The Ugly Luna He Never Saw novel · Chapter 23 of 24

Chapter 23: The Luna Rite

Every lantern in the hall burned at full, and I stood under all of them with nothing on my head.

I wore my own grey hoodie, taken down off the mantel, with the hood hanging down my back.

My hair hung loose to my waist.

Before we walked in, Niko had backed me into the pantry among the sacks of flour and kissed me until my knees went.

"Your mouth," he had said, against it. "I'd know it in a blizzard."

Now his hand was in mine on the platform, warm and rough, and ninety wolves filled the benches.

The silver crescent in my palm lay against the one in his.

Orvo stood below the platform in his sheepskin vest.

The old man from the kitchen table was on his feet beside the Council table, holding the gavel.

"Orvo Aho has asked to speak," he said. "The pack will hear him."

Orvo smiled his genial smile.

It had been worn thin, and I could see the teeth under it.

"I'll be brief," he said. "A Luna must be known to her pack. But we don't know this woman."

"We know a dishwasher. We know a girl who took a child out past the gate and got herself maimed for it."

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