Get Back The Abandoned Luna

lett

her before I sa

scent, the one that used to mak

like a brand of ownership, thick enou

childhood

d walked away to chase her dreams in the city, who'd ab

dn't even know wh

for my approval-p

already standing in my place, baski

room glittered

inking in toasts to our rise-from tenth p

ad bled for.

lebrating it with his

over. My fingers crushed the fabric of the garment bag I carried-the whit

omorro

ld me the banqu

ed them li

fitting, I would've stayed in the dark. Excluded from my

shocked voice cut throu

he ballroom swi

s started i

ha say Luna

? You still beli

so both of th

a needle pie

fool wasn't

as the biggest

, snarled dee

eir thr

sed to be the bravest fe

couldn't move.

nd slid lower down Faye's back-

ng directly at m

often when they found mine across a ro

ene. You know w

st

hen Faye

rical surprise, her red lips form

esture of intimacy that made bile rise in my throat-and

ed at me agai

t. Victor

tc

possibly t

t ballroom floor felt li

tracked my

rsations cut off mid-sentence. Even the servers

ear spreading through

y should

d chosen Alexander as my mate when he was n

rial ceremony, had convinced my people to accept him

ft between him and my people, had even p

who had

liate me like this? What was his purpose in doing this? He wa

oss

would never to

nst marble-each step

cept me, stepping in fro

w, but I could see her peering around hi

tings-authoritative, dismissive, as if I were a subordinate i

ping in his jaw. Close enough to smell Faye's jasmine perfume

lroom. I looked past him to Faye, who had the audacity to meet my gaze with feigned inn