Chapter 193 – The Luna Trials Novel by Marissa Gilbert

Filed To Story: The Perfect Luna by Marissa Gilbert

The white bear’s eye gleamed red as he yanked her towards himself, inhaling her scent,

“The plan was mine. I was the one to work on the strategy, to find all the weaknesses. I bribed people and K*lled the ones who couldn’t be bought. I used every opportunity my enemies provided me. Even.” Bjorn shook her, and the room spun around her. She had trouble focusing on him now, and the ground was slipping from under her feet. “Call it what you want, but it’s a victory, and it’s all mine!”

“You didn’t even fight!” Savannah gave him a withering glance, and he pressed her against his chest with f0rce as if he wanted to prove something.

“I fought for years!” He snarled, his face almost touching hers. “I did things for my people that I am not proud of, but this… this is not one of them. When we rule the North together, you will learn!”

“Don’t count on me!” On a whim, Savvy tried to claw out his heart just like she did with Zack, but barely managed to scratch him. Either she was too weak now, or he was too strong. Or both… she couldn’t do it now.

“Oh, Heartbreaker,” he whispered into her ear, “Time will come, and you will take all those words back!”

“Unlikely! She gritted her teeth, and he spun her in his arms, making her back press against his chest and fixing her in this position so that she could have a good view of what was going on around them.

“Look at them!” He commanded, and the other bears in the room lowered their heads, hearing his Alpha tone. Savvy’s eyes circled the space. “The King of the North and King of the West are both dead! None of them left heirs behind. Do you know what will happen if you and I don’t step in together?”

“You should have thought about it before all this!” Savannah snapped, but he strengthened his grip on her,

“And I did,” he leaned forward so that his chin rested on her shoulder, and she hated it. “I know you will not be selfish enough to abandon the people. Think of it. Savannah. You and I will bring peace and prosperity to both kingdoms. The war will be over, and everyone will be safe. Don’t tell me it doesn’t sound tempting.”

She was too tired to listen to all this. The pain surging through her body was making it hard to stay awake. In fact, she was surprised she still didn’t p@ssout.

“It’s not!” She confessed, her breathing ragged.

Bjorn growled softly next to her. “Maybe not now, but with time you will see this is the only way!” He insisted dryly and then suddenly let go of her.

Startled, Savvy landed on the floor as her legs didn’t hold her anymore.

“Let’s just make sure you don’t have any silly ideas or expectations that everything will be resolved magically!” He stood in front of her, and she looked up to see him stretching his hand. One of his men immediately placed the silver spear in it.

She gasped because from up close, she was sure now that this was exactly the one they had in their house Her memory didn’t let her forget the ancient patterns on it. Riannon brought it from her house when she moved in with them before the wedding.

It was stored in her office now, and the fact alone that Bjorn had it in his hand now didn’t mean anything good.

“I see you recognized it,” the bear smirked at her, and she nodded, hoping that he would pierce her heart with it. If everyone she loved was dead, she wasn’t sure there was a point in living She did not want to be left alone. She knew that feeling far too well back from when her parents were K*lled, and she did not want to go back to that darkness “I had absolutely no problem taking it from your house in the West when I went there to explore.”

She looked at him in horror Her house was protected by the best warriors Then again, so was this castle “But h-how?” She couldn’t help the question Bjorn smiled at her understandingly, still playing with the spear,

“Did you ever notice how much shifters rely on scents?” A laugh rasped through his chest. Brigit, Astrid and Emma stood silently behind his back, watching the scene before them. “This is what we use for pretty much everything! Find food, track prey, detect enemy, find mate… Everything! We rely on it so much that if we smell a wolf, we believe it’s a wolf. And if we smell a bear, we believe it’s a bear. Luckily. my brother has spent years working on controlling scents in his laboratory.

And his research was amazing! Best of the best! Even now that he is dead, his legacy lives on! This allows my people and I to go unnoticed anywhere. Our tracks are impossible to find. We are the best at this! I walked into your house through the main door and walked out with the spear.

And no one said a word because I smelled like someone from your pack. No one questioned my presence. The fact that Riannon and Gideon’s people still don’t know each other too well helped me, of course.”

Savvy closed her eyes for a second. It was sad that it was so easy for him.

“I was surprised to see an ancient Northern weapon in a Westerner’s house, but I guess it’s destiny that I have it now and that you brought me to it. The legends of the North say that this spear K*lled the first royal Lycan; hence it has the ability to K*ll them all.

There are just old fairytales, of course. But it’s symbolic, don’t you think?” He taunted, but she did not give him any reaction, and he continued, “So. Just in case the poison doesn’t work…” He didn’t finish the sentence and charged for the stage where the priestess still prayed, and Kailey on the floor, lifeless. The White Bear King clicked his finger, and one of the warrior snapped the priestess’s neck, throwing her body off the stage. Bjorn’s eyes locked with Savannah’s right before she realized what he was doing.

The spear pierced Kai’s chest with f0rce, pinning him to the ground.

Something broke inside of Savannah at sight. As if it was her heart pierced instead

He was already dead before, he didn’t even flinch or make a sound, but there was some sense of finality in all of this now

Men around them laughed as they watched the scene Brigit lowered her head, Astrid turned away. only Emma joined the fun.

The pain inside of the Western Princess was getting worse. How cruel was her destiny, taking one blow after another? Just how much could one person endure?

“We need to go!” She heard Astrid’s cold voice “Warriors from outside the walls will appear here soon, and I am not taking part in the battle.”

Bjorn growled menacingly, and Savannah realized they wanted to escape now. They K*lled Kai, Gideon, Riannon and most of her friends, and now they had to leave not to get caught.

They didn’t have an army with them. This wasn’t a takeover of the castle. It was just a mission. A successful mission for them. They made the biggest blow against the two kingdoms, but they didn’t want to risk fighting now.

Bjorn mentioned before that he had planned to rule from his own palace The true North. He didn’t want to stay here. This was the only thing she could do now to pay them all back. She could stall them and make them face the music.

Or better. She could shift into her third form and K*ll them all. Hopefully, Claude, Chloe and Petra would manage to run away first.

The plan wasn’t perfect, but did she even care? There weren’t better options.

It was over for her. The moment Kai closed his eyes, it was over He was the only thing that kept her going, her second chance at love. And now he is gone.

Athena did not respond to her because she was in pain. It was worse for the wolves than humans when a mate bond was broken. But she summoned her inner beast. The worst part of her. The only part of herself she still had trouble controlling even despite Kai’s lessons,

Her claws started elongating, and a loud growl rumbled through her chest. But instead of shifting. she felt her nausea getting stronger.

She was already on the ground, claws scratching the stone floors. But nothing else was happening Only more pain and weakness rippled through her.

“Oh, Savvy!” Bjorn returned and knelt next to her, cupping her chin and forcing her to meet his gaze “You don’t seriously think I didn’t see that coming? Astrea here added something to your glasstoo. She put a drop of poison into each glassbefore the wine was poured. Odourless and colourless, both banes were something my brother worked on while he was still alive. In the end, he was able to have his revenge on your family.”

Savannah tried to f0rce the shift, but nothing was happening.

“I didn’t want to harm you for obvious reasons, but I did have to take precautions. Luckily, you helped me by K*lling your first mate.”

He brushed her cheek while a vague smile touched his l!ps. “You will not be able to sh*t anytime soon. Don’t t*ortur*e yourself. It will only make things worse!”

She hated him so much now that she chose not to listen. A chance like this would never present itself again. Savvy tried to f0rce a shift, tensing her every muscle, praying for every God for this to work

And then her eyes went dark… Someone caught her before her lace hit the floor, and she heard the words.

“Time to move.” Semiconscious, Savannah struggled to keep her eyes from closing. She was in and out of it. “Film that’” Bjorn ordered, and the cameraman got back to work. “Leave the spear. It will have a more dramatic effect when they find his corpse with it! The twins and their crew go with us.”

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