Chapter 86. First Night in Forsethia

Lyra POV

I haven’t even been officially crowned in Oceana yet, and I have already become the ruling Luna Queen of the Forest Kingdom.

It’s a lot to absorb, considering where I came from, and what I thought I was. Just a human... a lower princess, even, a daughter forgotten until a convenient political arrangement paid for with my body, my life.

Even with that horrible situation, I think I was better off with King Chez as a father than my real one—Assanan, a man who decimated lives in pursuit of more useless power, then ran like a coward when the real threat arose.

We do need to chase after him. We need to reach him before he learns something in that library that will help him regain power so we can stop him forever.

But handing out food and a few bolts of fabric just isn’t enough for