Rebirth of the Broken Luna A Second Chance at Luna's Heart novel Chapter 224

Chapter 224

LYN

“What do you mean you don’t deserve it?” I asked, as I was confused by the pain I could hear in his voice. This wasn’t the man that I

knew. This seemed to be someone else, that was revealing his faults to me and I had a hard time reconciling both of them together.

Zade stood up from his chair and moved to sit on the edge of his desk, facing me directly as he watched me intently making me feel like I was under a microscope. The movement brought him close enough that I could see the conflict that was present in his expression.

“I don’t want to confess that I love you only to die a week later and leave you stuck with that,” he said finally. “You deserve a chance

at finding happiness with someone who actually deserves you and isn’t scared to let the whole world know that as well. Not someone like

me.”

I stared at him in shock as I was trying to understand what he meant. “Someone like you? Zade, what are you talking about?”

He ran a hand through his hair, ruffling it which only ended up making him look older and more tired than I’d ever seen him.

“You probably don’t know what my father was like because you never met him, Lyn. But when he was Alpha, witches were outlawed

and killed, yes that was a fixed law. But homosexuality was also punished in this pack, frankly other packs could get away with it as the leaders won’t be bothered about the sexual relations of every individual as long as it’s consensual and of legal age. But my father was

different. He never believed men should show vulnerability or emotion to anyone because he was of the notion that it only ended up

making them weak and fragile and he put more gay men to death than witches during his reign.”

My heart clenched as I began to understand what he was telling me. Imagine the irony and I was a gay were witch who was his fated mate by Moon Goddess herself. If his father was dead, he would be rolling in his grave. What happened to that man though? I doubt this

was a good time to ask.

It seemed like my expression on my face must have given Zade the wrong idea as he closed his eyes and continued speaking, trying to

clarify it for me.

“As his son, some of his teachings rubbed off on me,” Zade continued, his voice barely audible. “I was even punished when I tried to plead for leniency for those people, that we should have exiled them, rather than ending their lives. And now I’m the Alpha, and talling in love with a man… it makes me feel like a hypocrite. Like I don’t deserve the very thing I was taught to condemn.’

“Zade,” I said softly, moving closer to him, seeing that this man was beating himself far too hard when he wasn’t as bad as he thought he was. ‘You’re not your father. You’ve never killed anyone for being gay. Times have changed, and so have you.’

“But what if i haven’t changed enough?” he asked, finally looking directly at me. “What if deep down, I’m still the same person who was raised to believe this was wrong? What if my father would be disappointed in who I’ve become?”

I felt my heart break a little at the vulnerability in his voice. “Then you need to make up your mind,” I said firmly, knowing that coddling him about this would only make things worse. He needed to pick a side.. “You can live in the past and let your fathers toxic beliefs control you forever, or you can be someone you’re actually proud of.”

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