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.

Why didn’t you tell the truth when Daran and the others

knew if I told them,

Janet’s wrist and begged with a trembling voice, “Please, Janet…I am not scared of dying. I am

looked away

chest rose and fell rapidly

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

want to stay by

told me is another lie of yours? How can I ever trust you again

it yourself” Kass cried, raising his voice, “–that you will trust me no

before you told me that

glared at each other, both panting

step back. The next second, he

Janet watched him stiffly.

she asked herself internally. Did he get

head off?

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

now.

on the ground and rolled around, exposing its belly

thunder–shaped mark?” he

a brand left by a hot iron. It burned so deeply into

lowly. “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 does my identity matter more than my own

at his

with the cold

Kass, she turned on her 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

quiet on

was thinking about the mole. Suspicion and doubt were spreading like a plague and there was nothing she could do

secret with her, which could potentially get

at the packhouse, Daran asked them to

and went back to her own

But she couldn’t sleep.

like a clog in her throat, making it hard for

break it to the

and the

if she kept the secret, what if the mole acted

sure that Kass was not

on Janet’s heart as she tossed 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

in the room when Janet

clearly still holding the grudge from yesterday. He snorted coldly when Janet entered the room

chair and gestured for Janet

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