Alpha’s Regret-My Luna Has A Son By Jess

Valen came back a few minutes later with a towel before marching into the bathroom and shutting the door while muttering under his breath. I heard the shower start and sighed He

had a point, though.

The media would go insane over two mates, especially one holding status in the city but living apart. The scandals it would lead to, and I could only imagine the speculation it would cause and the rift once everyone found out I was, in fact, Alpha John’s daughter.

That was another thing I was also worried about because it would come out. Secrets always d o, they never remain hidden, and I know it would all come out when they dug into my past.

Yet the thought of having to answer to someone isked me, and living with Valen, I knew I would have to, plus he could pull rank over me, yet the stories that would be in the papers. I could already imagine the headlines. ‘Pack rivalry keeping mates apart.’

‘Valen’s cheating ways’ ‘Trouble with the notorious Alpha’ stupid shit and that would be stacked on top of the ‘Everly the gold digger trapping the Alpha.’ ones. Fuck! I never thought o f the different scenarios, and now they appeared endless. Valen walked out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around his waist. He ignored me, and I could feel he was upset.

I chewed my lip before getting up off the couch, wandering down the hall toward his bedroom, and pushing the door open. Valen was getting ready for bed as he pulled the

sheets back. “If you are coming in here to tell me you don’t want to live with me or to give more bullshit excuses, Everly, I don’t want to hear it,” Valen said, climbing in bed and tugging

the blankets up. He turned away from me, facing the wall, and I sighed before showering myself and returning to the room.

I rummaged through his closet for a shirt to wear before climbing in bed with him. Through the bond, I could tell he was still festering over our argument and very much awake as he kept his back to me.

“You said earlier you wanted to be my Luna. How do you expect to do that if we live separately?” he said.

“The Alpha meeting is in two days. What do you expect me to tell everyone? Everly and I are mates, but it’s complicated? This isn’t like updating a F******k status Everly; I get you don’t want me to mark you yet, but at least fucking try,” I remained quiet, pondering over my thoughts and his words when he rolled over to face me.

you keep refusing to try

got some semblance of the normal back in it. I was scared of him taking my son and me losing the hotel and everyone who relies on that place, worried about the rogue woman losing everything when they have

ending up back in a shitbox car living in the train station parking lot with Valarian. I was scared of losing

an excuse,”1

had lived with the hopelessness of failing at everything and having no one to rely on, you couldn’t understand how terrifying it is to allow someone else to have even the slightest bit of control when you worked so hard to get where you are. Moving in with Valen would be trusting him not to break me again, not to take everything I worked hard for away from

explain, I want to understand Everly,

and only him until I found that place. No one helped me until Valarie, my own father, couldn’t bear the sight of me. Society displayed me as some vile homewrecking whore; I lived with that. The other rogue women lived with that. I won’t lose it

he was here now, he proved he would stay, it was my own thoughts that ruined everything, I knew it was toxic, and my own safety mechanism but it was the truth. Until you hit rock bottom and clawed your way back, no one can tell you not to fear ending up back there again. And that thought terrified me, I had too much to lose

is taking

I know that it’s in the past, I know you want to make up for it, but it fucking haunts me. Do you have any idea how lonely it is when you have a baby relying on you to keep it alive and fed when you have nothing and no one to help? Then to feel so selfish for forcing that life on a child. Choosing yourself over your own kid because you can’t bear the heartbreak of giving them up, you can’t bear the thought of letting someone else raise them, I lived with that

will happen again; I

them. Zoe, Macey, and I, we built that place. I won’t allow you to take it from us, from those that work there. I won’t just quit because you want a Luna. And I know you expect that. You expect that because it is

power over someone

make you

will think when I become one of those that suppressed them in the first place. You marking

you want

want is for my son not to be ashamed because he is rogue, I want the stereotypes gone. I want everything I have worked for to mean something so our son can say she tried. She had nothing but made something, something that made a difference, and that is why I don’t want you marking me. It will be like throwing everything we worked hard

just want my mate Everly,

uproar, one that will reflect poorly on you because you can’t keep your Luna in line. You pull rank over me, Valen. You will have control, and when they kick up a stink that I am speaking against the way they have lived for decades, I know you will use it against me,” I tell him clutching my head. Everything was so fucked up, and the stress was beguinning to get to me, the stress of the mate bond, the hotel, people going missing, my father and this stupid Alpha meeting. Tears burned my eyes, I was so sick and tired of the responsibility