Chapter 89

“It doesn’t matter what I think. If I believe you’re stronger than her or not. He thinks the bond blinds me, and he doesn’t trust my judgment. How can I know if he’s right or wrong when I’m so inanely in need of you, it pushes logic out no matter how I reason? He’s right in that our people need a future leader with a strong Luna by his side, but he can’t accept that you’re her. And I don’t think my head’s clear enough to know without my heart always changing it.” I get the full whack of his confusion and despair as he lets go of the floodgates he’s been holding back, and I’m swamped instantly with the chaos that’s been living inside of him since that night. It’s overwhelming, and I am drowned with the urge to sob, tear my heart out, wail, kick someone and scream all at the same time. I have to cling on like I’m on a rickety raft on a turbulent sea as his emotions devour me and almost snap me mentally with the force of such chaos. I breathe through the surge until it settles inside me a