The moon goddess chose wrong: twice의 모든 챕터: 챕터 91 - 챕터 100

NinaThe moment the door closed behind Kai, Gia was at my elbow so fast I barely heard her move.“I need to know everything,” she said, her voice low and sharp with the particular urgency of someone whose protective instincts had just been triggered hard. She gripped my arm gently but firmly, steering me away from the window and toward the back of the diner. “Right now. All of it.”“Someone reported my location,” I said. I was surprised by how calm I sounded. “They found me Gia.”She stopped walking. “Dexter found you? Was that one of his men?”“Not Dexter.” I shook my head. “He said someone else is after me not him, the person wants me dead probably.”“Jessica,” Mara said from the doorway to the back room. I hadn’t heard her come in. She stood with her arms crossed and her expression arranged into the careful stillness she wore when she was thinking fast and hard. “It was Jessica.”“That’s what I think too,” I said.Gia released my arm and pressed both hands flat on the counter, lean

LilyThe phone sat on the table in front of me like a small explosive device.I had been staring at it for twenty minutes. Max sat across from me, elbows on his knees, watching me with the careful stillness of someone who wanted desperately to fix something they had promised not to interfere with. His jaw was tight. His eyes kept moving between my face and the phone and back again, tracking the small shifts in my expression the way he tracked everything, quietly and completely.“You don’t have to do this tonight,” he said. For the fourth time. He was too disciplined to make it a fifth but I could see it wanting to come out of him.“I know,” I said. Also for the fourth time.“Enzo would understand if you needed another day to prepare.”“Max.”“I’m just saying the timeline is flexible. There’s no hard deadline that requires you to make this call tonight when you’ve barely slept and you’re still—”“Max.” I looked up at him. “I need you to stop.”He closed his mouth. His hands lacing his

Max The evening was quiet I found Enzo on the steps of the pack house.He wasn’t pacing, just sitting quietly like his mind was wandering, he didn't hear me walk up to him.He wasn’t doing any of the things he usually did when something was eating at him. He was just sitting, elbows on his knees, hands loosely clasped, staring at the middle distance with the look of a man who had just had the entire architecture of his history rearranged without his permission.I sat beside him without a word.That was something we had learned over twenty years of friendship, when to speak and when to simply be present. When Enzo needed words he asked for them. When he needed silence he needed you to stay inside it with him rather than filling it with noise that was really just your own discomfort dressed up as concern.So I sat.Warriors moved through drills on the training field, their movements precise and unhurried. Smoke rose from the kitchen chimneys carrying the smell of breakfast. A group

JessicaI had been watching the entrance gate for three hours when Kai finally appeared in the doorway of my room.He moved the way he always moved, quietly like someone who had learned long ago that unnecessary motion drew unnecessary attention. But there was something different about him tonight. Something in his eyes and the way he looked was just different, the ruthless killer wasn't there anymore.I had learned over years of working with complicated people that the most useful information was always the information they didn’t know they were giving you.“You’re late,” I said.“The roads were watched.” He closed the door behind him. “I can't waltz in and out of the human world without people noticing, Getting in and out of neutral territory without being tracked takes longer than it used to.”I turned from the window. I had arranged the room carefully for this conversation, as I arranged most things carefully, the lamp positioned to lighten his face and not mine, so I could see ev

NinaI didn't have a choice but to wait for Kai because my car died, and I was trying to park properly, so no one would spot me besides him.There was no dramatic spluttering, no gradual loss of power, no polite indication that something was about to go catastrophically wrong. One moment the headlights were cutting through the forest road and the heater was making its valiant ineffective effort and the engine was doing everything an engine was supposed to do. The next moment there was a sound like something fundamental giving up entirely and then silence, complete and immediate, the kind that felt loud after hours of road noise.I sat there for a moment staring at the dead dashboard. A few minutes later I saw Kai through the window of his car behind me I could see Kai’s headlights slow and stop. His door opened. He appeared at my window, hands in his coat pockets, looking at the car with the expression of someone assessing a situation that had just become considerably more complicated