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 be any more of a problem

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

of me.

has never been 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

something had happened….

That hurt…

he just tell

he pretended nothing had.

had come on to him, but it was just a one-off thing… Yes, there

you on my child’s life that there is nothing and

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

goddess. Why would I

move as

I panicked, thinking something had happened to him. But… what I saw was far worse.

blade clean, and before him were two chopped-up bodies… There was blood everywhere. It was a nightmare… I wish I noticed

her

lift my head to look at her, she’s naked as she sits there a few feet away from me, her arms. wrapped around her knees as she stares at the rippling water,

“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

first time, I see that she has been hiding so much more than I

said, get rid of the bitch, or…” Her voice breaks and she takes a shuddering

taste, go right ahead. My own fated mate said that to his men.’ She

have overreacted, but more

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

if he finds out that I had his child, he’ll want my son.’ She

like a monster. No, he is a monster.

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

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

the moon

I almost smile.

love you two have 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 blessing. I

and I ask her the question that I’m

“Who is he?”

and tilts her

nod and her eyes shadow before she answers through

Astorath, the beast of

thuds as the ominous feeling of foreboding envelops

know of

an ounce of humanity in him… Some even say that he doesn’t exist because he is never seen… yet the whispers of

only wanted to protect my son from him, because if he knows

to make sense of it when I nod.

sorry for risking

should never have involved him.”

when I’m still alive.” Kash’s