Chapter 212 – The Luna Trials Novel by Marissa Gilbert

Filed To Story: The Perfect Luna by Marissa Gilbert

Although maybe it was just her wishful thinking.

However, if Joran wanted her child with Bjorn, he would have asked him and not her. Bjorn would have easily given up their kid for more power. After all, power was what he cared about the most.

But Joran wanted Savannah’s future child. Not Bjorn’s.

Her hands touched her belly as she looked out of the window into the starry sky. Could it be possible? What if there was already a small part of Kai growing inside of her? She couldn’t know for sure; even Athena couldn’t tell her this early, but even the slightest possibility of it happening made her change her plan entirely as she watched the North Star shining brightly in the darkness of the night.

A few hours later, she tiptoed to Bjorn’s office in bare feet after she managed to get rid of one of her guards and put the other one to sleep, just like Gideon and Reid taught her. The office was close, and she needed just a second alone with the map to know all possible escape routes. Her worst fear was that Bjorn would be inside, but yet again, she was fortunate to see the room empty and didn’t waste time rushing to the bookshelves.

Savannah took the scroll she saw earlier today and was happy to see that it was a map of the territory around the castle. She greedily stud*ied it and moved on to the next one. One after the other, she went through them all until she hit the jackpot and found a map of the castle itself.

The princess sighed in relief when she found a few secret passages she could use in future. This ought to be the best feature of these old castles.

Savvy was about to clean up when the door opened, and a chill went down her spine. She was caught, of all!

“What are you doing here?!”

Savannah stared at the white bear in front of her and didn’t know how to respond to her in this predicament.

The bracelet made the princess weaker, and she did not like it. However, she hoped to have enough strength to take down Brigit if it was necessary.

“If he finds you here, he will make you regret undermining him!” the girl warned her as she walked in and quietly closed the door behind her.

Quietly.

As if she did not want anyone to hear or disturb them. Savvy still wasn’t sure what to do about this. The most logical action would be to K*ll Brigit and forget about this encounter. That girl was still called a traitor here and Savvy could get away with the K*ll for a day or two until they put it all together.

And she only needed one day. One.

“What, you’re not going to tell on me?” Savannah raised her brow, playing indifferent as she shoved the scrolls back on the shelf where they belonged, cleaning up the evidence of her being there. She couldn’t waste time doing this afterwards if they ended up fighting after all.

“Why would I do that?” Brigit crossed her arms over her ch3st, watching the Princess with her discerning gaze. “If I wanted to give you away, I would have called Bjorn back when you knocked that guard out.”

So, Brigit knew. Which meant that this was either a trap, and she had already alerted everyone, or.. she wanted something. Savvy knew there were just a few things the she-bear could want from her.

“How’s your sister?” The lycaness met the white bear’s gaze and saw a shadow p@ssover Brigit’s eyes as her face twitched in response. “Was it worth it?”

“She chose to stay with her husband,” Brigit confessed dryly, each word hard for her to pronounce as she brushed away non-existent creases on her dress. “I wish-” she started speaking and stopped abruptly,swallowing the sob that threatened to escape her. The strong woman in her didn’t want to cry. She hated crying.

“Not worth it then,” Savannah sighed, as she made sure everything looked just as she found it. Only when her perfect memory told her it was exactly right, did she finally give Brigit her full attention.

“She is too afraid to leave him,” Brigit seemed upset, revealing the truth. “Even with Bjorn’s permission for us to leave after I did what he required of me. She chose to stay because she believed her current husband would follow us and take her back if she left. Bjorn’s promise to me would be fulfilled, and everything would go back to how it is now. Only her husband would never forget the humiliation and would keep punishing her. Those punishments… whatever they are… she is afraid of those more than anything else.”

“I’m sorry,” Savannah heard herself saying and felt like she meant it this time. She hated Brigit for the betrayal, but she still felt sorry for her and her sister.

Some part of her soul hadn’t d*ied together with Kai after all because she was still able to feel compassion. Not that she planned to act on it, though. “So, what now?

What are you going to do?”

“l am going to help you and see what happens,” Brigit stated, and a sharp laugh escaped Savvy’s ch3st.

“You can’t be serious!” the princess wiped away the tears from her eyes. “Don’t get me wrong, I do feel sorry for you, but I’m not going to believe a word you say. I made the mistake of trusting you once and Riannon trusted you, too. Look where it got us. You may love your sister, but at the same time, your own mate is chained to a wall in the square outside being t*ortur*ed without a break just because he trusted you. Because he loved you. And if you can do this to him, then you can do far worse things to me.”

“That is exactly why l’m offering to help you,” Brigit insisted. “I want a favour from you for the information l am ready to share.”

“Now we’re talking!” Savannnah folded her arms over her ch3st and tilted her head slightly to have a better look at the she-bear. “That’s the Brigit we all know and hate!”

The woman swallowed the insult and continued, “

When you leave this place, all I want from you is to take Aspen with you.”

That was Savannah’s plan already, but she decided to see what else she could get.

“He’s as good as dead,” the princess shook her head and slowly strolled towards the door, “if you really want to help him, just give him an easy death.”

Brigit went pale hearing this, and Savvy came to the conclusion that the white bear really did love her mate.

Even if they could never be together, even if Aspen would never forgive her, Brigit still loved him with her whole heart. She could have had it all, but she blew it.

“Destiny is cruel,” Brigit laughed through her tears, “I once told Riannon that all I wished for was to have a mate of my own. Someone who would only belong to me, whom I would never have to share with anyone else, someone who would love me unconditionally. And when I found that one person, I knew I would have to betray him. Maybe if he rejected me when l begged him to, it would have been easier for us both. Then I wouldn’t have been able to distract him on that night, and maybe he could have prevented Bjorn from entering the old palace and K*lling everyone.”

“You chose this,” Savannah said reproachfully.

Don’t complain to me now just because your sister rejected your help.”

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