I Am The Luna

ZAIA.

Pain sears through my waist, spreading like fire through my entire body.

I look down, realising I’ve been shot. In my shock at Agatha’s words, I ended up lowering my guard and losing control of the barrier on the door.

My ears ring with a shrill whistling sound just as Agatha lunges at me. In a flash I react, kicking Agatha back and sending her flying.

I raise my gun and shoot at the three guards who are almost on top of me, the one on the left who had shot me raising the gun again, but I pull the trigger, firing a shot square through his head.

My eyes blaze as he drops to the floor, dead.

The other two are alive, but they won’t be getting up for a while. I kick the gun into the corner of the room just as I spot Agatha running to the door. She isn’t getting away, not when I need answers.

I see the butler’s body slumped on the ground in the hall and I don’t sense a heartbeat… did one of the guards kill him?

“Agatha!” I shout as I chase after her. She’s fast but not faster than me. I reach her just as she reaches the stairs and I grab her shoulder. “We aren’t done!” I growl.

“I am!” Agatha hisses as she grabs my arm and yanks me roughly, trying to push me down the stairs. The tug makes a sharp spasm of pain rush through me again and I feel nauseous. I grab the bannister, yanking free from her hold as I grab her arm.

“Enough!” I shout, glaring at the woman I have a hold on. My aura flares around me, rushing off me like a tidal wave, making the chandeliers.

tremble and the lights flicker.

She tenses as she looks around and I think I see a glimmer of fear in her eyes as I regain my balance fully and yank her closer.

“I am not the woman you knew. I am ready to fill the rivers of the underworld with the souls of your people. Push me further, Agatha, and I swear on the lives of my beloved children that I will kill you.” I snarl, my heart thundering hard.

I can smell the fear from her and it’s as if she’s seeing me for the first time.

“I never believed it, but I see it now…” she murmurs to herself, but there’s an understanding in her eyes.

“Believed what?”

“Someone once was adamant that you would choose Sable because you had the fire within you to wreak havoc upon this earth… I see it now ” she says quietly.

discord.” I correct her, my eyes burning with

I’m not

She says, her jaws

snarl, my command burning through my voice as I press

Sublime Triquetra… the key to turn back time

the power of something that the Sable did not want

you tried to kill

And that stupid trip Aran planned took me away from here. Those I relied on clearly failed to make sure you were taking the correct

revelation hits me

was being poisoned “So, all that about loving me

a smile that no longer looks

to tolerate you anyway! I have sacrificed so much in life for the right cause, so much! We are doing this for the world! I wanted you to

but I’m unable to process exactly how I feel

mother was also part of the Sable. She tenses

“The truth, Agatha.”

as my

contemplate what I asked, and

the trigger, making her scream as the bullet zooms past her ear, grazing her cheek in the process. It didn’t touch her, but it was

playing,” I answer the unspoken question that

wants to scream for help, but I can already hear the

if my sudden assumption might

me. I did not cheat on Aran if that is what you are

know? Or is he part of this all? Were you

to him!” she sneers. ” But I picked the wrong King…for I knew that I would be the one blessed

had ever been pregnant aside from

and Gerard mates?”

I said, I have been loyal,” she hisses,

deeply. “But I am correct, am I not? So only true mates can birth the

anything, and I am still the elder Luna. I hold power here…” she says quietly before her eyes brim with tears just as the front door is brought down and

doesn’t need to prove anything when I have heard

both turn to see Aran standing behind us. Agatha’s heart thumps as she begins shaking; this woman

to a halt, looking at me

her!” she whispers, but despite her best efforts, she’s unable to hide the fear in her voice. “She tried to kill

she is the one who is bleeding. What is