Chapter 171
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The tension and the air crackled between us because at the end of the day I was staring at the woman who caused my child’s death.
Ovelia stood there, her eyes narrowed and she had a cruel smirk playing on her lips. I have been dreading this moment and yet, in a strange way, I was
waiting for it.
I didn’t expect my first day back to be this crazy but I knew that the person to cause problems for me will be Ovelia and to be honest the feeling was
mutual.
She purred, her voice dripping with fake sweetness that made my skin crawl. “Look what the cat dragged in. The runaway Luna.” She was enjoy
second of it.
ry
My fists clenched at my as I tried to calm my wolf down because I’m not the same person who left this pack and my wolf is stronger than ever before. “I didn’t run away, Ovalia. I left.” Saying that I ran away is crazy because I said goodbye to everybody.
I know it to some people it may have come as me abandoning this pack but she of all people has to understand.
She laughed, a sharp, unpleasant sound that grated on my nerves. “Oh, is that what you call it? Packing up your bags and vanishing into thin air every time things get a little tough? That’s not what a Luna does, Faith. This pack… they don’t deserve a Luna who just packs up and leaves every time things don’t go her way. you did it 6 years ago and you did it again now so it doesn’t come as a surprise to anybody anymore.”
Her words were like daggers, each one aimed right. My breath hitched.
“You know why I left.” I shot back, my voice trembling despite my best efforts to keep it steady but talking about my miscarriage is a sour point.
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Ovelia just crossed her arms with a smug of confidence.
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“Oh, I think I have a pretty good idea. You’re weak. You couldn’t handle the pressure. I honestly get that she’s my mate’s mother and most importantly she is my children’s grandmother but she is a terrible person”
“I left because of you! Because I lost my baby! Because of what you did”
The smirk vanished from her face, replaced by a flicker of something I
couldn’t quite name.
Guilt? No, it was too quick. It was replaced by a cold, hard glare.
“Your baby? You think that’s all there is to it? You think you’re the only one who’s suffered, Faith?”
She took a step closer, her voice dropping to a menacing whisper.
“I lost my mate, Faith. My mate. Because of you and your pathetic brother. So, you lost a baby? I lost the other half of my soul. We’re even, wouldn’t you say?”
The air was sucked out of my lungs. Her words hit me with the force of a physical blow. Even? How could she say that? How could she compare our losses and the truth of the matter is that I had nothing to do with Sander’s
death.
I feel sorry for Astor because he lost his father but I wish it was her because she is the worst.
But before I could even form a coherent thought, she started to laugh. It wasn’t a gentle laugh, or even a mocking one. It was a chilling, triumphant cackle that echoed in the silent space between us.
“And you know what the best part is, Falth?” she practically crowed, her eyes gleaming with malicious glee. “That little position you thought you had? It’s no longer there. Because now… now even Astor can see you for what you
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really are. A quitter. Someone who runs away whenever she feels like it.”
My blood ran cold. Astor. My Astor. The way she said it, the venom in her voice… it was a cruel twist of the knife. I wanted to scream at her, to deny it with every fiber of my being. I wanted to tell her she was a liar, that Astor
would never think that of me.
But my heart… my heart broke because after the conversation Astor and I just had it was quite clear. He did think that. He thought I had abandoned him, abandoned the pack. He thought I was a coward.
When I left I thought that he understood my reasons and when I talked to him on the phone he seemed like he was looking forward to us being reunited but all alone he felt betrayed.
A fresh wave of pain, sharper than anything before, washed over me. But this time, it was mixed with a burning, hot rage. Ovelia.
She has been feeding him lies. Poisoning his mind against me, twisting my pain into a weakness, turning him against me.
“You venomous snake.” I hissed, my voice low and dangerous. “You’ve been whispering in his ear, haven’t you? Filling his head with your twisted version
of the truth.”
She just smiled, a self–satisfied smirk. “He’s my son, Faith. He listens to his mother.” That is highly unlikely and I feel like there’s more to the way he is behaving than she says and I will find out before I help him get back to
normal.
I don’t think anybody accept somebody in my shoes would understand why took the decision to leave and I thought explained as best as I could but it’s still not enough.
“I’m back, Ovelia. And nobody. Nobody will come between me and Astor. Not you. Not anyone.”
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Her smirk didnt drop and she looked confident about something I didn’t
know but I still warned her.
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“You better start watching your back. Because I am the Luna of this pack. And everything… everything will go exactly how I want it to go. I’m not the Old faith and you mess with me I promise you, you will not like what you see.
I don’t like you and if it were up to me then you would have lost your life a lot quicker but I felt sorry for you because you are my mate’s mother so stay in your lane or you will face the consequences.”
