Chapter 33

Esmeralda fell to the floor in a heap of silk and red hair, the veil that she had brought down from her face to her neck falling on the floor beside her. She brought her hand to her cheek, her eyes wide with the stinging pain from the slap, her chest falling and rising in slow rhythms.

"How could you? How dare you set a children's village on fire just because you were jealous? How could you be so stupid?"

She swallowed, then slowly stood up to Lucas' rage, her teeth biting down on her slightly bleeding lips.

"Did you even see what was happening? He was kissing her. Right after he was told she was pregnant. Does he have no shame? Does he not care for the purity of a Luna anymore?"

"Silence! How does that justify anything? What if something had happened? What if a child had died because you are an irrational little vixen who can neither keep a man nor any sense whatsoever? Have you really lost all your ability to think or are you trying to prove to me that I was wrong