Chapter 172 – The Luna Trials Novel by Marissa Gilbert

Filed To Story: The Perfect Luna by Marissa Gilbert

However, she didn’t want to lose any more time. She had already lost a few hours and needed to get to the shrine in the center of the city asap.

Looking at the tiles under her feet, Savvy tried to find all the signs they had carved on them. She saw tiles with crescents, knowing that these were making arrows shoot from the walls. The sun meant silver pit, and she just got out of one. She grabbed a few heavy stones from the ground and decided to test.

She threw one of them on a tile with a square, and a little window in a nearby wall opened, blazing the fire right to the spot a person would have stood. She tried a tile with a flower, and the tiles fell into another pit. Yet this time, something was different, and when Savannah got closer, she gasped, seeing that this pit was full of water and smelled like… aconite.

It was a pool of aconite Somehow, she was glad now she didn’t fall into that one.

Triangle revealed a pit with silver spikes, and this one also made the Princess breathe out in relief.

She already knew that the diamond shape was changing walls, and that left her only with snowflake and star patterns. These two could potentially be good because, first of all, something had to be good. And second of all, it was the North, and they loved stars and everything cold.

Savvy had to move, and she tried to pick empty tiles as long as she could since nothing was happening when she stepped on one, but that tactic didn’t work for long, and soon she was faced with flowers, suns, and snowflakes. She slowly lowered to the ground and picked up another heavy rock, wishing to test the snowflake.

“I wouldn’t do that if I were you!” She heard a warning and turned to see a woman standing on top of the nearby wall, sneering at her.

Kai r*bbed his cheek and looked at Gideon with understanding.

“I guess I deserve that,” he nodded and immediately received another blow on his chin Something in there cracked, and he had to give it to the Lycan King of the West. Not too many people in the world could break his bones. His warriors growled menacingly and tried to approach them, but the Northern King motioned for them to stop. There was no need to escalate things For Savannah, he was ready to take as many punches as he had to.

“You despicable, obnoxious excuse of a king!” Gideon’s eyes shone gold. “How dare you take out our problems on my sister?!”

“I’m not! I swear!” Kai tried to explain, only to receive another punch in his face.

“I didn’t know about!”

Punch.

“Originally, I just didn’t want to marry her!”

Punch.

“it’s all changed now! Savvy and I are going to get married and ….”

Punch

“After the sh*t you pulled, you are going to marry my sister over my dead body! I’m taking her home this very moment, and you’re never seeing her ever again!” Gideon growled, panting. He was about to punch the Northern King again when Kai finally caught his fist and pushed it away.

He was ready to repent, but he would not give up the love of his life. This was a price he wasn’t ready to pay.

“We are in love!” He snarled menacingly, and his eyes flashed blue.

“The hell you are!” Gideon gritted his teeth and yanked his hand back. “What can you possibly know about love?! I knew I should have never let her come to the North in the first place! But do not worry – this is the last time she will set foot here!”

“Savvy is my Queen!”

“In your dreams!” They were almost at each other’s throats when a feminine voice interrupted them, “That’s not for you to decide!”

Both of their heads snapped in the direction of a huge black car with an open door.

Riannon, the Queen of the Western Lycan Kingdom, walked out of it, a regal aura surrounding her. Her blonde hair was up, with a few loose curls framing her face. She was wearing cream high-waisted suit pants and a cashmere sweater with a tan coat thrown on her shoulders.

Kai wiped the blood dripping from his broken l!p off of his face. Luckily, it was already healing.

“My greetings, Queen Riannon.” He bowed respectfully, remembering Savannah’s words. If anyone was going to help him, it was this woman.

“Greetings to the King of the North,” she replied with a polite smile “Please, just call me Kai” his l!ps curled slightly, and she nodded in understanding.

“I am shocked you don’t ask us to call you the North Star,” Gideon snorted, and Kai had to count to ten in his mind. He forgot just how annoying his old rival could be.

“Gideon,” Riannon said reproachfully and closed the distance bet**en them. She laced her fi**gers with her husband’s, calming him instantly as if it was nothing. Kai caught himself thinking that only Savannah could do that to him. She brought him peace whenever she was near.

“Just listen to him.” The woman suggested and brushed her palm over her mate’s cheek.

“Did you hear the nonsense he just spouted?” the Western King was still displeased. She carefully dr@ped her hand around his and pulled him to the side. “You know what I saw,” she whispered, knowing far too well that the Northerner could hear her. “It can be interpreted in different ways.” Her husband was still being stubborn. “You…”

“I know that you’ve been blessed by the Moon Goddess,” Kai said, and they both turned to him with their l!ps parted. “I know your whole story.”

“Just more reasons to K*ll you!” Gideon growled, but Riannon held him back “Walt!” she r*bbed his shoulder, scanning the Northern King’s face. “Who told you about this?” she asked.

“Savannah.” Kai decided not to hide anything. He had to look at the bigger picture. They all had to leave their secrets behind for this to work.

“She’d never….” Gideon started saying but stopped in the middle of the sentence, exchanging glances with his wife.

“If she told him, she trusts him,” Riannon whispered, and the Western King softened a bit.

“I want to see my sister and speak to her now. If you insist you love her, it shouldn’t be a problem, right?” Gideon still had his fists clenched. Every word was hard for him because this wasn’t his plan.

“About that…” Kai cleared his throat. It did look bad for him. “You must be f*uc*king kidding me!” The Westerner had trouble controlling his rage. “She is on one of the challenges of,” Kai admitted, hating himself for the situation. “Listen…”

“You are so dead, Fionnlagh!” Gideon promised ominously.

“It was her choice, wasn’t it?” Riannon intervened once again, and Kai nodded, thankful for her presence. His nose and l*p were finally healed, and he got an envelope out of the inner pocket of his jacket.

“She asked me to give this to you.” The Northern King offered the letter Savvy wrote to the couple, and Gideon snatched it away, opening it at once. His eyes went through the line of the familiar handwriting, warming up his heart. He held the paper so that his wife could read it as well. When they both were done, they locked their eyes again, clearly mind linking each other.

“I can’t believe that out of all the men in the entire world, my sister chose you!” Gideon ran his hand over his face. His every word was laced with bitterness, disappointment and disbelief. But at least the desire to murder the Northerner was gone for now.

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