Mira's POV,
The door clicked shut behind Kieran and the sudden quiet in the room suffocated me with a hellish pain. I stood frozen, staring blankly at the empty space where he had stood just moments ago.
"Moon Goddess, why do you have to be so cruel to me?"
My heart twisted with a wave of sobs and a sharp, gnawing pain at a truth I couldn’t escape. Kieran! My Kieran.
He was betrothed to Princess Lyria and I had lost him forever. Soon, she would claim him as her husband and I’d be nothing more than a fleeting memory in his past… someone he might eventually choose to get rid of.
I paced restlessly in my room, the thud of my heart the only sound echoing in the silence. My hands instinctively rested on my belly where I could feel the faint presence of my baby. In this cruel world, my baby
