Chapter 118 – The Luna Trials Novel by Marissa Gilbert

Filed To Story: The Perfect Luna by Marissa Gilbert

“Exactly. So, waiting a few more weeks wouldn’t make a big difference.” Kai chuckled, and the princess clenched her fists.

“Just wait until I am done, and then maybe I will agree to that alliance.” He couldn’t even hide his smirk when he declared this. The thoughts of her not wearing anything under that sweatshirt raced in his head. His eyes lowered to her chest, which was rising and falling in a sharp rhythm.

“Well, that’s ignorant!” She squeezed both her hands in between them to fold them simply to demonstrate to him how unimpressed she was. “After all, you probably need this alliance more than we do from the looks of it. We got rid of the foxes and the bears on our territories while they roam freely on yours.”

“What’s that supposed to mean?” Kai’s smile dropped.

“It means exactly what it means.” The girl finally managed to push him away and get out of his grasp. “You have a fox and a werebear in the compet*ition, and I just met a bear who felt as if he was at home here. Not to mention that your sister even found a witch somewhere. I really want to know where she managed to get her! A part of me wants to see her win the Trials. I bet your face would be priceless!”

“Ha-ha, very funny!” The king shook his head, chuckling. “Just when I thought that you could be serious. No bears can enter my land. Even that girl Brigit arrived without other werebears. She was provided with a few werewolves to help her instead.”

“Maybe this is what you think.” Savvy shrugged her shoulders. This conversation was just a waste of time, and she wanted to get back to her room sooner. “But I am telling you, that male you smelled on me just a few minutes ago was a huge haughty white werebear with a nice body covered in weird scars and one eye missing.”

The moment these words left her mouth, it was as if a lightning bolt had struck him. Kai instantly knew who she was talking about, and he couldn’t believe that this was the truth. He couldn’t get here. He wasn’t supposed to be here.

Kai was personally hunting him for the last month, and his trusted sources fed him the information that the bear in question was either dead or gone to a different continent. The information proved to be not true by the snarky western princess. He considered, of course, that she could be lying about that encounter, yet he didn’t sense anything coming out of her. No worry, no agitation of any kind. She was annoyed and slightly bored. Which only led him to the conclusion that she had no idea who she had just met. No one met Darius Bjorn and stayed alive. No one. Except for Savannah Stormhold.

“Did he touch you?” Kai shifted back to her, trying to take in and check every inch of the stubborn girl who had no idea that she had just avoided death..

“You see,” she slapped his hand that was about to contact with her skin, “if we were engaged, you could have asked me that question. But as of now, the answer is: It’s none of your business.”

“Savannah!” the king growled, grasping both of her shoulders. “Did he do anything to you?!”

However, he knew the answer. He knew it the moment he smelled the male’s scent on her. Bjorn touched her. He was so close that Kai could still smell one of his fake scents on her skin. Savannah couldn’t smell like anyone else! He hated it. He hated it so much that he was ready to do anything to ensure it was gone from her.

On an instinct, he dipped his head into her neck, brushing his lips and tongue over it – the fastest way to scent her. And also the most desirable.

“He definitely allowed himself less than you ” She kicked him on the leg. Not hard, but enough for him to feel it. Without thinking, he threw her over his shoulder and started walking.

“Seriously, Kai, what do you think you are doing?” she demanded, scratching his n@ked back and not realising that the sensation wasn’t unpleasant for him..

“You can’t get back to the castle smelling like another man, Savannah,” he briefly informed her. “We are going to fix this.” And with that, he placed a resounding slap on her bottom…

The slap echoed through the woods, and Savvy saw red. It made her so angry that she was ready to rip this arrogant king’s head off. What did he think of himself? Was it a joke to him? She had never been slapped in her life! Not to mention on such a … sensitive spot.

The worst thing about it was the heat she experienced in the lower part of her body, thanks to that absolutely inappropriate contact. And she hated that she did not loathe it.

However, she had even more significant problems because the man’s grip on her became tighter and his breathing definitely got heavier. His second hand gently rubbed the spot of its previous contact and stayed there, making her feel all kinds of emotions.

“Don’t touch me!” she roared at him and received a defensive growl in response as if it was his right to do that. “Touch me again, and I will bite this hand off!” Her promise only made him chuckle loudly.

“Don’t worry, Savannah,” he cooed, “I just think you need to cool off a bit and get rid of that horrible scent.”

“What…” before she could formulate her question, he threw her off his shoulder. She abruptly flew through the air at a much longer distance than expected, landing in the freezing cold water of some northern lake. It was unbelievably appalling, and the rage she felt was overwhelming as she kicked her legs to swim up to the surface

“Kai Fion…whatever!” She didn’t even bother to pronounce his last name right. “You are so paying for this!”

Savvy finally managed to remove w*et hair off her eyes and glared at the lycan standing on the top of a small cliff, watching her with a smug smile plastered over his handsome face.

“Cooling down?” He mocked her, and Savvy gr0@ned as she climbed up the cliff. She wasn’t motivated to swim to the more accessible bank since she had had about enough adventures for one day

“Scr*w you!” she grunted, grabbing the rocky surface and glaring at the northern king with as much hatred as she could muster. He lowered himself and stretched his hands out to her.

This was too good an opportunity to p@ssit. Savannah tried to pull him past her in one sharp move, but, of course, he expected it and only burst out laughing, lifting her up as if she weighed nothing at all.

“Nice try! You can try again another time when it’s not too obvious.” Kai chuckled, placing the princess back on her feet.

“I don’t like to wait!” Savannah hissed and jumped on him, trying to f0rce him into the lake after all. Instead, she found herself held by him again as he managed to stay on his feet even though they were balancing on the very edge of the cliff.

“Stubborn,” he muttered, sliding his hand right back to the place where he slapped her a few minutes ago and grabbed a fistful of her flesh.

“Don’t. You. Dare.” She warned him as he pressed her tighter, her nails digging into his skin. Kai felt her warm c0re up against his bare abdomen. Her heated c0re and his knowledge of her nudity caused a stirring of sensations within him. Sensations that he couldn’t describe with words.

The realisation that he wanted her struck him again. He let her slide a bit lower and enjoyed watching her eyes grow wide as she felt his hardness, a beautiful blush finally reaching her w*et cheeks.

Her chest was heaving up and down when she finally wrapped her legs around him, securing herself in this position. Faces so close their noses and lips were barely touching, uneven ragged breaths burning their skin with want. He was parched for a taste of her lips, a k*iss right here and now to end this t*ortur*e. Then … his foot slipped, and they both found themselves falling right back into the cold northern lake.

The water was freezing to their bones, and when they managed to reach the surface, Savvy turned to give him a death stare.

“What the hell is wrong with you?!” she demanded, as his shoulders twitched apologetically.

“I slipped,” he awkwardly endeavoured to explain, but as she clenched her lips and closed her eyes, clearly trying to hold back some kind of insult, he realised that she wasn’t talking about the fall. Did he misread things? Did she not want him the way he did her?

The girl turned away from him, this time, swimming to the shore on the other side in an attempt to avoid him. Only he wasn’t ready to let her leave, to go off, alone, in the woods. She walked out of the water, squeezing her hair, looking like a nymph or some magical deity. Kai was thankful for the icy  cold water, or else, there would be no way to follow her without disclosing his not-so-secret desires.

“Savannah,” he called out to her, wishing to make amends between them. Everything was headed in the w/ong direction.

“Don’t…” Without looking, she lifted her hand in the air and motioned for him to stop. “Don’t speak to me. Don’t touch me. Don’t follow me.” She started walking, and he noticed she was trembling.  It was all his fault…

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