Chosen By The Moon

Chapter 54

Dylan POV

The beta was quick to help me to my feet as I still sucked in breath, coughing and clutching my now bruising stomach. “Are you alright?”

*I’ll live, unfortunately.” I held on to Lewis’s arm for a minute as I tried to quickly regain my breath. I felt the two people in the room stare at me as I finally managed to stand to my full height, my hand still resting on my abused tummy while a frown rested on my face.

“You’re required to wear this for the event. The lady didn’t have a single care about what had just unfolded, instead she held the outfit up. It was the same brown potato sack material that I’d worn in the dungeon for the last month however instead of a dress it appeared to be a long top and some straight leg pants.

Lewis turned his back away from me respectfully as I sighed, taking the outfit from the lady. I slipped the top on first over my now entirely naked torso and groaned. The material was indeed the scratchy fabric I had grown accustomed to, the bottom of the top rested on the skin between my knees and hips on my now also naked thighs. The top was sleeveless showing both my graffiti scar and my self harmed scar, each scar rested almost perfectly on each of my forearms. I couldn’t help but also notice the large amount of finger shaped bruises that littered my arms, some were a horrible yellow color and fading but others were deep purple

vas my

I stepped out of the heavy fabric that gown, and into the light itchy fabric that was the pants. They rested extremely low on my hips and had a single piece of rope inside the waist band that I could pull tight enough so they wouldn’t fall down..

“Your hair is to be tied in a high ponytail, I have an elastic for you.” I sighed and without a single word began

down my back, once my hair was down, I quickly scooped it into my hands and took the literal rubber band from the woman who nodded her head satisfied with the finished result. I was dressed like the criminals sent

and Bobby pins out of my extravagant

I looked at the

a single loose strand of hair behind my ear, a little wisp that was too short to reach the bulk of my ponytail. I watched as the lady’s eyes clouded over signaling her obvious mind link, Lewis looked at me and smiled nodding his head in reassurance, I’m not sure what he was silently trying

lady who supervised me while I changed. “Adequate!” He then walked to be directly in front of my shaking form, his eyes turned hard and a grimace replaced his nonchalant expression. “You are not my mate for the duration of this event, you are not queen and you are not special, you are simply…” I cut him off holding my forearm up to him with a deadpan

then covered his emotion up with a cough,

silence however unlike

Chapter 54

nerve wracking. My quickening heart rate was slowly filling up the room,

to feel a rather substantial amount of pain. Within a few minutes the

that four more men emerged from behind him while the king. simply began

once again be on full display

his action

the palace doors, i bagan to fight slightly. I didn’t want to go out in public looking the way I do. Everyone who thought I was strong and

knew I wasn’t getting myself out of this one. The palace doors then opened to reveal news crews and hundreds of people of the public, gathering just to witness my

detained in the doorway, he held his arms up to silence the noisy crowd, before addressing the cameras and