Celeste's POV
Vaelina pulled me into a hug before I could say a word, careful enough not to disturb the makeup, and when she stepped back her eyes were bright and her hands were still on my arms.
"You look like someone who was always supposed to be a Luna," she said. "I mean that completely."
I squeezed her hands. "Thank you for coming. Genuinely."
"I would not have missed this even if you never invited me." She glanced around the room with that particular look of hers when she was cataloguing everything to discuss later. "This house, by the way. We are having a full separate conversation about this house."
"Later," I said. "Right now we need to go."
The convoy left in two cars. Mason took the wheel of the first with me in the passenger seat and Vaelina in the back. Jason led the sec
