When The Luna Broke Her Chains novel Chapter 93

When The Luna Broke Her Chains

Chapter 93 If I’m So Insignificant

[XENA]

“What do you think you’re doing here?”

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Davina’s condescending voice comes up from behind me, quickly souring my mood that had only just started to become better.

I let my fingers rest against the spine of the book for a moment longer and sigh before I turn.

She stands a few steps away, watching me with a sneer. I have a strange feeling that she’s already decided thing she’s going to say, and knows just how much it will hurt me. She crosses her arms, tilting her “Well, what are you doing here, sister?”

low the flare of ething to rea

Her gaze flic “Oh she

smirk

I gi

in my chest and force my voice to sound calm. “I’m here to find

neath my hand. Slowly, she reaches out and pulls it free before I can react. ng it over in her hands. “I reme this.” Her lips curl, the sneer shifting into a

lood.”

sted nod.

rd to make us good sisters, didn‘ le. “We were nursed by the same

ally… they didn’t.”

t love both of us equally. There given a single chance, no matte

f second, my gaze drops to

offs, pressing the book ension hasn’t improv

ly? What’s shocking

w poor her reading ors a little too

continues wistfully, but the mockery beneath slept in the same bed. Ate at the same table.”

bias for Davina. She was always forgiven–I was

difficult the matter was.

hate myself for it.

like it belongs to her now. “I see your reading with a click of her tongue. “How unfortunate.”

managed to survive in the Guild for so long, considering

1 remember all that scolding she received regularly from

“you’re not allowed to access the books here.”

epping closer, “are you to decide that?”

colder. “Someone who belongs here,” she replies. “Which is more

tinues, her voice dropping lower, more cutting. “By what authority are you Xena? You’re not a Guild member, a noble, or a part of the royal family. You’re

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not a candidate. You’re not-

“Don’t forget that I already know your secret.”

The words come out before I can stop them, shutting Davina up immediately. She goes still, her face paling as she holds her breath. I step closer, close enough that I can see the flicker in her eyes before it disappears. “I know what’s going on,” I continue. “I know the trials are fixed. But Oriel doesn’t, does she? And the other candidates?”

I’m aware–acutely aware–that the librarian is somewhere behind us. That she can hear every word. This isn’t a private conversation, but I don’t care. “You’re going to win,” I say, my gaze locked on hers. “You’ve already won.”

Her lips part slightly.

“And I don’t know why,” I add, “I don’t know what he sees in you, because I don’t. You’re cruel. Calculated. Manipulative. And holl beneath all of it. I despise you,” I finish quietly.

iles. It c

er face very slowly. And it’s a dangerous one. “Is that what you think?” she asks e makes my stomach twist. “That he sees something in me?” she continues, nts me?” A soft laugh slips from her lips. “Oh, Xena,” she murmurs, almost

“Do you little

on, stepping closer, her voice dropping to a whisper meant only for me, “that the you meant something?”

ce, sharp and unwanted.

sses. “Of all people?”

aze, refuse to look away.

in slightly, her voice turning colder. “Do you really think anyone would want you? You don’t e a wolf,” she adds, almost lazily, like it’s the simplest truth in the world. “You’re incomplete. less. You’ll always be.”

thing inside me snaps. “You’re right,” I say quietly. “And yet,” I continue, my voice calm, “you still feel need to stand here and make sure I leave. If I’m so insignificant,” I add, “why are you threatened?”

not threatened,” she says immediately.

Then step aside.”

She doesn’t move, because this isn’t about the book. It never was. “Leave,” she says instead, her voice hardening. “You’re not welcome here.”

I hold her gaze for one long second before understanding dawns, making me turn away and leave. This isn’t a place I’m allowed to stay because of… Knox. It settles cold and heavy in my chest as I walk past the shelves, past the quiet watchfulness of the librarian.

A hollow laugh threatens to rise in my throat, but I swallow it down.

Knox didn’t come to tell me to leave He sent Seraphiel to remove me from his tower. And now– Davina to

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remove me from here. The pattern is too clean to ignore.

Finished

“Coward,” I murmur under my breath, though I don’t know if I mean him or myself. I press my hand briefly against my chest, trying to ease the ache there, but it doesn’t fade. It only settles deeper.

I thought this place–this palace, this tower, that room–meant something. If only for a moment. That it changed something, but it didn’t. It was temporary. Convenient. Disposable. Just like me. I straighten slowly, forcing the weight down, forcing the hurt back into something resilient like I always have.

Fine.

If there is no place here for me, then I won’t look for one. And I won’t beg to stay.

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