Chapter 20 – The Moon Wolf

I exited the bathroom to find the room empty. Jasmine wasn’t in the room but there were clothes on the bed. I dried my hair with a towel and brushed through it. I looked in the mirror once I was dressing up and I liked what I saw. I was slowly learning to appreciate my appearance.

I steeled my heart as I left the room in search of Lyla. I sent a quick prayer to the moon goddess that I wouldn’t meet any pack members on my way to the kitchen, where I knew Lyla will be.

I had almost made it to the kitchen undetected when I collided with a wall and fell flat on my ass. I held in my whimpers of pain and tried to stand up when I saw the wall was infact, a man.

I was about to start apologizing when I heard my name from. the stranger’s mouth. Hooked up at his face but I did not recognize him. I took some steps back to out distance between us.

Does Grayson have men planted around this pack? How did this stranger know my name? My thoughts were running at miles per hour and I thought of ways to escape when I heard his voice again.

“Lola, it’s me, Jace. Do you not remember me?” His voice cut through my thoughts and I felt myself coming back to the present.

“Jace?”, I repeated, the name sounding familiar to me.

“Yeah, your best friend from ten years back. We used to be inseparable back in Moonlit pack before my mom decided to move another pack with her chosen mate. Do you remember me?” He said.

Memories of young me and a boy of not more than 12 running around our house back in Moonlit pack. I was heartbroken when he left with his mom, but Mom said he was going to somewhere he can be happy with his Mom.

“Jacey”, I ran towards him and engulfed him in a hug, taking both of us by surprise. He laughed and gently patted my head. I pulled back from him and smacked him on the chest, surprising myself yet again.

“Ouch, what was that for?”, he whined while rubbing his chest. I crossed my arm and glared at him.

“You promised to always write to me. Your letters stopped coming a year after, do you know how heartbroken I was?” I pouted and he pulled me into a hug again.

“I’m sorry, Lola. I heard you were killed in a rogue incident alongside your parents. If not for your unique hair and eyes and the fact that I know what you smell like, I wouldn’t have known you were the one”, he apologized and I totally understood his point.

Moonlit pack made it their life mission to make me forgotten, the whole wolf world thought I was dead.

“What exactly happened, Lola?” He asked. Not wanting to reply him, I hugged him again. He understood that I did not want to talk and was patting my back when a loud growl tore through the room.

I jumped from Jace and looked towards the direction the growl cane from and saw a fuming Adrian. He was looking at Jace and I with so much venom that I wanted to crawl into a hole and die.

The next words he spoke broke me and broke the self esteem I was slowly building.

“Maybe your former Alpha was right after all. You’re just a slut that’s not worthy of love”, he spat with venom and hate.

And with that, he stormed out of the pack house.

Adrian’s POV

I woke up the following morning after Grayson came to my pack feeling like shit. I realized just how bad I had been

treating Lola. I desperately wanted her to have fault so I could reject her but she was so perfect.

“So perfect for us. The moon goddess wouldn’t pair us with someone that’s not perfect for us”, Daxon said in my head and for the first time since I met Lola, I agreed with him.

Events of yesterday came rushing back to me and I felt my heart break more. The way her eyes seeked mine for validation and support immediately she entered the room even though I desperately wanted her to be the one at fault so I could kick her out of my pack.

Her cries after I left the room kept haunting me. I was the reason for her heartbreak, I was the reason for her tears and agony. What kind of a mate does that to his fated one?

I could not bear the guilt that I had treated her like trash when I should have been her support system, so I went out on a run to clear my head.

“I knew you were making a grave mistake, human. I’m sure what we saw is not even half of what she has gone through. Mate was so broken, yet you stormed out of the pack house without even comforting her? I don’t know how I got paired with a stupid human like you”, Daxon growled loudly in my head and I did not even have a comeback for him, because I knew I fucked up royally.

I kept running through the forest in my human form. I had cuts from trees and sharp stones but I did not stop. The physical pain was nothing compared to what I was feeling inside.

After running for about an hour, I decided to open my mindlink and I regretted it immediately I did. Mom’s voice rang through my head in anger and I almost stumbled back from the anger in her voice.

“Adrian, you better get the fuck here in a blink of an eye. Do not make me come after you, young man”, she said and the mindlink went silent.

Sighing, I made my way back to the house ready to face mom’s wrath and then apologize to Lola afterwards. I took a deep breath and opened the door, only to pause a little once I entered the house.

Mom was sitting on the couch while Dad held her hands and tried to pacify her. Once she locked eyes with me, I almost stumbled back but I maintained my stance as much as I could.

“And what exactly do you think you’re doing, Adrian? I understood that you had problems accepting her because she was a rogue. Why did you leave your traumatized mate alone when she needed you the most. Why did you allow that stupid mutt and his friend go scot free when they should have gone. back in a b*dy bag?” She asked calmly and I knew Ezra was in control.

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