Reclaiming My Broken Luna by Selene Souchon

Chapter 287: Fantasy Nova's POV

I froze when I saw Drystan rushing out of the packhouse, his surprise shifting from surprise to something I couldn't quite place.

I swallowed hard, staying rooted on the spot, fighting the urge to turn around and run away again as he ran towards me, closing the distance between us.

"Drystan, what are you doing here?" My voice faltered, the words I had planned to say slipping through my fingers like water.

I thought he would still be at the Silvermoon Pack, wrapped in Astrid's arms, far from here. I thought I completely lost him to her.

Instead, he is right in front of me, moving closer with every second, like he was afraid I might disappear again.

Before I could take a step back, before I could even think, Drystan closed the distance between us and pulled me into his arms, holding me so tightly that I almost couldn't breathe.

His embrace caught me off guard. This wasn't the cold, distant Drystan I had expected.

It wasn't the reaction I'd imagined during all those long, lonely nights when I prepared myself for another rejection.

He clung to me like I was something precious he'd nearly lost, and I couldn't understand it.

My mind raced, trying to make sense of what was happening, but then his voice broke through my thoughts, low and rough, each word heavy with emotion.

murmured into my hair. "I'm sorry for everything I did to you. For hurting you, for pushing you away. I never meant to make you feel like

my throat as his words sank in. This

to pour out the feelings I'd carried for so long, to let him know how

there's no chance between both of us, but here he was, apologizing, holding

process his words, to make sense of the warmth in his voice, the regret I heard in

braced myself for more pain, for the ache of knowing he could never love me back the way I had

in Drystan's arms, the world seemed to

prepared for, disintegrated in the face of his

more rejection. But instead, I was faced with

breaking as unshed

his touch, to trust the sincerity in his words, but fear tightened its grip on my heart. "What happened?" I asked, pushing him back slightly, needing space to see his face, to

and

talked to Astrid and made her realize that she's making a mistake in pushing Drystan away

sure, they have reconciled their differences

me, his breath uneven. For a moment, he seemed

before speaking. "It's over, Nova. Astrid and I...

he was saying. "What do you mean?" I asked, my voice

his face, his shoulders slumping

this idea that she was the one for me.. but I was wrong." He paused, the rawness