The Silver Eyed Luna

Glorious

Madeline's Pov

I released a breath for the hundredth time as I nervously placed my hand on the door knob where it has been for a while now. My mate, Alpha Kaden of the Ember Pack just as I had suspected, was waiting outside for me.

After he had introduced himself to me along with his people, we hadn’t spoken again. He just arranged for some really nice Omega maids to attend to me. The look on the shortie’s face when he found out I was truly the former Luna of the Red-lake pack was quite Hilarious. I wished I could’ve taken a picture. Fred was just as shocked and the broody big guy who I learned was called Dylan, didn’t have much of a reaction.

The Ember Pack, just like the Red Lake Pack was one of the four greatest packs. One of the packs who had actively participated in reclaiming back our lands from the dragons many years ago. So they were quite revered. The Ember pack particularly were mysterious people. I had never come across any of them, even though we had been practically neighbors. They also never honored any of our invitations to ball parties or Alpha meetings so I was beginning to think the Alpha must be just extremely introverted or just preferred to keep a low profile. Both options were quite uncommon to Alphas, but then, people cannot always be the same.

Surprisingly, Alpha Kaden knows who I am which I found quite suspicious, but the good thing was, his recognition saved me from getting tortured for nothing.

I knew how this worked.

Criminals never confesses to their crimes, they lie so professionally that you’d begin to believe them and that is why I didn’t blame the shortie at all for not believing me. He could have been smarter about it though.

A single soft knock on the door jolted me out from my thoughts. I swallowed hard, before I pulled the door open, meeting beautiful green eyed that sparkled despite the dim lights.

“Alpha Kaden,” I greeted with a small nod of my head to him.

He tilted his head a bit as if to watch me closer. I felt how his eyes sized me up unblinkingly, then he c****d up a brow and asked, “Aren’t you going to invite me in?”

I opened the door wider for him and he slipped inside smoothly. Something told me he does this often.

I was nervous for obvious reasons and heck, I didn’t want to be.

He hasn’t claimed me yet. Why would he suddenly want us to be alone in a room? This wasn’t good for me.

No Alpha would accommodate a stranger like this, so I knew words must have reached him or he must’ve done his research already on what I have done, the horrible crime I had been accused of and the shame I now carried around.

I’m sure he wouldn’t want me once he knew. Alphas were like this, prideful and selective in the kind of woman they take as their Luna. Perhaps he was here to break it off. The thing that we hadn’t named yet because had yet to claim or acknowledge the connection bestowed on us despite knowing it.

I watched him go straight up to seat on the bed, his long legs stretching out as he put his gaze on me once again. My heart missed a beat for obvious reasons.

“Madeline Greywood, am I right?” his deep voice bellowed, melting my insides swiftly as I swallowed again, forgetting that he asked me a question.

Stupid actually. Was this how the mate bond could make one feel? So powerless, so hungry, not for food of course but to actually be closer to him, wanting to hear his voice again, wanting and enjoying his gaze focused on me.

I quickly tried to get a hold of myself, knowing to mentally prepare to expect the worst from him.

“I suppose you have done your investigations of me.”

“I actually haven’t.” He said, which surprised me.

“Why?” I took one step closer, just close enough for his scent to travel through my nostrils. Quite woodsy.

“Have a seat, Madeline. I think it would be better to hear it from you yourself.”

He didn’t know it yet and he wanted me to be the one to tell him as if that could change anything.

“I doubt that could change anything Alpha Kaden, at the end, it is still the same story.”

“Not when it’s told by you.”

What did he mean by that?

My eyes searched his hesitantly in the silence that ensued. He patted the side of the bed next to him and though, I was so enticingly tempted to go ahead and seat with him where I’d be able to feel his breath directly on me, the heat of our skin colliding together and melting into one.

I managed to swallow back that urge as quickly as it came. I didn’t need this. Not right now.

I took the small sofa at the other end, quite a distance away from him but I’d still be able to hear and see him. He frowned, showing an expression of displease then it was gone in a second as he just watched me with piercing gaze I could not help but feel all over my body.

“Just last night, I had been at your pack. You were Luna, and you looked quite happy. But today, you’re on the street, looking like this, homeless. I’m curious Madeline, what actually happened in the span of one night?”

I tried to ignore how he called my name without any formalities like we were close. And did he just say he had been at the Red Lake Pack? I hadn’t noticed him at all.

“Apparently, I committed adultery towards my husband, so he rejected me and exiled me from the pack.”

His eyes held mine, searching, perhaps to know if there was more I wasn’t telling.

“And you didn’t commit that, correct?”

“I was framed.” I told him the truth.

“If you were, the investigation could’ve cleared you up.”

“Not if there wasn’t an investigation in the first place.” I quickly looked away from him, remembering Skylar’s last words to me, his rejection, his betrayal, his humiliation, it all came back in waves and I bit down hard on my lips to erase the thought from my head, at least for now. As if that could stop the pain or turn back time for me.

His eyes looked on thoughtfully. “No investigations were done because your ex-husband was in on it?”

I saw how his eyes immediately darkened a few shades when I nodded my head to that. His jaws clenched as a bone chilling aura suddenly radiated from him.

“So…” I continued, “If you’re going to reject me, please do it now. I am going to leave your territory as early as morning tomorrow.” I could feel Sage who has refused to talk to me internally protest against my words.

Alpha Kaden’s gaze snapped to mine instantly, a feral look entering his eyes as he stood up and slowly stalked towards me, causing my heart to begin to beat erratically against my chest.

I stood from my seat as well, my height only reaching his chest as I looked up at him. He completely covered the distance between us before he placed a finger under my chin and lifted it up.

“Who said I was ever going to reject you, Madeline?” the question came out with a low growl rumbling within his chest. He looked annoyed as his gaze pinned upon me. “I can tell what you’re thinking. And you thought quite low of me if you believed I was going to reject you because you were accused of such a thing. You’re my mate, Madeline. My own goddesses gift. And that means I want to be with you, protect you, I would never despise you for a thing like this.”

“Why didn’t you claim me from the beginning then?” I asked, not quite believing his words yet. “Alphas like you are heavy on your Luna’s reputation being glorious, so I assumed you were treading carefully and—”

“And you’re glorious enough.” He cut me off. “I didn’t claim you because I needed to understand your situation first, if you still had a husband--”

The rest of his words drowned in my ears as a searing pain cut through my stomach. I paused, took in several sharp breaths to register the pain before it came again, more violently this time, so intense, causing a whimper to escape my lips and my knees to buckle.

Alpha Kaden caught me before my legs gave way. I opened my eyes to meet his concern filled ones. He was saying something to me that I couldn’t hear. The pain was drowning out everything including his voice, it was more than I could bear.

I knew what this was. What this meant. This pain… it was the pain of a mate’s betrayal. But how? Why?

It hasn’t even been a day since Skylar exiled me, and he was already f*****g someone else. Worse if this person was Cora.

I couldn’t understand why I could still feel this pain.

I’d accept his rejection.

I felt the bond snapping and disintegrating into nothing that day.

So, how could this happen to me?