MasukLucian’s POVI didn’t remember the run from my office to the infirmary corridor. Still, I remembered the terror on Lily’s face and the absolute stillness that gripped me the moment I saw Selene on the ground — unmoving too.Kairos screamed inside of me, more loudly than he did on the day of the attack with the wolfsbane sword. I bent down beside her and held her hand and started to call her name like it was a mantra. I didn’t know when Lily and other healers worked their way around us, nor the time they placed her on a stretcher and it started to move even as I was running in front of it.“Someone pushed me.”Her words rang over and over again in my head. And instead of feeling a bloodthirsty anger at the fact that someone really pushed her, all that I felt was silence. Something in me had gone so quiet that the only thing I expressed was total stillness.They started to work on her immediately, and even at that, I didn’t leave the infirmary or her bedside. I kept holding her hand til
Selene’s POVI didn’t know which was more surprising: the fact that Cael, the same man whose identity has been mysterious, was the fated mate to the kingdom’s biggest hater, or Lucian, who thinks that Elysia shouldn’t be arrested yet but should be properly watched the entire day.Axel was kept in a guarded room where he was under formal watch but with a bit of free movement. Lucian made him agree that he wasn’t going to say anything about what he just said to Elysia, and he agreed. I really did feel like there was something about Axel. The way he just approached us and started to say everything that he knew about Vera was a bit alarming.Though he explained that he had passed through the room where the woman with the dark magic in her was held, and the moment he did, he felt Vera’s presence, and he just knew that an investigation around her was going on.I still felt a bit unsettled about him. But at least it was clear that everything Elysia did wasn’t just borne out of m undiluted ha
Selene’s POVLeo left very quietly, just the same way he came. Then right there at the border, he told me about what went down in the investigation room yesterday.“Why didn’t you tell me? This is very serious.” I gasped.“It skipped my mind, and we were very busy too. You were going to hear either way, but I’m still sorry for just telling you now.”“It’s okay. What’s the way forward now? At least we now know that there’s an unknown woman somewhere who’s very intent on destroying the kingdom. How do we find her out?” I asked him.His jaw tightened, “The archives… I’m sure we’d find something there. Whoever this is was affiliated with my father, and they weren’t able to get what they wanted during his tenure. So now, they’re moving to me.”At that, we moved towards the archives as he had suggested, and we started to rummage through books. Moving past the ones that were only made during his tenure.We, or rather, I, took a break at some point because of Jordan, but he never stopped. I f
Selene’s POVI was on my way to visit Amber when Lucian came in, and the scent of the person on him made me freeze up at first. Why did he smell like Leo? And most importantly, why did he look so mad?Is Leo here again?“He’s here.” He said, confirming my thoughts like he had been reading my mind or something.“Another attack? But how come there’s no emergency alarm blaring yet?” I asked, trying so hard to control the level of anger that simmered through me.“He didn’t come with an attack. He’s just here, and he’s surprisingly very calm. I’d have sent him back from the border, but he’s very insistent on speaking to you, and I didn’t want to assume what your response to that was.” He explained.“Oh.” I pinched my nostrils.I set down the food flask in my hold, “And you don’t have any idea of what he’d like to discuss with me.”He nodded.“You’re going to be there, yeah?” He nodded at that too.“Well then, let’s go. I think I want to hear what he has to say.”A non-violent Leo was rathe
Lucian’s POVShe went still on my lap, not saying anything at all. Then, slowly, she turned her head to me.“You just yelled at me.” She said in a very soft voice. And as angry as I was, her voice did something to me that made me cool down a bit.I sighed and gently put the spoon of pasta back on the plate. I grabbed her by the waist and drew her closer to me. “I’m sorry I yelled.”She broke my gaze, but I pulled her head back to look at me. “I can’t have you starving yourself, though. You’re stressing yourself out as it is; starving shouldn’t have to be in the equation.“But it’s not like I’m dying yet. I was still going to eat at night.”I took her hand and made her splay her palm across my chest. “Can you feel that?”She frowned at first, then slowly tilted her head to look at me properly. “Why’s it beating so fast?”“Fear,” I said. “You invoke so many emotions that I’ve not felt in a long while, and one of them is fear. Hearing you say you’ve not eaten made me think about so many
Selene’s POVI could barely think too much about what Priya just said before a call came in from Lily.“Amber is awake, and she’s thrashing around. I’m afraid she’s going to hurt herself.” She said into the phone.I immediately got up, and with Jordan still in my hold, I went towards the door. Priya, who must have caught what Lily told me on the phone, ran along with me.We got to the infirmary, and I handed Jordan over to Lily, who took him, so I could easily get to Amber, who had gone still upon seeing me.She suddenly burst into tears and threw herself on me just like she did earlier. She held me so tight that my body hurt, and that was when I realized how malnourished she was. Her bones were so visible that they pressed against my skin.I was about to rub her back, but I remembered that she had injuries there, so I just withdrew my hand and let her be the one hugging me.“It’s okay, you’re safe now,” I said into her hair.She shook even harder, and the room went so quiet that her
Lucian’s POVThe moment Lily pressed her stomach and stilled, I knew there was a problem. And when she walked out the door, I deduced that she might not just want to tell Selene. For that reason, I went after her.She had stopped even before I called her. “What’s wrong?” I asked.“Her baby’s develo
Selene’s POVIntense anger coursed through my veins as I walked out with Leo whose eyes were on me. “Let your friend stay away from us a bit. This is meant to be a private conversation.” He said after we found a suitable place.“No. He stays with me.”“Stop being so adamant, Selene. I won’t be com
Selene’s POVMy fingers dug so hard into my palm. I didn’t turn to look at him—No, that would have just made me look like a stupid fool. He was the one who turned around and our eyes finally clashed properly.“You ran away with my pup.” Was the next thing he said and it took everything within me no
Selene’s POVI’ve been trying to do everything that I could to avoid the fact that the ‘one month’ is almost over. We’re just a few days away from when we’d be released by the king. And that should make me happier than anything had ever done since I’d have jumped up at the news if it was weeks ago.







