From A Rejected Omega To A Blessed Luna
nd hall, and certainly not when Liora tried to return to her quarters. Everywhere she passed, she felt the weight of
rrior murmur outside the kitch
him," someone
y tricked th
't even ha
door to her small quarters tucked behind the infirmary. Her mind hadn't stopped spinning s
ike a brand across her chest, hot
nd breathless under Kaelen's gaze, the v
e but the only person she ever truste
ri
ejection and silence. The one who had stood besid
.. she w
expected Maris to burst through her door, flailing in disbelief and
e didn
usual walk at dusk. No flicker of white-gold hair by the kitchens. No
day, she found her.
raided with blue ribbon of royal colors. Her cheeks flushed, her expression too carefully schooled. When she saw L
e. Or wa
rcing a breathless smil
Her smile was a
just...
it came out tight. "I was st
tention," Maris said lightly
like a slap.
d, her smil
sy too. Being fated to
. "I didn't ask for any of
k. "Of course you didn't. The Moon Goddess just... g
ned awa
d at her, h
as wrong. D
screamed at a Beta male for trying to cut Liora in line. Who held her w
s someo
as shutti
aining yard more
ed in her chest, but it felt... uneven. Fading at the edges. As if so
r head, hoping hot water would soothe
moonlight drifted through the slats of the wooden ceiling, catching droplet
ting pierced b
bloomed in her skull, hot, bright, like some
ter ch
controllably as nau
d ringing fil
r scent
themselves, but this shift was undeniable. Her usual earthy, clean fr
se by
hey touched, now it thinned into air, slipping through her fingers like smoke.
as hap
efore her knees gave out. She collapsed ou
r legs stopped listening to her commands. She hit the ground h
surrounded by a half-cir
he poi
s not ph
srupting her sc
it up, but her body felt lik
, the head healer. Her hands were firm but gentle
nt-bonded recent
hispered. "The
inned. "And now
it. Just before I passed out
on met h
anishes on