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From A Rejected Omega To A Blessed Luna

Chapter 5 Scent of deceit

Word Count: 982    |    Released on: 01/07/2025

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

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