The Silver Eyed Luna

The Promise

Kaden’s Pov

I stared at Madeline’s fragile trembling body and cursed for the hundredth time because I didn’t know how to help her. I didn’t know how to take away whatever pain she was feeling. She had broken out in cold sweat, her brows tightly drawn together, her bottom lips quivering, a painful whimper escaping her lips every few seconds, and then here I was, completely powerless, unable to do anything. I hated feeling like this. It brought back some unpleasant memories.

“What’s wrong with her?” I asked the pack’s Doctor who had just finished checking her pulse and examining her.

“It’s her mate.” He answered, his expression sullen. “Whoever he is, he is definitely having a good time with some other chick.”

Her mate? But I was right here. I was hers, and I haven’t done anything of that sort.

My fists clenched tightly together when I thought about her ex-husband. The bastard must be the one doing this to her.

Didn’t they reject each other? Why did she still have a connection to him?”

“But she’s currently not bearing the mark of anyone.” I told the doctor, Atlas, and he seemed puzzled for a second before he went ahead to check her neck where her mate’s mark to be. What was left on the spot were bruises. Ones that looked so painful it made me see red.

How could anyone do this to her?

“She recently suffered a rejection…” Atlas looked at me, before he continued. “But it was incomplete. That is why she can still feel the pain.”

“How long is she going to be in pain?”

“Depends on when her Mate feels satiated enough and stops whatever he is doing. We are both completely powerless. Besides..." That sullen expression again entered his eyes. "You know some people die from things like this. If he doesn’t stop soon…”

And that was all I needed to hear before I stormed out of the room. My wolf was enraged and so was I. All we could feel was the need to get our hands on that bastard and shred him to pieces.

“Where are you off to?” Dylan stopped me on the way, but I didn’t spare him another glance before walking past him.

“Come with me if you’re curious.”

When Dylan saw me heading towards the red room, I knew he would follow without hesitation. For him, it’s anything for chaos.

“Alpha.” The guards greeted, and I noticed Benny was with them too.

“Who are we killing?” Dylan asked curiously over my shoulder.

“We are visiting the neighboring pack.” I told him as the guards handed the key over to me and I opened the gates lock where I was greeted with the different types of daggers hung on the wall. These collections were only ever opened when I needed to cruelly torture a person.

“Are you annoyed your Mate choose him before she found you? Tsk. So childish.”

“I’m more annoyed I hadn’t found her earlier.” I said. “None of these would’ve happened to her.”

“What happened to her?”

“The scumbag is laying with someone else while their connection hasn’t broken yet.”

Dylan whistled at my words then he reached out a hand to the wall to pick out a dagger. “This one would fit quite well somewhere in his chest.”

I stared at the one he picked. It was curved in the shape of a half moon, the razor-sharp edges glinting wickedly at me as I smiled. “Especially when it is twisted with his organs.”

I can already imagine his blood curdling scream when I open him up alive.

I picked another from the collection before handing it over to Dylan, who threw it to Benny. He knew what to do with them.

The most important ingredient for torture especially against werewolves was wolfsbane. And these daggers needed to be coated in them for the best experience.

“Alpha.” I saw my beta, Cane run towards me. “She’s awake.” He announced and I stilled. “She wants you.”

“Did you tell her anything?” my eyes roamed over him suspiciously, and when he swallowed a big gulp, I knew he had spilled.

“I’m sorry. But I cannot let you go and kill the man. Imagine what the council would do to you.”

The council? Heh, I could always find a way out of that one, and he knows it.

“f**k you, Cane.” I told him, hitting his shoulders with mine as I walked past him. Not that anything could stop me from what I had already planned to do.

“So, are we not killing someone anymore?” Dylan called from behind. I could feel the excitement in his voice dying compared to earlier.

I ignored him, finding my way to my room where my mate was. I met that Atlas was asking her questions but she was completely mute. Her eyes were blank, staring into space, I’m sure she couldn’t hear whatever he was saying to her.

The pain had made her like this. I wondered if she was broken for it, if she felt sad over that fucker, but as I got closer, I knew that wasn’t what she was feeling.

I could smell anger, she reeked off it and was holding it in quite well seeing how she was clenching her teeth. A murderous intent filled up the room, it was coming from her too. I smiled.

She definitely wanted revenge. And I was here for that. I was here to fulfill whatever her wish may be.

“Alpha.” The pack’s doctor called when he noticed my presence.

“How is it going?”

“She’s been unresponsive.” He dug into his bag and dropped some pills on the table. “This will help clear out the residual pain."

I nodded at him before he left.

I sat next to her and carried her hands in mine. “Madeline.”

As if she was aware of my presence, her eyes came back into focus. She blinked and a tear rolled off her eyes to her ears as she fixed her gaze on me.

“Don’t go.” She called out.

“What did Cade tell you?”

“That you were going to kill him and that you will be in trouble after.”

“Don’t you want him dead?”

She gulped and looked away as she whispered. “Not right now.”

Another wave of both anger and hesitation rolled off her.

“You could still feel pain despite accepting his rejection, is there anything…”

“I know what you’re thinking and I’ll take care of it.” Was all she said before turning her back towards me. I felt my heart clenching.

She doesn’t even trust me yet to tell me anything.

“Alpha Kaden.” She called, refusing to look at me. “I cannot be a good mate to you.”

Now, what was she thinking in that little head of hers?

“I don’t need you to be a good mate. I just want you to be alive, by my side. Let me love you.”

She paused. Silenced passed between us. For longer than I thought it would last.

And just when I thought she had probably fallen asleep, she sat, turned to my direction and threw her hands over my neck.

I stilled. Gulped. Panicked.

And got hard.

She was hugging me tightly. Her body was touching mine, her breasts were pressing against my chest and my hands were just there, hanging in the air. I didn’t know what to do with them.

Fuck. It felt good. I mean it felt good to be this hard over a hug.

I was acting like a teenage boy who’s never been hugged before and that was… new, exciting.

I finally held her back, wrapping my hands around her tiny waist as I stroked her back, smelled her hair and grazed my lips against her neck, where my mark should rightfully be.

I could feel my wolf fighting for control, surfacing as our canines elongated, but I managed to regain back control before he does something disastrous.

Wolfie doesn’t know the word patience, you see.

“Alpha Kaden.” She called. “Can you please accept me into your pack?”

Right? She needed a new pack soon and I’d be damned if I let her go ask someone else.

“How about becoming my Luna instead?”

She pulled away from me and I reluctantly dropped my hands from her body, instantly feeling the loss of her warmth.

“I cannot be your Luna.” She said, and perhaps she saw the look of hurt that passed through my eyes briefly as she quickly added, “I mean not right now. I still have some things to do, to focus on.”

“You have all the time then. I’m not going to rush you.” I told her. “We’ll get to know each other slowly and when you finally trust me enough, then, I’ll have you.”

A smile entered her face. I was glad I could make her smile and get her mind off what had happened for a while.

“What’s the time?” She asked.

“It’s late in the morning.” I told her and she cursed. Luna’s were usually trained not to curse, but she was different and dammit, it sounded so good rolling out of her mouth.

“We can have the initiation ceremony now.”

“No.” she answered. “I have to be somewhere and it’s already late.”

She left the bed to find some clothes in the closet only to see them filled with my clothes. She paused and I stifled a laugh, watching her stupefied expression.

“This is…”

“My room.” I told her. “I can get the maid to bring you clothes.”

“I’ll just go to my room.”

I grabbed her hand before she could leave, pulling her against me, her back pressed to my chest, her ass pressed to my hard member as I whispered to her. “But I’d like to see you undress in front of me.”

She stilled, I saw how her ears went red instantly and how she parted her lips to breath more easily and how she clenched her legs together.

“I-I don’t think that will be appropriate.” She gulped, shook her hands off my grasp and ran out like something was hot on her trails, leaving me smiling to myself like a fool.