Chasing His Betrayed Luna

AURELIA

I was this close to forgetting how to breathe when I stared into the silver-gray eyes that I used to love... those eyes that used to make me come undone, shattering underneath him while he overpowered my fragile body like-

"Focus, Relia." Inara snapped at me, bringing me back to my senses.

"What the hell was that?" I asked my wolf, breaking eye contact with Raiden.

There was something. Something seized me and took control of my mind for a moment. There has to be an explanation because I didn't want to believe I was just admiring the same man who made me understand the real meaning of emotional torture... I didn't just feel an intense sense of sexual hunger for him.

"Please tell me there was something, Ina." I pleaded with my wolf, staggering away from Raiden.

Inara replied, "He carries a bond you broke, Relia, and what you feel now is the effect of getting close to the mate bond. You broke it but your body is designed to want it."

Fuck. I've to stay away from him.

He had me overpowered and completely captivated just by standing close to me. I'd be in trouble if he found out about how being in close proximity with him affects me. My kids would be at risk...

"I've to go." I stuttered, mostly to myself but also to Raiden.

"You still haven't answered the question, Aurelia. You can't leave until you provide answers" He chided like he was the boss of me.

"I won't say this again, Raiden," I murmured sternly. "Get your lame ass off the path, Raiden."

"Just answer the question, Aurelia! Dammit!" He almost sounded like he was pleading with me.

Explaining how the assassins he sent after me almost killed me and the twins was stupid. Why should I be the one to tell him what he did? It wasn't like he lost his memories due to an accident or battling with dementia at his age.

Yet, I answered his question but I wanted nothing more than to return to my room. To my kids without having to jump the bones of the man who had betrayed all three of us. "You seriously think I don't know you sent the assassins after me? You asked them to kill me and bring my head back to you as evidence to claim a supposedly hefty price."Ccontent © exclusive by Nô/vel(D)ra/ma.Org.

"I did no such thing, Aurelia. I'd never!" Raiden denied the obvious truth.

"I don't need you to admit it, Raiden. It's in the past and look, I survived." I shrugged. "You and Larisa failed to kill me. Let's all move on-"

"Larisa?" Raiden asked me like he

didn't orchestrate the whole thing

with her. For someone who was feared across the realm, he was an idiot. "We didn't try to kill you, Aurelija. In fact, we were searching everywhere for you."

I chuckled, "Oh, please. You searched for me to kill me."

"No. I searched for you to bring you back home. I sent my men out for a whole year and I didn't stop searching for you even after that." Raiden uttered.

"We both know you were searching for me to punish me for rejecting you and leaving your pack. You can't deny that." I laid out facts.

"Yes, you're right. Punishing you was my initial-"

"I don't want to hear it, Raiden. I've answered your question so get off the path." I let out fiercely.

Raiden argued, "But you aren't listening to me. I never sent assains to kill you and I have been searching for you, Aurelia. Let's make this work. Let's talk more to resolve the misunderstanding between us. I want you back." He took a step forward, I took five steps backward.

"You'll never have me back, you lying son of a bitch." I snarled before I could stop myself from making insulting reference to his mom. She was a good woman even though she went wrong with her son.

"Let me prove to you that I didn't do any of those things. Let me investigate and give me a chance. It's all I'm asking for." He stubbornly pushed his case, taking another step closer to me.

He was beginning to aggravate the anger I had tried so hard to bury. Inara was also snarling within me, making it hard for me to control my rising rage.

"I never stopped looking for you,

Aurelia. Believe me, please." I had

lost count of how many times he had tried to shove that lie down my throat. Even if he was telling the truth It didn't make any difference because we were done.

Raiden failed to understand that reality because despite my efforts to keep distance between us, he kept moving closer and the second my back hit the rough bark of one of the trees surrounding us, I chose to fight my way out of here. "I've changed, Aurelia. I'll keep working-" Raiden began, standing right in front of me.

But I didn't want to hear any more of his lies. I balled my fist as tight as I could and drove it towards my target- His lying mouth. I missed a little as my fist hit closer to his jaw. Pain shot through my knuckles but heck was it satisfying to punch the famous Alpha Raiden of dark moon pack...

As a matter of fact, it was addicting and I could see myself doing it again and again... and again.