The Unwanted Luna
Chapter 23

Xavier

I had just finished telling Jayden what took place during the alpha meeting.

To say that even he was shocked that alpha Brian would betray the werewolves and chose to join with an evil god was the biggest understatement of the year.

"So you just let her kill him before we could question him, he might have given us some valuable info after a few rounds of torture?" Jayden asked me with a look of unbelief because normally I am the type to ask questions first then kill after. "I would have liked to see you be the one to stop her from ending him" I scoffed at him.

I may be among the strongest of my kind but that didn't mean that I was any match for a goddess, especially one that has pent up anger and hatred towards me.

That wasn't a road I willing to travel through.

"Besides he deserved it, you weren't there to hear what he said about Tristan, any parent would have done the same, my only regret is that I wasn't the one to end his pathetic life" I continued.

Brian was a douchebag alpha set on the ways of the past. He was a dictator, in that those under him, especially the females had no say whatsoever.

They were treated worse than scum, beaten, raped, tortured and he condoned all that without even batting an eye lash.

Once I went to his pack to discuss business and I found his mate tied to a tree, beaten and naked, she was weak and on the brink of death and her mistake had been to come from her errands five minutes late.

He was truly a prick and I was sure that the majority of his pack would be forever grateful to Amelia for getting rid of him.

Brian might have been a monster but so were we. Our pack is the best pack when it comes to equality and fairness and it has always been known as that and that is why we have thousands of wolves applying to join our pack, but weren't we the same pack that persecuted an innocent girl for ten years?

Wasn't I the same person that rejected the same girl over and over again for her sister even after getting her pregnant?

So what makes us different from Brian? The answer is, there is no difference between us, the only difference is that we hid our hideousness well, making us hypocrites unlike Brian who openly showed his ugliness.

It's a few hours after the meeting ended and Amelia disappeared after shocking a room full of alpha males.

She didn't say where she was going or when she would be back which I am not surprised given I lost that right as her mate seven years ago when I kept rejecting her and her love for me so all I can do for now is to wait for her.

We haven't had a chance to talk just the two of us since she came back, the only time we would see each other is when we held meetings other than that she stayed away from me and Bianca.

It was as if in her world we ceased to exist and damn does that fucking hurt.

"Any progress with Amelia?" Jayden asked me as if reading my mind.

He has been my best friend since we were both in diapers so it is no surprise that we can read each other.

"Nop, absolutely nothing...this version of her is new to me and I don't know how to handle her, I don't even know if I ever knew her at all or I just thought I knew her"

"Sophie says she is still the same, just wiser than before and with a guarded heart... give her more time to see that you are no longer the man that you were, that we are no longer the people that rejected her and treated her like shit" I can read the guilt in his face and boy do I understand it, we all took part in singling her out and treating her as an outcast.

"You know very well that I am not that patient Jayden" I tell him, making him chuckle.

"I know, but in this case you have to...another thing I learned from Sophie is that despite Amelia being in contact with her, Freya and Tristan, she never wanted to know anything concerning you, Bianca or the pack" he finishes

But I stay silent because what else is there to say? How can I respond to that?

Knowing that I pushed her so far away that she didn't want to know anything concerning me, whether I was alive or dead, happy or in misery.

The memory of hurting her only hours after she brought the most precious gift to this world resurfaces bringing the familiar tightness of my chest making me wonder how I could have been so cruel to my own mate.

There was a reason the moon goddess paired us together but I chose to ignore those reasons again and again choosing instead to be cruel to her.

Every mean word I ever said to her was now a dagger to my soul because I couldn't take them back. And isn't that the thing with words? Once spoken they couldn't be taken back because the damage had already been done.

My mind was preoccupied with thoughts about the packs, Amelia and Tristan. I needed to replace a way to protect the packs and most especially Tristan, not only because we couldn't have Agron having his power but mainly because he was my son, and about Amelia? Well I needed to replace a way to get her to take me back. It didn't matter if our bond was already broken and dead, she will forever remain to be my mate, something I wish I had realized sooner.

"You just...."

My attention is suddenly snatched from Jayden by Amelia walking through the main door grinning. We were in the living room of the pack house and her eyes were trained on her phone but that wasn't what caught my attention.

Just like on that day, she smelled like sex and just like before the scent was driving me and Ace crazy because I couldn't imagine her taking pleasure from any other man.

I may have taken a back seat when Ace mated her, but that doesn't mean I don't remember her taste, every slope of her body or the fact that I was her first.

"Mine!" Ace growls inside my mind and he couldn't be anymore right.

I didn't want her sleeping with anyone but me, and I didn't want anyone else enjoying her body apart from me.

Karma was a real bitch because I was now in the same position she was so long ago. I now understand how she felt every time I had sex with Bianca.

Without even thinking, I grabbed her and super sped us to my office where I locked the door and pinned her to the wall with my body giving her no chance to escape. "Xavier! What the hell?" she screamed at me but I was busy trying to bring my temper back to normal

"Why the fuck do you smell like sex and another man?" I growled at her.

"I don't know? Maybe because I had sex!" she replied sarcastically.

I didn't want to think about another man touching her body because it brought memories I had tried forgetting by burying myself in her sister's body before she died and different women after she died. "Well I suggest you don't do it anymore" I couldn't control the hardness in my voice.

"Well I don't care too much about your suggestions so you can take them and shove them up your ass, I am a single woman and I will do whomever I want to do, you have no say on who I fuck Xavier!"

Hearing her say that just makes me even more livid than I already was. In one swoop I pin both her hands on the wall while my other hand goes around her waist bringing her closer to my body, so close that there was no space between us. By the feel of her firm breast pressed against my chest, she wasn't wearing her breast so I could feel her nipples.

"Like hell you will Amelia"

"What the hell has gotten into you, let me go right now!" she snaps at me and I can see her eyes flickering from green to black.

I could feel her labored breaths which matched mine but I wasn't sure if it was from arousal or from anger so I decided to test that theory by skimming my lips across her in a light kiss before moving them to her neck, making her breath hitch. "Xavier, what are you doing?" her voice was now softer, having lost all its intensity.

My hand moved up on its own accord, lightly skimming on the underside of her breast through her top and I felt her tremble a little, making me smile against her neck.

"Tell me you won't see that man again, whoever it is?"

Instead of getting an answer like I wanted I am thrown across the room.

"Don't you ever touch me like that again, am I fucking clear?" she snarls. Her eyes full of hatred and anger.

Before I can answer the door opens. Tristan and Freya rush in with excitement on their faces.

"Auntie Lia, could you please come play with us hide and seek like you usually do, pretty please? I'll share my ice cream with you" Freya asked her in a voice so sweet that it would put honey to shame.

"Yes sure...anything for my two favorite persons" she replied all flustered making me smirk a little.

I realized Tristan was quiet which was unusual for him so I turned to look at him. He was looking between the two of us with a contemplative look which made me think he sensed something.

Amelia took both their hands and was about to walk out when I stopped her making her turn.

"Remember what I told you Amelia, keep your distance" I growl, refusing to let the matter go

"And why would I do that my dear ex mate? I do love sex and I don't plan on stopping just because you say so" she said, whispering the sex part but the kids were not even paying attention to what she was saying too excited with the prospects of playing. With a sneer she turned back around and left without a backward glance.

Her parting words put me on edge. The agitation was too much and I needed to shift and run.

I changed into Ace and went outside through my window. In that moment we decided that we were going to make Amelia ours again no matter what.

I was the big bad wolf and she was now my prey and I wouldn't rest until I had her, with a wolfish smile I gave Ace full control.