When The Luna Broke Her Chains novel Chapter 106

Chapter 106 Too Close, And Yet Still Not Enough

[XENA]

The world shifts before I can understand it.

One moment I’m in Knox’s arms, the next something inside the air itself gives way, and I feel weightless like I’ve been pulled out of my own body and set loose into something vast and unseen.

My fingers tighten against him on instinct, clutching at his collar as if that might anchor me, but it doesn sharp flash follows, bright enough to sting, forcing my eyes shut.

When I open them again, the temple is gone.

I stay still, not daring to look around. I only focus on him.

Knox doesn’t move either. His arms stay around me, his hold steady. He looks composed, not really lookin like he took us from one place and placed us into another with barely a warning.

He has done this before–when the shadow attacked me. But I’d been too tired and broken to react. His ear bleeds just like la

ingle red trail coming down his earlobe.

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and quiet.”

inally allow myself to see where we are.

yet it feels… lived in. The ceiling stretches high w of lamplight, their painted borders forming . There is too much here at first glance–too much arranged in a way that almost feels cluttered–until I

s his chamber.

he would bring me here. Of

enly aware that I’m still in hi speaks again, his mouth tilti

ing on your feet.”

main even. “You can

hate how quick

close, and before I

ot, leavin

at I refuse to examine, so I turn away bearable.

everything, pretending curiosity when in truth And the fact that we’re alone here. In his

m to find a bride.

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the plied it. I reply. “That you were

yourself. But that it was expecte

-that is not what I wanted.” His voice

Par wholers his bead. “No. No. Xena. Im telling you th wax hd leaves no space for doubt. “You will remem to that chamber”

(mod because it’s easier than arguing, but a boilbo

ou didn’t tell her that?” I ask. “And Duvinu?

slips out of me because I don’t feel hapen ab idn’t send her to keep me out of the librar

“No” he says at once, something flaring in his toe. Didil Flis jaw tightens, muscle ricking fartou fact. U herfi a book there for you. Davina has no ghn towed you away. It’s my library. She has no wat she’s mouthing other than a Guild woman who’s participating in the Luna Choosing Trials.

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