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.

just give me one chance to explain myself, then I promise I will not

was even coming around to her, pushing away the doubts I had, only for them to be proven correct.

of me.

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

That hurt…

didn’t he just tell

pretended nothing

but it was just a one-off thing… Yes,

on him, but I promise you on my child’s life that

her approaching slowly, treading carefully over the rocks, but

Why would I run from

move as she

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 room; he didn’t even care to protect me from his men’s gaze.” She shudders and

sitting there, wiping a blade clean, and before him were 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…

voice, and the thumping of her heart as her words

as 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 me she’s reliving

“Then?’ I ask.

shakes her head. “I didn’t know what to do. I clutched the bedding to me and asked him what was going on? Do you know what my mate said?” She’s

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

or…” Her voice breaks and she takes a

taste, go right ahead. My own fated mate said that to

I know I have overreacted, but more than her, I’m angry at Zedkiel.

taking a similar position to her, and pulling my knees up against my chest as I look over at

child, but because he is a monster… I know if he finds out that I had his child, he’ll want my son.’ She says through the link.

like a monster. No, he is a monster.

to know and perhaps I would have been ok with him pretending the child is his, but to hide things from me…”

I promise you, I never wanted to cause a rift between the two

the moon goddess….

I almost smile.

so rare… and it’s said for those who find their mate, that it is a

emotions, and I ask her

“Who is he?”

tilts her head. “My

before she answers through the

Astorath, the beast of the North…’

as the ominous feeling of foreboding

of him.

even say that he doesn’t exist because he is never seen… yet the whispers of the horrors of his

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

make sense

sorry for risking

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

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