Alle Kapitel von The Broken Wolfless Luna : Kapitel 91 – Kapitel 100

Orion's Pov I left Rael's chambers furious at myself for losing my temper. I should have stayed calm and in control and maintained the upper hand but she had a way of getting under my skin like no one else ever had.The next few days I stayed away from her. Let her sit in that room with nothing but bread and water and her thoughts, let her see what life would be like without my generosity. Let her understand that I controlled everything about her existence here.Viktor came to my office three days later to update me on other matters but eventually the conversation turned to Rael as I knew it would."How is the girl handling the new restrictions?" he asked."I don't know. I haven't seen her.""Perhaps you should check on her. Make sure the punishment is having the desired effect.""What effect? Making her hate me more? I'm sure that's working perfectly.""The effect of making her understand her situation. That refusing you makes her life harder and that cooperation is in her best inte

Orion’s PovI felt lighter somehow after saying the truth. Like a weight had been lifted. I didn't have to pretend anymore, didn't have to act like I cared about her feelings or wanted her love.I went to find Viktor to tell him about the conversation. He was in his office reviewing reports."I told her," I said."Told her what?""Everything. The real reason I want her. That it's about Eryx and that she's just a way to hurt him."Viktor looked shocked. "Why would you do that? Now she'll never accept you.""She was never going to accept me anyway. At least now we can stop pretending.""But my prince if she knows you don't love her she has no reason to cooperate at all.""She never had a reason. Love wasn't going to happen, so why keep lying about it?""Because the lie at least gave you leverage. Now you have nothing.""I have her. That's all I need, as long as she's here Eryx suffers. That's the whole point."Viktor shook his head. "I don't understand your hatred for your brother. He's

Rael’s PovI spent the next day reading through the letters over and over. Each time I found new details that made everything worse, small things I had missed before that painted a clearer picture of what really happened.Nyra had been writing to Orion's people for months before my capture, planning and s cheming. Working out every detail of how to get rid of me and in her letters she mentioned Corvin constantly. Not as my husband but as someone else, someone more to her."Corvin agrees this is the best solution," one letter said. "He knows she stands in the way of what we want."Another letter was even more direct. "Once she's gone we can finally be together properly, no more hiding or pretending."They had been having an affair. Before my capture. Maybe even before I got pregnant, all that time I thought Corvin loved me he was sleeping with my cousin behind my back.The realization hit me like a physical blow, i felt sick. My stomach twisted and I thought I might throw up. Everythin

Rael’s PovBy evening I had made my decision. I wouldn't be a pawn anymore in anyone's game. I wouldn't sit here waiting for things to happen to me, I would take control of my own fate for the first time in my life.The first step was gathering information. I needed to know everything about the palace and the kingdom and Orion's routines. Knowledge was power and right now I had very little of either.Mira came to bring dinner and I stopped her before she could leave. "Can I ask you something?""Of course.""You've been here for five years, you tried to escape once, you must know things about this place and how it works. You must know about people who run it and the routines they follow."She looked nervous. "Some things. Why?""Because I need your help. I need to know everything you know about this palace, every weakness, every opportunity. Every person who might be sympathetic to prisoners.""I can't help you escape. If they catch me helping you they'll kill me. They'll torture me f

Rael's Pov The next morning I woke up early and started paying much closer attention to everything around me. If I was going to escape during this tour I needed every piece of information I could gather.I positioned myself near my door where I could hear guards talking in the hallway outside. They changed shifts every four hours and they always spent a few minutes chatting before the new guards took over."Did you hear about the tour?" one guard said."Yeah. The prince is taking his prisoner around the kingdom. Seems like a waste of time and resources.""He thinks showing her the kingdom will make her accept him. Like she'll see all this wealth and power and forget she was kidnapped.""Women are strange creatures. Maybe it'll work.""Or maybe she'll try to escape again and we'll have to chase her down through half the kingdom.""That's why we're going with them. Full security detail. Twenty guards plus the prince himself. She won't get ten feet before we catch her."Twenty guards. T