Page 68 of Losing My Siren Luna
My heart beats excitedly for a minute, then dwindles back to its normal beat, then drops when another thought pops in my head. “If my father knew about me, why didn’t he come to save me sooner? Why didn’t he come back for my mother?”
A sad expression crossed his features, “He only learned of you recently, Elelira. He wasn’t even aware of your mother’s death until, uh, maybe a few weeks ago? Maybe months? The timeline is iffy, but it hasn’t been long. He has been searching for a way to get you to him, but it will take you gaining your magic for him to finally bring you home to where you belong. This wedding and his access to you through your new husband was the only way for him to build a bridge to connect you in some way to him.”
So, he didn’t know about me? This is so different from my first life and I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around all the changes. My dad wanted me with him after finding out about me. My anxieties about having the same fate as before while trying to find information on my father lifts with this news. I won’t meet the same cruel death if I have no reason to ever return to my uncle’s pack.
“See,”Val said mockingly in my mind, “I told you this life was different. I don’t agree with him taking you away just yet, though.”
I want to growl at her, but hold myself back.“Don’t start with that. Lachlan is still the same demeaning jerk he was before. You and I both know that though Killian may be alright, Lachlan, the one in control, is still not someone we can be with.”
“He might be sorry for what happened this morning. You know the rumors about his anger,”Val tried to reason with me.
“Yes, but his anger was not just at me. He was horrible to Yasmin as well when she didn’t deserve that. I can not trust a man like that and do not want to keep him as my mate.”
“I don’t want to lose my mate, Ela! You are punishing me and Killian while you remain set on rejecting Lachlan,”Val cries. I can feel her worry and the pain she feels at the thought of losing the mate that she just met for the first time yesterday. A mate that seemed to want her as much as she had always longed for him.
“He knew, Val. He knew at least since yesterday who my father was and that the necklace was a gift from him. He kept that from me. How can I trust a man like that? He held information from me pertaining to something I had desired more than anything for as long as I can remember, and he didn’t tell me that my father contacted him. He didn’t tell me that my father sent the necklace as a gift. Thinking back on it, it was almost like he was trying to hide who the necklace came from. You want me to commit my life to someone who doesn’t have the decency to tell me that my father was looking for me? That my father was with him at some point, because where else would he have gotten the necklace?”
“You don’t know that,”Val tried to argue, though I could feel that she was trying to convince herself as well. “You don’t know that Lachlan was aware that the man who sent you the necklace was your father.”
I remain silent for a few seconds while I try to work things out in my head. “If Cherum comes back and tells us that Lachlan knew of Cedric’s arrival, that proves I’m right. That proves he had communication with my father.”
I can feel her worry in my head, because she knows I’m right. I find myself hoping just as much as she is that I’m wrong. I’m still holding on to a fraction of hope that Cherum will come back over and tell us that Lachlan didn’t know anything about Cedric being here, and that he was unaware of there being a siren in his land.
That hope dies as Cherum walks back over to us waiting for him on the beach and we see all the hostility gone from his expression.
“What did your Alpha say?” Cedric asks with a confidence that makes me gulp nervously while waiting for Cherum’s answer.
“Aye, he said he knows of you and to bring you along. We just have to find you some clothes first. The orphanage does not have any that could fit a fellow of your, uh, size, so I have a guard riding this way with some now.”
“Is my nudity offensive, Delta?” Cedric smirks.
“Yes,” Percy was the one to answer with a growl.
I can’t even find the humor in their conversation about nudity and offensiveness now, my mind reeling and my heart sinking, as well as Vals, knowing ourmatehas broken our trust impossibly more than before.
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Lachlan POV
“Where are they?”Killian growls in my head. He’s restless, fearful of what this siren man might be telling our mate. Fearful of what she may be telling him. He was fearful that the naked siren she was clinging to and crying on, as Cherum told us, might be able to accomplish in the single hour I gave them to get home what I may never accomplish in the next two years. Not with the rate we are going.
I share his fears. If this man tries to steal my wife and my mate, I will be helpless to stop it.
“They still have 10 minutes to get here,”I tell him, “10 minutes, then we can panic.”
Killian scoffs, “Don’t try to claim you are not panicking now. We share a mind, idiot. I know you are just as frantic as I am.”
Yes, but if I let that show when Lira gets here, I could upset her even more than I already have, and I’m trying to win back her affections, not drive them away even harder.
“Alpha! The Luna and her guard are approaching the gates!” my warrior called down to me from the vantage point above.
“Finally!”Killian huffs dramatically, urging me to go and meet them at the gate.
I cannot deny him that, because I wish for it too. I wish to see her, even just seconds sooner, and this time, I have to keep myself in control of my anger. I have to keep the appearance of someone she can learn to trust, because after this morning, one more wrong move and it is game over for me. Her father had already sent her his own guard to watch over her. It would take just one mistake for that man to take away the only woman I could ever love.
I’m pacing nervously, resisting the urge to jump up and down on the other side of the gate in the hope of seeing them sooner. She’s so close to me once again, and I have this desirous energy flowing through me. I want to pull her into my arms the moment my eyes fall upon her, beg for her forgiveness, granting her every whim or desire until I gain it.
When she does come into view, it takes all that is in me to not repeat my sins from this morning.
