Rise Of A Shattered Luna (Natalie) by Kave Derry novel Chapter 34

Chapter 34 The Cruel Truth

Jensen’s POV

When I regained consciousness, it was already night.

The villa was dark.

For a moment, I didn’t remember anything.

“Natalie,” I called out instinctively. “Why haven’t you turned on the lights?”

The silence answered me, then the pain in my chest forced everything back into place.

Natalie was gone…

I forced myself toward the door, my legs shaking, my heart hammering against Sharon’s rib.

I had to find her or even crawl to her if I had to. But when I swung the door open, I didn’t find Natalie. I found the monster I had traded her for.

Sharon threw herself at me, her face a mask of frantic tears. “Jensen! The security here is awful–they wouldn’t let me in! Tell them to stop!”

I stepped aside; I didn’t think. It was an instinctual recoil, as if she were a hot iron.

Sharon hit the ground with a heavy thud.

She looked up at me, her eyes wide with shock. Jensen, what’s wrong with you?”

“Don’t touch me,” I spat. My voice was so sharp it shocked me: “Natalie hated when you touched me.”

“What nonsense are you spouting?” Sharon scrambled up, her voice rising to that shrill, entitled pitch I had once mistaken for ‘confidence. “I’m your mate! I’m the Luna of the pack! Natalie’s dead. What does it matter what she liked?”

The word “dead” snapped the last thread of my restraint. I lunged, my hand closing around her throat, forcing her back. “Ten days ago, I told you no one could ever know. I only mated with you to grant you your final wish. So why? Why did you call me on her birthday? You knew what that night was.”

Sharon clawed at my fingers, her face flushing a deep, angry purple. “You keep saying it was Natalie’s birthday–but it was mine, too! You told me we’d celebrate. I only sent one message -‘I miss you.‘ You’re the one who came running you’re the one who stayed the night. How is that my fault?”

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The truth hit me harder than a physical blow, she was right. One text from a “wild girl” had been enough to make me abandon the woman who had given me her soul.

I had wanted the fire, the recklessness, the thrill of someone who didn’t play by the rules of the elite. And for that cheap, youthful high, I had personally handed Sharon the knife to gut Natalie.

I let

go

of her and broke into a laugh–a jagged, manic sound that made Sharon shrink back in genuine terror.

“Jensen, what’s wrong with you? Let me help you inside…”

“Don’t touch me!” I shoved her away; the disgust was a physical weight in my gut.

Hansel approached, his face a careful mask of professional indifference. He held out a phone. “Sir, I recovered Ms. Natalie’s phone data as you ordered.”

Sharon’s eyes went wild as she lunged for the device, her manicured nails raking the air. “Jensen, she’s dead! Why do you need her phone Give it to me!”

“Don’t touch Natalie’s things.” I shoved her hard, sending her sprawling back onto the pavement.

“I’m your mate!” she shrieked from the ground. “Have you forgotten you carry my rib? Without me, would you even be standing here?

I looked down at her… like really looked at her, and the scales finally fell away. I had been blinded by a “lifesaving debt” that I’d used as a shield against my own guilt.

“Your debt is paid,” I said, my voice dropping into a cold, lethal register. “I’ve given you the title of Luna, and you’ll have it until you draw your last breath. But you will never set foot in this pack building again; you will never touch her things. And if I find what I suspect in this phone…”

I snatched the device and walked to the car.

“Ms. Sharon, please show some self–respect,” Chen Huai said, blocking her path.

“I’m your Luna! How dare you call me Ms. Sharon?”

“The Alpha ordered it,” Hansel replied, his voice flat. “You may be his mate in name, but to this house, you will always be Ms. Sharon.”

Inside the car, I opened the phone. The first thing I saw was my own name at the top of her chats as I scrolled through the last ten days. Every reply I’d sent her was a lie–working late, business trip, don’t wait up.

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Then I opened the chat with Sharon.

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The images flashed before my eyes like a series of car crashes–the photo of our mating ceremony and the video of the marking ceremony.

And then, the ring.

The Eternal Love band Natalie had designed for our anniversary, and I had slipped it onto Sharon’s finger because she’d begged for a ‘memory. I had told myself it didn’t matter; it was just a ring.

I looked at the screen; at the moment, Natalie must have seen her own heart being worn by her sister.

“I’m not interested in being a mistress.”

The words tore through me, stealing the air from my lungs. I was the one who had personally led her to the ledge.

I raised my hand and slapped myself… hard. The crack echoed in the cabin, then again. Over a dozen times until my cheeks burned and my vision blurred.

“Hansel,” I rasped, my voice thick with blood and bile. “I want the Moonreign pack erased from the upper class in three days. I want it in total ruin.”

“Alpha… you mean-?”

“Take back every support and let it fall,” I snapped.

She loved the status she had when she used to whip Natalie for eighteen years. I was going to take the ground from beneath her feet and watch her realize that a “wild girl” has nowhere to run when her pack gets attacked by rogues.”

“Where to, Alpha?”

“The pack office.”

I headed to the storage room at the office, to the display case of the Eternal Love collection. It was all that was left of her.

“I’m sealing this away, Natalie,” I whispered, packing the jewelry into the velvet–lined boxes. “It’ll never fade, just like what I’ve destroyed.”

Then I noticed the gap–one ring was missing.

“Hansel, get the ring back from Sharon. It’s part of the collection.”

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“Sir, you gave it to her. How do I explain-”

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