Meluna Lockwood. Aurora puts me in another room after the doctor leaves to follow Roan. My entire body trembles from the roots of my hair to the blood in my veins. I don’t know how to process what I just heard. How many ways can one person be shattered? What kind of fate is this? What kind of destiny plays with a person like this? I grit my teeth so hard I taste blood. Somewhere on my tongue, somewhere deep inside, it coats my mouth with iron. Every time I breathe, it’s like the Moon Goddess carves another space in me just so Roan can find a new way to hurt me. If I hadn’t heard it myself, I would’ve thought it was another punishment by Roan but I heard every word. A baby. A blood transfusion. To save his mother. My knees buckle beneath me and I drop to the floor, sobbing so hard I c

