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“Were you sent by him for her?”

There was this slight hesitation. “Yes, I had to keep her away because she has a claim on the throne.”

What? Pieces started to fall together, and my mind drifted to the moon goddess. Still wondering about the mistakes she talked about. How bringing me back would make everything better.

“Where are they?” My patience was running out; I needed her in my arms. She wasn’t safe wherever she was now. If she were a threat to the throne, to her brother’s position, he would kill her.

“Not here, and we can’t go there, not without someone pulling us in from the other side.”

Pinching the bridge of my nose, I sighed. Pulling us in?

“Where are they?” I asked again.

“The Lunar Realm.”

Fuck.

“Told you she was a goddess,”Logan huffed inside my mind.

“Well, smartass. How do we get there?”

Pacing in my mind, glaring at me angrily for daring him while I waited. I had no idea how to cross the border between this world and the Lunar Realm. Until William spoke of it, I believed it was a myth, just as I thought the throne was.

The Lunar Realm was created by Celine and her family, where all creatures could live their lives in peace. Some believed once we died, our souls would go to her and live in this heaven she formed.

Others said it was our birthplace, that we all came from there, but that didn’t explain why I was here and my mate over there.

Was this why I was brought back? Was this why Joanne was healed by her brother so we could find each other? Our bond was too important to lose.

So now, not only did I have to find a way into this mystical Realm to find my little bird, but I had to take this throne Emlyn wanted me to claim. But it wasn’t mine. No, it was Joanne’s.

The thought made a smile creep on my lips. I would kneel before her, worship her like the goddess she was. And that thought alone brought this warmth back, melting away the ice I needed to fight.

I peered up at the moon, hoping she would help me one last time, and then it hit me. Scanning the ground, taking in all the places the moonlight lit up brightly, I smiled triumphantly.

“This way,” I mumbled, following the light. I might be crazy for doing this, but I had no other option. I had to believe she would help me one last time. Why else lighten the path I walked on?

Surely it wouldn’t lead me to my doom, right?

Chapter seventeen

Lunar Realm

Joanne

Thewarmthonmyskin slowly faded, my father’s voice leaving me too. Finlay pulled me out of the throne room, and I didn’t even fight, losing control over my body as my brother wouldn’t meet my gaze. Not caring one bit.

Maybe I let Finlay take me away? I had no other explanation for why I wasn’t still screaming at my brother.

He hurt me, betrayed me and our parents. What more had he done? And why?

Finlay led me down a corridor as he mumbled and cursed about what happened, but I couldn’t focus on his words. The turmoil in my mind was too loud, and I needed a solution.

I needed Isaac.

He would bring me the clarity I needed; I knew he would. He would tell me everything would be okay after he kicked my brother’s ass.

But since when did I want him to fight my battles? I could do this; I was strong enough. I had survived enough to be worthy to live.

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