Rejected Luna: Untamed Desire Of The Lycan Alpha

Chapter 291: He Opened Up

"Did anyone ever find out?" Inez asked.

"No, I moved away before that could happen. I was just too tired of being constantly judged and the elders of the pack running to my home every time Lyra returned home with a new set of injuries. I couldn’t stay there, so I abdicated the position of the alpha and moved here with the only people who trusted me. That way, at least I didn’t have to worry about them judging me every time Lyra returned covered in injuries. I don’t think she liked it."

"Why didn’t she like it?" Inez asked. It just didn’t feel right that Lyra was not happy with Killian not being subjected to criticism that he didn’t deserve.

"Honestly? I don’t know. Maybe she just didn’t like to see me relieved? Maybe she liked me to suffer? According to Morrineth, that was her way to ensure that the two of us connected. It was the evidence that the two of us were mates." Killian’s smile turned a little wry when he recalled the words that Morrineth told him. "She did ask me to go back and reclaim my position as my previous pack’s alpha."

He paused and added, "And this is also why my mother never wanted me to take another mate, not unless she was chosen by her. My brother chose a purebred, elegant mate for himself. One she approved of, and unfortunately, she did approve of Lyra."

"But she was simply twisted!"

who thought she had seen the

there was no way around it, my mother wanted me to be more like her perfect son and not Killian Sokolov" Another wry smile, another grimace. She raised her head and met his gaze, and noticed the pain

everyone and never trust anyone, even when he could have done so? He couldn’t even trust his mother, as she had never made him feel like he was a part of their family. It made her heart hurt to think he had spent a childhood where he had to suppress a shitload

never stood a chance against

to love her, but she did want him to suffer along with her. What in the world was she even thinking? With the woman gone, Inez knew that she would never get a

anyone. Never given a place where he could belong. Never felt the security of being loved without expecting anything in return. He had learned that it

player rather than to get involved with someone. Some people liked to pretend. Some pretended that they had it under control;

mask. In doing so, he had isolated and distanced his true

she truly blame him for that? If she were in his shoes—even if subconsciously—she had asked herself what was the point of baring herself to others when in her heart she knew that they might never love her? Especially when she showed her real self to them. It was better to hold back than to love them or trust them with her heart. It was way better