Chasing the rejected Luna

44: Payback

"What?" I gasped again and took a staggering step back. I didn't care that I might likely trip from something and fall on my ass.

All I kept thinking were his words. He killed my parents. But why?

"They deserved every bit of it," he lashed out again. I didn't know I had spoken the last sentence out until his voice broke into my thoughts.

He said something more but I couldn't concentrate with the ringing in my ears or the hammering of my heart after I feared it wouldn't start again when it stopped. He killed them.

I never asked questions about my parents' death because I was made to believe they were killed by rogues. The former Alpha, Alexander's father, made me believe that. I was too young to question his words of to give more thought to the answer.

Had he known also? I doubted he didn't. B

Maybe he did it to protect me. How would I have reacted if I was told my parents had been killed by an Alpha?

I knew I would have tried to avenge them. But all of that would have changed me. I would have grown a bitter child whose heart was filled with hate, only seeing the bad in everyone.

Maybe Alexander's father knew that and also did it to protect my heart from breaking. But that didn't stop it from breaking now. I half expected myself to wail and become clouded with rage. But I had the opposite effect.

My heart beat slowed and I looked up, taking hold of my emotions and pushing them to the back of my mind. I had no idea where the strength came from. I was quite surprised at myself for being able to do that after the news of my parents death. And the hatred that consumed Alpha Ryven.

No, not Alpha Ryven. He wasn't my Alpha. He was Ryven who had played with me until there was almost nothing left of me.

I wondered what would have happened if I hadn't found Alexander's letter in his office. Maybe I would have been fully Luna if the pack, living blissfully in here.

But I doubted I would have been able to live peacefully here. I knew I would have surely found a way out of this mess.

I couldn't even begin to imagine as my gaze clashed with Alp- Ryven.

"You will tell me everything that happened. And why you came to the pack. You will spill everything, leaving no information out of it," I said slowly, enunciating each word.

Ryven half expected me to lash out but was quite surprised bu my calmness because of the way his head jerked back. I could understand that. I was also surprised by my calmness.

"Yes," he forced out those words with gritted teeth and I smiled and walked closer to him. I wanted him to feel the silent rage that coursed through me. Although I knew he could very well feel it from where he kneeled.

"Now, stand up and lead the way to the dungeon," I said and his eyes widened. There was a slight increase of his eyes as he finally realized what I meant.

I was going to torture the information out of him. But I had no idea how to compel the guards to follow my orders. I wasn't yet their Luna fully. They would be able to tell because they could not feel my bond as the pack Luna.

I knew that wasn't a problem because I had the power to compel Ryven. But what if I compelled him and there was a revolution? The people didn't trust me yet. And harming their Alpha isn't what they would frown upon.

Although I knew the consequences my a ruins would cause. But i could stop Alpha Ryven by telling him to go back to the room. I wanted revenge and I wanted it served cold.

"The people would revolt. Don't think you can do anything to me. This is my pack and I'm their alpha," Alpha Ryven seethed but I smirked because there was nothing he could do but to run his mouth.

I looked at him while he walked, more focused on his legs, in case my gifts of compulsion wanted to fail me. I could easily deflect any blow from him.

"Let's see how it goes," I said to him while he walked his fists. Somehow the sight made me smile against the pain in my heart.

It was hard to explain but I knew I could do anything I wanted with him. I could very well compel others to follow my command but that wasn't what I wanted.

I didn't want anyone to feel like they didn't have a choice. Just like I was made to work all my life against my will. And it's only because of the person who stood in front of me. Belongs to (N)ôvel/Drama.Org.

What hurt the most wasn't knowing that he aided his father in killing my parents but the lack of remorse when he spit it out. He still hYed them and I knew that hate also transferred to me.

He hated me.

I was so blind.

Now, I was left hurting. So much that I drowned it out, denied myself from feeling anything that I just felt numb and betrayed. The betrayal didn't hurt as much as the knowledge that I was a fool who believed all his lies.

I swallowed and focused on the man in front of me. We got weird glances from people around us but I didn't care less. They wanted to know why Aloha Ryven had a pained look.

It was a sight to behold as their jaws fell slack while we passed them. I was relieving in the bliss of the shame I knew Alpha Ryven felt.

But I still had no idea why he didn't call for help. Surely, I had compelled him to lead the way. I didn't mention anything about not calling for help.

The bliss I felt while revering in Alpha Ryven's Shane stopped when we bumped into Ava. There was shock on her face at her brother's expression. But what was most shocking was the lack of acknowledgement from him while we passed by her.

We were almost in the dungeon. I knew this place. It was where I had been brought to. The smell I perceived even before we got there brought back memories.

"What's happening here?" Ava asked when we were almost at the door of the dungeon. I saw the guards stiffened at attention. They too wanted to know what was happening.

I looked away from her face and continued walking down the hall. Alpha Ryven hasn't stopped yet. The command was still on him. And Ava took that as a hint to follow us, not like she expected what she was going to see.

A smile almost broke out on my lips as I thought about how she would react to the news of me putting her brother where he rightfully belongs. I know that had been on bad terms but that didn't mean she would side with a stranger.

I couldn't be sure because when I looked at her, she was quietly following us even when Alpha Ryven walked into the cell that I was placed in before.

"Sit," I told him and he obeyed with the same painful look on his face. Good. But that wasn't before seeing the slight raise of Ava's eyebrows.

"What's going on here?" She asked once again when she settled herself on the wall. There was a look in her eyes I couldn't decipher.