The Forgotten Luna by Cassandra M

Chapter 41

LADESSA.

"You were on the phone with me, and you didn't tell me you were coming here?" Rasmus' voice rang in the air after he barged into the living room of Aunt Aria's home. "Maybe because I don't trust you." Kael rose from his seat next to me and turned to face him.

"And yet you're in my territory." Rasmus scoffed.

"I'm not here for you, but Aunt Aria."

"Enough, you two. We have a more pressing thing to discuss." Aunt Aria stood up before walking toward her son, placing her hand on his chest and rubbing it softly. "What's going on?" He asked his mother.

"Have you watched the news lately?"

"I don't watch TV, you know that." He replied.

Aunt Aria moved away from him and picked up the remote control. She scanned the channels until she found one with a breaking news advisory.

Kael's hand grabbed mine and pulled me up from the couch before letting me stand in front of him. He gripped the corners of my shoulders, keeping me close to him.

My face flashed on the TV, making me flinch, but Kael held me in place while Rasmus kept shifting his gaze between me and the screen.

After the segment ended, his mother switched it off. No one said a word, but my face began to heat up as I knew the attention was all on me.

It was Rasmus who finally broke the silence.

"She looks way, way beautiful in person. Why did they choose that photo to use? Well, that's to your advantage, as they could never identify you." He chuckled, and when no one laughed, his face turned serious, and his eyes turned to Kael. "Is it true? She killed them?" "Self-defense," Kael answered.

"No doubt about that if we're talking about Draco's men."

"So it means she can still be acquitted for it." His mom said.

"I don't doubt that she will be, but we all know how brutal the King's Court procedures are for criminals until they are released. I'm not going to let them put my wife behind bars." "So, what are your plans?" Rasmus asked.

tightly because my knees

Draco's men that

killing a shifter a high crime. There were not many crimes like this in recent decades, compared to slavery, because of how brutal the penalties

to turn a blind eye, as he himself had a harem

I would be acquitted, I knew I was treading a thin line because it was connected to slavery, and I wasn't physically assaulted. It would be my

to the King myself," Kael said, making

and he

know this part, as we had never talked

fell on me, and his eyes softened. He reached for my arms and gently smoothed them with his hands. "Only the King can overturn your case without having you go to a

took me and

approach, but I can assure

me. I slammed my body against him and wrapped my arms around him. The thought of being taken away was terrifying, and I couldn't stop

arms snaked around me as

back

have a choice but to plead directly to

you, as

that. Once they caught

talking, and my hold on him tightened. He didn't need to complete his statement.

want me to go with

hold on Kael until I completely let go and turned my body around to face him and

easier to move places if it's just the two

"What do you mean?"

for now,

knew this part. I was okay with it earlier, but I was not sure anymore after the conversation about the King's Court. I felt

in my house," Rasmus

Kael responded

would sneak

Kael snapped at him. "My wife will not be comfortable living in a home with

replied, shaking his

at her, grateful she didn't hesitate to take me in when Kael