Chapter 209 – The Luna Trials Novel by Marissa Gilbert

Filed To Story: The Perfect Luna by Marissa Gilbert

She didn’t get to finish her sentence as the door burst open, and Bjorn stormed in with a hopeful expression written all over his face. Savannah couldn’t help but frown at that, and in an instant, that expression of his faded.

What did he think? That she would throw herself at him and shout Mate! Mine!?

“You are awake,” he said, ineffectually.

“l am,” she confirmed, pushing Petra behind her back. The motion did not go unnoticed and Bjorn scowled.

“Are you- feeling better?” He stepped closer yet wisely held a respectable distance.

“Not really.” she pursed her l!ps and turned away, giving Petra a last hug and whispering to remember her words. “Considering-“

Bjorn cleared his throat as if he remembered the role he had to play. He closed the distance between them in a few steps and Iifted her in his arms before she could even protest.

“You are not supposed to be here!” he grunted and, throwing one dissatisfied look at Petra, who had already managed to f0rce a few tears to roll down her cheeks as her protection, walked out of the room.

Neither of them spoke while he took her to an unfamiliar room, and the moment he placed her back to her feet, she distanced herself as far away from him as she could, studying the surroundings.

“It’s my office,” he told her, responding to the unspoken question. “This is where most of my work and planning are done.”

Savannah quietly walked around, trying to see if there was anything of use to her cause. She was near the desk when Bjorn caught up with her and closed the laptop right before she could take a peek.

“You look better,” he said, and she decided not to answer anything to that either.

He took a step in her direction but hesitated afterwards. This was so not like him. He usually just took what he wanted without asking, but now she knew one important thing. He confessed it to her the night before.

She was his weakness. His desire to have her not just as a woman but as his mate was his weakest point. He wanted more than just her presence there or her body, he wanted more than the strong hybrid alpha pups she could give him. He wanted them to have a connection.

The way real mates did. He wanted that.

And she was going to exploit it while she could.

Unfortunately for him, all she desired now was to destroy him and make it hurt.

His palms cautiously touched her bare shoulders in an attempt to embrace her, but she flinched away from it, and he let her go, sighing heavily.

“Not now,” she said, turning away and planting the idea in his head that there was a possibility of it happening one day. That the day would come, but that it just wasn’t happening today. “I don’t think I am ready.”

“I understand.” Bjorn couldn’t contain his excitement. He was happy to have some kind of dialogue with her now. He was ready to eat the crumbs she gave him, but she wasn’t oblivious. She already knew him enough. She knew that the moment he realised he couldn’t have what he really wanted, he would take what he could. He would try to break her and turn her into what he wanted so badly by f0rce. She was on the clock before he realised the truth. She wasn’t his mate.

Whatever was happening to him, she wasn’t feeling it. If any kind of bond existed between them, it was one-sided.

“Tell me what I can do to make this better?” Bjorn turned her around to face him again and took her chin into his large hand. “I know what I did was unforgivable, but we will still have to make it work. And, Savvy, I want you to be happy with me.”

She wanted to laugh in his face but held it back.

“M don’t think that I’ll ever forgive you” she decided to tell the truth to keep it realistic. Bjorn wasn’t stupid.

He wasn’t going to buy it if she threw herself in his arms.

Not to mention that she didn’t want to embrace him in any way. “But if you want to make me believe you care about me, you can start with a good deed.”

“I can’t let that girl go,” he sighed, knowing what she was going to ask. “She attracted too much attention, and some of my key warriors want her. I can’t make themangry.”

You are going to make some of them angry either way,” she insisted. “l am actually offering you a solution here.”

He tilted his head, trying to read her face.

“What do you mean?” he asked.

“You said it yourself” Savvy taunted, placing her hand on his chest. She heard how his heart started beating faster at once. “You can’t make your warriors unhappy. But what do you think is going to happen when one of them gets her and the others don’t?”

“But letting her go would be disrespecting them all,” he exhaled heavily.

“It’s an auction, isn’t it?” her l!ps curled into something resembling a smile. “Invite one more bidder.”

“Who?” Bjorn’s face became grim as he couldn’t see where she was going with this.

“Petra’s father.” Savannah said bluntly. “The rumour has it, he loves her more than anything. He would pay you a hefty sum for his beloved daughter, and my friend would have a chance.”

“You really care about her,” he traced her lower l!p with his thumb, making her l!ps part and s*cking in a deep breath.

For a second, Savvy was afraid that he would keep Petra to control her. That would have been the smart choice, because she didn’t want anything to happen to the girl.

However, Bjorn was smug and sure of himself, sure of their bond. And she got away with her request.

“Fine,” he breathed out, his eyes still on her mouth, which he wished to claim. “I”ll do that for you.

“No, Bjorn, do that for you,” she pushed him away and walked towards the window, examining the view.

Sadly, there were just rocks of the icy cliff the castle was built on and the sea beneath it. This wouldn’t be the escape route for her friends.

“No, Savvy, name things what they are,” he went back to his desk and retrieved something from one of the drawers. “You have a soft spot for this girl, you want her out of this place, and it’s not a gift to me. You want this.

And I want something too. I have to do it after the stuff you pulled today.”

“What did l do?” she raised a brow at him defiantly.

“You met the Serpent, walked around the castle without my permission, you were threatening my people with death-” he sighed as if it was hard for him, but she saw the glistening metal in his hands, and anger boiled inside of her, making her heart pound and body tense.

She knew what that was.

“You can’t be serious!” She couldn’t hide her emotions anymore.

“Savannah,” he cooed, “this is temporary. Just so that my people know whom you belong to and that you wouldn’t hurt them.”

“If you do this-“, she was about to threaten him, but he’d already locked it around her wrist..

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