Moon Bound (Glorious Darkness Book 1) by UNKNOWN

Author:UNKNOWN [UNKNOWN]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Alsey Grayland
Published: 2016-07-23T07:00:00+00:00

(29) Small Acts Of Betrayal

|Scarlet's POV|

The creak of the door leaves me small and scared in that house of torture. I am back, once again alone to face my own demons. The door behind me closes with a click, one that sounds like finality, before I manage to pull myself together and descend down the stairs into my own private purgatory.

I won't be hiding in his room. I will face them. Regardless. Or perhaps exactly because they are who they are to me.

This time, I won't run.

The pack is clustered around the dining table, my friends, even Jaz and Hunter who are supposed to live outside of the packhouse, assembled amongst my former pack mates, chatting with them jovially like old friends brought together.

Taking a minute to inspect the scene, bizarre as it is to see my family accepting of that pack of walking and talking disease, it is much more to me. Festering and acrid like a back stab wound you become aware of only once it starts to ooze out. The caged inside me beast is growling in pain as I watch my family be lured in the pretense like spellbound children. Don't they see it, don't they understand it's all a show?

I let out a small sigh, knowing I can do nothing about it but wishing I could with all that's vile and bitter inside me. I know I shouldn't do that. I can't cause a scene, I can't turn my family against those people who are now our only protection, however, I can't deny the internal itch to do just that. No matter that this is beneath me or that I've made a promise.

A bargain with the devil I must honor.

Glancing back, it was either the sound or the bond that alarmed him of my presence. Fixing me with these soulful green pools of his, his sadness is still there, the hurt still staring back at me, it's just him who doesn't allow it to show for all there are to see.

Their pain caged inside just like their beasts are, in something that's proven to be one highly combustive concoction over the centuries, Alphas rarely let themselves be seen as weak but, perhaps, in some kind of grand gesture on his part, I'm allowed to glimpse it now. Just for a heartbeat before he directs a nod my way, his hand flicking in beckoning and then pointing to the empty place next to him.

With intent to place me where his Luna should sit, his gaze is offering me a silent dare to challenge him, the ruler back on his throne after bending the knee.

There's just one seat beside his Queen's that I can take.

"She's not our Luna yet. This isn't a place she can take, Alpha Regan." She is unworthy, she never says the last out loud, but it's there - hanging in the air like a never spoken curse. Eyes reflecting her hate for me, Sasha's waiting for me to decide on a course of action.

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