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Chapter 146

Author: Lila
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AVA

Kael had the consideration not to change the location entirely, though the setting still carried that particular quality of somewhere chosen rather than defaulted to.

"We are not being monitored here," he said, and it landed with the timing of someone who had read the unformed question sitting just beneath my thoughts before I had even shaped it properly.

"I just decided on this location," he added, "since you seemed to be craving a more official setting."

I looked at him.

"I was not cravin
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  • The Luna He Left To Burn   Chapter 146

    AVAKael had the consideration not to change the location entirely, though the setting still carried that particular quality of somewhere chosen rather than defaulted to."We are not being monitored here," he said, and it landed with the timing of someone who had read the unformed question sitting just beneath my thoughts before I had even shaped it properly."I just decided on this location," he added, "since you seemed to be craving a more official setting."I looked at him."I was not craving an official setting," I said. "What surprised me was that this came together as spontaneously as it did."I set that aside and went for the more pressing thing."Why did you choose to leave instead of staying and finding a way to block that meeting?" I asked. "The most logical move would have been to wait it out, gather whatever we could from what was being discussed behind those doors, and use it.""It makes sense to think that way," he said. "But regardless of what gets discussed in there, h

  • The Luna He Left To Burn   Chapter 145

    AVA"It is not particularly a surprise though," Lucas said.He was not saying it because he genuinely meant it. He was playing the gracious card deliberately, positioning the whole thing so that whatever happened next would look like our fault for showing up rather than his for trying to go around us."It is exactly the first time," I said. "And you know why.""Do I?" Lucas asked, the question carrying just enough innocence to be insulting."Why are you on the verge of requesting a private audience with the elders to propose a couple relational claim?" Kael said.The way Lucas's composure shifted told me everything. He had not expected Kael to know the specific nature of the meeting before they had even entered the building, and that small fracture, the brief recalibration behind his eyes, gave me a quiet confidence that we had made the right call in coming here."Mr. Kael," Lucas said, recovering smoothly, "even if your suspicions happen to be correct, by law this is a matter to be s

  • The Luna He Left To Burn   Chapter 144

    AVA"You’ve been like this for more than five minutes now, Miss Ava," Amina said, worried.She had been standing there watching me and I had been aware of it the entire time. I did not adjust my expression or pretend I had not been somewhere else entirely. There was no point.She set the breakfast tray to the side before stepping closer, having already determined that food was not what was needed here."Is something on your mind?" she asked."Something is," I said. "I am just not entirely sure what to do with it yet."I turned slightly toward her."A couple of days ago, mother and I organized a counter gathering and I tried to push through the crowd before the guards turned us back. I noticed something. People that were not supposed to be there."Amina nodded, not feigning ignorance."I have read the reports and seen some of the documents," she said. "I have a general picture of who makes up the protest movement and some of the ones funding it. So what was different about these ones?"

  • The Luna He Left To Burn   Chapter 143

    AVAI didn’t give him an answer right there and then, but over the next three days I had shed more light on the situation at hand proving I was still well enough and capable. Even then, Kael's plan was meticulous.He had introduced a method of counterattacking from the inside out, narrowing the channels available to the converging families rather than meeting them head on, shrinking the range of what they could actually reach before they had the numbers to use it.It still required absolute alignment between every moving part, no misalignment, no deviation, because the moment one piece slipped it would not just slow the plan, it would undo the very foundations it had been designed to protect.I remembered the weight behind his words when he had explained it.I was still turning it over when mother's voice pulled me out of it."Ava," she said. "You are zoning out.""It is nothing, mother," I said. "I was just thinking."We were already in the car, moving away from the estate, the road

  • The Luna He Left To Burn   Chapter 142

    AVA"This is bad," I said.I did not soften it into an admission. It simply was what it was."It is," Kael said. "And with what the elders have laid out, we need to think carefully about what measure actually curbs this rather than just delays it further. Because if we do not land on something real, everything we have already built gets walked back. If not worse."It was no longer just the two of us in the same way it had been the night before. Father had already moved to meet with the political families still aligned on our side, working the second layer of the plan, the more structured one.Sir Darwin had remained firmly with us. The families who had accepted the restructuring and held to it were still in our corner, a quiet but meaningful weight.What father was working toward was ensuring that the pressure did not sit only on Grayson's side and the elders, that the political families loyal to the restructuring also moved as a visible front, so that what was coming did not look lik

  • The Luna He Left To Burn   Chapter 141

    AVA "Mr. Kael. Miss Ava," the garud standing by the door greeted as we entered inside. This was the first time the elders had called for a private meeting under anything close to good terms. Every prior summons had come wrapped in tension, in scrutiny, in the kind of formality that made it clear we were being measured rather than welcomed. This time felt different. Unified, almost, though I had learned by now not to mistake unity in a room like this for anything close to comfort. "Elders," we greeted in return. "First, we want to commend you," one of them said, "for your efforts in curbing the illegal protests and the illicit actions carried out over these past several days. Days that, left unchecked, could easily have spiraled into a crisis this pack has not seen the likes of in generations." "Thank you," Father said. Others spoke up in agreement. "We also thank you for your judgment in discerning the right path through such complicated circumstances, and we hope that co

  • The Luna He Left To Burn   Chapter 5

    AVAMy mother.The moment she heard my voice she turned to me. Her eyes got all teary, the anger she had just a minute ago disappearing.I forced a smile even though I was still feeling pretty tense inside."Mom, do not get so upset, " I said softly, trying to calm her down before things got worse.

  • The Luna He Left To Burn   Chapter 4

    AVAFrom the corridor, I listened to every word, a faint bitter smile slowly curling at the corners of my lips.Sister. That is what Lucas called me.After seven years of marriage in our previous life after countless nights spent in the illusion of tenderness after everything I had endured and sacr

  • The Luna He Left To Burn   Chapter 3

    AVAMy mother's face was a picture of shock when I told her I did not want to marry Lucas. She just stood there frozen. After a moment she let out a sigh. It was a sound that said she felt helpless."The wedding is all arranged, Ava," she said. "The invitations have been sent out. How can you say s

  • The Luna He Left To Burn   Chapter 2

    AVAThe light in my eyes got dim.So this was how it all ended? Again, like our fate was twisted.Smoke went down my throat thick and hard to breathe. My chest got tight with every breath. The flames came closer, eating up the walls, the ceiling, everything.I shut my eyes, maybe… This was for the

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