Page 47 of Losing My Siren Luna
I still can’t stop myself. The memory of feeling her betrayal pains as she probably sold herself the same way Yasmin does each night and day is overwhelming my thoughts. That is probably why she is sticking up for the woman. She can relate to being a whore too. How dare she accuse me of being one, acting all pure and noble.
I huffed out a humorless laugh. “I suppose women like you both will always stick up for one another. It would be cruel of me to fault you for that. But you will not accuse me,your alpha, of being as lowly as the both of you.”
She snorts, her aura just as strong and imposing as mine. She does not back down. “You are no alpha of mine.”
I snarl, reaching for her throat, but the fear that flashes momentarily in her eyes makes me slow at the last millisecond, Killian roaring and snarling in my head for me to stop, giving Cherum the fraction of a second he needs to pull her behind him.
He growls, planting himself between me and my wife. “Alpha, I think this is not the place,” he says out loud, moving his eyes back and forth to point out the audience, then in a mind link adds, “Your rash actions are going to ruin any chance of getting the lass to stay with you, and I already warned you of what would happen if you caused me to loose my Luna. We will speak of this later.”
His voice is low and full of warning, and I can feel his delta aura seeping out to protect his Luna from the threat she’s currently facing; me.
It’s a sobering realization, like ice water being thrown over the fire of the raging anger that was just spilling out of me.
All my warriors and pack members present are watching, mouths agape in stunned disbelief. I just had Nilo reinforce the fact that Lira was my Luna, my mate, and the most important person to me, then in a fit of rage, I almost hurt her in front of all of them.
No matter what she did, or ever does to me, she does not deserve what I just did. I just tried to lay my hands on my mate, to hurt her, though I promised never to hurt her again.
A quick glance at Lira is all the evidence I need of the damage I just did. Her small frame, that just moments ago felt as powerful as mine, is now shaking in stunned horror, looking much like she did last night as she was suffering with her night terrors.
She is gripping Cherum’s sleeve from behind, her eyes closed tight like she is ready for a blow from me.
“Lira….” I pleaded in a hoarse whisper. She cringes into Cherum at the sound of my voice.
Oh, my Lira. What have I done?
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Cherum POV
“That’s enough for now, Alpha. I think the Luna needs to rest,” I told the bastard.
He seems to finally be back to normal. I haven’t seen him like that in some time. The rumors about him being a cold-blooded monster didn’t come from nothing. There is no turning back for him usually when he gets that worked up.
His anger is a powerful tool in war, but here at home, it was always hard for him to put that part of him away. Killian, his Lycan, is an animal. A dominant Alpha Lycan is terrifying in their own right, but Killian was the thing of nightmares. Killian manifested in war when Lachlan was barely more than a lad, which makes him ruthless to any adversaries. Having two ruthless parts made Lachlan a viciously strong alpha in the best of ways, but also sometimes the worse.
When you got on his bad side, pushing him the way Elelira just did, he would normally not hesitate to kill you, or harm you severely. He did not tolerate disrespect. Killian must be restraining his power right now to keep Lachlan from becoming the blood-thirsty monster he can be.
I’m glad at least one side of my alpha has some sense right now.
I thought being mated to someone like Elelira would be good for him, since she is equally as strong, but in a more selfless, graceful way. Her actions this morning, extending an invitation to Yasmin when she saw the woman needed help, and then yesterday, the way she was willing to sacrifice anything to keep Niomi with her were proof to me of how well suited she is for the role of Luna. Her selflessness and strength are that of a true Luna.
I may have questioned at first about her really being Lachlan’s mate because of her hatred towards him, but if she truly wasn’t the Luna I was meant to serve, my aura as a delta would not have reacted to the danger she was facing. Danger she was in thanks to my own Alpha.
Sheismy Luna before heismy alpha. It is the Delta's code. That is how the connection is between a luna and her delta, and now that I can feel it, the connection, she will come before everything else for me, even my mate when I find her.
Lachlan is watching Elelira, his face now back to showing regret for what he almost just did and the words he just said.
Good.
I could understand his anger, being hit and humiliated in the presence of so many members of our pack, but I can understand my Luna wanting to protect Yasmin more. Lachlan should never have reacted like that. As Yasmin’s alpha, that was out of line.
If he was to ban every woman he slept with from speaking with his wife, that would prevent a large portion of the women in our territory from ever getting to know their Luna.
An alpha should be an alpha before all else, and he was willing to throw out and humiliate a woman of his pack that came to the packhouse for safety and refuge for such selfish reasons.
Even if I wasn’t Delta and I witnessed this scene, I would have taken the Luna’s side. She was defending a woman who needed help, and Lachlan was trying to hide his past, without even stopping to assess the situation or consider why Yasmin was with Elelira to begin with.
Then, to insinuate that the woman who already hates him, his wife who he has been trying to impress and speaking of nothing but getting her to trust and accept him all morning, is a prostitute as well….
