His Dark Obsession by Moonlight Muse

15. Her Secret

EVANGELINE.

I am fighting my tears as I run out the gates of the castle, trying not to let his lies and deception shatter me entirely.

A part of me is telling me to calm down and go back to him and make it clear he’s mine alone, but another part is telling me I had given him chances and it isn’t outside the norm for alphas to have mistresses.

Just the way his brothers and his father do…

I bite back a whimpering sob as Luna curls up within my mind.

Weren’t mates supposed to be one for one?

‘He won’t betray us.’ Luna whispers.

I can feel her pain but she’s still trying to comfort me.

‘Won’t he?’ Evelyn murmurs, unhelpfully.

Nothing I do can remove the image of him hugging her from my mind and even when I was trying to make sense of it, he was hell-bent on protecting her.

I keep running, speeding up when I sense others hot on my heels. It’s not hard to outrun them, although I know I can simply command them to stop and they would have to, but I don’t want to abuse my powers.

Soon, I find myself at the river bank, yet even the soothing sound of the gushing water does nothing to help the discord that has settled within me.

I approach the river and stare down at my reflection. My white fur seems to almost glow and my brilliant blue eyes are full of sadness.

No one explains how painful love can be…

I whimper softly as I walk along the riverbank until I spot a place down by the rocks and leap down, curling up pitifully. Anyone passing wouldn’t be able to see me unless they specifically look for me and step to the edge of the rocky cliff.

‘We need to go back to him.’ Luna urges, but I don’t want to hear it.

Not right now… I just need to collect my thoughts.

‘I know… but for now, I just want to be left alone.’ I reply, trying to hide my tears.

I can hide from Evelyn but there is no way to hide from Luna. She is my counterpart, a part of

Closing my eyes, I try to hide the pain that is crushing my heart.

The way he told me to stay quiet… his protective growl… but one that was not in my defence but hers.

I whimper, curling up tighter when I suddenly smell her.

The last person I want to see right now…

I hear the sound of bones snapping and don’t bother looking up.

“Evangeline, can we talk?” Isabella’s voice comes softly.

‘No.’ I reply.

promise I will not

I was even coming around to her, pushing away the doubts I

of me.

a relationship between Zedkiel and me, on my eighteenth birthday one of my friends had added a strong dose of herbs to the drinks to get us all drunk… and in that state, we did make out, but that was it, we didn’t

something had happened….

That hurt…

he just tell me?

he pretended nothing

had come on to him, but it

I promise you on my child’s life that there is

her approaching slowly, treading carefully over the rocks, but I know

Why would I run from

don’t move as

I panicked, thinking something had happened to him. But…

It was a nightmare…

sense the fear in her voice, and the thumping of her heart as

sits there a few feet away from me, her arms. wrapped around her knees as she stares at the

“Then?’ I ask.

head. “I didn’t know what to do. I clutched the bedding to me and asked him what

been hiding so much more than I could have ever imagined. She’s not the

said, get rid of the bitch, or…” Her voice

anyone wants a taste, go right ahead. My own fated mate said that

me sick. I know I have overreacted, but more than her,

sorry for that…’ I reply as I shift back, taking a similar position to her, and pulling my knees up against

father of my child, but because he is a monster… I know if he finds out that I had his child, he’ll want my

like a monster. No,

would have been ok with him

rift between the two of you … I swear on the moon

moon

I almost smile.

for one another, is so beautiful… fated mates are so rare… and it’s said for those who find their mate, that it is a true

void of emotions, and I ask her the question that I’m not

“Who is he?”

and tilts her

shadow before she answers through the mind link.

the beast of

my heart thuds as the

of him.

because he is never seen… yet the whispers of

if he knows of his

her, trying to make sense of it when

understand… I’m sorry for

this is my fault, and I should never have involved him.” She

I’m still alive.” Kash’s quiet voice came, making us both