A Scorned Luna's Revenge

ith a smile on his lips. It was a smile I came to c

ous disease that degenerated our kingdom's omega population, his Alpha took him in, only to mistreat him. He served as the Alp

nd might fail but I had to try. "How are you?" I cleared my throat. My words

eting in twenty minutes so let's cut to the chase. Why did you request an audi

agement." The bombshell slipped from

d society's habit of speaking in a roundabout manner. However, looking at Cassius sitting opp

cond. "Being my Luna isn't something you should joke about." H

ing?" I copied his movements

position, I sat upright, my spine straightening. Cass broke our eye contact, his palm rubbi

The question took me off

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ree years and after three years of trying to have you address me

is

f his seat and walked to the

! Cas

d, Persephone, you mus

rds, spoken in the presence of

ddress him formally. It took many years for me to convince him to call me by my nickname. We were fine with calling each other by our name

t when addressing you." The teacup on the table had turned c

n cold feet?" H

ing." I raised my head and held his gaze as he strode

give the impression that I am burdened by

or your true mate." He

ss than twenty per cent of our kind find their true mates. Only an

stop the elders from pushing their daughters on him but April's appearan

ears one day? What wou

such idealistic things. It confirms my sus

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smile made my heart flutter. Even after dying at his hands, I could not hard

a gruesome death at the hands of Cassius and April. In every dream, I screamed and cried out to the goddess to be saved. I shouted at

elieve, they would also tag me as a mad person, tarnishing my name and my

ue mate crashing our engagement. Such coincidences onl

l meet your mate and I

a strange look flic

il came into the picture. As his best friend and biggest suppo

rse

cut him off. "If you don't want to cancel the eng

oke with co

Desperation claw

a. April would show up before then so we would have

t beside me. "You have prepared hard for this and I won't let you back out no

rai

ed my gaze on him. I swallowed. "Persephone, I know that I rejected the idea at first but now, I am certain you would be the perfe

bitter taste coated my to

as you have held mine all th

ook in his eyes was strange and made me uncomfortable. There had nev

e else but I was clingy and my clinginess rubbed off on him. We hugged often and sat close to each other all the time. Sometimes, I would

elt silly. Him touching me made me uncomfortable so I pulled m

are you putting up a wall against me all of a sudden? There is no reason why – ah –" He trailed off a

n in love with someone else but would this be a

ied through

n't matter." He sighed. "I know your feelings for me, Persephone and our engagement

ow of my

ther to propose this union and he knew of my feelings and he did not

ntentions of letting you go." His eyes glowed