Filed To Story: The Perfect Luna by Marissa Gilbert
“Hand me your clothes and wash off the blood. Clean the shower after yourself too, as I am not doing it. Don’t think for a moment that my help to you is free of charge.”
“Oh?” he coc-ked his brow and unb*ttoned his shirt quickly. “So, you want something from me then?”
“Of course, I do.” She didn’t even flinch when he got rid of the shirt entirely and started unbuckling his belt.
“Otherwise, I’d push you off that hypothetical cliff right now and call Princess Elene myself. Then watch you and your girl burn in her wrath while sipping my wine.”
“How cruel!” Kyle lost his pants and stood before her, waiting for a reaction, but only heard a laugh as Evelynn turned on her heels.
“Get it done fast! You are going to get Petra out of today’s mess before you leave my room,” she warned him, walking away.
“Seriously?” he scoffed, following the woman with his gaze and finding her incredibly attractive in this boss mode of hers. “You think Petra still has a chance to marry Kai?”
“She doesn’t.” Evelynn shook her head and turned to glare at him. “Nor do I want her to. She was never a candidate. Believe it or not, her performance here will impact her whole life. If she doesn’t meet her mate, and not everyone is so lucky, she would have the best northern Alphas asking for her hand. If she fails, she will be a laughingstock. I can’t afford that.”
“You really love her, don’t you?” Kyle leaned over the door frame with his hands folded on his chest. Still bare to her gaze.
“She is all l have,” Evelynn confessed unexpectedly and then erased any emotions from her face in less than a second. “So, chop-chop! You have a lot of work to do!”
Savannah wiped her eyes again to make sure this wasn’t an illusion.
“Now?” She giggled and looked at Kai’s excited face. “l am a little underdressed, don’t you think?”
“Don’t tempt me, woman,” he growled, and while she expected him to push her back on the bed and have his way with her, she watched him take off his jacket, only to wrap it around her shoulders. The King then went to the wardrobe to find something she did not anticipate. Good hiking boots.
“Really?” Savvy arched her brow at him as he knelt in front of her to help put them on, clearly in a hurry, lacing the shoes up.
“Really” he confirmed with a grin as he took her hand and pulled her after him. He was wearing a grey wool sweater and jeans; somehow, she liked it more than the suits he had to put on for the official events. It suited him better.
As he led her out of the castle, the night sky was dusted with stars. It seemed that not a soul was around except for the guards on their usual posts.
“Where are we going exactly?” She asked and saw the corners of his l!ps curling into a smug smile.
“It’s a surprise!” he said as he brought her to a huge car by the gates. This was not what she expected at all.
Kai took the driver’s seat, and she was right next to him when they drove off. He was taking her to the mountains surrounding the castle. She always wondered what was there.
Well, now she had a chance to see for herself.
The narrow icy serpentine road made Savvy remember a few old prayers to the Moon Goddess, but the view of the castle, the small towns down below with their glimmering lights and the northern woods that stretched for miles and miles made up for pretty much everything. However, mostly it was thanks to the fact that he had just returned from a battle and had come straight to see her and take her to. Moon Goddess knows where. This was the most romantic thing anyone had ever done for her.
Unless he was going to push her off that mountain, of course. However, the pure excitement on his face told her it was nothing of the sort.
“ls it really safe for us to go alone outside?” she asked and bit her lip at once, knowing that it was a sensitive topic for him.
“No worries,” he a*s*sured her with a chuckle, “every inch around the castle is heavily protected. My warriors are everywhere here. You will not see them, but they are close.”
“Nice to know.” she mumbled and looked at him apologetically. However, the Lycan King only placed his hand on top of hers and gave it a light squeeze. The little gesture of rea*s*surance brought peace to her at once.
Soon the car stopped at a place Savvy could have never predicted it would stop. She looked out of the window again and realized that only two feet from the door of her car was a steep hill descending into the white mist. She couldn’t see the ground behind the fog.
“Come this way.” Kai offered her a hand and helped her out of the driver’s seat, which she gladly accepted as she wasn’t a big fan of heights.
Savannah noticed that he took her into what looked like a cave. He had an old camping lantern in his arm, which he switched on almost immediately to illuminate their way.
Savvy gasped when she saw the cave’s walls covered with carvings. Intricate patterns revealed the pictures of wolves and people, lycans and bears, each chisel make crisp and well-formed. She quickly realized that they weren’t just images. They were stories, and she had never seen anything like it.
Kai ignored all that and kept walking, tugging her after himself.
“Wait!” She tried to stop him. “What is this place? Is that… Fenrir?”
She pointed at an image of a huge wolf who was carved and then painted black. Next to him stood a woman in a beautiful dress with a crescent in her hair.
“Is that the Moon Goddess?”
“That’s just some maiden.” The King stopped for a moment and then pointed at a picture of a woman with a crescent crown sitting on a throne, wearing armor with a sword in her hand. “That is the Moon Goddess.”
“Huh.” Savvy stopped. “We paint her differently in the West.”
“Yeah, I know,” Kai snorted, finally making a stop and letting her admire the ancient art. “You paint her in pretty dresses.”
“You are saying that as if there is something wrong with that!” Savvy looked at him with a challenge, waiting for his answer.
“It’s just she is the most powerful woman and goddess. We see her as a warrior deity. That’s all.”
“So?” Savannah let out a little laugh. “Do you think a pretty dress will suddenly make her less powerful or less of a warrior?”
“I feel like it’s a trick question, and choose not to respond to that!” The Northern King made a wise choice and grasped the princess’ hand again. “Come on! I don’t want us to miss it!”
They walked through a tunnel etched with carvings until finally, Savvy saw a round opening in one of the walls. This one also went straight to the cliff, and she hoped that this wasn’t their final destination.
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