Alpha’s Rue: His Shunned Luna (Athena Enchanted) novel Chapter 120

Chapter 120

“Can you stop screaming?”

“I don’t know!” I snap, “Can you stop interfering with my life? I married you, I ignore every wrong you do, so stop it. Why did you have to bring my Noah into this?”

“Aeliana-”

“No,” I choke out, my voice breaking. “Was ruining my career not enough for you? You had to stick your claws in hers too!” I sob, the tears falling free now. “The one sacred thing I had left, and you touched her, you tainted her fucking journey, you ruined her efforts!”

“I’m sorry,” he swallows. “I was just..”

“What’s with you anyway? You take a job from me then find one for her!”

He moves closer, “Ellie, if this is about the job, I can talk to the board at Vale University, and we can work out something to-”

“No, shut your dirty, conniving, meddling mouth,” I warn, my breathing hitched. “This isn’t about the fucking job. It’s not about me, it’s about you! You crossed the line, you should have left my Noah alone, but no..” I suck in a breath. “You dragged her to a place where she knows no one, you’re trying to make her feel like I did. I hate this fucking pack!”

“That’s too bad, I can’t change that, but you’d better warm to this pack.” He says, “Because in two days, it will belong to you.”

The mention of the official Luna crowning rite is my final straw. “I don’t want it.”

“You have it,” he says, his voice steady and commanding. “You always did, Mooncrest is ours, we were chosen, we were fated. It’s high time you got that through your head.”

“Stop it!” I scream, rubbing my ears like they itch. I don’t want to listen to him anymore. “Stop speaking to me like I’m an idiot, I don’t want anything. I don’t want it, but I’ll take it,” I nod to myself. I’ve known there’s no way around it, and I’ve accepted it, but it still hurts. “I’ll have to give one hundred to a pack that fucking hates me, I’m only a being so for-fuckin-give me if I get cold feet and hide away for a little while. I needed that, and I’m back, am I not?”

He pauses, shoulders relaxing. “I didn’t know you felt this way, you should have talked to me.” He says, his voice softer now but that only sends me over the edge again. “We could have moved it up, worked things out together.”

“Together?” I choke out. “That’s a funny concept, because a minute ago you were together with Audrey. The only time you’re together with me is when you want to get your dick wet. So how could you ever notice me, or my feelings when you simply don’t care?”

“Aeliana, I care.” He sighs. “You’re my mate, my Luna.”

“I’m fucking tired, that is what I am!” I cry out. “Every minute I spend in this house my heart feels like I’m being torn apart, how am I supposed to be your Luna or theirs if neither one of us believes I’m good enough?’ I sob. “I should have died twenty-one years ago, I hate this. I would feel better if I were born human, or a toad, maybe even a fucking bench at the park. Anything but this, anything but the anticipations that keep mounting beneath the need for me to fail.”

He reaches for my hand, slow and careful. “Okay, come with me.”

“No!” I snap, pulling my hand away.

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“Siren, you can either walk or I’m carrying you.”

I move away, “Don’t touch me.”

“Then walk.” He orders.

“Why?”

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“We’re going to my parents.”

“No.” I shake my head. Anything but that, his Mom is the last person I want to see, not in this state. “No, Luna Estelle can’t see me this way.”

He shakes his head, staring pitifully at me. “She must see you this way.” He says, grabbing me by the hand.

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