All Chapters of The Lycan king's Unwanted Luna : Chapter 11 - Chapter 12

The sound of wooden staffs colliding echoed across the courtyard. I should have kept walking back to my rooms, but my feet carried me closer anyway. I stopped near the edge, half-hidden behind a stone pillar. Soldiers sparred in pairs on the packed dirt, their boots kicking up dust with every shift. Grunts mixed with the sharp crack of wood on wood.One soldier, broad and loud, landed a solid hit and laughed. “Keep that up and you’ll end up like those Black Hollow fools. Rejected by one alpha and married off to another like some spare part.”A few others chuckled. The words hit harder than I expected. I stepped back quickly and turned away before anyone spotted me. My face burned the whole way back.In my room I picked up a book. I read the same page three times without taking in a single word. The old shame sat heavy in my chest again. Spare part. That’s how they still saw me. Helpless. Unwanted. Always depending on someone else to decide my place.By evening the yard had mostly clea