Chapter 0796 Pippa looks up at me with a great deal of sadness in her eyes, her hands falling from my dress as she finishes the last button. I turn towards her, concerned and sad for her sake.

"I'm really sorry," she whispers, shaking your head. "That you didn't get to meet that Gabriel. That you have this one instead. I think..." she bites her lip and shrugs. "I think you would have liked him."

I frown, desperate to know more and concerned. "What happened?" I ask, stepping close, intuiting that it's some sort of secret. "What...changed him?"

Pippa glances towards the door, anxious, clearly weighing the consequences. "Look, Ariel," she whispers, "no one knows this, so please don't tell, but if you're to be his Luna you should know, and...you're going to figure it out sooner or later."

I nod eagerly, my wolf standing up straight, her whole body still as she waits.

"Gabriel...about five years ago he pledged himself to the God of Darkness," Pippa whispers, looking into my eyes, her own shining. "In exchange for the power to protect this palace, and all the people in it, from the weapons and the magic of Moon Valley."

My mouth falls open a little, my eyes going wide. "What does that mean?"

little side to side motion with it over her other hand, like she's forming a snowball. "It's like...a dome? A magical dome of protection? When Gabriel is here in the palace, none of your Goddess magic can work

shocked. But suddenly it makes so much sense - why the Atalaxians famously gather all of their nobles together in one place. Why Moon Valley has never just...exploded the entire thing. I mean, beyond the ethical concern of murdering thousands of innocent people

idea, knowing that my father would never do it. That even if I'm angry now,

say, frowning and turning my attention back to the woman who is supposed to become my sister-in-law in a week. "And that dedication to Darkness...it

on he sobbed and cried and said that he could feel his wolf being enclosed in the darkness, that he was losing himself to

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fills me as I remember, suddenly, the glimpse of his wolf that my wolf saw. Of the horrible wolf in his soul, with glowing

she asks, her hand reaching out to clasp my arm. "Did

"Pippa," I breathe. "It

tears for a friend she's

replaced by

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