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

long hair cascaded 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 to the palace for

pins out of my extravagant updo

at the heels

I sighed before tucking 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 to say though, nothing

the 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

heard a small snort from Lewis who then covered his emotion up with a cough, it wasn’t hard to have heard him or to realize that he found my attitude somewhat

however unlike before with me and

Chapter 54

the room, even I

was completely silent as we all waited for something to happen. My mind was racing with fear, if the king meant what he said, then I was about to feel a

majesty. With that four more men emerged from behind him while

to once again be

They wait in anticipation.” The king nodded and as soon as his action was complete I was roughly grabbed and dragged to the main entrance hall of the

saw the palace doors, i bagan to fight slightly. I didn’t want to go out in public looking the way I do.

I 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

walked to the centre of the steps while I was detained in the doorway, he held his arms up