Alpha’s Rue: His Shunned Luna (Athena Enchanted) novel Chapter 167

Chapter 167

AELIANA

I’ve set a timer from the time I came into this room until now. I cleaned up after the fight, and I’ve had enough time to reflect on it. However, my viewpoint remains the same, with only one regret, I should have hit harder, not just for Lexie, but for every other person she ever abused that way.

Over an hour later, Kingston finally comes to my door, banging and pleading on the other end. He tries to coax me into opening the door so I can eat, but unfortunately for him, I ate while he was probably apologising to Audrey on my behalf. He is making a lot of noise outside my door, the kind that prompts me to respond to him out of sheer irritation.

“I know you can hear me,” he says. “Please open the door, Siren.”

“I can,” I say, lounging on my dresser stool close to the door. “And no, I will not open the door, go back to where the hell you’re from. Go back to her.”

He lets out a heavy frustrated groan. “I wasn’t with anyone.” He says, knocking again. “Please let me in, I don’t even know what I did wrong.”

“You didn’t come after me,” I say, flipping through my Magazine pages while he continues to lose his mind outside. I seriously don’t understand him. Why would he be begging me to let him in when he chose her?

“Did you want me to come after you?”

I freeze, my heart skipping a beat. “Siren?”

“Yes,” I admit. “Now quit making a spectacle out there. I’ve fucking communicated.”

“You have,” he quietly says, and I can picture that smug grin on his face now. “And you’re so right, baby. I should have run after you, but I thought-I am here now, I just wanted to address the staff first.” He says. “I didn’t go to her, I promise you I didn’t. Ask Lexie..” he trails off. “Lexie, tell her.”

“Lexie is out there?” I pause, rising from my seat.

“Yes.”

Curious, I open the door, hoping to see Lexie on the other end, but I’m met with Kingston alone. He steps inside, blocking the door with his foot before I even think to slam it. “You tricked me, she’s not here.”

“No, she’s in her quarters,” he says, grinning triumphantly. “But she can confirm I didn’t see Audrey in private.”

I take a step back, studying him for a moment. Lexie wouldn’t lie to me, so he must be telling the truth. But it doesn’t erase his earlier behaviour. He undermined me to save Audrey from humiliation. “You defended her.”

“I did no such thing,” he says, finally stepping inside, the door clicking closed behind him. “But you beat her up.”

“She had it coming.” I shrug, arms crossed over my chest. I fought Audrey fair and square, and barely broke a sweat, my head might have lost the plot, and sent me into panic mode, but I beat her. I could have done it years ago too if only it were fair. “What?” I frown, unsettled by the way Kingston keeps staring at me.

“Nothing,” he shakes his head. “I didn’t know you had it in you.”

Of course, he didn’t.

Neither did Audrey, but I’ve been training for a long while, I’ve spent hours not just reading, but putting defence and war tactics into play, and she underestimated me. She saw Seraphine’s little sister, the one who could barely

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hurt a fly, the one who cried when she accidentally trampled over an anthill, but that’s not who I was today. I’ve not been her for a long time.

“As proud as I am that you didn’t get beaten up,” he draws. “Siren, you can’t fight people over little things.”

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