Chapter 79
Chapter 79
LUNA AQUAMARINE’S POV.
It was like he read my mind.
Of course I planned to run away, for real this time.
“No,” I lied in a heartbeat.
You twitch when you lie, Aqua.” He growled slowly, his aura rising like yeast in bread.
What did he expect? I mean… after what I witnessed, only a mad person would still want to stay with him.
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He glared at me. “So why did you act like that? Like you didn’t mind. You looked me in the eye that night and still took me the way I
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I looked up at him.
It was like reality was slowly hitting me, hard in the face. I had sex with….. it. I personally pulled him in, but I had no choice. It was either that… or Terran’s body on mine would still linger.
“Just for you to switch since I brought you back. Just for you to scream and push me away from you anytime you manage to open your eyes.” His jaw clenched.
1 blinked, because I didn’t remember waking up like that. I didn’t remember screaming. The idea that I’d fought him in my sleep like some wounded animal made bile rise hot in my throat.
If anything he deserves it.
But most importantly.
Why is he angry? I should be the one acting like this after what he did to me. I should be the one snapping at him for everything he made me go through.
I let my gaze slide past him, my voice colder than I meant. “Why would I run? I’ve already seen the worst of you.”
His jaw flexed. “The worst?”
I took a slow breath, trying to keep my anger from boiling over, and forced myself to meet his eyes. “You talk like I owe you something.”
His brow rose. “You think you
don’t?”
“What?” I blinked, disbelief cutting sharply through my chest. “You should be asking if I’ve forgiven you. If I ever want to forgive you.”
The bed creaked with his small shift. For a second he looked almost incredulous. laughable.
as if the idea of asking forgiveness was
His hand stilled where it had been idly resting near my leg. “The fuck would I do that? Are you insane?”
What in the hell??
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Heat flared and I snapped. “You locked me in a silver cage. Forced spoiled meat down my throat like I was some half–dead thing you found on the roadside and did inhumane things to me! You didn’t even let me speak for myself!” I snapped at him, my hands curled in the blanket.
The words carried all of the old wounds. I could see the bars, still see the way he’d closed the door and let me rot in his punishment. Saying it aloud made the past a live thing in the room again.
His eyes stayed fixed on me, unblinking, unyielding. “I did what I had to do for my pack.”
The cold in his tone made my skin prickle. To him, it had been ‘necessary. To me, it had been humiliation, a lesson taught by force.
Something in me snapped and I glared at him.
“You’re a selfish and terrible ruler,” I said quietly, every word cutting. “And I thought I was the stupid and gullible one but you just proved me wrong.”
His eyes and lips twitched as he stared at me. “Aquamarine-”
I didn’t stop. The anger had loosened a dam inside me.
“I didn’t steal. I told you that I didn’t. I told you to trust me, just like I kept trusting you blindly even when your people tried to kill me. I even put Katherine’s life at risk because of you. I begged you to give me a chance to explain but you ignored me. I was even ready to break the pact for you but you…… did what you had to do.”
He tilted his head, studying me like I was some puzzle piece he still couldn’t fit.
“I didn’t betray you.” My voice shook with rage. “Yes, I might have marked you first, but that was never my intention.” I spat the words. “But wolves‘ rules are different from Lycans, and you know it. You also knew I had zero knowledge of things, yet you treated me like a guinea pig just for your… animalistic entertainment.”
The room pulsed with silence. Every breath felt like a held thing between us. I wanted him to feel the full weight of it – to know exactly what I’d suffered and that my trust had been ripped to shreds.
“And now you’re sitting here and you want to know if I’m scared of your… other side?” I asked, almost laughing.
Alexander didn’t answer. He didn’t flinch or blink.
“He said that you don’t bleed or age. But I’ve tasted your blood – not once, not twice–when I ‘marked‘ you.” I narrowed my eyes. “Is that the secret Terran mentioned? That lizard beast-”
Before I could finish, his voice sliced across mine like a blade.
“It’s called a dragon,” he cut me off.
A dragon.
I had never heard that word before. But it tasted strange on my tongue. He didn’t look pleased to disclose it.
“A beast you should be very scared of, Aqua, A beast you had no clue of till I saved you from Terran. Where do you think my name comes from? The Golden–Eyed Devil?” He continued. “There are only four people in this world who saw me and didn’t die.”
Oh, I do. I never missed it..
I remembered nights I woke alone, skin still warm from him, but by the time he sneaked in again, the air around him was always
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hotter. Smelled like burnt coal.
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The way his body heated when he was angry. The way his growls didn’t sound like any Lycan. The horns I thought I imagined when he lost control inside me. The shifting pulse of power that filled the room like thunder before lightning. Rare moments his irises stretched vertically, like a snake.
Those things weren’t only memories. They were red flags I’d tried to ignore.
“Curses and secrets,” he went on, voice quiet but sharp. “You think what Terran told you makes me dangerous? You think burning Naturellia is terrible?” He leaned in again, the tip of his nose brushing mine. “You have no idea.”
The brush of his breath was a challenge. He was daring me to back down. He wanted me small. My fingers curled into the sheets to keep from shifting back.
He leaned in, close enough that the heat from his skin brushed mine. “So if you’re planning to run,” his voice dropped lower, “remember this, Aqua – there’s nowhere I won’t find you.”
Those words dug into me. They were not a promise to protect so much as a guarantee that any attempt would be futile.
There was a sudden knock on the door. “Luna Aquamarine, the Order would like to speak-
“Tell them she won’t be available,” Alexander spat. But his hand stayed on my face, keeping me from pulling too far.
1 scoffed and smirked at him. “I’ll be there, Aaron!” I yelled.
His brows creased and his chest rose. “Don’t test me Aqua-” he growled.
“Why don’t you wait and see, Primus?”
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