Bella's POVThree days of peace and I was already making plans in my head.Blackthron. My father's house, his territory, the life I was going to rebuild from scratch the moment Andrew signed whatever papers needed signing. I had been turning it over quietly for three days, letting it sit warm in my chest, not jinxing it by saying too much out loud. Ethan had said he would talk to Andrew and have it settled and I had believed him the way you believe someone whose word carries the weight of an entire kingdom behind it.Yesterday Andrew went to the palace and came back that evening with anger sitting all over him like a second skin, and I had smiled into my pillow and thought…finally.This morning I was in the back garden with Julie, picking flowers, feeling genuinely light for the first time in longer than I could measure."You look so happy today, Luna," Julie said."I am very happy," I said, and pulled her close by the arm and leaned into her ear. "I'm going back to Blackthron, Julie.
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