Chapter 123 What It Means To Win

• Luna's POV
• The ballroom was still shaking. Not literally, but in the way people moved, whispered, pointed, shouted—like the air itself couldn’t hold still after what I had done. My ears rang from the noise. My chest ached from how hard my heart was still beating.
• I had walked off the stage, thinking I could vanish into the shadows, but the world doesn’t let you disappear after you tear the mask off a man like Leo. Every step I took in my gown, the red fabric trailing like spilled wine, I felt hundreds of eyes drilling into my back.