Rejected Luna: Untamed Desire Of The Lycan Alpha

Chapter 290: Never Laid A Finger On Her

"What?"

"I know what you are thinking." Killian traced the seams of her lower lip. "That mates are supposed to make each other happy. But I assure you that’s just the theory; I had no interest in making her suffer or in seeing her in pain. It felt just so wrong, but she never stopped."

"You were not happy with her at all, were you?" she guessed.

"No, I wasn’t," he admitted.

Inez frowned. "But you were true mates; how could you not be happy with her when you were destined to be with her?"

"And that is why Fenric always says that I took all the sanity and the light while Lyra was left with nothing but insanity and darkness. After all, mates complement each other, he blamed me for who she was when she grew up," Killian explained.

"You mean—"

laid a

drew even further in confusion. "But my sister said

She

not understand what you are

those she called her people. They were an unsolicited group of people. I am half sure that they were not even legal. And I don’t know what their deal was, but every time she returned, Lyra would return with a bunch of bruises all over her body." Seeing her perplexed look, he smiled weakly. "I don’t really understand myself, but she said that it was something they did for the Great One. It was necessary,

said could have

that I was the one who left my previous pack, but it’s not like that. Back there, Lyra knew that everyone thought that was abusing her, knew about the whispers and rumours, but she didn’t care. I tried to help her, but I couldn’t because she didn’t want my help. She didn’t till the day she died. I don’t know whether she loved me or not or whether she needed my help or not, but I don’t really think that we had the kind of feelings that mates would have for one another. She didn’t

as I could because somewhere I felt guilty because of Fenric’s words. I thought that maybe it was really because of me that she was like that. But it wasn’t that — she loved the pain and she loved the sympathy that overflowed for her when she came

woman, but she also didn’t like that he was rejected and wronged like

up straight. She placed her hand on top of