The Abandoned Luna's Journey to Power (by Emily Reed) novel Chapter 31

Chapter 31 Too Late to Matter

Chapter 31 Too Late to Matter

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Priscilla’s words still hung in the air. She said as long as I’m willing to say it, Duskfang Pack will only recognize me as its Luna. The sentence echoed like a sick spell. It sucked all the sound out of Moonwhisper Residence. A place that moments ago reeked of blood and killing intent fell into dead

silence.

I looked at the old woman in front of me. Servants held her up, acting as if she were weak and near the end of her life. But I knew better. Behind that frail shell was a sharp mind, always calculating. What rose in my chest wasn’t gratitude. It wasn’t even anger. It was laughter.

This was absurd. Truly ridiculous.

Just thirty minutes ago, this same woman had allowed her grandson to put me on trial in front of the entire pack. She had allowed Hannah to lead people to ransack my place. When I was driven out, she didn’t even bother to show her face, let alone say a fair word for me.

And now? Just because my silver wolf bloodline awakened, Prince Adam officially recognized me, the Silverpeak Pack rose behind me, and I saw the title of Duchess placed on my head-she could swallow back every insult she had ever thrown at me.

“Haha…”

A soft laugh slipped from my throat. In the silence, it sounded sharp and ugly.

I didn’t answer her right away. Instead, I tilted my head and looked at a man nearby with quiet interest. The man who once swore, again and again, that Evelyn was the only woman he would ever love.

James was slumped on the floor. His face was pale. Blood stained the corner of his mouth, spilled from the backlash of a broken mate bond.

When he felt my gaze, he flinched. Slowly, he looked up.

I didn’t see anger toward his grandmother’s shameless offer. I didn’t see him defend Evelyn.

In his now dim gold-brown eyes, I saw something that made my stomach turn. Regret.

He stared at me-silver hair flying, standing high above everyone else. In his eyes was a greedy, aching sense of loss.

What was he regretting? Was he regretting losing me as the perfect Luna who would support him quietly?

Was he regretting not realizing sooner how much power slept inside me?

Or was he regretting something even worse-that the person now standing at the peak of honor no longer belonged to him?

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Chapter 31 Too Late to Matter

I turned to look at Evelyn.

The woman who called herself a Valkyrie was staring at James so hard it looked like her eyes might burst.

Her face had turned beet red. Her chest rose and fell fast. What showed on her face was shame and despair -the kind that comes from being betrayed by the person you love most.

She probably never imagined this. She fought for this man with everything she had. She took the blame. She ruined her reputation to claim him. And yet, when his grandmother was about to throw her out like trash, he chose to stay silent.

That silence was deafening.

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