Lahat ng Kabanata ng LUNAR LEGACY : Kabanata 71 - Kabanata 80

“Are you sure?” I asked Darius as I watched his face and tried to catch an emotion that didn’t go along with what he was saying, but he looked completely resigned to his thoughts. He meant every word and really wanted to find out who the father of Stone was.“We fought for no reason,” he said, finally giving himself enough space to talk about Aeron after what just happened.“Darius…” I called out to him because I knew what that tone of voice sounded like. It was one I’d held a lot and could recognize from anywhere. He blamed himself for what was happening.“It was always the things we weren’t even supposed to fight about,” he continued. “He liked to push me, and I learned to push back. You know, he was stronger than me when we were kids.”I didn’t try to stop him. I sat down and gave him my ears. He deserved a listener from how much pain I suspected he was in.“He used to beat me whenever our father trained us in combat, so I would spend nights training myself when he was sleeping be

“Who do you think your brother would want as the alpha of the pack?” I asked Darius when we finally found ourselves in the room and alone for the first time in a long while.“I’m not sure,” he said with a sigh as he relaxed into the bed and closed his eyes for a while. “I don’t think I ever spent enough time in his pack to know who he would trust.”“How do you suggest we do this then? We can’t possibly leave them on their own until they have an alpha. You know that, right?” I reminded.He opened his eyes and shifted his gaze to me with a smile. “I never hated my brother. And now that he’s gone, I don’t think I hate him enough to abandon his people just because he’s dead. You have nothing to worry about. I’ll guide them.”There was silence in the room, and I let it pass enough before I placed a hand over his hair and carefully pulled strands of it, twirling them around my fingertips.“How do you feel now that he’s been buried into the earth? Anything changed?” I asked, not sure what I

The small basket of the witch I had killed was sitting beside me on the ground as I watched the sun set.The dull ache was no longer there when I thought about Aeron. I didn’t know why or how it happened so fast. It was my one reason to keep going, to destroy them all. But now, I was met with a wall whenever I thought of him.I was numb.“How do I keep going if you’re not here to remind me to do that?” I asked, not sure if it was directed at Aeron, the moon goddess, or both.Had I been completely abandoned by the moon goddess?When it was dark enough to go unnoticed, I stood up and grabbed the basket in my hand. It was something I would use to show Janet just what had happened to one of her innocent witches because of her actions and what would happen to the rest.I was a bit surprised that she hadn’t gone out to look for the witch as she had been out for quite a while. Perhaps I had overestimated how much she cared for her witches.“This is for you, Aeron. Whether you can see me or n

The wind was now getting heavier, but you knew it wasn’t from you. This was solely from Janet. The tip of her wand was glowing with a yellow light that made your heart skip a beat at the sight of.“You have done more than enough in this place,” Janet said, her eyes turning white as she raised her wand up to the sky.“And you have done more than enough in general,” I retorted, glaring at her as my hands started to heat up with power flowing in my veins. “It’s time to end it.”A bright light emerged from her and blanketed the rest of the witches, one by one.“This is a spell I haven’t perfected all that well,” she said. “But I’ve gotten used to it enough to use it to send you back to wherever you came from.”All at once, the witches started to walk over to her and gather around her. Their wands all glowed the same shade of yellow. I looked down at my body to look at the light which was coming off of me. It was still flickering, a sign that I was in trouble and their attack could hit me

“What do you think you’re doing?” I asked as I watched Darius lock the door to the bedroom and take the key with him. I looked at him with narrowed eyes as he kept the key under his pillow and sat down to face me.“I know you, Zara. And I know enough to recognize when you’re hiding something from me. The last thing I want to do is wake up one day and see that you’re not here again,” he said.“I’m not leaving again, Darius,” I said, knowing it was a lie. “Don’t you think you’re doing too much of this?”“How else am I supposed to do it?” He asked, cocking his head. “How would you react if I left you all alone with Aaron in the dead of the night without saying a word? You may have ended things with the witches, but that’s not the only thing you want to do, is it?”I stared back at him and realized that he could probably see through me. Maybe I carried my anger and hunger for vengeance with me, and he was reading it.“What are you talking about?” I asked, still choosing to pretend like I