Surrender To Us, Our Luna (One Luna, Four Alphas) novel Chapter 402

Chapter 402: 402-The Lonely Monsters

Clementine:

"What did you say? Miss Rue will be waiting for us?" I asked him. He nodded steadily, almost carefully, as if afraid of what I might say.

"She is the one who asked me to go look for you," he replied, still holding his hands under my elbows.

"Ian, Miss Rue shot me."

The moment I said that, he straightened his back against the wall, his eyebrows pulling together and his eyes narrowing at me.

"Clementine, what are you talking about?" he asked, looking confused.

That was when I started to explain everything to him, how she had brought me here to show me the fence in advance.

I told him about the task and how she slipped a fake key into my pocket to mislead me.

She told me I would be killed if I boarded the train. But once I arrived at the fence, she asked for the watch, and once she got it, she shot me.

I also told him how I had to pull the bullet out before it caused so much damage that I would not have survived.

He was completely shocked.

"Why would she do that?" he asked me. His hold under my elbows was firm now, showing that even he was surprised she had done something like that.

"Because of Riv," I replied.

My answer only seemed to confuse him further, because his frown deepened.

"Who again?" he questioned.

"Riv. Remember the first crusader who died in the transition stage, the one I was accused of killing?" I responded.

Ian started to shake his head before he slapped his forehead.

"I mean, it was pretty obvious that Riv was dragging you down. We were only looking for ways to bully you. But wait, what does that have to do with her?" he questioned, looking lost.

"Ian, Miss Rue is Riv’s sister," I told him.

That was all I had to say for him to understand why she wanted to kill me.

"That is so stupid. And, oh my goodness. Why would she think that?" he remarked. As soon as he said it, he paused, and a strange look crossed his eyes.

"Maybe because she saw the whole fight, and she believed that her sister was innocent," I mumbled, choosing my words carefully because I wanted to see his reaction.

The way he started to nod made me feel like he knew more than he had ever told me, things even I had not fully discovered.

"I know what you are talking about," he uttered. 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

The academy could have been built for many reasons, but why the North was like this was the real question.

"When we had a fight and I saw you with Troy, I returned to my room, and a lurker came to fetch me. My father took me home. I passed out there. When I woke up, my father was preparing dinner for us. That was when he told me he was going to change some rules for me, but before that, he wanted me to know the entire truth.

"He took me to the basement, where all the truth is kept. That is where I learned everything. I fought my father to leave the mansion and reach the academy, but that was when I found out you were gone. He chose the right day to tell me all this because he knew that, behind my back, he was sending you to the North."

I watched him speak softly, but the emotions in his eyes were real, and I believed him. I believed every word he said. It was not the right time for us to question each other. If he had come all the way to the North to save me, then I could trust him.

"Clementine, the North was not built because of a disease or because some wall broke and monsters came in, but because the alphas had become something else," he explained.

As soon as he said that, a chill ran up my spine, and then he started to tell me everything. All of it.

After giving me the biggest shock of my life, he repeated one more thing that made me feel terrible for him.

"Zian does not even know why he is this way. He was not supposed to be like this. He was forced into becoming a monster."

As soon as Ian said that, I cupped his face and pulled him closer, hugging his head and letting him cry softly against my chest. All this time, we had been so wronged. The people we lived with, the alphas we called our fathers, were cruel and brutal. I felt sorry for the North and for the monsters.

While he cried against my chest, my eyes drifted to the far distance. The hollow man appeared through the clouds, and I began to wonder who he was.

What was his story? Why had they turned him into a hollow man?

He walked alone, making that sound. Did he know he had once been a normal person? Was he aware somewhere inside? Was he humming to call for the people he loved?