The Lunar Queen (Lyric and Mason) novel Chapter 63

Chapter 63

“So, what if she wakes up and finds out her sister has been taken into custody and she decides she wants to stay with him? Then

what?” she asks.

I pause for a minute, truly thinking about the answer.

Not the easy answer. The real one I’ve been avoiding.

“I’m not sure. I have been trying not to think about that,” I say.

She walks over, climbs into my lap, and lays her head on my chest.

“Well, the moon goddess wouldn’t tell you she means something for no reason” she says.

“That is true,” I reply, leaning my head back in the chair.

Because fate might be clear, but living through it isn’t.

Tomorrow, I see my princess.

Lyric POV

“Lyric wake up, wake up,” Nova says.

I feel something wet touch my cheek, and I move it. It’s fur, the softest fur I’ve ever felt in my life. I jump up.

I’m not in the woods by the border.

I’m in a garden with the most vibrantly colored flowers I have ever seen; they all look alive. It is beautiful.

Not just pretty-alive in a way that makes my chest feel too full, like the air itself is watching me.

I turn and see the biggest, most beautiful white wolf. It looks like her fur shimmers, or the ends are iridescent, and her eyes are the

most gorgeous purple I’ve ever seen.

“Nova,” I say, and she walks up to me, nuzzling her head into my neck. I run my fingers through her fur.

“Where are we, Nova?” I ask.

“You are in my realm, child,” I hear a serene, magical voice say behind me.

I turn and see a beautiful woman with pale white skin, long white-blonde hair, and a flowing white gown.

“Selene?” I ask.

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“Yes, my daughter,” she replies.

“Wait, I died?” I ask, tears filling my eyes.

Because if that’s true… then everything I survived didn’t matter in the end.

“No, my dear. Your body is very much alive; your spirit is here with me,” she says.

“How long?” I ask.

“Almost 11 months,” she answers.

My eyes widen in shock.

“Almost a year,” I say.

The words don’t land right. They just sit there, too heavy to make sense of.

“They all probably think I’m dead and are celebrating, except Winter,” I say.

“Actually, child, your family and pack really miss you. Most of them haven’t left your side, aside from Hunter. Your mother is a shell of herself, riddled with guilt, and your father has only been in two places-your room and the cells of your pack,” she says softly.

I wipe my tears.

“They have?” I whisper.

That hits somewhere deep, somewhere I didn’t think I had left.

“Yes, they all feel a tremendous amount of guilt for everything you endured at your sister’s hands,” she says gently.

“Your sister and those who helped her have all been put in your pack’s cells. They are waiting for you to wake up to decide their

fates,” she adds.

“Why me?” I ask, voice choking.

“Because, my child, you are special,” she replies.

“You’ve always wondered why you don’t look like your parents or siblings,” she says.

“Yes, every day of my life,” I respond.

“Your mother’s bloodline descends from mine,” she explains.

“How did I not know, or she not know?” I ask.

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“That’s because it was buried under centuries of lies,” she says.

“For you to understand, I have to tell you my story and then my daughter’s,” she continues.

I sit on the grass next to Nova, her head in my lap.

I don’t even realize I’m bracing myself until I feel my fingers tighten in her fur.

“Long ago, before werewolves existed, I had the power to travel between my realm and yours. I fell in love with a human, and 1

would sneak down as often as I could to see him,” she finishes.

After years of being in love, he was attacked by a wolf,” she says pausing.

“I couldn’t save him, so I went to my mother to ask her to save him and she did, but my mother was a very conniving woman when

she wanted to be, so she saved my love’s life but at the cost of his humanity. She turned him and his entire village into wolves, and

when I begged her to undo it, she said it could not be undone,” she says, tears in her eyes.

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