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.

and I gripped him tightly because my knees

caught by Alpha Draco's

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

seemed to turn a blind eye, as he himself had a harem of women, and most of

they were saying 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 word against

King myself," Kael

and he dropped his hands to

part, as we had never

gently smoothed them with his hands. "Only

what if, instead, they took me and placed

assure you, I won't let

what to say anymore as fear coursed through me. I slammed my body against him and wrapped my arms around him. The thought of being taken away was

snaked around me as

me back tightly. "At

directly to the King.

for you, as they

Once

my hold on him tightened. He didn't need to complete his statement. I already knew what would come next, and I didn't

to go

let go and turned my body around to

It'll be easier to move places if it's just the two of us. Besides,

"What do you mean?"

for now, I need to leave Adessa here

okay with it earlier, but I was not sure anymore after the conversation about the King's Court. I felt something would go wrong if he left me. "Adessa will stay here with me." Aunt

in my

responded

still thinking I would sneak my way

at him. "My wife will not

Rasmus replied,

you need to add more security around here," his mother said. I smiled at her, grateful