Reclaiming My Broken Luna by Selene Souchon

Chapter 284: Heartbreak Drystan's

POV

A storm broke loose inside me the moment I turned away from Astrid.

My feet moved without thought, each step heavier than the last, and I didn't care where I was going-I just needed to leave. To get away from the weight of her words, her rejection.

The sound of my boots pounding against the earth drowned out the distant voices behind me, but it wasn't enough to quiet the roar in my chest.

I passed through the pack's courtyard in a blur, the cold night air biting against my skin, but I barely noticed. I only had one thing in mind - distance. I needed to get away from everything.

"Drystan!" Damien's voice cut through the air, sharp with confusion. I had no choice but to walk past through them to leave the Pack.

"What the hell is going on?" He asked out loud, sensing the tension gripping my entire body.

I ignored him. My jaw clenched so tightly I could feel the muscles strain. I heard their footsteps quicken, coming up behind me.

Damien, Killian, and a few others stood in curiosity, watching me. Their surprise was evident, but I couldn't bring myself to stop. Not even for them.

Killian caught up first, his brow furrowed in concern. "Drystan, wait - what happened? Where are you going?" His voice was firm, a mixture of authority and confusion.

I glanced at him, just enough to see the question burning in his eyes. I stilled, my hands clenching tightly as I stared at him.

considered it saying what had been building inside me for so long, letting him bear the weight of everything I had been holding in. The rejection. The

All of this. Astrid's coldness,

treated her, the way he never truly valued what he had. If it weren't for him, maybe Astrid wouldn't

loved me the way I loved her. Maybe... maybe I wouldn't be standing here now, with this bitterness clawing its

my mouth to speak, to hurl those words at him, to make him understand what he had

tightened, the anger rising, threatening to spill out in ways I wasn't sure I could control. But as I stared

my mouth. I let the words wither and die on my tongue. I turned my back on him, the weight of

is Astrid?" Killian shouted after

- least of all an explanation. The rage that twisted inside me like a violent storm was too much, too

it worse. So I kept walking, my boots crunching against the gravel, their voices fading into the background as

the keys from my pocket, but I didn't care. The engine roared

the forest, the wheels kicking up dirt and leaves as I sped away from the

night stretched ahead of me, the road winding through the thick trees like a dark

so tightly my knuckles turned white, but I didn't slow down. If anything, I pressed harder on the

climbed higher, I'm driving recklessly too fast, putting myself in danger but I didn't care. The wind whipped through the open windows, cold and biting against my

felt like I was being torn apart from the inside. Astrid's rejection was like a knife, still

headlights cut through the dark, illuminating the empty road

Astrid. Always Astrid.

her indifference. I wanted to hate her. I

how much I

she was the reason I was driving down this road like

wasn't just her. It wasn't just the