Reclaiming My Broken Luna by Selene Souchon

Chapter 213: Persuasion

Drystan's POV

I willed myself together as I stared at Astrid, who was standing in front of me.

"What is it?" Astrid breathed out in a whisper, wondering why I asked her to talk to me in private.

I swallowed hard as my mind went blank. All the things that I wanted to tell her, all the questions that I was hoping to ask her, had fully vanished from my mind.

I could only stare at her, not even remembering why I had called her out here.

"H-How are you?" I asked her the first question that came to mind.

I instantly felt embarrassed. I felt like I had just asked her the most stupid question I could possibly ask.

"I'm fine, but I don't feel excited as I ought to be," Astrid answered without judging the awkward mess that I was.

I watched as Astrid tilted her head to the side, her eyes deepening in thought.

The corners of my lips lifted in a small smile when I saw her falling into her usual mannerisms. Ever since I met Astrid, she has always been like this. When I ask her a question, she sometimes thinks deeply, and for some reason, I like watching her ponder something. "Why did you come here? What do you want to say?" Astrid suddenly lifted her chin up and asked.

I abruptly opened my mouth in surprise when Astrid suddenly pulled out from her thoughts and asked me a question.

was intently observing her while she was deep in her own thoughts when she suddenly

without a sound coming out. I tried to remember the words I practiced

avoid this moment of being unable to say anything, but in the end, the scenario that

think of was the reason why I visited Astrid tonight and pulled her out of

say the right words, Astrid could still

to win her, but all those things flew out of

in a small voice as I thought of my words carefully. "Are you really

the scripts I wrote and the plans that I

I told her that I would fully support her in whatever she wanted. I

to help her with

she needed help with.

I'd wait for a lifetime for her, and whatever she decides

I now regretted saying those words. Not because they weren't true, but because

a martyr, for choosing to get hurt

waited for her for three years, and she couldn't make me wait another year without something to hold on

came to her tonight because I'm hoping

my son. I can't just let them live happily while I'm still alive," Astrid answered with firmness

"There are many ways to have your revenge without having to

my revenge, Giselle and Killian have to realize that I'm someone they

to your father