All Chapters of The Billionaire Who Bought Me The Moon: Chapter 121 - Chapter 124

That evening, I discovered that every muscle in my body was beyond fucked. My arms ached, my legs burned, and my ribs felt like they'd been violently rearranged. Rowan had called it "light training." If that was light, I was afraid of what heavy looked like. Still, I dragged myself through the motions of Luna duty, which mostly meant pretending to supervise while other people actually did useful things like rebuilding the burned council room and courtyard. Lyra wasn't around, thank God, but that didn't mean that the rest of the day was going to be peaceful. Because of course, I eventually went back to my room to try and recover, and that was when Kieran found me. He stepped into my room like he owned it, which he technically did. His dark eyes scanned me up and down, and I swear he could smell the exhaustion rolling off me before his gaze narrowed at the faint bruises showing across my forearms. "What happened to you?" His voice was deadly calm. I forced a smile. "Tripped. You k

"Well?" Mattias's voice cut through like a blade. "Have you?" I opened my mouth but nothing came out. My throat had gone completely dry. How the hell could anyone possibly expect me to choose?! Kieran turned toward me, and god, his face. Worry and fury and confusion were still there, but underneath it was something that made my chest hurt with guilt. "Iris," he said, and his voice was softer than I'd ever heard it. "Tell me you haven't fallen for his lies." "It's a little more complicated than that. Okay? I just..." Suddenly Mattias whistled three times, like he'd done a couple of times before. Then he straightened, looking satisfied. Like he'd just done something he was proud of. "Wait... What did you--" "Thank you so much, Elowyn. I couldn't have done any of this without you." Kieran's eyes cut to me, "Elowyn. What have you done?" Out of nowhere, humans poured out of the darkness—dozens of them, maybe more, faces smeared with mud and something dark that made them look like