The Unwanted Luna
Chapter 21

Xavier

Everything was crashing into me all at once and I didn't know what and how to feel about it. First we get attacked, then Amelia shows up bringing in the news that she is alive and a goddess.

Then I smell another male on her which manages to send me and Ace into a frenzy and then finally replaceing out that my son is in danger, because a lunatic god is after him.

Everyone in the room except Amelia draws in a sharp breath at the new twist in events. My mother falls on the chair with all her weight, almost as if her legs could no longer carry her.

Nobody was prepared to hear that Tristan was their target all along because like I said, apart from him being the alpha heir he was also loved, managing to win the hearts of even the hardened warriors in my pack.

"Are we going to address the question that everyone is dying to ask?" Bianca asked after a while, the silence suffocating the room.

Now that everything was settled and we've all been updated on the threat, I guess it was time for more answers.

I would have asked but it would have been later on, when my mind wasn't on plans and strategies of how I would protect my son from a sociopathic god that was hell bent on killing him and getting the essence that made him who he is. "And what question is that dear sister?" Despite Amelia's voice sounding sweet, it was mocking especially on the dear sister part.

She knew exactly what Bianca was asking but she was feigning ignorance.

"How does Tristan know who you are? Since he was able to understand things, he was told you were dead and he has never asked about you...we thought he just didn't want to be reminded he doesn't have his biological mom with him. It just doesn't make sense, given this is the first time we have seen you in seven years"

Amelia moves from her position on the door and moves to stand in front of the window in my office, staring into the darkness for a while before turning back to us, her eyes first landing on Sophie who smiles in assurance making me realize that she knew all along that Amelia was alive. "That's where you are wrong Bianca. This may be the first time you have seen me in seven years but it isn't the first time Tristan has. I have always been there for him, every single step of the way...his first tooth, his first word, his first step, every milestone, every achievement I was always there. He didn't feel the need to ask about me because he already knew about me. Did you honestly think that just because I died I wouldn't be checking up on my son to make sure he was alright?" she pauses then continues staring each and every one in the eyes. "After your treatment of me I couldn't trust you enough to not treat him the same just because he had my DNA. The only one I trusted to take care of him as her own was Sophie but even I knew that wouldn't be enough if you decided to act against him, so I stepped in, becoming his mother as it should be. He always knew that if he needed me all he had to do was call me and I would be there and he always did. Even on those days when none of you could calm him down after he had a bad day, or he was teased for not having a mom or he was just feeling sad" The cold look that she casts on us is enough to freeze us to death. This isn't the Amelia I knew, the one I knew always had a smile on her even when everyone treated her like shit, especially me.

That beautiful smile that reached her eyes started to disappear after I rejected her love and now it was fully gone.

The only time I have seen her smile was when she was with Tristan, Freya and Sophie, but the rest of us got nothing but the ice queen.

I can't blame her because we are the ones who shaped her into the person she is, this cold woman before us that would have gladly left us to die at the hands of Agron if it wasn't for Tristan pleading on our behalf.

"Why didn't you let us know you were alive?" my mother whispers, her voice breaking.

Mom was greatly hit by guilt when the truth finally came out that Amelia was innocent. She felt she had failed her both as a mother figure and as a luna.

"And why the hell in my right mind would I do that? Why would I tell the people who have done nothing but wish I was dead that I was still alive? There is only one person in this room who cared for me and she was the only one that needed to know I wasn't dead"

It is fucking painful to hear her say that but she was right. Wasn't there a time I had wished that she hadn't been born, or that she could just die?

We were nothing but a thorn on her side for so long so of course she couldn't trust us and it was sad that the only person she felt was in her corner was Sophie even though she still doesn't know that things have changed.

I turned and looked around the room and I could see the sadness and unshed tears in mom's and Bianca's eyes. The shameful look all around, well except for Sophie that is.

I doubt that in her anger and hatred she could see that we were all remorseful. Did it even matter at all? That we were remorseful or was the damage too great to repair.

"We would have loved to know you were alive Lia, we care about you and we do love..." Amelia interrupts Bianca before she has even had the chance to finish what she wanted to stay.

"I'll have to stop you right there baby siz...first of all, you are laying it a little bit too thick don't you think? You don't have to kiss my ass by using sweet words, I have already agreed to help the pack and second of all, don't call me Lia, you lost that right when you believed that I would kill our parents in cold blood" the last part comes out hard, her anger suffocating the entire room.

The heartbroken look that covers Bianca is like a sharp shard of glass to my heart. I don't have any more romantic feelings for her but that doesn't mean I no longer care for her.

"Are we done here?" she asks, her eyes turning to me but she doesn't even wait for me to answer before she is moving, the door slamming behind her.

Sophie gives Jayden a soft kiss before she moved towards me giving my arm a squeeze before leaving to follow her friend.

I try to reach for our bond, hoping that now that she is back there would be a glimmer of it but there is nothing. Just emptiness.

The gold thick string that used to glow, burning with power was no longer there which left me feeling empty and alone.

I wish I could take back everything I did to her, every action. I wish I could unsay the words I carelessly threw at her but I can't, now she hates me and that's all on me.

I have no one to blame because no one forced me to do anything, no one can force me to do anything really.

"She fucking hates us" I hear Jayden say and we can all agree that it's true.

"Can you really blame her? We weren't really welcoming to her...in fact we were downright hostile to her" this comes from Asher my head warrior.

Soon everyone leaves, abandoning me to my loneliness and thoughts which I am grateful for because I needed the peace and quiet to think and come up with a plan.

I still can't wrap my head around the fact that she is alive and has been for the last seven years.

So many things are now clicking into place that didn't make sense back then.

Like when Tristan would be angry or sad and go to his room only for him to emerge from the room all smiles and laughter.

I never understood that but now I am beginning to get it. Or the fact that he never asked about Amelia, never asked for her pictures, he never seemed like he was missing out on not having a mom probably because she was always there.

I have to admit that he is good at keeping a secret given he never even slipped up and mentioned his mother being alive. My thoughts are interrupted by my phone ringing.

"What do you want" I answer, I was not in the mood for chit chatting and that's what Alpha Luke of the moon stone pack is always about.

Don't get me wrong, he is a great alpha and we are good friends but he is one of those that love talking and as you have already noticed I am a man of little words. He borders us to the north and his pack has good relations with us.

"No, hey Luke how are you doing, I sure hope you are all right and not dead" he loudly snaps making me cringe and hold my phone a little distance from my ears.

"Cut the fucking crap, I have had a long day and I got no time for your shit so just get straight to the god damn point?"

"My fucking pack was attacked! By those creatures you told the alpha council years ago but majority were too much of dick heads to accept that there was powerful creatures capable of attacking and almost wiping out one of the fucking most powerful packs!" if I wasn't an alpha the growl that comes through the phone would have brought me down on my knees, tail tucked between my legs.

"When?"

"A few hours ago, we didn't even know it until it was too late and then just as they came they retreated" he says sounding tired and I honestly understand him because I was feeling the same. "We were also just attacked, early morning today...this doesn't look like a coincidence"

"Damn! No it is not... before they disappeared they left a message for you" this makes me sit up straight in my chair because I had a feeling I wasn't going to like what he was about to say. "Tell me!"

"The boy or the packs...your choice" Luke says and for the first time in a long time I detect a hint of fear in his voice.

"Fucking shit!" I growl then disconnect. I lift my desk and flip it, angry breaths racking my body making me breathe heavily.

Just like I had suspected I didn't like what he said. I hated anyone threatening my son and god or not, this mother fucking bastard was going down.