Alpha’s Rue: His Shunned Luna (Athena Enchanted) novel Chapter 394

AELIANA

“Luna Aeliana,” Evelyn gasps, locking the door when she enters my cell. “Oh, my God. Why did you run away?”

I pause.

Sometimes I wonder how she got this job, she seems to lack common sense. She has seen this place, and she might be used to it, but I am not. She keeps staring at me from the window seat, waiting for an answer. “What else was I supposed to do if you insist on keeping me here?”

“I’m sorry,” her face falls. The word sorry itself is starting to annoy me. Why does everyone keep saying it to me and expecting that everything will be automatically okay? “I know it's an adjustment, but—”

“Don’t,” I sigh. “Just don’t, okay? I’d rather be dead right now, but my mate wants me to die in here.”

Hey, don't say that, that's…”

“The truth?” I snort out a bitter laugh. She doesn’t even know the right words for this. “And don’t try to tell me that he loves me because I know he does,” I swallow. His love for me isn’t something I should ever doubt, it’s not new either, and His actions never are too.

“Yes.” She nods, “Alpha Kingston seems to love you very much.”

“And I know that love is not enough because if it was, I would not be suffering in this fucking hell hole.”

“Oh God,” she whispers, her voice defeated. “You shouldn’t have escaped. Now look at you.” She pouts, “You’ve set back your progress and lost outside privileges.”

I roll my eyes at that.

“And this is normal to you?” I frown. Doctor James said I wasn't allowed to go outside yesterday because my actions cannot be trusted. I have a fucking ring on my pinky that prevents us from shifting by some fucked up since, how can I do anything? “The fact that I get punished for wanting to be free sits well with you? You’re all sick.”

Silence.

For the first time since I’ve known her, she actually shuts up without me having to ask. She knows it's wrong, every single one of these clowns working here knows they’re wrong, and still, they don’t bat an eye at injustice. They back each other up in their lies so that we seem like we are lying.

“Do you want to go outside for a few minutes?” She asks, pointing outside my window. It’s open, and some tiny burglar bars prevent me from falling out the window. Like the window was ever an issue, I’m on the second floor, so I would break my leg at most. “They brought pets.”

“I don’t like pets.” I snap, staring at the fountain outside. Looking at it has become my favourite thing lately, I like seeing how freely the water flows, it gives me hope for all the water that I will see pretty soon.

“Well, umm, there’s ice cream where the elderly and kids are.”

“Ice cream?” I finally meet her eyes.

I haven’t had ice cream in months. I don’t like it much, but once she mentions it, the idea sticks. Lumi wants some too, she starts telling me how good it would taste if we got something lemon flavoured. “Plenty,” Evelyn nods. “There’s a ton of vanilla and chocolate ice cream, and I think I saw cookies and cream too.” She tells me, hopping off the window seat. “Shall we go?”

“No.” I sigh. My interest died the moment he mentioned the flavours available.

“What flavour does the ice cream have to be to get you outside?”

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