Luna Who Stopped Giving In Chapter 05

Luna Who Stopped Giving In Chapter 05

Four hours later, the plane touched down in Boston.

The air here was drier than in Blackthorn, and the sunlight felt different-sharp and wide-open.

Outside the terminal, a shuttle bus waited with a banner across the side: Royal Warrior University.

Welcome, Freshmen.

I exhaled, long and slow, like I’d been holding my breath for years.

Eighteen years of weight lifted off my chest in a single breath.

On the bus, a bubbly Beta girl dropped into the seat next to me.

“Are you in STEM too? I’m Laura Bennett.”

“Amelia.” I smiled. “Physics.”

“Oh wow, a brainiac!”

Her eyes went wide. “That’s like the hardest program here.”

I watched the unfamiliar streets blur past the window and caught myself smiling.

So this was what it felt like for someone to hear my name and think smart, not sad.

Not Lily’s shadow. Not the quiet one nobody noticed.

I got through check-in and picked up my dorm key.

The room was a quad setup, bigger than I expected. Through the window, the campus quad

stretched out under a canopy of maple trees.

I hung my clothes in the closet. With the money Grandma transferred, I walked to the campus store and bought the cheapest plain bedding set they had.

When the bed was made, I sat down at the desk and just looked at it. Empty and clean and mine.

For the first time, I had a desk no one could take from me.

A thousand miles away, at Blackthorn Pack University.

Caleb leaned against his car outside the dorms, staring at his phone. His jaw was set.

A red exclamation mark sat next to his last message.

[Not Delivered.]