Semua Bab The Imperfect Luna: Bab 21 - Bab 27

SashaAriel was right. Coming to the festival was a good idea. Even though I arrived here, I stood by Cassian’s side pretending to be the perfect luna. I tried my best to ignore him, always putting some distance between us.I shifted my attention back to the people celebrating. This was something I always wanted to go to but never got to. From the live music being played to the circus in the middle of the ground. I can’t help but smile at how everyone seems to be having fun, but my smile quickly fades when my eyes meet Cassian’s.He shifts his attention to Ariel and then back to me; I can tell he is linking with Ariel because she curtly bows her head. “Did he want anything?” I turn to her, and she smiles.“Yes. He was wondering if you are tired and would like to head back home,” she whispers, and I scoff. He must be thinking of getting rid of me and going on to be with his lovely mistress, since she had been lurking around him.“I’m fine. I don’t need his wolf or anything,” I snapped,

Sasha“No. Please don’t hurt me! No!” I thrash and kick when someone calls my name,“Sasha!” Ariel’s voice comes, shaking me by my shoulders. I jolted awake, my chest rising and falling as she looked at me closely. My lower lip trembles and shivers as I shake my head.“It’s okay. I’m here,” she whispers, pulling me in a hug as I whimper softly, burying my head in her chest.“Oh, goddess, you are burning up,” she gasps, pulling me away from her. She cups my face, stroking my cheeks.“Is it the fever? Do you—” She pauses when the door swings open and Darci walks in. How did he get here so fast?“How…You…” I stuttered, my eyes trained on him; he was in sweatpants and a T-shirt with slippers.“I linked to him. What’s wrong with her?” She asked Darci, who was already trying to check my pulse.“It’s her heat.”“Heat? I have no wolf. Do I need to keep reminding you…” I paused, but he looked so serious and busy.“You have a wolf. For some reason, you can’t feel it. You are in heat, and unfort

Cassian“What is this?” I asked Darci, who placed the bottle of pills on my table. “I am sure you know what it is.” He moves back a few steps, then puts his hands behind him.I grab the bottle, popping it open as I bring it to my nose. My heart drops, placing it back on the table.“What’s the meaning of this?”“It’s what she has been taking ever six she was young.”“Who?” I feign ignorance. I know who he is talking about. It’s like his conversations these days are about one particular person. And to be honest, I didn’t mind.“Sasha. She has been taking this for ten years. You can imagine what that can do to her wolf,” he explains.I feel Bjorn stir, but I can’t hear his thoughts. The thought of someone being poisoned makes my blood boil.“Are you thinking—”“Yes. She does. But it seems like someone didn’t want her wolf surfacing. Cassian, there are only two reasons someone would make you go through this,” he says, and I get up from my chair, pushing it back. I walk to the window and s

CassianShe is in heat and unmated. What the fuck is happening? Why do I feel the urge to burst through those doors and take her? When the scent hit me earlier, I was so close to just taking her there where she was kneeling, but something in me stirred when her eyes met mine. She was so fucking vulnerable.I rub my face in my hands, elbows on my knees, when Darci walks in. “You need to do something. She has been screaming and crying for hours.”“What would you have me do? Take her as she is? Without her consent? I am not a monster, Darci.”“I know you are not,” he shoots back, coming closer to me, and he sighs heavily, shaking his head, then continues. “But if you don’t do something, she might end up worse than she has been the last few days.”I gulp down the lump in my throat. “What is Ariel doing for her? Is the ice bath not working?”He shakes his head, like a man who has been defeated. “She didn’t have her first heat at fourteen years. The past few days, she might have had some he