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.

me one chance to explain myself, then I promise I will not be any more

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

foolish of me.

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 go further, and he

something had

That hurt…

he just

he pretended

him, but it was just a one-off thing… Yes, there was a

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

treading carefully over the rocks, but I know it’s more

Why

as she

on a trip and we got intimate… but when I woke up… naked and alone in that bed, with the potent smell of blood filled my nose. I panicked, thinking something had happened to him. But… what I saw was far worse. We were no longer alone in the

two chopped-up bodies… There was blood everywhere. It was a nightmare… I wish I noticed that inhuman dead look in his eyes the night before…

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

she sits there a few feet away from me, her arms. wrapped around her knees as she stares at the rippling water, unseeing, the haunted look in her eyes tells

“Then?’ I ask.

clutched the bedding to me and asked him

much more than I could

of the bitch, or…” Her voice breaks and she takes

if anyone wants a taste, go right ahead. My own fated mate said that to his men.’

sick. I know I have

a similar position to her, and pulling my knees up

monster… I know if he finds

sounds like a monster. No,

right to know and perhaps I would have been ok with him pretending

a rift between the two of you … I swear on the moon goddess herself, I am happy for him

the moon goddess….

I almost smile.

their mate, that it is a true blessing. I wouldn’t want to take that away

of emotions, and I ask her the question that I’m

“Who is he?”

tilts her head. “My

shadow before she answers

the beast of the

my heart thuds as the ominous feeling of foreboding

know of him.

say that he doesn’t exist because he is never seen… yet the whispers

son from him, because if he knows of his existence… he will

her, trying to make sense of

sorry for risking

should never

you shouldn’t have, especially when I’m still alive.” Kash’s quiet voice came, making us both tense.