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!"

it was more than twisted. Even Inez, who thought she had seen the peak of

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 and humiliation he had once gone through, which explained why he was

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 of anger for the emotionally absent parent who only gave birth to him

stood a chance against

she didn’t know much about that woman, but the more she found out about her, the less she liked Lyra. She didn’t want Killian to love her, but she did want him to suffer along with her. What in the world was she even

who had never been special to anyone. Never given a place where he could belong. Never felt the security of being

of a player. It was better to be accepted and treated as a player rather than to get involved with someone. Some people liked to pretend. Some pretended that they had it under control; some loved to show that they had everything that they wanted. Did she not pretend as well? That everything was alright? That she was loved and cared for, and that she didn’t crave the love

In doing so, he had isolated and distanced his true self from

herself to others when in her heart she knew that they might never love her? Especially when she