All Chapters of I Am The Luna Queen : Chapter 51 - Chapter 55

Hazel’s POVI stood on the balcony overlooking the palace grounds, arms folded tight across my chest like I could hold everything inside if I squeezed hard enough. The late afternoon sun was making everywhere glow gold, but despite the beauty and calm of the place, my mind was spinning too fast.Dimitri stood beside me—quiet, solid, arms crossed the same way mine were. He hadn’t said much since the incident that happened at the training field. The silence between us wasn’t awkward anymore. It was comfortable. Like he knew I needed space to think.I finally broke it.“Dimitri,” I said, keeping my voice low, “I think Nicholas and his beta are hiding something.”He turned his head just enough to look at me. “What makes you say that?”I leaned my elbows on the stone railing. “I was in Nicholas’s room earlier and Marco suddenly barged in. He was out of breath, eyes wild, and he shouted something about finding ‘the missing segment’ and how Nicholas could finally ‘tell the queen the truth.’”

Hazel’s POV I couldn’t sleep. I kept turning over in bed, flipping the pillow, pulling the blanket up to my chin, then kicking it off again because it suddenly felt suffocating. Every time I closed my eyes, my heart gave this weird little jump—like it was trying to climb out of my chest. Restless. Uneasy. Like something bad was waiting just outside the door and I could feel it breathing. I groaned and rolled onto my back, staring up at the dark canopy above the bed. This was ridiculous. I shouldn’t be lying here wide awake, stomach in knots, thinking about Nicholas. Nicholas—of all people. The same man who’d spent three years parading his mistress in front of me like it was a hobby. The same man who’d looked at me like I was invisible until today, when he suddenly decided to act like I mattered. I pressed the heels of my hands against my eyes. No. Nope. Not going there. I wasn’t worried about him. I wasn’t. I threw the blanket off completely and stood up. The marble floor