Chapter 28 – The Moon Wolf

“Let me help you out of your clothes please”, she sniffled and tried to remove my clothes but I stopped her. I did not want her to see my scars and bruises.

“N–no, p–p–please–e–e*, I weakly said and she looked at me in confusion. “Please allow me, Lola. Your clothes are thick and will only add to the heat you’re feeling”, she said to me and I had no choice but to allow her to remove it. I closed my eyes tightly as she undressed me, not wanting to see the look in her eyes.

She gasped when she removed my top and I did not need to look at her eyes to know that she was disgusted by me. Without saying another word, she removed that duvet covering my legs and removed my bottoms gently.

I was expecting her to leave but she went into my bathroom and soon came out with a towel and basin of water. She kept sniffling and tried to hide the fact that she was crying.

She tended to me, using the cold towel to make me feel less hot, it did not work but I appreciated her efforts. She’d hold my hands whenever the pains returned and I started clutching at my stomach, which I knew was going to bruise by morning.

I’d occasionally see her look at my b*dy and tear up. I saw pity in her eyes and I wanted to hide my skin but I had no energy to move my b*dy. I felt vulnerable under her eyes but I couldn’t do anything about it.

About 2 hours later, the agonizing pain subsided and I felt myself growing weak with each passing moment. Rose noticed that I wasn’t writhing as much and came to sit on the bed beside me on the bed.

She pulled my hair that was matted with sweat to my forehead away and gently caressed my cheeks. I opened my tired eyes and looked up at her to find her crying.

“Can I?” She gently asked and I nodded at her, knowing what she was asking for. She gently traced her hands over my visible scars as more tears rolled down her eyes. She lingered the big purple scar on my stomach where another bruise was forming already.

“From your last pack?” She whispered and I nodded. “Yeah, my former mate”, I whispered back and she started crying again.

I wanted to hug her but the pain in my stomach did not allow me to move far before I slumped onto the bed again. She gently hugged me and I felt so warm and protected. I felt like I was in my mother’s arms.

“No one deserved what you went through, Lola. You’re just a child, you should be protected and cared for. I promise to protect you from here on, I’d not let any harm come to you”, she said into my hair as she cried.

hugged her back and cried a bit. She k*ssed my forehead as she covered me with the duvet and stepped away from the bed.

“Goodnight, Lola”, she whispered as she opened the door and stepped out.

“Goodnight, Mom”, I whispered into the empty room. Then I lost consciousness.

Rose’s POV

I went into the room I shared with Jayden in a daze. Jayden was by my side immediately I opened the door.

“What was that about, Ro. Why was she in pain?” He asked curiously and I burst into tears again. I could not get the image of her battered b*dy out of my head and I felt like I failed as a mother.

“I’ve failed as a mother, Jay. Adrian has disgraced me and I’m not worthy of being called a mother”, i said amidst tears. Jayden led me towards our bed and held me till my tears subsided.

“Adrian was having S** with another woman. That’s why Lola was in pain”, I said softly into his shoulder and felt his b*dy. stiffen in anger at my words.

“Everyb*dy knows what happens when you have S** with another person when you have a mate. What’s wrong with him?” He said in anger and I cried again.

“Hey, hey, look at me baby”, he held my face delicately in his. hands and made me look him in the eyes, “I’ll talk some sense into him when he gets back home, you don’t need to beat yourself up over that. Lola is fine now, no?” He asked me lovingly and I felt like my heart was being crushed.

Why can’t Adrian be like his father? He doesn’t even know half of what Lola had gone through and he dares to treat her like trash?

I felt Ezra trying to rise to the surface, the maternal instinct to protect a child in danger overwhelming her. Jayden looked at me intently, waiting for me to explain more.

“There’s more, Jay. I saw things in that room and if Adrian. were not my son, I’d have had him banished or killed”, I wailed. I knew I was getting Jayden worried but I couldn’t help the way I felt inside.

“You can talk to me, my love. You’re worrying me, I’m not going to lie. I haven’t seen you this way since…well since that incident”, he said softly.

Looking into his eyes, I spoke. “You want to know what I really saw? You’re not going to go out there right now and kill Adrian, promise?” He nodded his head eagerly and I sighed before speaking again.

“She’s been abused, Jay”, I hiccuped as I spoke, “her b*dy was filled with bruises and scars”, I felt my tears dam trying to break again but I reigned it in.

“The freshest one is a big, purple bruise on her stomach. She got it from her former mate”. At the mention of a former mate, Jay’s eyes widened, “former mate? She had a mate before Adrian?” He asked in shock.

“Yeah, the one that came the other day from Moonlit pack”, I nodded my head. Shock was evident on Jayden’s face and he was at a loss for words.

“Why did Adrian let him go? Why was I not informed? As the Alpha King, I have the responsibility to protect all pack werewolves and Adrian let him go?” He said angrily, slightly raising his voice.

“She rejected him and that’s why she ran to our pack. Adrian is her second chance mate and he’s been treating her the same way, save the beatings”, I sighed as I remembered how her scars covered her b*dy.

There was barely any clear skin, it was all bruised and battered.

“Another purple bruise was already forming where the other one was. Adrian added to her pain instead of relieving her of it”, my tears dam broke and I wept uncontrollably.

That pain is something any lady wouldn’t wish on their enemy and she already went through it twice. “She did not ask me what was going on or why she felt that way, she already knew Jay. She knew already and she was ready to brace it”, “She did not want me to see her b*dy, that’s why she wears clothes that cover most of her skin. She’s broken and I am not surprised she’s wary around everyone. I wonder what she did to her old pack to deserve such treatment”. Jayden was silent as I said everything I saw but I could see him trying to reign in his anger by clenching and unclenching his jaw.

“Let’s go to sleep, Ro. We’re going to figure all of these out in the morning”, Jayden said as he laid me on the bed and laid down beside me.

I did not protest and held him close to my b*dy. I could not imagine a life where Jayden made me cry or feel small. With a lot on my mind, I fell asleep restlessly.

I woke up in the early hours of the morning and gently slid off the bed to go and check on Lola. She was still sleeping peacefully and I watched her for a moment before I left. Her fever had gone down also.

Her cheeks looked so sunken and she looked like she was barely holding on. I wanted to hug her and tell her everything will be alright but I refrained from doing so, I did not want to wake her nor make things awkward. She isn’t comfortable around people yet.

I went into the kitchen to make her breakfast so she can have something to eat when she wakes up. I’d feel so uncomfortable if she had to help me in the kitchen with what I had seen the night before.

I made a variety of foods. From bacon to toasts to eggs to pancakes. I made a lot of food even though she wasn’t going to eat a lot. I’ve noticed that since yesterday, Julie also told me the same thing when I asked her about the first time they met yesterday.

I cut up a lot of fruit for her. I was determined to take care of her and treat her like a daughter no matter the decision. Adrian takes.

I was making soup when I heard the front door open. I knew who it was before I heard him. Ezra took over my b*dy before I knew it, her mother wolf instinct taking over.

Adrian came towards the kitchen where I was cooking. He had the guts to smile at me and I saw red. How dare he be happy when he just put his mate through hell?

I turned off the cooking gas and moved towards where he was standing by the kitchen door.

“Good morning, M….”, he did not finish his sentence before a loud noise was heard.

I had slapped him and it felt so good to see his face contort in pain and shock.

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