Rise Of A Shattered Luna (Natalie) by Kave Derry novel Chapter 49

Chapter 49 The Ghost Of A Rib

Jensen’s POV

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“I… I didn’t see clearly,” she stammered, her voice thin and reedy. “He had his face covered, and I think I was knocked out because when I woke up again, my hand was also broken. After that, the man went crazy, smashing at me again and again. I blacked out completely. I really didn’t see who it was.”

She was trembling, her face as pale as death. Her fear wasn’t an act–it was true, and it shook her to her core.

Even her mom, seeing her daughter in such a state, couldn’t hold back her tears.

She hovered over the bed like a desperate crow. Jensen, Sharon has endured so much pain. You must stand up for her! You are her Alpha, her husband!”

I stepped forward and seized Sharon’s chin, my fingers digging into her skin, forcing her to raise her head. I wanted her to look into my eyes.

“Sharon… tell me. Was it a man or a woman who broke your hand?”

My voice was a low growl, the look in my eyes was cold enough to freeze a soul. Sharon’s jaw shook under my grip; she struggled, her scent spiking with fresh panic, but she couldn’t break free.

“Jensen, you’re hurting me,” she whimpered, tears spilling down her cheeks.

“Speak!”

“It was a man!” she hissed, her voice regaining some of its jagged edge. “Tall and thin. I don’t know what I did to provoke him. Maybe he was one of Natalie’s admirers. Or maybe one of her lovers, who knows? Why else would he kill my wolf and break my right hand? To match hers?”

My face darkened instantly.

Cairn let out a lethal snarl in the back of my mind. “How dare she speak dirty of her?”

“You’re spouting filth!” I roared, the sound echoing off the sterile walls. “Natalie was always pure and self–respecting… you think she’s like you? You think her soul was as black as yours?”

My grip on her chin tightened; Sharon’s jaw was so close to snapping, but the hatred in her heart was stronger than her fear. Her reddened eyes glared back at me, bloodshot and frantic.

“I’m telling the truth!” she shrieked. “Natalie wasn’t as innocent as you think… she was a

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tramp! You have no idea how skilled she was at seduction. She might have been sneaking around behind your back with another man all along! Maybe that’s how she really paid for your life!”

“Shut your mouth!”

My eyes flared red, the Alpha’s bloodlust rising, and the pressure of my hand threatened to crush her jaw into powder. I couldn’t stand to hear her desecrate Natalie’s name.

Sharon’s body shook with pain, but seeing my rage only drove her to hurl more filth.

“What are you so afraid of, Jensen? Think about it! Five years ago, when you needed surgery after the car accident, when everyone begged the Witch Doctor and he refused–why did he say yes to Natalie?”

Her lips twisted into a cold smile. “Why was she the only one who could get through to that monster? And when she came back, her face was pale, her body weak. Didn’t you ever wonder if she sold herself to him to get him to come? Didn’t you wonder why I was the only one who truly gave you a part of myself?”

“I told you to shut up!” I shouted with a roar, and I flung Sharon down from the bed. She fell from the mattress hard, the bandages on her hand catching on the railing.

“Sharon!” her mother cried out, rushing to her daughter’s side, shielding her as if I were a wild beast.

Sharon, her face flushed a sickly purple from rage and humiliation, glared up at me from the pillows.

“Jensen, admit it–you’ve suspected it yourself, haven’t you? You just never dared to confirm it! Otherwise, why did you never touch her in those five years together? Because you were afraid! Afraid she’d really slept with another man for you. You couldn’t face the fact that your ‘pure‘ little mate was tainted by the Witch Doctor’s bed. And now she’s dead, so what’s the point of this act? You’re my mate! Mine!”

“Sharon,” I said, each word bitten out like cold steel, “you will pay for insulting Natalie today. You speak of ribs and sacrifices, but you don’t know the meaning of the word.”

“What are you going to do?” Sharon’s confidence finally wavered. She saw me looming over her, a darkness she couldn’t charm her way out of.

I turned to her mom, a cold, predatory smile curving at my lips. “Luna, why don’t you open your phone and take a look at the latest message from your mate?”

A flash of fear ran through her face, she didn’t know what madness had seized me, but she knew the look of an Alpha about to strike. She opened her phone with trembling hands.

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The message was from her mate: Rogues are attacking the pack.

“How can this be?” Her voice was a shriek of disbelief.

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Sharon saw it too. Her heart jolted as she turned to me, her eyes wide with horror. “You did this? Jensen, you announced the dissolvement of the alliance?”

“Yes.”

“The pack let you whip Natalie nearly to death,” said, my voice as cool as the grave. “If Natalie were still alive, perhaps I would not have bothered to settle that debt. After all, without your cruelty, I might never have met her. But Natalie is gone. And for that, the Moonreign pack must pay.”

Sharon stared at me, stunned. The life she had plotted for was evaporating before her eyes. She can’t be my Luna, and her pack has been attacked also.

Before she could speak, the door burst open. Hansel stood there, breathless, his face tight with urgency.

“Alpha, we just received word–Natalie’s ashes were sighted in the black market. A trader was boasting of having the remains of an Alpha’s mate. And… the Witch Doctor’s clinic has opened its doors. The Witch Doctor is in the black market!”

“Jensen, the Witch Doctor is here!” she cried, her voice desperate. “Help me. I can’t live without my wolf. The doctors said only he can retrieve her. You can’t abandon me! If not for me giving you my rib back then, would you even be standing here?”

“Alpha Jensen,” she pleaded, “no matter how wrong we have been, for Sharon’s sake, for the rib she gave you… spare us.”

She tugged at Sharon’s sleeve, but Sharon was only looking at me, her eyes full of the same entitlement that had destroyed everything I loved.

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