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•Chapter 32•

Penulis: Deborah Myers
last update Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-05-07 18:58:27

Ashley

Chirping birds coaxed me out of my sleep. I moved to get up, before remembering that I hadn't slept in my own room the night before. I almost panicked, before Zane's playful face flashed through my mind.

I actually slept in his room. It wasn't a dream.

I tried to move my body, but a weight kept my torso pinned down. I looked down and noticed an arm thrown over me like a cage made out of a limb. Tracing it down with my eyes, I saw who it was connected to, and nearly gasped from the surprise.

“Good morning,” he simply said, watching me with those serious eyes of his. “I hope you slept well.”

I blinked a few more times before looking around the room in mock confusion. “How did I get here?”

“I have no idea either,” he said, lips twitching again. With my focus drawn to his lips, the first thought that came to my mind was to lean across and kiss him. But I feared that might have been too brazen, so I kept my desires in check.

“What time is it? I have to get to the Grove to work,
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  • The Stand-In Luna   •Chapter 123•

    Ashley I slicked my hair off my face, staring at my reflection in the pool of water swirling in the sink. Things are changing once again, morphing into a shape that I didn't think I could hold on to with my hands. I wasn't even sure id I could handle this new level of weight thrust upon me.But Zane was very right. Getting back the necklace was the only option we had, no matter how dangerous it was going to be. I slipped out of the bathroom, ignoring my reflection in the mirror as I passed it by. I didn't want to see the fear that I was certain my eyes held. After our discussion in the kitchens, it was clear that neither of us was going to get any more sleep. Not when we knew that Jace was on the verge of unleashing something incredibly dangerous upon us. We had to act fast, and that meant giving up on sleep. So we spent from that till early morning trading ideas on how we could somehow infiltrate Moonlit Silver and obtain the necklace. “What if we send in Bryce to go undercover?

  • The Stand-In Luna   •Chapter 122•

    Ashley I woke up gasping for air. Sweat dripped down my face, and my whole body felt like it was on fire. I squeezed my eyes shut and opened them up multiple times, trying to get the images from the dream out of my mind. It seemed burned into my brain, digging deep into my skill like a drill, and refusing to let go of me.My panting must have woken Zane. He sat up swiftly, and reached for me in the dark, pulling me into his arms. His hand brushed over my back in gentle rubs as he whispered gentle comforting words into my ear. He must have assumed that I had a nightmare. “I dreamt about Katerina,” I said breathlessly, clinging to him for strength. “About how she died and why she's the cursed spirit we now know.”“Are you okay?” he asked softly. In the dim lighting, I could feel him watching me. I was grateful that he didn't try to make me feel like I was crazy, and simply accepted my story.“You believe me?”“You have no reason to lie, Ashley, and it's not the first time you're havin

  • The Stand-In Luna   •Chapter 121•

    Ashley “Why are we here?” I asked the spirit, looking around the new environment we had found ourselves in. The air was still—I couldn't exactly feel anything on my skin. I could only see and talk.The spirit, who now looked more like a human, walked in front of me, feet bare and pale, crunching grass underneath. Her long, dark hair gently bobbed with a breeze I still couldn't feel but witnessed. The black pools that had been her eyes dissolved into bright jade orbs. “We are here because you must understand before you can release me,” she said, voice soft like a haunting echo. “That's the only way you can successfully free me.”I shook my head, digging my hands into my hips. The lightness of my form unsettled me. Was this how it felt to be a ghost? To be unable to feel anything brush against your own skin? “I never said I was going to help you.”She paused mid-stride, slowly turning her head to face me. “You will.” Her foot, which was angled in such a way that only the balls of her

  • The Stand-In Luna   •Chapter 120•

    Ashley “The Cursed Spirit of the Old Woods can be freed?” Zane didn't look like he quite believed my words. There was an disbelieving gleam in his eyes and he had a brow quirked up inquisitively. “How come she was even able to communicate that to you? What we've been told all these years was that she was just bloodthirsty.”“Well, history can be very wrong. You mentioned that something had changed in the woods, didn't you? That might have been what triggered all these changes too.” I settled down in front of my dresser, drying off my hair with a towel. I paused and rolled my neck, trying to ease the sore muscles there. The past day had been a whole adventure. I still couldn't believe just how many things had occurred in so little time. The hours had winded longer than weeks. I kneaded my fingers into the sore flesh, pressing deep until I found the knots that needed loosening. The cursed spirit was just one issue on ground, I was still trying to understand how it was possible to sti

  • The Stand-In Luna   •Chapter 119•

    Ashley “We've heard the stories. Passed on the myths for generations, but never did we think that they could actually have been true,” said the old woman, whose name I'd come to know as Faye. She stroked the heads of her still trembling granddaughters. “Now that you are here, we can only ask that you spare us for our ignorance.”I stood, and dusted the legs of my pants, using the opportunity to gather my thoughts so that they didn't come out sounding wrong, or all convoluted. “We are not here to hurt anyone. We only came to help.” I pointed to the corpses of the bandits around us. “These men are the only true enemies here, and now they are no more.”“There's nothing stopping you from killing us like you did them,” someone angrily said from the crowd. A balding man with a missing incisor on his upper left jaw.“Those bandits were evil, but as long as we gave them what they were due, they left us well alone. Now that you've killed them all, they will retaliate and burn down this littl

  • The Stand-In Luna   •Chapter 118•

    Ashley Once, when I knew little about the world, and viewed every moment through naive lenses coloured with rainbows and sunshine, I used to think that anything and anyone would bend to the force of kindness. That as long as I showed everything love and understanding, it would come to love me too.From the very first day I met Carina, she never gave me any chance to misinterpret what she felt towards me: pure hatred. To her, I had come to steal everything that belonged to her. Back then, I could never understand why she hated me so, and always spoke badly about me, always carrying poison underneath a breath. I learnt how to not allow her words to dig deep, and how to make my hide thicker. Things changed drastically when Carina cornered me one day within the halls of the place we both called a home, and told Trina, a large girl endowed with both fat and muscle whom you would have thought was much smaller because of the nature of her name, to sit down on my back until she said otherwi

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