Todos os capítulos de The Last Prophecy: Capítulo 11 - Capítulo 19

Lucian hit the floor, but his hand clamped down over the pistol before I could pull it free.“Nova, stop. It isn’t safe for you out there.”“Shut up!”I seized his wrist and twisted hard.Cold sweat broke across his forehead. He clenched his jaw and refused to let go.Hurried footsteps sounded outside.“Lucian! I’m coming!”Vivienne burst into the room with a gun in both hands, aimed straight at me.“Let him go!”She pulled the trigger.“Nova, look out!”Lucian lunged up, putting his body between me and the bullet.It struck him in the chest. Blood spattered my face.“Lucian?”Vivienne stared at him, stunned. Her gun slipped from her hands.Her knees gave way, and she fell. Then she scrambled up and stumbled out of the room.Blood was still running from the cut on Lucian’s forehead.“Go, Nova… Go…”With a shaking hand, he pushed the pistol into mine. Then, with what strength he had left, he unlocked the moonsilver cuffs.“Lucian?”“Go! If I die, you won’t survive either! While there’s

I tried to pull away. His grip only tightened.“Nova, sever your bond with him and come back to me. Everything I have will be yours. Me. My wealth. My power. My secrets.”“Let go of me, Lucian!”“Nova.”He looked down at me with such tenderness, as if I were the only person he could see.“Leave him. Please. I’ll never hurt you again…”At the same time, Kasper sat in his study, territorial documents spread over his desk.Every word spoken in the medical suite came through the phone beside him.His fingers tightened, creasing the edge of a document.One of his men asked quietly, “Shall we throw him out now, sir?”“Why? He still has answers Nova wants.”“But Lucian means it. He’s determined to take her away.”“So?”“You’re… not worried she’ll go?”Kasper smiled and set down the paper.“Plenty of men want Nova. I’m the only one who deserves her.”After a moment’s hesitation, the man asked, “But didn’t you hate her at first, sir?”Kasper paused and looked toward the window.“Yes. Then that

Lucian stood next to me, looking down at it.“I’m sorry. I wanted so badly to have someone who was entirely mine. That’s what she was.”My voice was cold.“Wasn’t I your wife?”He said nothing.I turned toward him.“At our bonding ceremony, we swore we would belong only to each other. Forever.”He lowered his head.“I’m sorry. You’ve read my file, haven’t you? I always thought men of my bloodline were entitled to more than one woman.”I gave a harsh laugh.“As long as there was only one woman I loved, the others were just diversions. I thought that was enough. But I was wrong. By the time I realized it, it was too late…”The wind lifted ash from the ruins.He looked at me.“So the only thing left for me to do is make amends. I’ll do anything it takes.”I didn’t understand what he meant then.Only later did I learn that he had been intercepting my communications with the outside world the whole time.Every reply Kasper received from me had been written by Lucian.Each one colder than th

In the study, Lucian finally told me about his past.He had known me far longer than I had realized.He was the family’s unacknowledged bastard. No one treated him as a person. Even the guards could kick him as they passed.Only a stray wolf pup would play with him.One rainy night, when he was five, he took some dried meat to feed it.His older brothers and sisters were waiting for him.They made him look at the freshly stripped pelt.From that day on, they taught him over and over that he deserved nothing of his own.Lucian raised his head, his eyes red at the corners.“They said I was a mistake. A thing. An animal. I wasn’t fit to sit at their table. To survive, I learned to read people. I could always find a few words that told them exactly what they wanted to hear.”He rose and went to the window, his back rigid.“As I grew older, my looks helped. Even women who used to look down on me began to let their guard down. I charmed people, bought their loyalty. I fooled even my father.