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.

to wreak havoc upon those who have done nothing but cause discord.” I correct her, my eyes burning with the hunger for vengeance. “What is Zion the

I’m

triquetra.” She says, her jaws

command burning through my voice as I

key to turn back time and

the power of something that the

you tried

planned took me away from here. Those I relied on clearly failed to make sure you were taking the

hits

got pregnant, I was being poisoned “So, all that about loving me like a daughter was all fake, was it?”

smile that no

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 choose the Sublime because I knew if you did, my son would become the rightful Sable

I’m unable to process exactly how I feel so

he?” I ask. Wondering if his mother was also part of the Sable. She tenses at that before she glares at me. “How do I

“The truth, Agatha.”

eyes blaze as my command

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

I answer the unspoken question that I know is

if she wants to scream for help, but I

I ask, wondering if my sudden assumption might be true. After

eyes flash as she glares at me. I did not cheat on Aran if that

is he part of this all? Were

did nothing but be loyal to him!” she sneers. ” But I picked the wrong King…for I knew that I would be the one blessed to birth two of the most important people for the future of

had

you and Gerard mates?” I ask,

loyal,” she hisses,

only true mates can birth the members of the Triquetras…

have no way to prove 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

anything when I have heard

both turn to see Aran standing behind us. Agatha’s heart thumps as she

come to a halt, looking at me for their

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

is the one who is bleeding.