Chains of Tyranny

LUNA VESPERIA’S POV

I couldn’t breathe.

Tamsin’s smirk. Cormac’s words. Jorah’s silence. Valerius’s silence.

They all pressed down on me like chains and I hated it.

How dare they?

How dare Tamsin laugh at me like that, like I was a joke? How dare Cormac spit on my child’s life as if it were an mistake?

I didn’t care where I was going. I just needed out.

I stormed down the hall, flinging doors ope