The Lunar Queen (Lyric and Mason) novel Chapter 104

Chapter 104

Serena POV

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The moment the servant brings me the knife, I wrap it in a cloth and make my way back to the witch. I walk through the door and the smell of smoke lingers in the air, thick and bitter, clinging to the back of my throat the second I step inside.

“You move quickly,” she says, staring into her bowl like she already knew I was coming before I touched the door.

“Do you have the blood?” she asks.

I take the wrapped knife out of my bag and hand it to her. She unwraps the knife and sniffs the blood.

“Are you sure it is hers?” she asks.

“Yes, I’m sure,” I snap, irritation flaring at being questioned after I did exactly what she asked.

She dips the knife into the bowl she was staring in, and white and blue smoke wrapped around each other rises from the bowl before pink, red, and gray smoke rises from the bowl and wraps around the white and blue smoke, the colors twisting together like

something alive, something wrong.

She pricks her finger and drops a single drop of blood into the bowl, and a blinding light shoots from the bowl before the bowl

explodes.

“What the hell was that? What was with all of the colors?” I ask, taking a step back before I can stop myself.

“It is in motion. I must let David know. It is her,” she says, smiling, and the look on her face makes my skin crawl because it isn’t

excitement-it’s obsession.

“What are you talking about? Where is my spell?” I snarl.

Her head snaps up to me. “You can’t kill her. David needs her alive,” she says.

“But you said you would give me my spell,” I say.

“Oh hush, girl, this is bigger than your silly little desires,” she says, dismissing me like I’m stupid enough not to matter.

“You said you would help me get Cole. How can I do that if she is alive?” I ask, anger and panic tangling together in my chest.

“When David gets what he wants, there will be no Cole,” she says.

“But here, take this. Make sure it gets into her food, or tea, or anything she ingests. This will cause her to miscarry, making it easier for us to grab her. Those babies can’t be born,” she adds.

“Now go. I have much to prepare. We are at war,” she says before pushing me out.

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Chapter 104

How can she say I can’t kill her? Like I’m supposed to sit back and let everyone else decide what happens to the girl standing in my

way.

I will do what I want because Cole will be mine and I will be Queen, with or without their plan.

I head home and straight to Daddy’s office. He is in there with David. I stop at the door to hear what they say. My hand stills on the

knob when I hear my own name in the conversation.

“Are we certain that it’s her?” Daddy says.

“Yes, the witch said Serena left about 45 mins ago and she brought her the blood,” David says.

“Has the council found the ruins yet?” David asks.

“No, but we are looking every day, narrowing places,” Daddy says.

“Well, now that we know it’s her we need to get her to my territory where I can hide her,” David says.

“The witch said she is pregnant and if that pregnancy comes to term all of this will be for nothing,” David says.

“Let’s hope your daughter does her job and gets that potion in her system,” he adds.

“She will,” Daddy says.

“Good. I have to go meet the witch and the bear king. We start our attacks in a week. That gives your daughter time to do her part,” David adds before standing.

I run down the hall and pretend to be walking when he comes out.

“Oh David, I didn’t know you were here,” I say.

“I was just leaving. Make sure you do your job,” he says before continuing down the hall without even looking back at me, like I’m just another pawn on his board.

I walk into Daddy’s office.

“Daddy, that stupid witch told me I couldn’t kill Lyric,” I say, throwing myself in the chair in front of his desk.

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