CHAPTER 21

VERONICA.

No. This couldn't be happening. Not here. Not in front of all these people. Not in front of me! I gasped in horror at how the people of Cosmos knelt before Aria. This wasn't possible. Aria is wolfless and mateless. How dare she come into my land, mark her territory and declare herself the true Luna?

One step backwards led to another. The one step made me stumble and almost fall on one of my attendant that was kneeling for the Luna. Patricia. I gasped in horror before instinctively slapping the stupid idiot across the face.

I turned back to talk to Adrian, to notify him of my departure when i saw what i should have never seen. Adrian, on his knees for Aries. I felt my heart sink in my rib cage. I felt my entire world crumbling down but there was nothing i could do about it. I felt the heaviness and sorrow surround and sow itself in my heart. No. I wouldn't allow this to happen. Never. Not in this life.

"Stand up!" I shrieked on top of my lungs, ignoring the treacherous pe