Chapter 173
I blinked my eyes hard and I thought that maybe I was seeing things because I was so tired. But she was real. She was standing there with her fiery red hair falling loose around her shoulders. She looked just like I remembered
her, but also different.
She looked older and more confident. It felt like a ghost from my past had suddenly appeared right in front of me.
“Annabella?” I asked. My voice was just a whisper. I was in total shock. “What are you doing here?”
She shrugged her shoulders like it was no big deal that she had just popped up out of nowhere. A small, smirk played on her lips. It was a smile that said she knew something I didn’t.
“I’ve been here for a couple of months,” she said casually. She picked up an apple from a bowl and tossed it in her hand. “Dad thought it was safer for me here. You know, since the Shadow Moon Pack was one of the packs that Kyle
attacked.”
She took a bite of the apple and chewed slowly, watching my face.
It’s crazy how the hate I felt for her when I first met her still lived and breathed even to this day.
“The attack was bad,” she continued. “There was a lot of damage. Dad figured it was better for me to be away while they were rebuilding everything. He didn’t want me around the mess and the danger.”
Her eyes sparkled with mischief. She looked like a cat that had just caught a mouse. I could tell she was enjoying my confusion.
She always had the same look in her eyes every time she wanted me about not being good enough for my parents and that my parents preferred Alice
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She is my cousin but she made the first few months after I got to the eclipse pack hell because I unfortunately arrived while she was there.
I felt a rush of anger after I came to tems with what she said, she has been here for months? In my territory? And nobody told me.
“Why didn’t you tell me you were staying at my pack?” I asked her and I tried to keep my voice steady, but it was hard. “I am the Luna here. I should know who is living under my roof.”
Annabella laughed. It wasn’t a nice laugh. It was taunting.
“Oh, come on, Faith. I didn’t know this was your pack!” she shot back. Her tone was light, but her words were sharp. “The last thing I heard, you took over The Crescent Pack. You were busy with them.”
She took another step closer to me, her green eyes bright.
“So, naturally, I figured you were no longer the Luna of this pack,” she said. “You know how it is in our world. No real Luna leaves their pack to go
somewhere else. Once you leave, you usually don’t come back as the leader. I thought you had moved on.”
Her words hit me hard. She was trying to get under my skin. She was calling me out for leaving, implying that I wasn’t a good Luna.
For a moment, I just stared at her. Then, a laugh escaped my lips. It was a dry laugh. The tension in my shoulders eased just a little bit.
“You are still the same smart–ass little girl I remember,” I said, shaking my head. “Always have something clever to say, don’t you?”
But then, I remembered who I was. I was not just her old friend or someone she could taunt. I was the Luna. I had to show her that things were different
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I leaned in closer to her. I invaded her personal space. I lowered my voice so
it was deep and serious.
“But listen to me closely, Annabella,” I said. “Things are very different now. I am not the same person I used to be, and this pack is not a playground.”
looked her straight in the eyes.
“You better watch yourself,” I warned her. “If you step out of line, or if you cause any trouble for me or my pack, I will not hesitate. I will send you back to the Shadow Moon Pack before the sun sets today. You will be in a car and on your way home before your wolf even thinks about making an
appearance.”
My voice was hard as stone. I meant every word.
For a split second, her mask slipped. I saw a flicker of real fear in her eyes. She swallowed hard, realizing that I was not joking. My heart softened a tiny bit because I remembered that she was my uncle’s daughter, but I couldn’t let
her see that.
She recovered quickly. She stood up straighter and put her hands on her hips, trying to look brave again.
“You wouldn’t dare!” she said, raising her voice. “Astor would never let you do that! My dad is important, and he wants me here.”
I straightened my back. I let my Alpha energy fill the room just a little bit, enough to make the air feel heavy.
“I don’t need permission from anyone,” I said firmly. “Especially not from Astor. I am the Luna of this pack, and I make the decisions.”
I turned away from her and looked around the kitchen. The cooks had stopped working. They were all watching us, their eyes wide. They needed to know who was in charge.
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“Listen to me, everyone!” I announced, my voice booming off the walls. “Fror now on, things will go back to exactly how they were before. This kitchen is
mine to control.”
I looked back at Annabelle one last time, then back to everybody.
“If anyone has a problem with that, they can come to me directly,” I said. “I will deal with them. Do you all understand?”
They nodded quickly and went back to work, chopping and stirring faster
than before.
I let out a long breath. snapping at Annabelle didn’t help me because I still have a mate who hates me and doesn’t want to see my face and I just want to go home and forget about this day.
I turned on my heel and walked out of the kitchen. I left the noise, the
rejection, the hate, the anger, and Annabella behind me.
My heart was still pounding from my conversation with Astor and I had a bad feeling in my stomach.
I kept walking until I finally reached my house.
But as I got closer, I saw someone waiting for me.
It was Liam.
He was standing by the front door, leaning against the frame. He had his arms crossed over his chest. Even from a distance, I could tell something was wrong. He wasn’t smiling. He didn’t wave when he saw me.
I walked up the steps to the porch. I looked at his face. His expression was very serious. His eyebrows were pulled together, and his eyes looked worried.
“Faith, we need to talk,” he said.
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His voice was low and urgent. It wasn’t a casual greeting. It sounded like a
warning.
I knew that tone. Whatever he had to say wasn’t going to be good news. I
took a deep breath, trying to prepare myself.
“Okay,” I whispered.
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