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.

own thoughts when she suddenly stared into my eyes and asked me a

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

even wrote a script to avoid this moment of being unable to say anything, but in the end, the scenario that I was

why I visited Astrid

hoping that if I were able to say the right words, Astrid could still change her mind and choose to live with me in the Nightsong

a script, I memorized the words, and I was ready to win her, but all those things flew out of my mind the moment

thought of my words carefully. "Are you

any of the scripts

I told her that I would fully support her in whatever

help her

she needed help with.

promised her that I'd wait for a lifetime for her, and whatever she decides along the way, she can always expect to have

now regretted saying those words. Not because they weren't true, but because while I was being true to her, I wasn't

be a martyr, for

her that I had waited for her for three

came to her tonight because I'm hoping she could still change

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

asked her. "There are many ways to have your revenge without having

to pull my revenge, Giselle

know you don't want to be related to your father in any way, yet you are willing to make this sacrifice," I prodded with my