Hades' Cursed Luna novel Chapter 446

Chapter 446: Buckling Knees

Hades

At the mention of Lucinda, my first reaction was confusion, accompanied by my stomach plummeting, weighed down with dread.

I turned to Eve, the question clear on my face.

She held my gaze, and the anguish there told me all I needed to know. Something truly horrible had happened while I was away.

"It’s a long story..." she began, only for her words to be cut short when I started to rise from the bed.

Immediately, she had her hands on my chest, searing my skin, trying to sit me back down. "You are too weak," she protested, her voice firm but tinged with horror that she could not fully hide. "You are going to need extensive treatment. You broke every single bone in your body from that fall. The fact that you are alive..." Her voice wavered when I refused to go down, her breath catching with emotion. "You need to rest. That is an order."

I stopped, everyone in the infirmary looking on with widened eyes. "Red..." I muttered.

Her hands on my chest relented as I caught her lips tremble a little. "I almost lost you..." she whispered. "I just got you back, and I want to keep it that way."

I could only stare up at her, my bones still rattling from the pain that pulsed through every nerve ending. "You will never lose me," I murmured, only to her. "I just want to take care of you. We don’t have time to waste. I don’t have time to rest, not with what I’ve found out."

Her eyes flickered, flaring with something like dread. "There is so much I have to tell you too, but we still have time, we can..." She gestured to the medics on standby to attend to me as she tore her gaze away from mine—like it was the most impossible thing she had ever done.

She avoided my eyes and stroked Elliot’s fur.

She was leaving.

She had to attend to the emergency, and she wanted me to sit here and get treated, thinking there was still time to allow me to recover.

But what she didn’t know was that time was the last thing we had.

"Speak about this the moment I return..."

The lack of her presence was already felt, compounded by the truth of just how little time we had.

She didn’t even glance at me as she headed to the door. Her shoulders bunched as if she were bracing herself.

The words forced their way out before I could stop them. "The Blood Moon is coming in less than two months." My lungs burned.

Eve didn’t freeze—she flinched, her head whipping in my direction.

Her eyes widened, shock rippling across her features like I’d just delivered a physical blow. "What did you say?"

I used her momentary paralysis to push myself up from the bed, adrenaline overriding the screaming protests from my shattered bones. "The Blood Moon," I repeated through gritted teeth. "Ellen—she’s alive, Eve. And she told me everything."

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