Lahat ng Kabanata ng The Forsaken Luna: Kabanata 21 - Kabanata 30

“What happened? Why aren’t you guarding Serenia?” Kai asks. Harbin holds up a finger to ask for a second and takes a few more gulps of air before standing up straight. “Aurora – I mean, Miss Iversen stormed into the room and caused a fuss, which was broken up by your father,” he nods to Niklas and continues without missing a beat. “That only made things worse because he sided with me and that just made her even angrier-” “Harbin, where is Serenia?” Kai hollers through his rambling. Harbin blinks a few times in slight shock. “She’s with Mr. Olsson in her new room.” “She’s alone right now with my father?” Niklas cuts in with panic. “Yeah, what’s so wrong about that?” Harbin asks. Kai remembers that Harbin wasn’t there when they attended the Alpha ceremony for the Raseri Tribe and therefore only heard about Serenia when everyone else in the castle did. He has no idea about the life the

Their conversation is interrupted by a curt knock at the door and the guard that Sir Olsson placed at the door enters. “His Royal Highness, Sir Kai, is requesting permission to –” “Let me in, Viktor! You have no right to guard the door!” Kai bellows from outside the door, which the guard promptly closes behind him. Sir Olsson lets out an exhausted sigh and a small chuckle. “Well, I believe that’s my cue to end this conversation, as lovely as it has been, my lady.” Serenia stands up with him to walk him to the door, fiddling with her fingers the entire way, unsure of how to properly see someone off. “This has been an absolute delight and pleasure, Miss Hansen. I look forward to the next time I see you, which is hopefully on the training grounds,” Sir Olsson says and picks up her hand to place a polite kiss on the back of her hand in farewell before seeing himself out. As soon as the doorway is cleared,

Serenia is excited for her first day of training, she barely slept a wink the entire night despite knowing being exhausted isn’t going to help her, there was nothing she could do to fall asleep. She isn’t sure what to expect for her first training but assumed it would have some physical endurance to it.The 50 laps she has been running is the last thing she expected.Sir Olsson started off her training rather harshly with 50 push-ups, 50 sit-ups and now 50 laps around the yard. She didn’t know her body could produce this much sweat without a single drop of water before she started her agonizing journey.“Only 10 more to go, my lady!” Sir Olsson cries out from the other side of the yard where he lounges under the shade of a tree.Serenia lets out a loud groan and pushes herself a little harder to run faster and get this over with. She can’t imagine what he has planned for her next after all of this.Once her laps are done, she collapses to the dirt-covered ground, every bone in her bod

Kai isn’t kidding when he says he prepared something for them in the greenhouse. There is a small round table decorated with vines along the legs and flower petals scattered on the ground. The table is filled with pastries and steamed plates, the sun glinting off the glasses. It’s like a scene straight out of a fairytale painting, something she might see in one of the many books Harbin had her looking at. She feels as if she is being treated like a princess despite her plain attire of a white cotton shirt and black-dyed silk pants, still, clothes she never imagined herself wearing but nothing close to what a princess or royalty would ever wear. Kai is the perfect gentleman by pulling her chair out and pushing her in, making sure all her utensils are safe to use and testing her food before she can touch it. Once he is satisfied with everything he takes a seat across from her with a timid smile. She can tell he is uncomfortable and unsure of how to start off the conversation and she c

Serenia awakes alone in the morning with no sign of Kai, other than the slightly crumpled sheets on one side. She prefers this, being unsure how to react after a restless night of sleeping next to each other, this way she can lay in bed for a little while before she expects Sir Olsson at her door for morning training.Washing her face quickly in the bathroom she changes into her training uniform and waits for Sir Olsson, but at least an hour passes, and no one has even come to offer her breakfast. She decides to wait a few more minutes before going to check the hall to ask a servant.She catches one rushing by the room and calls for him to stop.“Do you happen to know where Sir Olsson is?” she asks.“Oh, my lady, what are you still doing here?” he asks in a panic.She looks behind her, thinking he might be speaking to someone else, but that is ridiculous as she is the only one in the room.“Where else am I supposed to be?”“In the aura room! You’re supposed to be undergoing your test