All Chapters of Too Late, Prince! I’m No Longer Your Chubby Luna: Chapter 21 - Chapter 26

LYDIA POVThe sight of the Silverfang crest fluttering beside the black banners of the Shadow King sent a sickening wave of revulsion through my chest.Down in the burning courtyard, Prince Patrick stood at the front of the traitorous battalion. Beside him was my sister,Seraphina, draped in silver silk that looked grotesque amid the ash, and our father, Lord Blackthorn, looking smug as he held a sword stained with the blood of imperial guards."Lydia!" Patrick’s voice boomed again across the marble courtyard, distorted by dark magic. "Stop this madness and come down! Yield to your true Alpha, and I will spare the High Sovereign!"Beside me on the high balcony, Adrian’s knuckles turned white on the hilt of his broadsword. His dark gray eyes flared with lethal Alpha fury, his jaw set in a hard, dangerous line. "He dares step into Sunreach after selling his soul to the shadow?""He doesn't want the city, Adrian," I whispered, the wind whipping my torn green gown around my legs. "He wants

LYDIA POVThe sensation of falling through pitch-black space was endless.Wind roared in my ears, carrying the suffocating reek of ancient rot and damp stone. Above us, the blinding sunlight of Sunreach shrank into a tiny, distant square of gold before vanishing entirely as stone debris rained down after us."LYDIA!"Strong, broad arms wrapped violently around my waist in the dark. Adrian pulled my body flush against his chest, twisting his own frame in mid-air so that his back would take the impact of whatever waited at the bottom of the abyss.BRACING!We slammed into a steep, subterranean slope of loose shale and damp soil, tumbling down a two-hundred-foot incline in a chaotic blur of sharp stone and flying dirt. Adrian kept his arms locked around my head and torso like an iron cage, taking every agonizing strike from the jagged rocks until we finally slid to a halt on a flat, freezing stone floor.Silence dropped over the darkness like a heavy velvet shroud."Adrian..." I coughed,

LYDIA POVThe subterranean world exploded in a blinding column of blue-white thunder.Adrian’s ancestral Storm-Break shattered eight hundred feet of solid granite, sending a geyser of pulverized rock and blue kinetic energy shooting straight up through the floor of the central plaza.The kinetic force hurled us upward through the newly carved shaft. I channeled the remaining sparks of my White Light, creating a cushion of warm, golden air that caught us at the apex of the blast, easing our feet gently onto the smoke-filled surface of the imperial courtyard.Coughing through the thick dust, Adrian fell to one knee beside me, his broadsword planting into the cracked flagstones to keep himself upright. Sweat soaked his dark hair, his breathing heavy and ragged, his secondary Alpha core completely drained from the sheer impossibility of the feat."Adrian!" I dropped beside him, placing a glowing hand on his trembling back to soothe his overworked wolf spirit. "Rest. You've done enough.""