Reclaiming My Broken Luna by Selene Souchon

Chapter 130: Sister

Astrid's POV

"Why didn't you tell us that you're coming. If you had said something, we would have prepared ourselves to face you," Alpha Theron spoke with his broad shoulders slumped slightly.

Andros felt a surge of angry confusion, his brow furrowing as he realized the implication. "So you're saying that it was my fault then?" he accused, his voice laced with a bitterness he had never before directed at his father.

"If only I had told you I was coming, you could have prepared yourselves?" Andros repeated.

The young man's chest heaved with the weight of his emotions, the betrayal he had felt at the rumors now compounded by the realization that his own family had been keeping this truth from him.

"I rushed back here because I was worried, because of those rumors I had heard," he spat, his eyes narrowing with a mixture of hurt and indignation. "Haven't you thought that this wouldn't happen if you had just told me about this before this rumors started growing?" Alpha Theron's expression softened. "Son, it was never our intention to blame you," he spoke, his voice low and soothing.

"You knew about the rumors, you knew what was happening. You had all the time you needed, you had all the opportunities to come out clean to us and yet you didn't. So don't lie to me by saying that you did not want things to end up like this because you made everything end up like this!"

I turned my head away as I felt the weight of Andros's words. My shoulders slumped as I stared down at my hands, a profound sense of shame washed over me.

I'm an illegitimate child — a mistake, a product of my parent's indiscretion.

I never aked for this burden, to be included in the consequences of their infidelity.

And now, here I am, feeling like a home wrecker, caught up in a tangled web that is not of my own making. The irony wasn't lost to me - my whole life I was made to feel unworthy, yet I somehow managed to inflict that same pain on another.

hurt me and my mother for

control. I never wanted this, I never sought to cause any harm. I also have no power to undo the

an unwitting pawn, a victim in this matter very much like my half-siblings. However, I am at the burnt of their hatred and disappointments that should

hands burrowed in his hair as the weight of his realizations dawned upon him. It turns out that the truth were even worse than

makes sense to me. Now I know why Asha looked and sounded different the last time we

his mind drifted to his sister whom he had left behind in their Pack. His heart clenched with regret and empathy for his poor sister who had to shoulder all of this burden alone without him knowing and also

as she navigated this new and devastating reality. Yet through it all, she never said

lips sealed, never mentioning a word to him about this issue that must have been

she was asking when he

tell you?" Alpha Theron

what his daughter is going through. He had no idea of the thoughts that his daughter has been having because of

is she?" Andros

his father's question.

to reach her,

What happened to

as he thought of the depth of his sister's suffering

until she

you mean she's been grounded?"

always been patient with his sister, rarely giving her any punishment. This is the first time that he gave a serious punishment

"Your sister left me with no choice," he replied, his tone laced with a mixture of disappointment

was away, she