All Chapters of The Luna's Vampire Prince: Chapter 81 - Chapter 90

*Ainslee*The next few days are just the same. At night, we run through the darkness on tired limbs. During the day, we find a place to lie together in a cave or other shelter, usually taking solace in one another’s arms. I’m fairly certain we’ve lost, or at least put a good deal of distance between, our pursuers. I’m exhausted by the time we reach Longclaw lands. My feet are raw. I’m covered in cuts and scrapes from thorns and sharp rocks. I’m ready to find someone I know in my home village and collapse for the night.Rafe isn’t nearly as torn up as I am, though he is tired. His marble-like physique protected him from most of the snarls that bit into my skin. “We’re almost there,” Rafe says, patting me on the shoulder encouragingly. I manage a growl of acknowledgement, but that’s all I can do as I continue to trudge forward.When we enter Beoutown, the moon is just starting to set. We’re met on the road into the village by a small pack of wolves.I recognize my friend from the cull

*Ainslee*Rafe turns to me in shock, and I can’t blame him. I probably should have told him sooner. “You’re pregnant?!” he yelps.“Uhm, well… yes…” I admit, hugging my stomach.“You two have a lot to talk about,” my cousin, Karl, chuckles. “Might I suggest we all turn in for the evening? I’ve already told you I will send my troops. I gave my word, after all. You just need to hold up your end.”“O-Of course,” Rafe stammers, still looking shocked.Karl nods to some servants standing subtly by the receiving room doors. “Take them to the crimson room. We’ll talk more over breakfast.”“Yes. Over breakfast…” Rafe replies to Karl though his eyes are completely zeroed in on me.“Don’t keep her up too late. She needs to rest for the sake of the child, after all,” Karl reminds Rafe with a wink. Then he walks out of the receiving room in a swirl of robes.“Maybe we should go take a bath?” I squeak.“Mhm. Or maybe ‘we’ should tell Rafe why I didn’t know you were pregnant.” Rafe narrows his eyes a

*Ainslee*‘Regardless of any trouble between the two of you, you WILL marry my cousin,’ plays repeatedly in my head as I stumble down the hall and out of the packhouse.Goddess, now that I am pregnant with a hybrid child, Rafe’s own child, he doesn’t want me anymore?Tears stream down my cheeks. I have to get away. I just have to.Wolf shifters part in surprise as I pass the surrounding houses and shops. I’m a sobbing mess and no one wants to be around that.Maybe they can smell I’m pregnant with a vampire’s baby and don’t want to be around that, either.I see a bookshop and dart inside. It will at least be quiet there.Blessedly, I am the only one in the shop. The little bell over the door rings as I close it behind me, and the shopkeeper pops his head up over a stack of books.“Oh dear me,” he says, raising bushy gray eyebrows. “You must be Luna Queen Ainslee Bleiz. What on earth is the matter, Your Majesty?”I hiccup and shake my head, hunkering down on a chair in a little nook of

*Rafe*Everyone is staring at me. I can feel their eyes on the back of my head.. Everyone’s but Ainslee.Ainslee has her head pressed to the prayer rail at the feet of an enormous statue of the Moon Goddess. She’s crying, her chest heaving with sobs. I can tell by the rasp in her breathing that she’s been crying this way for some time.It seems strange to see her cry. This isn’t the same woman who screamed at me over bread in the roadway. She has changed. We have all changed.I go to her, ignoring everyone, barely hearing the hiss of the priestesses behind me. From the corner of my eye, I can see all the priestesses surrounding the High Priestess. They’re arguing with her. I feel for her, I do, but she also strikes me as the kind of woman who doesn’t need defending, even from a mob of protesting priestesses. Kind of like my Ainslee.At the feet of the Goddess, I stand over Ainslee. My shadow falls over her in the flickering candlelight, and she looks up slowly. Her face is streaked w

*Rafe*“How do we make it official in Shadowglade?” I say, frowning in confusion at Karl. “We have handfastings in Shadowglade.”“Yes, but that’s not the kind of ceremony King Axel and my cousin were going to have,” Karl points out. “I want to make sure your vampire nobles also respect your marriage.”The vampire nobles are bastards. I’m surprised Karl knows this. Then again, maybe I shouldn’t be surprised. If I’ve learned anything while I’ve been in Warfang, it’s that Karl knows everything.I look at Ainslee. Would the vampire nobles spit on our marriage because it was only a simple handfasting?“Anyone have a glass?” I ask cautiously. “And… maybe a doctor who can…”Ainslee is the only wolf shifter who doesn’t wrinkle her nose.“So, we need to have some sort of surgical procedure to mate you properly?” Karl hazards.“No, not a surgical… I just need… we need to share a cup of blood… and at King Axel’s wedding it was going to be hers,” I explain.“You’re going to have a wolf shifter dr