A LUNA'S CRAVING FOR LOVE

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me. I was sleeping on a bed, not some o

ids who were supposed to look after me, lay stretched

o creak, but it didn't. It was a silent door. I padded o

ta, a short girl of about seventeen, had

ard her. "And I'm not '

s us calling you that," Davina, the other maid,

." I jumped on the bed, giggling. After Sarah's bed,

out?" Loretta hurriedly

m, Davina?" I asked, lyin

lamps were different paintings. We had such p

y. It was of a man with long flowing hair. He had pure red eyes

g on the stairs and sliding down. At home, I was never allowed to go near the stairs. I'd

ng the first and only time I had cli

rah dragged my hand toward the steps. I tried to w

me up there. You know how he gets w

rd me. "What's wrong is that my sister has never seen what

finally see what was up there. My parents and most of the pack members living

lway. An elegant red carpet ran across the doo

" Sarah asked, releasing my

here?" I sheepishly p

n, drawing me closer to the door. "This is just the fo

d my eyes, darting them

er heard of the human paper? They document eve

ting the way she said

said flatly, withdr

ed me toward a door, pushing it open forcefully. I winced, ex

cognized one of them. It was Frederick, sitting majestically on a horse. I felt jealous,

sharply to look around the room. Everything w

thought, walking toward a

chen?" I heard the sound again and

I asked, and si

t me again, like at the riv

He emerged from the shadows, wher

e? Yell at me? Or flog me? "I was looking for the kitchen. And the

pression turne

rted to repeat myself, but

raising his hands. "You think you need

, using one foot t

dnight. Goodness, you must have been so traumatized at

I should..."

," he said flatly. "If you love that place so much, I

hat, he st