When We Were Mates (Demetra and Emris) novel Chapter 229

Chapter 229

Chapter 229

Luna Demetra.

“Emris, stop saying that…” I feel tears on my arms before I realize I’m crying.

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The Alpha looks at my face…at the tears, at the state of me and nothing moves in him. No possessiveness. No instinct to reach. The mate I know would have crossed the room the moment he saw me crying.

What Laura said is landing properly now. The things he loved and the things he hated have both been flattened…neither category holds weight for him anymore. New enemies are the ones that register. New people are the ones his wolf attaches to, depending on how they met him. Laura stepped in to help him out of the Sahara which means his wolf has filed her under protection.

Not me.

Laura comes forward and hands her phone to Emris, who then shows me something that my eyes are too full of tears to see. I hold myself with one hand and wipe my eyes so I can see. It’s an image of me in Lake’s office. The time where I meant to hit him and fell back on the table, and the slit in my dress went high.

H–howw? The only person capable of getting this image is Cassie. She was the one who came into the room, and I had no idea of how long she had been there at that point in time. Cassie had it all this time? She gave it to Laura-

“That’s not! Emris, that’s not what you think it is.”

“My first Luna slept with my brother, gave me a boy that wasn’t even mine-”

“Why are you talking about Milo like that!?” I shriek at him violently and glare.

“It’s exactly what he thinks.” Laura says, removing the phone from my hand while I’m still finding it hard to explain why that is even a picture. “You and Lake plotted all this while to take down Emris. Going to Wolf Arts was just the beginning of the setup.”

“That’s a lie!” Silver steps forward. “Demetra is your true Luna. Every Delta, Zeta, and elder in this room watched her hold this pack together and refuse to bond Lake regardless of what was threatened against her. This damn picture is not good enough evidence. You need better, you fucking Hale bitch.”

“Oh, of course. Defend the Luna when your true Alpha is standing right in front of you. Demetra removed my Cresthill doctors and replaced them with Seth’s… another wolf she almost married. Are none of you tired of defending-”

“Shut

your mouth!” Teddy’s voice comes from the upper railing and I look up to see her in tears while the Deltas hold her back from coming down.

“Emris, now that I think about it…you shouldn’t have let Lake leave. He should be punished. Just like the Luna should be punished. Let Lake confess and you’ll have every reason to divorce her–”

Divorce…divorce me?

“I was obviously kidding about letting him go!” Emris growls all of a sudden, as if it now. “Four Fangs, get the

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Chapter 229

Lyrang

Everything I’ve said. Everything I’ve tried to say. He’s not hearing me I’m speakin reaching his ears and going nowhere. Why is he so nonchalant? Where is his wolf

I turn to walk away, and Emris takes a step back so that he’s standing in my way

“Going? Running off from an investigation like a guilty she–wolf with something to hide

“You tore my clothes, get out of my way.” I hold my torn clothes together.

“I don’t care.” He tilts his head. “If you’ve been handing it out to these Alphas, what’s there to cover?”

I open my mouth, but tears come out of my eyes instead.

“The elders, the entire pack… they all know I have been faithful to you.” I hold his gaze through the blurring. “I understand that what they did to you has made it impossible to see that right now. But get out of my way.

Emris only comes closer. I clutch my hand tighter.

“Brother.” Silver immediately stands next to us. “Let her pass.”

“Or what, Silver hybrid? What are you gonna do?” Emris tilts his head back slowly with slitting eyes. I can see it on him… the want to fight, the specific restlessness of something looking for an outlet. I can just see it on him that he wants to fight. The blatant overshadowing to cause bloodshed that’s all I’m reading from him.

“Fine.” I say, removing my hands from covering my indecency.

Immediately, every Delta, Gamma, elder, everyone turns their backs away simultaneously – giving me the only privacy available. Since I have no choice but to stand here, half–clothed. When Emris looks across and sees everyone’s back is turned, he looks at me again with an amusing smile. I try to move again but this time, I didn’t expect him to still be standing in my way-

So, I bump into him.

I see him devilishly look down. But I don’t see the Emris excitement. He is just looking at me like he’s searching for something that I’m hiding. I feel a sniff on my face. One slow breath. And after that, he walks past me again like I’m nothing worth looking at anymore.

“Fine.” He exhales. “Since you all have respect for the Luna to turn your backs, then I’ll take my time and torture her lower until she confesses that she was part of all this.” He paces slowly. “That they both wanted to rule the pack. Fucking each other in my absence.”

I feel my body getting disgusted with what he’s saying.

“She is the mother of your child!” Derisha hisses.

“Not for long.”

“Emris. If you wanna get Lake, you should have made sure he didn’t go out. He’s a Lycan…you’re not gonna be able to-”

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“That’s why we have the Four Fangs. Laura interrupts Silver.

That’s the end of it for me.

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I walk back to my room and shut the door behind me and push the shredded remains of my dress off my body and sit somewhere that doesn’t matter and try to breathe.

Divorce me. Laura said that like she’s reminding him something they’ve rehearsed.

No. Let me understand this. I need to understand what’s happening to Emris and his wolf right now. I need to understand if I’ve lost him or if this is still redeemable.

His wolf is just indifferent. Darkened by the pressure of compulsion. So how does it wear off? The only thing I have is Emris’s wolf and if it can remember me….if the bond is still there, buried under the poisoning but

present…

If…if I can reach that wolf directly, the emotions will reorganize around it. He’ll remember his family. He’ll remember me. Can I do it? Is it even possible?

I get up once again and lock the door.

I need to see what happened at the gate first. I pull up the security footage on my phone and sit on the edge of the bed.

I see ambulance vans. A long line of them from the nearest hospital, pulling up along the front of the pack house. The Aegis unit are directing the bodies of barbarian wolves being carried out in numbers that make me press my hand over my mouth.

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