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Chapter 6: Naked And Hunted

Author: Comfort Shettima
last update Last Updated: 2025-07-08 18:03:48

Lunessa's POV

After the shift, I kept moving barefoot, naked, and aimless. The forest offered no warmth, only shadows and biting wind.

I snatched a handful of broad leaves, weaving them around my trembling body in a poor excuse for clothing. It barely concealed my skin, but shame wasn’t my concern. Grief was.

My heart… my heart was shattered into pieces too jagged to hold. The only person who loved me without judgment, who saw me, truly saw me, was gone. And she’d been taken by the very people who claimed to protect us.

Kellan and Liora. They didn’t just betray me, they destroyed me.

‘Due… are you okay?’ I whispered through the mindlink, my throat tight.

‘Yes… just weak,’ she replied, her voice a faint flicker in the hollow of my mind.

I stumbled upon some discarded rags, likely left by hunters. They reeked of old sweat and dried blood, but I wrapped them around myself with shaking hands.

Liora might still have soldiers tracking me through the woods. If she could kill my mother, th
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