Semua Bab Luna's Reckoning: Bab 81 - Bab 90

Melissa ate another spoonful of that soup and then pushed herself away. "Not anymore," she said. "Beatrice, please."The woman smiled at her and then placed the soup on the ground beside her, covering it. "Vengeance is a dish, best served cold," she said with a chuckle."But isn't that petty?" Melissa creased her brows. "You are supposed to be the elderly woman," she complained with an eye roll.Beatrice nodded sarcastically. "I am the prettiest human being ever," she said with a grin. Melissa shifted her weight and tried to climb out of the bed. Beatrice put the chair and soup away, then tried to support her but Melissa shook her head. "I am fine," she said. "My wounds healed, I am okay," she affirmed, placing her feet on the ground. She felt a bit lightheaded as she did so, "I don't understand, I feel fine," she said as she realized she might not be able to walk alone. "You lost blood," Beatrice said. "The only reason you are awake now is because your body is healing faster than

Melissa sat on a reclining chair, her left leg stretched out as Candice carefully clipped off her nails. She'd been doing it herself when her maids had walked in and bullied her into giving it up. Richard had advised her to just relax and let them work. It had been three days since she was shot and she'd not had so much as a day off since then. She had to check on all her council members, one after the other. Some of them were threatened while for some, she just tried to check on their health. She'd fought the Infernal again on the phone. That insufferable man had said she'd staged the whole thing, and she accused him of trying to assassinate her and he claimed he wished he had but he wouldn't spend an ounce of resource on a weakling like her. Coupled with all those and the fact that someone had killed the entire assassins they'd caught alive in their prisons. They'd all received a gunshot to the head. Conveniently, all the cameras were down at that time. Everything had just happen

Ronald sat down filling the forms placed on his table as quickly as possible. There were several batches of just piles upon piles of paperwork. There was no saying he'd be stuck here for hours. He scribbled hurriedly, his attention was too focused he didn't notice the door to the office creak open. His face was a weird contortion of anger, hate and stress. He didn't believe he would be stuck behind a desk handling paperwork and taking orders from a mere council leader. His breaths were undulating as his annoyance grew with each form he filled. He was supposed to be up there directing the affairs of state in place of Melissa. He had the plan hatched out perfectly, he had the allies he needed working for him but somehow, he'd fail by sheer luck. Every single thing he'd directed at the girl had ended up in failure. He hurriedly filled three more forms, his head heating up as his annoyance grew. He reached a point in the forms and discovered he'd made a mistake, he crumpled the paper a

Melissa exhaled. She didn't even know if she wanted to go forward at this point. Beatrice looked at her. "Go on," she edged her. "Let us just do this meeting first, afterward you can keep flipping the books" she replied. "You still haven't made your peace with them?" Beatrice asked. "No. Not that. It is just, this shows they knew they were going to die. It feels like they wanted to," Melissa said at last. The thought had been weighing her down since she started finding clues. "It seems so, why is that making you afraid?"she asked."It is not…" she screamed and then looked at her. She paused and just stopped talking. Beatrice moved towards her. "Bottling it won't ease your pain. Say it. How is it making you feel," she pestered her. "Angry!" She screamed. "Insanely mad. How could they, how could Dreykov do this to me," she said. "Their entire existence has been based on them dying for me to become queen. You got kidnapped days ago and I saw it in you too. You'd have willingly die

Avalors, you will be around the castle, mostly covering for Melissa, any Council meeting should be attended by you," Beatrice began then she raised her eyes up as she remembered something. "Melissa, the council is trying to put you as a Luna in training, so they will install someone else as the Alpha for the meantime," she informed. Melissa scoffed. "They won't rest, will they?" She shook her head and just folded her arms. She had a lot going on with her that the council was starting to seem like a very annoying little rat just scurrying around. "Can Avalors handle that?" She asked. "Oh, most definitely, if they want you to step down, Avalors is powerful, influential and experienced enough to be our Alpha," she said. "So either way, the power will remain with you," she said. "It is but a minor inconvenience."Melissa nodded and Beatrice continued. "So, as I was saying, Avalors would mostly be here, but on Friday when Melissa would be meeting with this Mageret, you will go with her,