When The Luna Broke Her Chains novel Chapter 97

Chapter 97 Problem For His Future Self

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Seraphel doesn’t wait to be invited. “Prince Knox, I hope I’m not disturbing you. The King and the Guild wish you to know that the first trial has been prepared,” she says, stopping in front of my desk, hands clasped neatly. “The candidates will be tested on-”

I hear the words but never register them. Why does it matter what the candidates will be tested on? Sure, I have to perform the farce of evaluating them along with my family and other Guild members, but why should I waste my time listening and understanding what will happen when I already know that Davina will win?

Davina. Xena’s sister. Xena’s.

My attention drifts before I can stop it, pulled back to the corridor, to the way Xena looked at me, with so much anger in her eyes. And pain. I wanted to take it all away.

And then she told me I was the reason for it.

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“…it will require coordination, strategy, and-”

“Yes,” I say, cutting her off before she can continue.

She pauses, mouth open, her left brow rising in disapproval.

“Is there anything else?” I ask, already dismissing her.

Her gaze lingers for a moment, assessing, but she doesn’t push. “No,” she says finally.

Good.

Seraphel leaves just as quickly as she arrived.

I drop the ledger in my hand without reading it, rubbing my temples at the thought of marrying that woman. The forced conversation I had to endure during that meal with her nearly exhausted my patience.

I don’t want to repeat that. I don’t want Seraphel coming back here telling me to spend more time with her, to build something that feels increasingly like a performance.

A lifetime of that? I exhale slowly. That’s a problem for my future self. My present concern is something else entirely.

Xena. What happened in that corridor. What it means. And whether I can afford to ignore it.

Tavia mentioned something… lightly. Xena had said something about being useful.

If there’s one thing I know about Tavia, it’s that she doesn’t speak without purpose. She places information where it will be noticed. And I noticed, I just chose not to act on it.

Leaning back slightly, I think through it again, turning it over. I could let this go; let her go. Let whatever this is remain unanswered.

I’ve done it before. With other things. With other means I hoped would lead me to a cure for my curse.

I’ve let other wolves go when they’ve grown and proved unhelpful. I release them into the forest when the

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Chapter 97 Problem For His Future Self

time comes. That is how it works. That is how it should work. But Vera-

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