Lahat ng Kabanata ng The Tomboy Luna: Kabanata 181 - Kabanata 190

"For your daughter," Ronan says quietly. "Winter is coming, and a child should be warm."My throat tightens at the generosity of a man who has nothing offering what little he has left, and when Kaine says "Thank you" I can hear that he means it in a way that goes beyond politeness into genuine respe

The food is simple—roast chicken, bread, potatoes with rosemary—and the smell of it fills the room while Clara eats with the single-minded focus of a child who has spent a week being spoiled by royal relatives and is ready for something normal. She chatters through the meal, stories about Lila's emb

"Thanks, Jake."He grins. "Don't let it go to your head. You're still terrible at hand-to-hand.""Get out of my office."He leaves laughing, and I turn back to my reports with something warm settling behind my ribs that feels like belonging.That evening Kaine steals me away for dinner—just us, whil

"I was Ines's daughter before I was anything else," she says, and for once there is no bitterness in it, only fact. "Everyone in this palace studied me as if one wrong breath would prove blood is destiny." She meets my eyes in the mirror. "They judged me, and some still do. The difference is that I

EmberThe afternoon is warm enough to take Clara outside, so we settle in the smaller garden off the east wing, where she crouches near the fountain and narrates a diplomatic crisis involving what may or may not be a frog.I'm watching her when Jake appears at the garden gate and tells me Robert is