All Chapters of Lunaborn at Moonridge Academy : Chapter 61 - Chapter 70

Lily or Kael?Rowan’s POV“Fine, I’ll go check it out.”The words slipped out of my mouth with the same enthusiasm someone might use when agreeing to clean up vomit after a frat party. I shoved the door open and stepped out, gravel crunching under my boots.Behind me, the car was as silent as a coffin. Kael sat rigid, probably brooding about whatever omen he thought he saw. Lily looked like she’d swallowed a ghost whole, wide-eyed and trembling, while Elara clutched that necklace of hers like it held the secrets of life and death.Great. Just the kind of Friday night road trip I’d signed up for.The air outside was sharp, carrying the kind of quiet that felt… wrong. No crickets, no wind through the trees. Just silence pressing against my ears. Lior stirred, pacing just under my skin.‘This road reeks of omen.’“Yeah, thanks for the pep talk,” I muttered under my breath, scanning the dark stretch of the highway.I walked a few steps away from the car, my eyes narrowing at the tree lin

Roses and a MealKael’s POV“Come on Elara,” I murmured, walking just half a step ahead of her, making sure she couldn’t see the door until I pushed it open.Elara followed me, still looking a little unsettled from earlier. I could tell.. her silence, the way her fingers brushed over her necklace like it was the only thing keeping her tethered and the way she kept looking back every now and then. But I wanted to change that. At least for a night.I pulled the handle, and the door eased open with a soft creak. The faint golden glow of candlelight spilled into the hallway. The scent of roses hundreds of them rushed out to meet us.Oh and the smell of our dinner..Her gasp was immediate.“Kael…” Her voice was barely more than a whisper. She stepped past me, her eyes wide, lips parted, as though words had betrayed her completely. The entire room was covered in red petals scattered across the marble floor, roses in vases along the walls, and at the center.. a small table set for two, gle

The Pool’s ConfessionKael’s POV”Elara”The sound of water slapping against the pool’s edge filled the night air, mingling with Elara’s cute uneven breaths.Her lips were still wet from mine, her chest rising and falling as if she’d just run a marathon.Gods, she was beautiful like this.. flushed, wide-eyed, cornered against the smooth pool wall, her hair plastered beautifully against her skin.And me? I was lazily drowning, not in the water, but in her.I leaned closer, bracing one arm beside her head, feeling the tension crackle in the air like a live wire.“Tell me to stop,” I murmured, with my voice low, testing her, begging her, daring her.Her lips parted, but instead of words, a shaky laugh escaped. “Kael… this isn’t.. I don’t think what you’re doing is fair.”My chest tightened. “Fair?” My voice came out rough, and a bit mocking, but my pulse was a storm. “Do you really think I play fair when it comes to you?”She swallowed hard, her eyes darting down to my mouth, then back u

Blue Green Blue(Rowan’s POV)“Of course,” I muttered drowsily, as I opened my eyes and glared at the flickering credits on the TV, “the one time I let someone else pick the movies, they fall asleep halfway through.”No response.Well.. except for the soft, steady rhythm of Lily’s breathing against my shoulder.I tilted my head slightly, glancing down. Her hair brushed my jaw, tickling my skin, the faintest whisper of lavender rising from her. Her lips were parted, her lashes so dark against her pale cheeks that they looked like beautifulstrokes of ink.“You’re really just gonna knock out on me, huh?” I murmured, keeping my voice low. “Figures. Rowan the pillow. That’s all I am.”‘You don’t sound mad about it,’ Lior’s deep voice rumbled from the back of my mind.“I didn’t ask for commentary,” I hissed silently.‘Didn’t say you did. Just pointing out the fact that you like it.’My jaw tightened. Of course I liked it. A little bit too much.Because here she was, curled against me like I

Hide and SeekLily’s POV “Do you really have to drive this slow, Rowan?” I teased, stretching against the passenger seat and fighting back a yawn. “At this rate, I’ll be old and gray before we even make it back to school.”Rowan smirked without glancing at me, one hand draped lazily on the wheel. “Patience, Sunshine . Not everyone’s rushing to get locked up in a classroom again. Besides..” he slowed even further just to spite me, “..the world looks better when you don’t race through it.”“I actually agree.. you do not want to see Rowan driving fast and furious Lily.. it’s a kind of trauma you don’t easily recover from”I rolled my eyes, but a small smile tugged at my lips. The weekend had been… eventful. Strange. Beautiful in some ways, heavy in others. Now, as the miles stretched between Rowan’s villa and the academy, I couldn’t decide if I was relieved or disappointed to be going back.The car was quiet, unusually so. No banter from Kael, no humming from Elara. Just Rowan and me t