Luna's POV

Tone: Witty · Feminine · Suspicious · Silky with bites, sarcastic.

I’ve never liked kitchens.

Not because I can’t cook, I mean, I’ve seduced men over a bowl of instant noodles. But because the kitchen is where people pretend to be kind.

Smiles over salt. Poison over pastry. Women who stir while plotting your death.

And today?

I walk into this one like I own it.

Because I do now.

There’s a special kind of silence that falls when a queen walks into a ...