All Chapters of The Tomboy Luna: Chapter 161 - Chapter 170

KaineThe formal dining hall is packed with every noble family that matters and several that only think they do. They are waiting for spectacle; I give them Ember.She enters in the green dress Lila chose, hair loose, royal mark glowing at her shoulder. Conversation dies so fast the silence has teet

I try again with a princess establishing a treaty through strategic negotiations, and Clara cuts me off with the plain, unmalicious verdict of a judge who has heard better—a bad story, because Mom's stories have dragons and feelings. I concede the point, and she tells me I'm going to have to practic

"I don't like this," he says quietly, and before I can bristle he adds, "not because I doubt you — because I know what it feels like to almost lose you, and I spent three months living inside that feeling, and I never want to go back there."The raw honesty of it catches me off guard — not the Alpha

EmberKaine finds me in the training yard the next morning, waiting at the edge of the packed earth while I run through sword forms to work out the stiffness from four days of riding. The familiar rhythm of each strike and pivot helps quiet my mind, lets me focus on muscle memory instead of the tang

EmberThe training yard is already busy when I arrive the next morning, steel ringing on steel through the cool air. Three guards run sword drills along the far wall while two more work through hand-to-hand combat forms, and every one of them nods acknowledgment as I pass without a single lingering