Alpha’s Rue: His Shunned Luna (Athena Enchanted) novel Chapter 320

Chapter 320

I shake my head. I wanted him to believe me, him, Maddox and Rowan are the only ones I expected to vouch for me, they’re the people I expected to defend me and say it wasn’t true. No one knew me better, they were my best friends, but he avoided me when they returned, and I understood why. “It’s okay.”

“It’s not,” he sucks in a breath, his eyes watering. “I broke my promise.”

He looks like he’s about to cry, and my own tears are persistent. “It doesn’t matter.”

“Please don’t dismiss this, Aeliana. It all matters, this whole pack failed you, shunned you, they spoke ill of you for years because of him, and he didn’t stop?”

“He’s evil,” I swallow. I’m glad he’s dead, I shouldn’t be, but I am. I know Sera lost her husband, but I gained something, I can go to bed without worrying that he’d be here. Does that make a terrible person?

“How many times has he tried to-” he pauses, shaking his head. He can’t even bring himself to say it, he tries again, but the words don’t come out. That’s exactly how I had felt for so long.

“Since he came back,” I almost whisper. “He had a note in my room that night at dinner, so I ran away, I couldn’t stay in the house with him.”

A lone tear rolls down his cheek. “And I put you in one with him.” He says, his face twisting with something unfamiliar. “You must’ve felt so hurt, I tortured you by-”

“You didn’t,” I wipe his tear away. Nothing that happened with Brandon was his fault, he is–was a sick bastard, he fed off my pain and the torment he caused me. Kingston would never do that to me, he fought for me the second he found out. “You didn’t do anything.”

“That’s the problem,” he groans, annoyed, not at me, but himself? It makes me wish I had tried again, maybe if he’d heard it directly from me then he’d not feel this way about it. “I should have done something, I should have protected you, been with you, I should have…..I was trying so hard to understand why you made certain choices, but I didn’t know.” He chokes out, “I’m sorry I made you feel like you couldn’t tell me.”

“It’s not you,” I swallow. “No one believed me, King. They acted like I was lying, like I…” I shake my head, the taunts and insults flooding my brain again. I was used to getting bullied by my sister and her deranged friend, but when the whole pack changed and started to treat me like I was the worst person alive, I had to leave. There was nothing here for me, it was the best shot I had at living a somewhat normal life because killing myself wasn’t going to help. I tried it once, but no one noticed, and when I did make it, I decided to live, because dying meant that demon won.

“You can tell me.” Kingston softly says.

“The school counsellor said I was a slut, I had enticed him, and all the boys started to lie, they would claim I had sex with them.” I sniff, blinking back tears. “Everyone believed that without question, but I never did, I didn’t let them touch me, I hated it so much my body would freeze when they touched me.”

He pauses, eyes wide with recognition. “You froze,” he says, his eyes wandering. “When I-”

Chapter 320

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“No,” I blurt out. “It wasn’t you, I promise it wasn’t.‘

“You froze,” He repeats, this time much clearer, like it only now just stuck.

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