Alpha’s Rue: His Shunned Luna (Athena Enchanted) novel Chapter 95

Chapter 95

“You can’t leave, you are my Luna.” He growls, “You are marked, you are my mate. You belong here, not a gazillion fucking miles away! Our vows were not a suggestion.”

Caged.

That’s what he means to say, I’m caged in this goddamn pack where nothing ever works out for me because he marked me, he stamped a label on me and intends to control me with it.

My whole life I’ve been taking orders, I finally broke free from that while in Clinshore, but the moment I returned here, every chain and shackle came back on. The only difference now is that I have a new warden, an unreasonable one. “I have dreamed of opportunities like this for years, I have worked hard to earn them, and when they finally get to me, you expect me to just drop everything because I’m your Luna? A Luna that neither you nor this pack wishes for?”

“Don’t make this complicated, you’re staying here.” He repeats, his voice commanding. “You will decline the offer, are we clear?”

I blink, unable to recognise the eyes staring down at me. “No. You don’t get to decide for me, you don’t get to play the Luna card only when it benefits you. Are you even listening to yourself? You sound like a tyrant. The least you could do is be compassionate towards me, I gave up my whole fucking life to be an unwanted wife, an unwanted Luna, and you won’t even let me dream of -”

“Dreams are just dreams, people wake up from that,” he says. “You’re already awake. I might have forcefully marked you, but you left me with no choice, I did what I had to do to keep you here. You will not leave Mooncrest, you have a duty to this pack, to me. And I will not have anyone think that I can’t keep a Luna.”

“So this is about your ego,” I scoff, watching him.

“No. It’s about you wanting to disappear and run again.”

“I’m not running!” I snap. “I am not disappearing, it’s a job for fucks sake. I can commute, there are four other professors, I would teach two classes a week max.”

He shakes his head, his words hitting me quicker than he can speak them. “No, I know you Aeliana. The second you leave this pack? You’re not coming back, I’m not stupid enough to give you that chance. When will you realise that you’re where you need to be?”

“You don’t even want me here.”

“I do!” He snaps, “We wouldn’t be having this conversation if that were the case. We both made some promises that we have to keep, you don’t need a job, you’re Luna. I can give you whatever the fuck you want, but within this pack, within my reach. Tell that long-headed fucker that you’re not going. You belong here, with me.”

“What if I want to go? What if I need this? What if staying here is killing me?”

He steps forward again, eyes dark and raging. “Then you die.” He deadpans, “There is no other way around this, you can’t be mine from miles away. I would rather chain you in the basement than watch you ruin things again.”

I pause.

Tears burn in the corner of my eyes.

He’s wrong. For years, I was his while still miles and miles away from him. This isn’t even about me staying, it’s about him, his ego, punishing me for being bonded to him when I’m not what he wanted. “You’d chain me?” I almost whisper, my voice breaking. “What for?! To be your puppet, to breed and bleed me fucking dry just so you

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have things your way?”

He doesn’t flinch, “I will do what’s necessary for this pack.”

Of course.

Anything for the fucking pack! Even if it means I get to suffer. I don’t know why it shocks me, I have known since the day he marked me, and proceeded to stare at me with resentment so deep that it would kill me if it were a blade.

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