Chapter 71. Marcus’s New Game

KAELAN

Everly tried to avoid me for a few days but I didn’t let her. I barged into her room this morning and snatched her knitting pins away. She looked at me furiously as I lifted her off her feet.

“Luna,” I called as I dumped her on the bed. “Make efforts to please me. I told you not to get involved in that war with Marcus but you did.”

“No, I did not,” she tried to deny it.

“Then, how did Ruby your wolf save Evan if you didn’t get involved “

Everly didn’t know what else to say.

I stared at her for a while. “I need an heir. Giving me an heir would help you carve your own part as the queen of Crescent Moon.”

She rolled her eyes and said nothing.

I bent over her, nibbled her earlobe with my tongue. I could feel how she shivered and I liked it. “And, about that prophecy, Luna, we don’t have to let it decide our fate. Prophecies are tools for the weak. We don’t have to bow to it.”

She looked at me wide eyed. “Seriously, Kaelan, do