Kidnapped and Rejected – The Return of Alpha’s Luna by Moon Claw

Chapter 73

Janet looked at him blankly. It took her a long moment to process what he just said.

After what felt like an eternity to Kass, Janet finally muttered with a dry voice, “…This joke isn’t funny, Kass.”

“I wish it were a joke. But it wasn’t,” Kass said breathing heavily. “I–I can’t keep this from you any longer, knowing that you trust me this much… You deserve to know-”

“But you said your parents died in the rogue’s hand!” Janet snapped harshly, “Was that a lie as well?!”

“NO! That’s true! Listen…”

Kass took a deep breath before continuing. He kept his voice low the whole time in case anyone would hear them.

“I grew up among the rogues. But my family never identified us with those ravagers. We never hurt an innocent person’s life, nor did we ever take pleasure from all the killings and robbing. So they looked down upon us, bullied us, and made our lives miserable. One day, a senior rogue named Sterning-”

“You know Sterning?” Janet gritted.

“Yes. He is the rogue king’s right hand. Does all kinds of dirty work for him.” Kass said lowly, “Sterning came into our house and asked my parents to join them in the next attack on a nearby village. My parents resisted fiercely…So they cut my mother’s belly open and hung my father on a flagpole as an example.”

A cold sensation surged up in Janet’s chest.

“…Where were you when that happened?” she asked.

“Hiding in the closet. As my mother told me to. I witnessed the whole thing…but was lucky enough to survive them. And after that, I couldn’t take it anymore. I knew I had to run…as far away as possible. Blood Moon defeated them during that attack, so

I knew it was my chance-”

“So you pretended to be an orphan and enlisted in the army,” Janet murmured.

She couldn’t believe this.

She was so convinced that Kass was one hundred percent innocent! She defended him harshly in front of all the Gammas.

Yet now he was telling her that he had been lying to her all along?!

“…So that’s why you know the rogue’s tone,” she snarled as her chest tightened in the horrible feeling of betrayal. “Because you are one of them all along-

“NO! I am not! I might have lied about my identity but my hatred towards them is real-”

“But how do you expect me to believe you again?!”

Janet snapped her head up and glared at Kass.

you tell the truth when Daran and the others

I knew if I told them, they would

“Please, Janet…I am not scared of dying. I am just

looked away from

chest rose and fell rapidly in

do you want me to do then?” she asked gritting her teeth, “Do you want me to hide this from everyone else while still keeping you in this

just want to stay

of yours? How can I ever trust you

Kass cried, raising his voice, “–that

is before you told me that

at each other, both

The next second, he shifted into a

Janet watched him stiffly.

he doing? she asked herself internally. Did he get mad and want

head off?

to realize that she couldn’t stop thinking about the worst of Kass

now.

of attacking her, the brown wolf lay down on the ground and rolled around, exposing its

that thunder–shaped mark?” he

which looked like a brand left by a hot iron. It burned so deeply into his flesh that it was still

were times when I wanted to grab a knife and gouge it out…I can’t choose who I am or where I came from. But does

at

cold feeling

heel and walked away. The daylight broke from the horizon, calling the dark forest back to life. Daran left a group of soldiers at Fox Town helping the people there to clear up the mess. The rest of them all headed back to

exceptionally quiet on the

and doubt were spreading like a plague

was carrying a dark secret with her, which could potentially get all of them

they arrived back at the packhouse, Daran asked them to catch a rest.

said and went back

But she couldn’t sleep.

her throat,

break it to the

and the entire Blood Moon Pack would be in

she kept the secret, what if the

she be sure that Kass was

and turned through the night. When she finally woke up the next morning, feeling worn out and exhausted, she got a message from Daran asking her to meet them

in the

from yesterday. He snorted coldly when Janet entered the room

pulled out a chair and gestured

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