Cassandra's POV I wake up to Landon looking rumpled and holding my hand as he slept with his head on my bed. My heart fluttered from his gentlemanliness and I looked around. I see Georgiana by the window looking outside as students walked the hallway. Each minding their business and hurrying to their classes."I was 15 and so innocent when I was chosen" she says and I know she knew the minute I woke up. Her voice cracked a little and I knew if she turned back to look at me she'd cry and end up not finishing her story. "You'll be Luna, they said. You'll be honoured they told me. You just have to be good, better than everyone to fit into that role. So I did all I could in being the best. I trained super hard, endured gruesome trainings , didn't go to parties or to clubs because I wanted to keep a clean record. I couldn't even have birthday parties of my own. it was a no party rule so in case something bad happened there was nothing like it happened at Georgiana's party People never

Alder's POVThe process was quite fast and easy. Soon Thelma has her own name, and social security number. She has said thank you so much I'm tired of hearing thank you and might punch the next person that says it. I sit with my mother , father and her at the dinner table and my mother has such a happy look on her face.Thelma keeps helping her do stuff and it's busy in the kitchen, noise of laughter resounds in the kitchen and my ears begin to ring.Dad winks at me ,grabs two bottles of beer and walk out into the backyard. I take that as the cue to follow him. We get into the backyard and sit on the swings , he passes one of the beer bottles to me and takes a sip."She looks like good wife and mother material" he says and I look to the kitchen window seeing Thelma laugh with my mother. I sigh and take a sip of the beer. Truth is I can't argue. "Why do you keep sighing?" he asks me taking more of his beer and making me look like this the first beer I'll ever drink. "You might w

Cassandra's POVI opened my tired eyes to the knock on my door and I kept groaning. Normally I would have left the door open but Mother kept barging in and I kept waking up with my sleep disturbed. I had grocery bags for eye bags and I aged 10 more years in that 2 days.I was ready to put all this birthday fiasco behind me. I was so used to spending my birthdays in the dark smelly basement. I turned the key in it's hole and opened the door to see my best friend Elia and I smiled in relief."Finally you're here" I said and hugged her like it's been 10 years we've seen each other. "You have really missed me " she said and I breathed in her clean scent. She pulled back and accessed my face. "You look so tired bestie." "This the first hectic birthday I've ever had and it's making me freak out. Of course I'm tired." I whisper and she hugs me again. "Everything will be fine baby girl" she says and I nodded. We took a minute to sit on the bed and catch up which actually me stalling and

Cassandra's POVI float with joy as I take pictures with my parents and with my best friend all the while searching for Landon with my eyes. He excused himself over 30 minutes ago and he still hasn't returned. I attempt to wipe away the worry from my eyes but as I thought it was impossible because Elia drags me away from my very reluctant mom and whispers to me "What's the problem?'' she asks"I can't find Landon anywhere" I say and she raises a perfectly arched eye brow. "He just stood up and left?" she asked and I shake my head no"He told me and I allowed him to leave" I tell her. "Nothing strange happened, he received a call from his mother I think, because he called the person mother." "Then let's agree it was his mother then, he probably went to see them , get your mind off of it for a minute and pose prettily for the pictures or else your mother won't let us leave here till she has the best pictures " she says and I grin knowing how correct she is. "Common girls we're not

Cassandra's POV Part of me knew I couldn't do it. Tell him that I had a mate and all that stuff, but the other half of me preferred to get the guilt off of our shoulders. I woke up early on coronation day and just laid there doing nothing.Not particularly nothing, I checked my emails and text messages, voice mails and even upgraded some apps in my phone. I knew my mother would come bursting through here any minute but I kind of liked it because it proved she was alive and healthy enough to make life frustrating for me. I heard the first cupboard bang and I sighed knowing I would soon be disturbed.I burrowed deeper under the covers and I sighed tucking my phone into chest. I started devising methods of getting out of today's engagement but I knew deep down it was very unavoidable. My doors opened and someone came in. The curtains opened and light shone into the room."You need to get up, I know you're awake" my mom says and I close my eyes ignoring her. "You're the one person I k