登入Chapter Ninety- one Thalina A woman. That was all I was to Talon now. Vaelora gasped quietly, exchanging a quick glance with Kaedros. She stepped closer, concern lacing her voice. “Is… everything all right between you two?” Before I could form an answer, before I could even breathe a word, his voice came again, sharper, colder. “Now.” My heart twisted painfully. I nodded quickly, lowering my gaze, and hurried after him. My footsteps echoed behind his — too fast, too desperate — like a shadow afraid to be left behind. He didn’t look back. He didn’t spare me a glance, he just walked, his stride fast and heavy. And I realized then that this was my punishment . It was not death, not exile, not chains. But silence. And the slow, merciless death of being unseen by the man who once swore I was his moon and his madness. He didn’t say a word as we walked through the long, echoing corridor — only the sound of his boots against marble and my quieter steps trailing behind
Chapter NinetyThalinaI couldn’t feel my legs. I couldn’t even breathe right. Everything around me blurred, from the walls, the smoke, the echo of steel still humming in the air. All I could hear was the sound of my father’s painful groan, his last breath, and the heavy silence that followed it.He was gone.But somehow… that wasn’t what broke me the most, that wasn’t what shattered my heart into irreparable fragment.It was him.Talon.The way he walked in front of me, breathing hard, blood on his arms and the shadows I saw in his eyes, looking like a storm that had forgotten how to end.I should have been stayed back, I should have chosen my father, cried and give him a proper burial like a normal daughter will do, but I chose Talon, I decided to go with him and I still couldn’t name my action.A part of me was terrified of his silence, it was like a heavy weight on my chest, one that pressed violently on me, aiming to suffocate me.Talon didn’t kill me like he did with my father a
Chapter Eighty-nine Talon Maverick “End him!” Thalina’s father barked at he masked men and they came at us like a black tide, everything narrowing down to the sound of steel on steel and the thud of boots. I moved before I could think—muscle memory and training taking over. With a hand around Thalina, keeping her right behind my body frame, I started swinging, parrying, answering strikes with strikes. For a moment the hall seem to disappear: only metal, only motion, only the hot, ragged sound of men trying to cut me down. Whatever I did, whichever move I made, I was sure to keep Thalina behind me. Even though she was the reason for all of these, even though she was part of these people, she was among the enemies who had been planning to bring me down for a long time now, I still couldn’t deal with the thought of anything bad happening to her. I couldn’t just let her stand around while weapons swing through the room. I believed that they wouldn’t hurt her, that they wouldn’t do a
Chapter Eighty-eightTalon Maverick I wished I was wrong. I wished I didn’t hear that right.God, I desperately wished this was just some twisted voice in my head and it wasn’t actually real. I wished I was just hallucinating. I wished I was overthinking it. I wished I could un-hear what I just heard.But no.I heard it right. So damn right. Clearer than anything I’d ever heard in my entire life.God.How? How did we get here? How could she do this to me? How could she bring me to this position… made me relearn the emotions I had pushed to the ends of my heart only for this revelation?Heck, it took me a thousand silent years to finally believe in love again. It took me a thousand sleepless nights to finally realize that peaceful sleep could only come with her lying next to me.It took hundreds of moments inside her, wrapped in her warmth, hearing her moans, holding her trembling body, to realize—this is where I want to be. Forever. It took nothing more than the look on her face, ov
Chapter Eighty-seven Thalina I followed father through the side hallway, past a corridor and down toward the east wing of the house, where fewer guests still stood around, drinks in their hands as they swayed to the music playing outside. “Father,” I called, almost breathlessly, but he didn’t hear me, his steps were taken with hurried determination, glancing back only once before quickening his pace toward a closed door ahead, but he still didn’t see me. I rushed after him and called again. “Father.” He turned slightly, but kept walking until I finally reached out and grabbed his arm. “Please. Just… can we talk? Just for a moment. Alone.” I stuttered, my voice trembling with the uncertainty of the next minuets. He studied me for minute with a curious frown on his face, his eyes pierced into mine like he was trying to see into me to figure out what I was going to say to him, if it was something he wanted to hear or not, but he finally nodded and opened the door beside us. It led i
Chapter Eighty-six Thalina It was a bright morning, not too cold, not too hot. The air was warm and still, wrapped in a silence that almost felt sacred. But it stood in stark contrast to the chaos inside me. My heart pounded violently against my chest, refusing to be calmed, and my breath trembled every time another packaged box was lifted into the booth of the car. With each load, I realized we were a few left to hitting the road. I had already made up my mind to put an end to this charade. Today. I had decided I would stop everything, that I’d end the lies, the deception, the danger. But despite my resolve, I didn’t even know how to begin. What would I say to my father? How could I convince him to stop his plans when I barely understood the full depth of them myself? How could I undo a scheme that was never mine to start with but had somehow become my cross to bear? I didn’t have answers. All I had was this heavy fear pressing against my ribs, this helplessness clawing at
Chapter Sixty-three Talon Maverick My heart slammed against my chest, what was she talking about? “Mother, I—” “No.” She cut me off sharply. “You will not argue with me. You will be here in seven days to choose your Luna. If you don’t, your reign—your very existence as ruler—will become n
Chapter Fifty-eight Thalina The harder I tried to hold back my tears, the more relentlessly they flowed. I couldn’t believe he’d done this to me—after everything we’d shared. Did none of it mean anything to him? Did I mean nothing to him? Had nothing changed since the day we first met? Was t
Chapter Fifty-seven Talon Maverick My heart twisted in my chest as I drove to the castle, the only thought in my mind being Kaed. Vaelora had woken me early that morning with the news—Kaed was awake. I hadn’t wasted a second. I needed to see him. The last few hours had shown me jus
Chapter Fifty-nine Thalina This couldn’t be. No, it shouldn’t be. I shook my head and pinched myself, trying hard to shake off this imagination—or nightmare, whatever it was—but the reality stared back at me, unyielding. Fenris was Selene’s brother. What the hell! I had sworn never to a







