Rise Of A Shattered Luna (Natalie) by Kave Derry novel Chapter 290

Chapter 290 Blame Shama For Everything

Chapter 290 Blame Shauna For Everything

Baron’s POV

But I didn’t even have time to process that fully.

Because Natalie moved.

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Flynn’s silhouette disappeared into the villa with the twins tucked safely under his arms, their laughter still echoing faintly through the doorway like nothing catastrophic had just been discussed about my kneecaps and short blades.

Then it happened.

Natalie snapped.

I felt it before I even saw it.

Through the bond, her emotion spiked like a live wire catching fire.

Humiliation.

Heat.

Shock.

Then something sharper.

Territorial embarrassment so intense it practically cracked the air around her.

Her winter jasmine scent shifted instantly, turning sharp and volatile, like a storm building under glass.

She shoved me.

Hard.

A full, final push that told me I had crossed a line she had not agreed to negotiate.

Then she turned and walked away.

Fast.

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Straight toward the dirt road leading into the dark tree line.

“Wait–Natalie!” I called immediately.

No response.

That was my first mistake.

I followed.

My boots hit the gravel hard as I closed the distance.

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Fast

The mate bond was screaming at me now, every emotional shift inside her translating into pressure behind my ribs.

She was embarrassed.

Deeply.

Publicly.

And I had been the cause.

My brain tried to calculate solutions.

All of them failed.

So I chose the only option available to a man raised in war zones instead of emotional classrooms.

I improvised.

“Sweetheart,” I said quickly, sliding up beside her, lowering my voice into something calmer than I felt, “just hold on. Let me explain.”

She didn’t slow down.

Bad sign.

I kept talking anyway.

“The wall incident was not a random escalation,” I continued, already building the excuse like a military report. “It was Shauna’s analysis.”

That did it.

Her steps slowed.

A fraction.

I pushed harder.

“She explicitly stated you were upset after the couch engagement,” I said, voice tightening with conviction now that I was fully committed to this lie, “and that your emotional channels suggested dissatisfaction with our earlier encounter.”

I nodded like it made perfect sense.

“It was her recommendation that I correct the emotional imbalance.”

Silence.

Natalie stopped walking completely.

Then slowly turned.

Her golden eyes locked onto me.

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Chapter 290 Blame Shauna For Everything

Your told Shauna,” she said carefully, voice suddenly low, “the exact details of what happened between us?”

The temperature dropped

I felt it instantly through the bond.

Thesitated.

A fraction too long.

That was mistake number two.

“Yes,” I admitted.

Natalie stared at me like I had just declared war on her entire ancestry.

Through the bond, I felt it.

Not just embarrassment.

But betrayal of privacy.

She looked like she wanted to evaporate into the soil.

“You-” her voice cracked slightly, “you told your intelligence officer about… that?”

I nodded again, still trying to justify it logically.

“I needed guidance.”

Her expression tightened dangerously.

“Baron…”

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Raze immediately sensed incoming disaster and flattened himself internally like a coward pretending to be a shadow.

I continued anyway.

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“I’ve never had a relationship before you,” I said honestly, as if that explained everything. “I don’t have historical data sets for emotional behavior patterns. Shauna is a female tracker. The laws of coordination suggest female analysts understand female emotional responses better.”

I spread my hands slightly.

“It was efficient.”

That word.

Efficient.

Natalie blinked.

Once.

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Then her expression shifted into something dangerously calm.

“Oh,” she said softly. “So now I’m a data set.”

I froze.

“…That is not what I meant.”

“It is exactly what you meant.”

I opened my mouth.

Closed it.

Raze made a noise that sounded like a soul leaving the body.

Natalie took a slow step closer.

Her voice lowered.

“Tell me something, Baron,” she said, “are you planning on asking Shauna how many minutes we should spend in bed next?”

My brain short–circuited.

“What?”

“Or maybe,” she continued, sharper now, “you’ll send her a full report after each encounter. Position logs. Duration metrics. Emotional satisfaction index.”

She tilted her head slightly.

“Should I prepare a spreadsheet?”

I stared at her.

Completely blank.

“…I hadn’t considered spreadsheets.”

That was mistake number three.

Her eyes narrowed.

I immediately corrected myself.

“Not that I would actually do that.”

“…You just said-”

“I was brainstorming incorrectly.”

Silence again.

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Chapter 290 Blame Shauna Fur Everything

tenger this time.

Then she exhaled through her nose, a sound that carried equal parts exhaustion and disbelief.

She turned away.

Started walking again.

But slower now.

I followed carefully.

This time, I said nothing.

Because I had learned something important in the last five minutes.

Every time I opened my mouth, I made it worse.

So I did the only intelligent thing left.

I shut up.

We walked down the dirt road beneath the moonlight.

Country wind moved through the trees, brushing across the open field like soft static.

The villa lights faded behind us.

For a moment, there was only silence.

Then I shifted slightly closer.

My shoulder aligned with hers.

Then my hand brushed lightly against her fingers.

A test.

She didn’t pull away.

So I did it again.

Gentler.

Longer this time.

Her breath changed.

I felt it immediately through the bond.

The sharp edges of her embarrassment were melting now, slowly replaced with something warmer.

Something softer.

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