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.

right into my face. To everyone! Why didn’t you tell the truth when Daran and the others asked about it

I told them, they would send

a trembling voice, “Please, Janet…I am not scared of

looked away from

and

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

to

just told me is another lie of yours? How can I ever trust you again with any battle plans? How

it yourself” Kass cried, raising his

before you told me that you are my

each

step back. The next second, he shifted into

Janet watched him stiffly.

was he doing? she asked herself internally. Did he

head off?

was sad to realize that she couldn’t stop thinking about

now.

her, the brown wolf lay down on the ground and

thunder–shaped mark?”

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

“There 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

at

the cold feeling of sadness and

horizon, calling the dark forest back to life. Daran left a group of soldiers at Fox Town helping the people there

group was exceptionally quiet on the

knew that everyone was thinking about the mole. Suspicion and doubt were spreading like a plague and there was nothing she

which could

at the packhouse, Daran asked them to catch

went back to

But she couldn’t sleep.

in her throat, making it hard for her to

she break it

and the entire Blood Moon Pack would be in trouble because they

secret, what if the mole acted

that Kass was

the next morning, feeling worn out and exhausted, she got

in the room when

holding the grudge from yesterday. He snorted coldly when

and gestured for Janet to sit with

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