Chapter 0809

Enzo sighed and walked up to me. "I think you look beautiful."

"I look like a porcelain doll. This is ridiculous. I'm not a queen."

"Hey. None of that." Enzo's voice was tender but insistent as his arms circled around me from behind, his chin propped on top of my head as he studied my reflection in the mirror. "You look every inch the queen you were born to be."

I sniffled, leaning back against the reassuring warmth of his chest as my hand strayed to the taut swell of my abdomen. "Do I, though?" I whispered. "Or will I simply be a Luna in the shadows, like all women? Your voice giving the orders while I play the ornamental figurehead? A pretty doll to look at, but have no use?"

For a beat, Enzo was silent-contemplative. When he finally spoke, his words were measured but firm. "Your title may bear the name Luna, but make no mistake you will reign as the Alpha Queen."

the queen. I want to go

to play your part.

steadfast belief reflecting back at me. Slowly, I gave a shaky

current of the procession toward the heart of the palace-toward the

couldn't be sure; maybe it was all in my head, my own inner voice telling me

steady myself. Enzo remained silent beside me, his hand never leaving the small of my back. His presence was like an anchor. I just wished that the sea wasn't

with a soft expression in his

glancing over my shoulder. I could run, I thought to myself. I could open a portal and go back to Mountainview. No one would see my face, and they'd barely even know my name. Someone else could take over the

caught one another in the glass, that it felt as if the fog cleared-I saw a queen, and a mother, and a sister, and a daughter, and a medical

I didn't have

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