THE LUNA WHO STOLE TIME

t was ev

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caused he

ss

loodied. His hand held tight over his side, trying to stem the life draining from

," he ras

uriously. Her palms were bloodied, but she had no idea whose. She could

s were b

ady knowing what

y a silver mask. The Betrayer. They held a moonlit an

ered, her voice

d. "Because this is

nife

was da

flash, gasping

n rough blankets, and stale herbs filled her lungs. She was in some

. No crown. Just her-white, gasping for brea

bed, panting for

ucked. Children laughed. It sound

the door st

barked a sharp vo

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omach

nized thi

ver made her his never touched her but hurt her. She was only a weight to him. An om

she rem

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false

. The hourglass symbol there pulsed so

e li

she awoke in a different iteration of her life. A different hu

l. Bloo

the other side of the door. "If you're not outside

e scratchy village dress folded on the end of the bed

ime, she'd

me, she

ny regulations. Elara kept her head down as she walked by the other omegas working along

'd murmur. "She does

't know.

f wasn'

s tra

dn't yet know. But each life held secrets. She jus

la

and spun to see Jarrek's

at her feet. "And if you spill this aga

othing. Tha

er, there wa

muscles crying out. The sun had just started to rise, the tre

e howli

ld. Too

That was no o

ves glanced u

one of the

wled. "Eve

ut the earth beneath her trembled. Out of the forest, bl

s pier

n forward and caught him u

ed, and she st

her, sh

ashed in

l, a blade to

od up-and

dlier. His sword shone in the sun as he

ss

eer carnage-killing the beasts with gruesome ease. But

sto

dipped eve

" he br

umped into

d rec

rogue struck her from the side.

-striking the creature in mid-air

everythin

called h

s claimed he

n a bed-n

e. The hint of spice and pine in the wind. She

us room.

ala

ked in bew

red in. "You're awake," she said with a smile."G

acing. She look

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't die t

n save

embere

ng was c

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cked at the

a familiar voic

char

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s in anoth

, claimed her, poisoned he

be standing

poke again. "

the door, shak

if Rhys

game was