I Am The Luna Queen

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"What makes you think you deserve to touch me?" I demanded. "Why don't you go to your mistress instead?" "You're kind of... small. For a man of your stature." The King froze. For three years, he'd treated me like nothing and tonight, he'd finally decided to claim what was his. He didn't know I wasn't the girl he'd broken. I went to sleep a nobody. I woke up a Queen. One night I was just a broke, exhausted college girl. The next, I opened my eyes in silk sheets, with strangers bowing and calling me Luna Queen. The face in the mirror is mine. The body is mine. But the life isn't. The bruises on my wrists tell a story I don't remember, and the King I'm bound to doesn't love me—he loathes me. They whisper that his mistress rules the palace. They say the Queen was weak. Silent. Broken. But that was before me. Now I must survive a palace that wants me dead, a King whose touch burns as much as it scars, and a kingdom waiting for me to fail. The old Luna Queen bowed to cruelty. I am not her. And if this King thinks I'll kneel, he's about to learn what a true Queen is made of.