Lahat ng Kabanata ng The Tomboy Luna: Kabanata 191 - Kabanata 199

EmberThe letter arrives three days after Robert leaves, plain envelope, no seal, my name written in a hand I have not seen in years: my father's.When I finally open it and unfold the single page inside, I read his words slowly, twice through, forcing myself to absorb each sentence rather than skim

EmberThe summons finds me in the training yard at dawn, sweat cooling on my neck and dirt ground into the seams of my boots. Captain Thorne delivers it without ceremony—the King requests my presence in the war room—and I follow him through corridors that still feel too polished for someone who was

EmberI wake up nauseous for the third morning in a row and stop pretending it is travel, stress, or badly brewed tea. The arithmetic is too clean: the symptoms, the timing, the way Nara has gone quiet and watchful instead of sarcastic.Nara, I say, one hand flat against my stomach."I know," she an

EmberThree months after the ceremony, Clara launches herself onto our bed at dawn shouting that the butterflies are back. Kaine groans into the pillow, I sit up too quickly, and the nausea I have been ignoring rolls through me hard enough that I have to breathe before I answer, though Clara notices

EmberTen months laterClara sits beside the crib reading to her baby brother from a picture book she is mostly inventing. Theo is six months old, round-cheeked and solemn, with Kaine's dark eyes, my auburn hair, and Clara's stubborn chin."And then the brave wolf saved the prince," Clara announces,