Exalia’s POVThe morning sun came quiet. it came through the silk curtains like gold spilling from the sky.I stood in front of the mirror in my chambers, still and silent, wrapped in ceremonial robes of silver and white. They glowed with every breath I took, as if the fabric itself was alive. My hair was braided down my spine, braided with tiny moon crystals that glowed faintly against the waves of dark brown.Around me, my wolf shimmered. Her aura rising in a low, silver glow. She wasn’t angry or trying to protect herself. She was just there… calm and complete.This was me now.Not the girl who had once knelt in chains.Not the broken mate Jake walked away from.Not the furious prisoner Maria left to rot.Not the beast Jaddy tried to break.Not even the warrior who almost lost Axel.No. This woman, this Luna, was all of them, and none of them at the same time. I stared into the mirror, into eyes that had seen hell and made it home again.“I was born to be broken,” I whispered, “so
Exalias pov We walked into the palace like a crew that had seen it all, because actually we had.The sun hit the white stone just right, casting gold over everything. The new palace towered like a crown, cleaner, sharper, more alive than before. The path was lined with soft pine trees and glowing blue flowers I didn’t recognize. Magic hummed in the wind, subtle but steady.Guards at the archway straightened. Their eyes widened.“White Luna,” one of them said, dropping to his knee.And then the others followed.Axel glanced at me. I didn’t respond with words, I just nodded once, holding it all in. I didn’t feel like a legend or prophecy anymore. I felt… like someone who’d survived hell and somehow walked out the other side.We passed under the arch, and everything inside burst to life.Tasha gasped. “What the hell… this is not the palace we left behind.”“It’s better,” Dane added. “It’s reborn.”The air inside the main hall was thick with the scent of fresh stone and blooming lilac, l
Exalia’s POVAfter a few more hours of sailing in peace and fun and laughter, our ship finally cut through the last stretch of the sea.“Alex, we’re finally almost home,” I said in excitement, grabbing his hands and dancing like a happy child who had just received a Christmas gift from Santa Clause.“Calm down, calm down, relax your self and behave yourself,” he said, trying to calm me down but I could not help it, I was just too excited, and no one could even calm me down or ask me to stop rejoicing. If Alex had felt half of what I felt about our home, he would have understood the reason why I was so excited that we were finally home, and he wouldn’t ask me to calm down.He would even join me to celebrate.And we saw the coastlines of our kingdom far off like a promised land in the distance.I smiled deep within me, I was home at last, and I would not lie; the vacation had been a very fun and interesting one. I rested my back on the railings, and the wind blew softly against my hai
Exalia’s POVIn the heat of the moment, Alex sprung to feet immediately, as alert as ever.His voice was low and hard, when he called on Ryk and Dane.“Ryk,Dane, get the others ready. Exalia and Tasha, please do well to come with me, so we find out what they want.”The biggest of the pirate ship positioned in front of our ship and one of the men brought out a chain, and used it to hook our ship.The two ships were now hooked together by a big black chain, these humans were really joking with their lives.Suddenly, a dozen haggard looking humans swung into our ship, they looked like touts or cultists, and they carried pistols and rusted cutlasses. Low budget pirates, I bet they thought they had stumbled into easy prey, fools!Their captain who was apparently their leader, was a middle aged call clownish looking man with a patchy beard.He came forward and twirled a blade.“Well well well,” he sneered, grinning and revealing his dirty yellow teeth.“Fancy ship with fancy folks in it, k
Exalia’s POVWhen the champagne bottle reached my turn, I took a gulp and it was quite sharp on my tongue.I was not the type to drink such drinks.I then handed it over to Alex.He smiled and tried to tease me, “Exalia, you’re an adult, you’re above eighteen years old. Please don’t tell me a gulp of champagne is making you shiver like a little baby,” he mocked, grinning with his teeth wide open.“Are you going to take your own gulp, or you prefer to say things that are not profound?” I asked, whispering into his ears, so that only he could hear what I said.He gave me a side eye and took the bottle from my hands, and his eyes glinted with a mischievous look, Alex was a silly old man.“Okay everyone,” he said, shining his teeth and grinning.“To kicking some ass and to popping champagne and drinking on the way home,” he said, pouring down so much of the liquid into his throat.We all burst into a fit of laughter, even Dane fell rolled on the ground, and Tasha lost her footing and fell
Exalia’s POVAfter about ten minutes, Alex came out from the bathroom and his towel covered his body. He looked as handsome as ever as the water dripped down his hair and onto his face then to the ground below.“Well, i hope you did not finish all the hot water,” I said, not even giving him time to breath or rest.He looked at me and shrugged his shoulders, and deep down in my heart, I knew he must be tired of me, because I was really fund of disturbing him so much. Not everyone could tolerate the way a woman would treat them like the way Alex did to me.Sometimes, when I looked at Alex, I saw a humble, gentle and great leader, and I was often very proud of him.I also felt honored to be the Luna and queen of such a wonderful Alpha king like Alex.I know that he we every girls dream, if I was not his Luna, and If he had not yet chosen a mate and married by now, many girls would have been flocking around him in the palace everyday.Many of them would even go out of their way to get h