All Chapters of He Called Me Barren Luna, But I Bore His Brother’s Heir: Chapter 61 - Chapter 68

KiaraMy heart dropped into the pit of my stomach as I saw her moving forward. "Amelia!" I called out, rushing toward her, totally out of control. I grabbed her hands. "Who did that to you?" She shoved me back."You did this to me, Aunt! Look!" She pointed to her face."The news had my teammates fighting! They think I bought my way into being a war general. I wanted to earn it, and you know! Why would you submit that? Do you know how dishonourable it is for a child like me to be served a scroll with that title? Even my commander wouldn't talk to me. Now everyone has lost their respect for me."I should have stayed a little bit more with Cassian. I knew she was going to react this way, but she has to understand one way or the other that the only way she would not have someone protecting her is when I am dead."You will understand when you have a child, Amelia. I can't go on explaining to you why I submitted that scroll, and you better know you deserve it. You do not have to be sliced i

Kiara"Traitor?"Taken by surprise, I looked at Cassian, surprised by what he had just said, and judging by the exclamations of the people, I wasn't the only person stunned in the pack.He went on, moving around the podium."Every single one of you never partook in the war because everyone who left home to fight never came back, and till date, we mourn thousands of our soldiers who left to protect what was ours and got killed."More murmuring, rumbling, and screams. Then, when it settled, Cassian continued. I was still in awe.Betrayed?"As the commander who led the war, it was fortunate that I didn't die. The Goddess had given me the opportunity to come back and tell everyone here that there's still hope. Grieffully, we might never get what we wanted. We might never get our loved ones that were lost, but we will get justice by bringing out this traitor."I stared at him, clueless."As a prisoner held in the North..."

Kiara's POVFor several seconds, I could not make my mouth form a single word. Councilman Zek stood in the doorway of our cell with the torchlight carving deep shadows across his face, and he looked exactly the way he always looked, calm and respectable and faintly amused by the foolishness of everyone around him."Forgive the early hour, my Luna," he said, bowing his head slightly. "Prince Cassian told me to wait until midnight, but the guards are changing shifts sooner than we expected, and I could not risk leaving you here a moment longer.""Prince Cassian?" Amelia repeated, and her voice cracked with suspicion. "Nobody has called him a prince since he vanished, and he would never trust a councilman who sat quietly while the elders handed his throne to Maelor."Zek smiled gently. "He trusts me because I held his throne in my heart even when I could not hold it in my hands, and because I have spent two months quietly protecting the people he loves. Now come quickly, for the passage b

Kiara's POVCassian did not drop his sword immediately. He stood motionless with the blade still raised, and the muscles in his jaw flexed as though he were grinding his teeth to dust, while Amelia's breath hitched against the knife at her throat."Let her go, Maelor," I said, and the trembling in my voice was not an act. "She has never harmed you, and you gain nothing by spilling the blood of a girl who has barely begun her life.""She is a traitor's daughter," Maelor said, "and the pack has already condemned her to execution, so I am only performing a small mercy by sparing her the long wait."Cassian's eyes locked on mine across the tunnel. In that single glance, I read a thousand unspoken things, an apology and a plea and a faint spark of something that looked almost like a plan, and then his gaze flicked toward the ceiling for the briefest instant before returning to Maelor."What do you want?" Cassian asked quietly. "You have a knife on a child, an army at your back, and a dunge