The Luna Trials by Marissa Gilbert

Chapter 65 

Bjorn knew that the moment his healing was done, he would pursue Savvy, overpower her, to try to knock her out and bring her back. The silly girl used her third form, and he knew that she couldn’t control it. Knocking her out would be the one and only chance to bring her back from this. If she stayed in her Royal Lycan form for too long, he would lose her. He couldn’t lose her! She was all he had, 

and now his head was spinning with ideas of how to get her back. There had to be a way! 

Once again, he regretted pushing her too far too fast, but at the same time, he also regretted not marking her at once. If he hadn’t taken pity on her situation and just went with it, she would still be healing and in his full grasp. These were selfish thoughts. The thoughts contradicted each other, and, in all honesty, he didn’t know what he should have done. How he should have handled her, but he knew 

now that what he chose to do was wrong. 

One thing was for sure; he shouldn’t have believed in what was too good to be true. She played on his desire to be accepted and 

used his one and only weakness. 

His wound still hadn’t fully healed, but he heard several loud roars coming from the main square that made him fear for her  life. 

“Don’t… kill,” his voice gurgled through his chest as he clenched his neck. The long cut on his chest didn’t bother him much, but the  neck wound was still dangerously painful. 

Joran followed him with his gaze in silence, and only a few warriors stayed by his side for protection, none of them dared to offer 

him help, knowing that he’d rather end them than acknowledge this humiliation. He never forgave humiliation… until now. 

Savvy humiliated him more than anyone else in his entire life. Only Castiel’s father could possibly compare to what she did to him 

tonight. Yet… he… had already forgiven her. He knew that he’d have to punish her, lock her away, keep her far away from everyone, but 

he wouldn’t kill her, and he wouldn’t reject her. She could do anything to him, and the result would be the same. He needed her. 

A growl escaped him at the realisation. 

“She is long gone,” Jor commented, gulping the rest of his wine and throwing away the glass angrily. His lips were pressed into a 

thin white line now, and Bjorn didn’t know what to make out of it all. 

“You could have helped!” the White Bear King snapped. 

“Not in this case,” the Serpent scowled, turning away as if he was keeping more secrets from him. Secrets, secrets, secrets. Everyone 

had secrets, and Bjorn had had enough of all this. 

He kicked a jug that was on the floor right next to him, and a menacing growl escaped his chest as he pushed himself to restore, the 

acceleration clouding his mind temporarily. 

He heard the despair of his men in their mindlink. He felt them dying one by one, knowing that it was Savannah’s doing. 

“Just kill the b***h!” One of his warriors growled. “Or she is going to kill us all!” 

A wave of panic rippled through him. 

Whatever it was, he couldn’t let anyone hurt her. If his men killed her, they were as good as dead. 

“Bring her back alive!” He snarled at them in his mind and ran. Ran, ran, ran to where he felt her. Though thoughts of the many 

punishments he could inflict on her for what she did today were flashing before his eyes, he knew that the main goal was to protect her. 

In a way, he would always be protecting her. Why couldn’t she see that and accept him? Her first mate was dead, Kai was dead, her whole 

family was dead. He was all she had, too. 

The sight in the square startled him for an instance. So many bodies… He’d lost so many men! 

But that wasn’t important now. All he wanted was to save her, to get her back. He would do everything differently now, he would not 

underestimate her again. 

He raced through the woods in his human form. That let him use some narrow paths a bear wouldn’t be able to. He ran without 

thinking twice, using his instincts to reach her. 

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A great idea suddenly came to his mind. Poison! He could tell people that she was poisoned, and that was why she did all these 

things today. It wasn’t the most believable version in the world, but it could work if he could scare people enough to support his claim. 

He would have to lock her in the highest tower and keep her there for a year or two for safety reasons, but… at least they could still be  together. 

Finally, her delicious scent reached his nostrils, and he breathed out in relief, knowing that she was alive. The stench of blood let 

him know that his warriors probably weren’t… 

But he could live with that. Losing Savannah would have been unbearable. 

However, he soon smelled something else. A familiar scent but with new notes. 

dead! Bjorn personally pierced his heart with that spear to ensure a

would never

yet the Northern Lycan King stood before his eyes, holding his mate. Savannah wept in his arms, and then he claimed Bjorn’s  mate’s lips.

when she stabbed him with a dagger, it was worse than when he found out his first

Why did it hurt so

digging into the bark as

to him? He did everything he could to survive, he did everything he could to get his

and he never did! And he managed to win! The

long! His plan was perfect! He had thought about everything! Why! Why did

his chest against his control, it was the cry of a warrior, the scream

to the ones who hurt him.

how Savannah flinched in the Lycan King’s arms, how the man he hated so much moved

from him. Him! They must have been joking!

uncontrollably and charged at his enemy. All the years of

prophecy, and this was what he

once and

pieces, then he would burn them and scatter the ashes in different parts of

come back and disturb his

He wanted his blood as payment for all the pain and humiliation.

screamed when Kai gently pushed her back, and then he was gone in

was met by a creature no one had ever seen before. The place where they clashed was covered with frost in mere

in all honesty, she did not care how Kai came back. She

What happened to him? What had been

other so much that neither of them cared about anything else anymore. They both equally wanted the other dead

stopping the bear from trying to kill him. The wolf threw him and made him crash against a tree, breaking the ancient pine in half, chips flying in all directions. But the anger

neck and the belly, the parts where he could make a fatal blow. Luckily, regular bears‘ jaws were strong enough to make deadly bites. Bjorn, however, was no regular bear. He was the White Bear King of the North,

to win this.

ice needles flying in his direction. He did not avert his eyes or cover

as he had

other sensitive areas. 

he fully planned on using his new advantages to destroy the man who had hurt his mate and tried to break them apart. Kai had hatred in his heart, too. Not only was Bjorn responsible for their suffering and separation, for murdering him, for trying to claim Savannah as his own, but he even ruined the sweet moment they had been sharing just now. Savvy did not deserve to have this man coming back for her again and again and again. He did not want her to have to live

over her shoulder, thinking if that damn bear would be back. He wanted her to be happy and safe,

kill Bjorn. 

but Kai was already there, piercing his side with the ice spikes and escaping

The bear let out a menacing roar from the

he lashed out at his rival. His attack was brutal; he wasn’t wasting a second of his

battle of hateful passion and contradictions.

time. 

equals, but somehow Kai’s technique was better. He was exhausting

pounce on Bjorn and end him quickly, but unlike Bjorn, who was desperate

time. Savannah was watching and wounded and if he lost, she would have to go

her life. He needed to get her to a healer, and although this way took longer,

made a mistake that opened up access to his neck and made him vulnerable. Amarok

warm blood

furs. He closed his jaws, and then, remembering everything the damn bear put them through, he

mortal wound. 

words of the prophecy sounded over and over in his head.

him with your own hands.

should have

her arms around his mortal enemy,

he was nothing to

could chuckle now, he would. His destiny was cruel, after all. The last thing he would ever see would be his mate on his

enemy’s back. 

him. Soon he

over him. 

away!” the bear spat blood. The deity was the last person he wanted to see now. At least he wanted to die in peace. Maybe he deserved at least that

since you were a little boy,” he confessed with a smile. “I saw potential in you, and I believed in you. I have spent years

Bjorn always thought that they had

sad smile curling the Serpent’s lips. Unreasonably,

dryly, looking at the sky as if he was

you caring about them,” Bjorn

of them,” Joran admitted. “The one that went missing after a mission

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life slip away from him. A minute or two and it would

in a low voice and

spluttering from his wounds. However, he could feel how his healing was accelerated drastically, and his cells

restoring themselves like crazy. He did not expect it and his eye darted to the Serpent, whose lips twitched as if he was about

smile. 

I care about you,” he repeated his words to Bjorn. “What happened today was not fair. She was your mate,

other’s second chances. The two of you could have been happy together,

with her, why couldn’t she react the way she was supposed to… After what I saw right now… Darius,

sorry!” 

talking about? What is

Jor took his hand away, knowing that the bear would be restored in minutes on his own now.

side. “She is that mutt’s mate now,” he corrected himself, “but this is a forced

shouldn’t be there.” 

the soil underneath him in a new fit of raw fury. A forced bond! He knew it! He