The Luna Trials by Marissa Gilbert

63. True Mates 

Savannah charged at him, and this time she was too fast for Bjorn to detect. That’s when she gave him another sla.sh of the divine 

dagger over his chest, making a clean cut. 

“We are mates!” He said bitterly, covering the new wound with his fingers. 

“No. We’re not!” She replied without hesitation. “I’d rather die than be your mate!” 

The words hurt him more than the dagger did, but it wasn’t enough for her. He could see it in her eyes as she lifted her hand to try to 

kill him again. He’d had enough of this. She had to be contained! 

He caught her wrist this time and overpowered her easily, bringing her closer. 

“It’s over!” he roared, shaking her roughly, hoping that she’d return to her senses. 

However, it only made the princess sneer. 

“Bjorn, Bjorn, Bjorn,” she whispered and clicked her tongue. “I am just getting started!” 

Savannah’s bones started snapping before his eyes at unnatural angles, and in a few moments, she was able to free her hand from 

his grasp. Bjorn stepped away, panting, and watching her turn into something else completely. He’d already seen this when he and Joran 

went to observe the battle with Castiel’s men a few months ago and also when Kai did it so effortlessly many times in the past. 

It was harder for Savannah, he could see it, but she was determined to go through with this. 

“Savvy, no!” Darius‘ voice broke. He knew what it meant to her. Other royals rarely used their feral third forms because they were 

next to impossible to control. If they didn’t shift back soon enough, they risked never being able to revert back to their human form again. 

The realisation that she was ready to die or stay a beast for the rest of her life just to kill him, hurt him more deeply than the divine weapon ever could. 

But the monster with glowing golden eyes already stood in front of him. Tall, mighty and deadly. And she was out for blood.  blood. 

His 

Savannah tried to keep control just like Kai had taught her. Lycans were primal beasts who were born at the beginning of times, but her Lycan wasn’t a separate entity; It was a part of her. The part she was taught to suppress, the part she was taught to hide. 

Today she was going to embrace it. 

Bjorn looked like he was suffocating, but she decided just to end him immediately. However, when she took the first step, something invisible stopped her. 

“Enough!” The Serpent said, looking as calm as if people weren’t killing each other left and right around them. He didn’t even spare the Lycaness a glance. He didn’t take part in the fighting. He just defended Bjorn once and that was it. 

Wolves that came with Ash were dying. One of the bears almost grabbed Petra, who was still in her human form. From the corner of her eye, Savvy saw how Chloe shifted into a golden–coloured wolf, and Claude was quickly tying something around her neck. 

She wanted so badly to kill Bjorn… but… her friends were more important. If the Serpent didn’t plan to act, and it looked like he had something else in mind, then they had a chance to survive. If she would help them, of course. 

Growling angrily, Savvy flipped the table and was down next to Petra and Ash in seconds, leaving Bjorn behind. 

“Shift!” she commanded in the beast’s voice, and, luckily, they understood her instantly, following her lead. Petra’s wolf was the smallest, but even in the middle of the chaos, Savvy paused, seeing her unusual colour. The wolf was black with soft pink waves of fur all over her in a beautiful pattern. No wonder everyone wanted her! Someone like her was rare indeed! 

Chloe was next to the group already and Claude shifted in one jump, joining them as well. 

Now all they had to do was get out of that castle. 

If only it was that easy… 

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The bears were shifting too and Savvy let out a roar so loud that the ground underneath their feet shook. 

the crowd and made a clean sweep, clearing the path for her

them quickly, and now they were struggling to get through the

she was starting to enjoy the scent of blood and chaos she was leaving behind her. Each new kill was becoming easier and

from this place and her –

the marking ceremony, and there were plenty around the castle. She watched the flames catch onto the curtains and spread over them quickly. That  should distract them.

missing, either killed

then paused by an old wooden bear statue. One movement and the walls before them opened, revealing a

still in their wolf forms, and this got them

to do now

She knew that they would understand that she would come back for the Gamma. He was one of

back. “There is something I

the door that led

a thick circle of bears guarding Aspen and waiting

have

At some point, she felt like she had found a rhythm to all this. It became a part of her and felt so natural that she

do it. While there was still sanity

was unfocused. There were cuts and

chains with ease, although they were soaked in something that burned her fingers. Claude was surprisingly the nearest to him and offered his back for

the people beating Aspen up. He was practically unconscious, and the princess was worried that he’d fall off during their escape. She wanted to say something, but

it. They needed a beast now. They needed a monster.

Savvy roared, and surprisingly, that helped Aspen to come

eyes barely opened from the swelling and damage. His vision was probably blurry so it wasn’t surprising he took her for a white bear in this form. Just like her wolf, her Lycan

Aspen repeated his mate’s name. “I

to worry about how they were

each side, and Savannah could already feel the desire to sn.ap all those necks. There were more of them than she could handle, but at least she would die trying. She didn’t mind. If she died, maybe the Moon Goddess would be so kind as to bring her back together with Kai. Maybe she could ask for this little reward if

themselves mentally for the m**** “e that was to follow, and Sawy closed her eyes just for

at least the tiniest chance of me saving them and reuniting with Kai, let

towers exploded. Pieces of the ancient stone were landing around them, hitting some of the white bears. But most importantly, it made them

so

that she did. Moreover, they didn’t know

on the startled enemies, tearing their flesh off and ending as many of their lives as she could. She pounced, and she

walls. She knew that Ash would have help somewhere nearby. She just needed to give them a chance to get there.

did not follow her friends. All their eyes were on her, tracing her every move, and this was when she realised their order was to

decided not to miss that wonderful opportunity and stood on all fours, charging into the darkness outside Bjorn’s home. She knew where her friends went; she could feel it. Thanks

bears followed her and that none of them got lost on the way. Slowly, her priorities were changing. She couldn’t wait to be left alone with them in the

to be killing bears. Her instincts were telling her to kill them all, and each roar she heard from them excited her. A fight. A

a clearing and waited. The annoying bird was still circling over her head, and she was ready to kill her if that

left her soon because the bears finally

the primal lycan inside of her couldn’t wait anymore. She pounced at the closest one, tearing him to pieces on the spot and

them all, feeling only pure rage

her to a rocky hill. She wanted to kill them even more now, to taste their blood and to see life leave their eyes,

were fewer bears around her. She roared in frustration, realising that this could

howl escaped her. This time it was a sound of a dying, desperate animal, and she put everything

breathing turned into snowy mist, and for the first time, she felt cold. The ground under her feet was icy, the darkness was replaced by clouds of snow. Everything happened so fast that she couldn’t tell what was going on.

of strange pull that made her think

enemies would finish her off now. However, each bear that was getting close to

the warriors so fast that none of them couldn’t detect it. Yet  there was no

Or something else. 

so cold that sharp pieces of ice flew in the air. Only that the

getting back to her against all odds, and she didn’t know what the reason  for it could

anymore, and she felt a strong desire to shift back into her human

clawed her way to sanity until she

cheeks, but she was back. She was

one question on her mind now. Why?

parts of the gown were very stretchy, and now

kind of coverage. Even if it was

knew there was nothing lethal. She would heal