When the Moon Hatched (The Moonfall Series Book 1)

“Kaan, no. I did not agree to this!”

His body stiffens, steps slowing, a low, grating sound coming from him. “Say it again …”

“What?”

“My name, Moonbeam. Say it again.”

If it’ll get me out of this saddle ride, I’ll scream it to the sky until my voice box ruptures.

“Kaan. Kaan. Kaan. Kaan. Kaan! Now put me down. Quick.”

He fills his lungs, his entire chest inflating—like he just took his first breath since he began a deep dive. “You didn’t say please,” he finally says, then kicks forward again.

Wha—

“Please!”

“Too late.”

I’m going to shatter his bones and use them for toothpicks.

“Heartily decline.”

Of course.

I hope he doesn’t mind when I heartily slit his throat.

Why a ball?” comes a rasped voice to my left.

I look sideways at the male I thought was asleep bunched beneath his filthy blanket, instead watching me through the bars. “It’s a moon.”

He frowns. “Then why a moon?”

I cast my gaze forward again, tap-tap-tapping my foot to the soothing tune in my head. “Because they fall.”

Even when we don’t want them to.