All Chapters of Rebirth Of A Broken Luna : Chapter 171 - Chapter 180

Jessie's POVAfter the guards and omegas finally stopped clapping and went back to their duties, still smiling, still thinking they had just witnessed a touching moment between princess and servant, Beatrice emerged from her hiding spot. Her face was confused and concerned."Jessie, what just happened?" she asked, looking between me and the direction Lisa had gone. "I could not see properly from where I was hiding, but... it looked like you were hugging her? Like you were comforting her instead of confronting her?"I stared at Beatrice, and then I started laughing. Not happy laughter, it was a bitter and broken laughter."Hugging?" I said through the laughter that was quickly turning into sobs. "You thought I was hugging her?""That's what it looked like from my angle," Beatrice said, moving closer. "The guards and omegas were clapping and smiling, saying how sweet you were...""Illusion," I choked out. "It was all an illusion. Stephanie made them see what she wanted them to see."I q

Jessie's POVI woke up screaming, my body was soaked in sweat. My hands were clawed at my throat, still feeling Stephanie's fingers choking me."It's not real," I gasped out loud, trying to calm my racing heart. "It was just a dream. Just a dream."But it had felt so real. The blood, the flames, my father's painful eyes, Ethan's screams, all of it was burned into my mind as if it had actually happened.I looked around my room. The sun was shining through the windows. It was afternoon. I had slept for several hours, though it felt like I had been trapped in that nightmare for days.My body ached. My head pounded. But I was alive. And I had work to do.I dragged myself out of bed and stumbled to the bathroom. The face staring back at me in the mirror looked like a stranger. Dark circles formed under my swollen eyes. My hair was tangled and wild. And my skin was very pale.I looked like I was dying.Maybe I am, I thought bitterly. Maybe Stephanie has already won, and I am just too stupid

Jessie's POVI stood in the library, hoping to get busy with something, anything, but my mind kept wandering. Kept circling back to everything that had just happened, or might have happened. I couldn't be sure anymore.I tried to focus, but something was nagging at me. Something I couldn't quite put my finger on.Then it hit me.Gaty.I hadn't seen Gaty in the dining hall with all the other hypnotized pack members. She hadn't been there with the blank stares and empty expressions.Where was Gaty in all of this?The thought wouldn't leave me alone. Why wasn't she there this morning? Why wasn't she part of Stephanie's grand display?Unless...Unless Gaty was somewhere else, doing something else, or was hiding.I needed to know. Needed to understand what was happening with everyone, not just the people I could see.I left the library and headed down the hallway toward the guest wing where Gaty had been staying. My footsteps were quiet on the carpet, and my wolf senses were alert for any

Jessie's POVI hurried inside and up to my room. The pack house, once warm and welcoming, now seems disturbingly quiet. Too empty, like a body with no soul.As I reached my chamber, a thought suddenly hit me with force.The phones.Our phones were still at the resort. Mine and Ethan's. Ethan had left them there in his rush to get back to Moonstone.My phone. With all my contacts, all my information. If something happened to me tonight, when something happened tonight, someone needed to be able to access it. My father would need it. The pack would need it.And maybe, just maybe, there was something on it that could help.I checked the time. Fifty-five minutes until the eclipse.I could make it to the resort and back if I pushed it. The place wasn't so far.I had to.I ran back down the stairs and out to my car. My foot pressed down hard on the accelerator. Twenty-five minutes later, I drove quickly into the resort parking lot. The place looked calm and peaceful, as if nothing was wron

Jessie's POVAs I walked down to the old groundkeeper's cottage, my wolf was pacing inside me, anxious and afraid but also ready. We both knew what was coming. We both knew there was no turning back.The trees began to grow thin, and I could see the clearing ahead. The cottage sat at the edge; it was dark and silent. But the clearing behind it glowed with an eerie green light.I stopped at the edge of the tree line and started observing the scene before me.The clearing had been transformed.Dozens of black candles surrounded the space. The grass itself looked dead and turned gray from the dark magic that saturated the area.And in the center of it all was the ritual circle.Inside the main circle were smaller circles, layers upon layers of magical barriers and containment spells. And at the very center, a circle just big enough for one person to stand in.My place. Where I would kneel. Where I would bleed. Where I would either triumph or die.But what made my heart stop was the four