All Chapters of The Luna He Gave Away : Chapter 11 - Chapter 15

Lyra's POVHe came to find me the next day.That was the first unusual thing. In the two weeks I had been at Blackthorne, Kael had never sought me out before midday. Our interactions happened at meals or in passing, or when I went looking for him with something specific to say. He did not come to me.He knocked on the door of my chambers at the hour after breakfast, and when I opened it, he was already moving."Walk with me," he said.It wasn't a question, but it wasn't quite a command either. It was the tone he used when something needed to be discussed and he had already decided where.I followed him.He took me to the small study off the west corridor, not his main study, the one he used for official work, but a smaller room with two chairs and a low table and a window that looked out over the inner courtyard. The kind of room that said this was a conversation, not a briefing.He closed the door and remained standing."Queen Isolde is coming to Blackthorne," he said.I looked at hi

Lyra's POVThey arrived at noon.I heard the horses first—more of them than the messenger had suggested, which told me that Isolde had decided at some point between sending word and crossing the border that this visit warranted a larger show of presence than she had originally indicated. That was probably deliberate. Most things Isolde did were deliberate.I was standing in the main entrance hall with Kael when they came through the gates.Isolde descended from her carriage with the unhurried grace of a woman who had never in her life needed to rush toward anything because things had always arranged themselves to wait for her. She looked exactly as she always looked—composed, elegant, warmly purposeful, the expression of someone arriving somewhere she had every right to be.Ronan came after her.He looked different from the ceremony hall. The composed certainty he had carried on that dais was still there, but something underneath it had shifted—a restlessness in the way he held himsel