performing a small mercy by sparing her the long wait."Cassian's eyes locked on mine across the tunnel. In that single glance, I read a thousand unspoken things, an apology and a plea and a faint spark of something that looked almost like a plan, and then his gaze flicked toward the ceiling for the briefest instant before returning to Maelor."What do you want?" Cassian asked quietly. "You have a knife on a child, an army at your back, and a dunge
He Called Me Barren Luna, But I Bore His Brother’s Heir Sixty Seven
Kiara's POVFor a heartbeat, nobody in the tunnel moved. The only sound was the crackling of torches and the heavy breathing of the soldiers, and I felt Amelia's fingers dig into my arm so hard that it hurt.Maelor stepped forward slowly, his boots splashing through a shallow puddle, and the light from the torches turned his face into a mask of triumph. He looked sober for the first time in weeks, and that made him far more frightening than the drunken fool I had faced in my bedroom that morning."Look at you both," he said, spreading his hands wide. "The traitor's wife and the traitor's daughter, creeping through the dark like rats, and thinking they could outsmart the Alpha of this pack with a single forged note.""We were led here by your councilman," Amelia snapped. "He told us that Cassian was waiting, and he drugged half the dungeon to make it look believable, so if there is anyone here who deserves to be called a rat, it stands right beside you."Maelor's smile faltered slightly
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