Chapter 224 – The Luna Trials Novel by Marissa Gilbert

Filed To Story: The Perfect Luna by Marissa Gilbert

Two small hands wrapped around her, and she turned to see her sister, Ingrid.

“You love him, don’t you?” Ingrid asks through tears, and Brigit tucked her face into her sibling’s blonde hair and let herself to let out her tears finally. Ingrid stroked her back and gave her the time she needed, before she whispered, “Bri, you need to go with them. You can. He would look for me, but not for you.”

“Aspen would never want me again,” Brigit distanced herself and wiped her eyes, knowing that she couldn’t be seen crying. It was too dangerous. “It’s too late for us now,” she smiled sadly. “Besides, my place is here with you. With my people. Don’t you think?”

Ingrid didn’t think that. She knew how badly her sister was treated by some of the white bears, not to mention how the guilt was slowly eating her alive.

“Bri, if you need anything- anything other than me running away from my husband, just tell me,” the girl suggested.

“Right now, I need only one thing,” Brigit smiled and held her sister’s hands. “Come with me downstairs; pretend that we’re both distraught over what happened today. Tell anyone who asks that you were with me the whole time in my room. And we left it just now to come and check on our king.” She paused and then added,”

And on your beloved husband, of course.”

Kai’s heart broke into a myriad of pieces when he saw her. He couldn’t move. He did not dare to move.

He was ready to K*ll all those bears all over again because of what they made Savannah go through. He’d do it in a heartbeat if given a chance.

The last few days were the first ones in his new life, and at the same time, they were the hardest in both of his lifetimes. He failed her, and he couldn’t fix any of it.

She was so close in her torn red dress, with her hair a wild mess cascading down her shoulders. She had been through hell, and he hadn’t been there to save her. He was late, and she had to save herself. Something he would never forgive himself for. Something he would never allow to happen again.

It was t*ortur*e to stay behind and wait, knowing that he would only make it worse if he arrived at the wrong time. Riannon told them to believe in Savvy, to trust that she would take care of herself. And that was exactly what Savannah did. This beautiful, delicate woman fought like a hundred men. She was ready to sacrifice herself to save her friends. She was honourable, loyal, honest, fierce, brave… And also.. Mate. She was his mate.

The whole world screamed this now. All his senses, the scents around them, the air, the stars in the sky, they all sang in unison that they belonged together.

She was his. And he belonged to he.

A part of him knew from the very beginning. From the moment he saw her shredding those roses, from the moment he thought she was just a little maid. But he knew she was his maid. He loved her from that very first glance, even if he didn’t understand it back then.

The universe stopped spinning. They were the only two people to ever exist. It was hard to tell if it was one moment or if they stared at each other for eternity.

Neither of them could tell…

“You’re alive,” she barely whispered because she was afraid that a louder sound would break the illusion and she would be alone in this world again. Alone and ready to d*ie.

“I came back,” his voice rasped through his ch3st, and her breathing hitched. “For you.”

It was him! He was here… Alive and well. He was breathing, and he wasn’t an illusion.

Kai was alive. Her Kai. Kai Fionnlagh. The one she held in her arms when he was dying. The one she mourned for days after witnessing a silver spear piercing his heart. The one she never expected to see again. Not in this world… Moreover, she was trying to get into the next one to be reunited with him.

And he was her mate! Mate!

Kai didn’t know what to say next. Was she angry with him for being late? For abandoning her? Did she feel what he felt now? Did he hear her right when she called him her mate? Did she even want him after everything?

Too many questions.

He still had a few small ice spikes creating a pattern over his arms. They were melting away, but he didn’t want to scare her. She had been through so much, and he wanted to shield her from the whole world. There was so much he needed to tell her but his tongue couldn’t find the right words now.

His eyes trailed over her body, which was barely covered by the leftovers of the once beautiful gown, and he noticed that blood trickled down her arms and side.

“You’re hurt!” his l!ps parted, eyes glowing icy blue. His mind started racing, searching for solutions. Where was the healer they brought with them? How fast could he get her there? But he didn’t even manage to say another word when she threw herself at him.

“Kai!”

She was in his embrace faster than he thought possible. Trembling, so warm and so alive. He wrapped his arms around her, pressing her as hard against his ch3st as he could and k!ssed her hair.

He could feel her body shaking with silent tears, and his soul wept together with her. It roared from all the pain and happiness of their separation and reunion.

“I thought you were dead! | saw you d*ie! -” She sobbed for the first time since he met her, and it made his heart clench. He didn’t want to see her cry; he didn’t want to be the reason for it, so he took her tear-stained face into his hands and made her look at him. Her green eyes had a more intense colour now, like the gr@ssafter a rain.

He k!ssed one of her tears and then caught another with his l!ps, repeating it again and again until she breathed out a whimper, and then he claimed her l!ps.

Pecking them gently at first and checking her reaction, but when he saw that she wasn’t crying anymore but was panting instead, he crushed himself to her like a hurricane, a f0rce of nature that only wanted to devour her.

“Mine,” he snarled into her mouth.

“Mate,” Savannah replied as she laced her fingers into his hair to bring him closer.

“Mate!” Kai confirmed.

A loud roar emerged from behind their backs…

Bjorn knew that the moment his healing was done, he would pursue Savvy, overpower her, to try to knock her out and bring her back. The silly girl used her third form, and he knew that she couldn’t control it. Knocking her out would be the one and only chance to bring her back from this. If she stayed in her Royal Lycan form for too long, he would lose her. He couldn’t lose her! She was all he had, and now his head was spinning with ideas of how to get her back. There had to be a way!

Once again, he regretted pushing her too far too fast, but at the same time, he also regretted not marking her at once. If he hadn’t taken pity on her situation and just went with it, she would still be healing and in his full grasp. These were selfish thoughts. The thoughts contradicted each other, and, in all honesty, he didn’t know what he should have done. How he should have handled her, but he knew now that what he chose to do was wrong.

One thing was for sure; he shouldn’t have believed in what was too good to be true. She played on his desire to be accepted and used his one and only weakness.

His wound still hadn’t fully healed, but he heard several loud roars coming from the main square that made him fear for her life.

“Don’t… K*ll,” his voice gurgled through his ch3st as he clenched his neck. The long cut on his ch3st didn’t bother him much, but the neck wound was still dangerously painful.

Joran followed him with his gaze in silence, and only a few warriors stayed by his side for protection, none of them dared to offer him help, knowing that he’d rather end them than acknowledge this humiliation. He never forgave humiliation.. until now.

Savvy humiliated him more than anyone else in his entire life. Only Castiel’s father could possibly compare to what she did to him tonight. Yet.. he… had already forgiven her. He knew that he’d have to punish her, lock her away, keep her far away from everyone, but he wouldn’t K*ll her, and he wouldn’t reject her. She could do anything to him, and the result would be the same. He needed her.

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