Fake Heiress True Luna (Irina) novel Chapter 79

Chapter 3: Alpha Mate

Irina’s POV

I blinked.

Okay…

I wasn’t expecting that.

Well, I wasn’t expecting Cindy to tell me she found her mate, to be honest. I’m still a little confused about everything.

“A-Alpha?” I repeated. “From which pack?”

She wiped her nose, trying to steel her voice even though it shook.

“I… can’t tell you,” she mumbled, burying her face once again.

I don’t want to tell her I can easily find out, considering the only big event we had was my Luna ceremony, and Aiden and I didn’t invite many Alphas.

But I decided to keep that detail to myself; she has more than enough to deal with right now.

I sighed. “Cindy, I’m here if you need me. Even if he is an Alpha, if he isn’t a jerk, I’m sure he

will be over the moon.”

Cindy sniffled. “I can’t become Luna.”

“I became Luna,” I pointed out. “I was an omega as well, Cindy.”

She chuckled. “Luna, you are different. Your situation wasn’t easy, and I heard you were kidnapped during your trial, but you had an education. I… don’t have anything, I only know how to clean. Alpha Aiden changed our situation, but before him, we couldn’t exactly study past primary school.”

“And?” I questioned, making her lift her head. “Being a good Luna is not related to having an

education or not.”

Cindy let out a shaky, humorless laugh.

“Luna, I know you mean well, but you are not an omega. You were always meant for greatness. Please… I want to be alone. Once I make up my mind, I will ask for your help, but right now I need to think.”

Her words stung more than I expected.

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Not because she was wrong-goddess, I wish she were wrong-but because I knew exactly what it meant for an omega to say them.

That raw acceptance.

That resignation. That belief that she was somehow less, simply because she’d been born at the bottom of the hierarchy.

“Cindy…” I murmured gently.

She turned her face away, burying it against her knees like she wanted the floor to swallow her whole.

I crouched in front of her, lowering myself until we were at eye level.

“You can ask me to give you space,” I said softly, “but I won’t walk out of this room thinking you’re unworthy of something as sacred as the mate bond.”

Cindy didn’t look at me.

Her shoulders shook once-not a sob, but something like a soundless tremor of frustration.

I continued, “You are not just a maid, Cindy. Being an omega doesn’t make you less of a woman. Or less of a mate.”

“It does when the other half of the bond is supposed to stand above everyone,” she whispered.

There was so much pain layered into those words that I felt my own heart throb.

Cindy rubbed at her eyes with the sleeve of her uniform, then looked at me. Really looked. Her voice was thin, fragile, like she’d scraped it clean trying not to cry.

“He wants me… but… I can’t do that to his pack,” she murmured. “He wanted to claim me right there, but I just ran and now… it hurts. The distance pains, I’m not sure how you lived with this pain.”

My chest tightened.

The distance pains are hard to endure; I’m not even sure how I was able to ignore them for so long.

“But then,” she continued, “his Beta came in.”

Ah.

That explained everything.

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“He wanted to talk to him, and I just ran. He came later, but I didn’t want to meet him again.”

“So the Beta didn’t tell her anything,” Theia commented,

“Yeah, seems like it. She is scared.”

“Can you blame her?” Theia questioned. “After what happened with us, I’m sure she is terrified.”

I nodded. Despite his efforts, Aiden couldn’t hide what happened,

“Okay, I get it. I will be in the pack house whenever you want to talk. I want you to be my friend, you were the only person who wasn’t mean to me despite my status,” I said, my voice

warm.

Cindy stared at me, wide-eyed, as if the word friend was too big, too sacred, too impossible

for her to hold.

Her lips parted, but no sound came out-not even a sob this time-just a breath, small and broken at the edges.

I smiled softly and pushed a lock of her hair behind her ear. “You don’t have to decide anything today. Not about him, not about the bond, not about being Luna. But you don’t get to hide away thinking you’re alone.”

Her throat bobbed.

“I’m serious,” I added, gentler now. “Whenever you want to talk, whenever you need anything… I’m there. I’m not just saying it because I’m your Luna. I mean it because I like you.”

Her eyes watered immediately, but in the end, she decided not to say anything else, just gulp and nod.

I returned to my room, only to find a pacing Aiden. “Where’s the fire?” I asked, teasing.

Aiden froze mid-stride the instant he heard my voice.

His head snapped toward the doorway so sharply I thought he might’ve pulled a muscle. His eyes scanned me from head to toe, tension radiating from him in waves,

Great.

He was in full Alpha-mode panic.

“Where,” he growled slowly, “have you been?”

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I get that he is worried, but if he uses that tone with me, I’m going to teach him so freaking

manners.

“I think you might want to rethink the tone you used right now,” I said, my voice cold and laced with Theia’s.

Aiden sighed, his shoulders slumped. “I’m sorry… I thought you left me. After what happened, I know you must be tired, and I can’t help but wonder how long you are going to keep with the pack.”

“When I became Luna, I knew it would be difficult.”

“But you never expected the pack to be this disrespectful,” He countered.

Hmm… true.

“Where were you?” He asked again, softer this time.

I stepped inside and quietly shut the door behind me. “Out.”

His jaw ticked. “Out where?”

“I can’t tell you,” I replied.

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