Reclaiming My Broken Luna (Astrid and Killian) novel Chapter 404

Astrid's POV

The warrior’s words hung in the air like a heavy shroud, suffocating and cold. I stared at him, trying to make sense of what I’d just heard.

“The fragments… are missing?” I repeated, my voice barely above a whisper.

My heart pounded, each beat echoing louder in my ears as confusion and disbelief clawed at my thoughts.

The Forsaken Amulet was destroyed. Rowena sacrificed her life to ensure it could never be used again.

Why would the rogues come back for it? What could they possibly want with shattered remnants?

Killian stood beside me, rigid as stone, his golden eyes locked on the warrior. “Are you sure?” he asked, his voice low, taut with restrained fury.

“Yes, Alpha,” the warrior said, bowing his head. “We inspected the area as you instructed, to see if the rogues left anything behind—clues, weapons, anything. But instead, we found the fragments… gone.”

Gone. The word echoed in my mind, a drumbeat of confusion. I tried to piece together the rogue king’s motives, but nothing made sense.

Broken shards of the amulet couldn’t possibly hold the same power as the whole artifact—or could they?

Before I could voice my thoughts, Alpha Cedric’s sharp voice cut through the tense silence.

“This is negligence,” he declared, standing once more. His accusing tone filled the room. “The forsaken amulet is a dangerous weapon! Rowena even sacrificed her life to destroy it. How could you just leave such a valuable weapon behind?!”

Everyone’s eyes turned to Alpha Cedric as his words resonated in their mind. Some of the Alphas and Lunas shared a glance with each others as they get swayed by Alpha Cedric’s words.

I fell quiet this time, unable to give a comeback. It was a mistake, we shouldn’t have left the broken fragments of the forsaken amulet behind.

It’s just that, we thought once the forsaken amulet is broken then it’s over. We thought the broken fragments are not valuable anymore.

“What if the rogue king found a way to fix the forsaken amulet? All your efforts would be put to waste and all of us would be doomed!” Alpha Cedric complained with anger in his face.

“The forsaken amulet is a special weapon and Rowena had to die just to break it. Fixing it wouldn’t be easy. I even doubt that it’s fixable,” Nova spoke up for us.

If there is anyone among us who knows more about the Forsaken Amulet, that would be Nova, since most information we found about the Forsaken amulet were written in her sister’s diary.