The Unwanted Luna
Chapter 25

Xavier

"She hates me, she absolutely hates me...but I can't even begin to blame her because she has every right to hate me after everything I did to her" Bianca continues to cry on my shoulders hours after Amelia left her bleeding on the floor.

It was now dark outside and she hadn't come back and I was beginning to worry. I know what Bianca is going through, trying to get rid of the guilt that was eating her up because I was too.

Sometimes I wonder if Amelia will ever replace it in her heart to forgive me, to forgive us for what we put her through.

I don't have siblings but I can't even begin to imagine how it would feel if my mate was sleeping with my brother, it would definitely tear me to shreds.

The fact that she is sleeping with someone else is already doing that so I can't imagine how she felt in the past.

"I did so many wrongs to her that I don't even know where to begin in making amends. I was the only family she had left and instead of sticking by her, I abandoned her choosing to believe others instead of my own sister" she hiccups and I just pat her back smoothly trying to calm her down.

"You were a kid, you didn't know any better Bianca"

"I might have been a kid back then but I grew up and I could have chosen to believe her then, to believe in her character and her love for our parents but I didn't instead I decided to torture and rub our relationship in her face" she says letting go of me only to begin pacing around the room.

It wasn't easy dealing with my own guilt let alone trying to deal with the guilt of others.

Everyone looked up at me as if I had all the answers on how to get Amelia to forgive all of us, but the truth is that I didn't.

I was just as lost as them because I was as sure, as my heart beats, that Amelia hated me more than anyone else in the pack.

"Just give her time, I am sure she'll come around once she sees that we have all changed, that we aren't the people we were back then" I tell her soothingly, hoping that this will be enough to calm her down.

"She won't, she hates me and she even said that I was dead to her...it hurts Xav, it really hurts, I feel my heart is breaking all over again. I lost my parents and now I have lost my sister because I was stupid enough to believe others instead of her"

I didn't know what to tell her after she said that. I understand her pain because I go through it every single day without pause.

I have tried to escape it but every time I turned it was right there with me.

every second, every minute, every hour of every day and now that she was back it was even more painful because she was right here, living under the same roof but I could not have her...so close but yet so far away.

"I need a run, I need to think" she says panicking, just before she leaves, making me heave a sigh.

Like I said, I have no romantic feelings towards her anymore but I still do care for her and it is sad watching her break and not being able to do anything about it.

It was like she was losing Amelia all over again and I was afraid of what would happen to her if she was pushed too far.

Bianca isn't as strong and persevering as her sister, she is one of those women who are fragile and tender, whose hearts break easily.

The ones who when pushed too hard they break instead of coming out the other side stronger, I was afraid that she was about to reach her breaking point and that Amelia knowingly or unknowingly would be the one to push her over the edge and if that happens I don't think Bianca would ever recover or ever be the same again.

I sit in my office for a while, my mind on nothing in particular. This isn't like me at all, having my mind all over the place.

I am usually focused but ever since Amelia came back and plus with this new threat on Tristan's life, my mind has been scrambled.

The door to my office opens drawing my attention away from my messed up thoughts and back to the present where I see Tristan's head pop in. He scans the office for a few seconds before he fully enters the room.

He comes straight to me and climbs up on my lap where he fidgets a little trying to replace a comfortable position before he finally settles and turns to look at me.

"Daddy, do you replace mommy pretty?" his question catches me off guard and I chuckle because most of the things that Tristan asks me usually catch me off guard.

Like one time when he asked me about sex when I was in the middle of the meeting, or when he asked me if his penis had another use apart from just peeing.

He is naturally a curious boy even for his age and you wouldn't believe the amount of questions I have had to answer.

"Why do you ask Champ?"

"Because she is and I want you to think she is pretty" he tells me in a sweet voice that makes me wrap my arm around his tiny body.

"Well she is beautiful, after all she is your mother and you are handsome" I reply rubbing my nose along his neck inhaling his scent. His scent always has a way of bringing me peace.

"So does that mean that you like-like her? Boys only replace the girls they have a crush on pretty"

"Really? So that means you have a crush on Freya since you once told me you thought she was pretty" the blush that covers his cheeks is enough to make me grin.

"Eeeww no, girls have cooties and she is my bestest friend, she is prettier than the other girls but I don't have a crush on her" he says his eyes looking everywhere except for me. "Bestest isn't a word Tristan"

I try to keep the amusement from my voice but it's hard. Tristan is simply the best child anyone could ever ask for, the way he makes me smile without even trying is simply magnificent. "It is to me dad" he is so serious as he says this that I end up laughing for the first time since the night Amelia came back to us.

We both sniff the air when the smell of food hits us and I know it is time for dinner. This is confirmed when I hear the footsteps and voices of my pack mates as they headed towards the dining area. "It is time for dinner let's go, I am starving" I tell Tristan as I get up from my seat while still holding him.

"You haven't answered my question, do you like-like mummy?" he asks again, I got to give it to him though, he is persistent and that is one of the qualities of a good leader.

"Yes bud, I like-like her" it seems that my answer satisfies him because a big smile takes over his lips and he looks more relaxed now.

He replies with a good and then proceeds to tell me to put him down. I do exactly that and he takes my hand and drags me to the dining room all the while I am smiling at his take charge attitude.

We reach and take our seats, load up our plates and begin to eat.

It was thirty minutes later as we were eating that I felt an unfamiliar energy and smelled the scent of blood and it seemed to be coming from the hallway. Most of the members of the pack had already eaten and left but some were still there.

I rose up from my seat and after telling Tristan to stay where he was, I headed to the hallway on high alert as Jayden and some of the warriors followed me. When we reached the hallway a tall brown haired man was standing there surrounded by an air of arrogance with Amelia in his arms naked and covered in blood.

Her head rested on his shoulders and her body was pressed to him. She had her back to us thankfully so they rest couldn't see her naked front.

She had curled around him and was soundly asleep in his arms. His eyes were sharp as he surveyed the area in disgust. He sneered at us when his eyes finally landed on us.

I didn't know who he was and why he was here but I didn't like him. His aura was as strong as Amelia and the moon goddess, meaning he was another deity so through the pack link I told my people to stand down because they had been waiting for my signal.

I sniffed the air to check if there were any other unwanted visitors but the air got stuck in my lungs and I froze because his scent was familiar, it was the same one that had been mixed with Amelia's each time she smelled of sex.

I was ready to explode and tear him into pieces. I released a growl while my fangs and claws come out. I move to attack him but Jayden and the warriors stop me.

He smirks at me as if he knows that I now know the truth about who he is to Amelia which pisses me off, making me snarl at him and take a swipe at him but he just effortlessly moves aside before I could claw him. "Nolan? How are you? Is Lia okay?"

Sophie's voice pulls me from the rage that had begun to build up. I had been so lost in my anger that I hadn't realized that she had joined us.

It was after she said his name that it hit me, this was the god that Amelia had told us about, the one that had been watching over Amelia since she was young, the one that had saved her.

"I'm good and yes she is alright, she just needed to get rid of her negative energy so she went hunting...you know how she always is after" he replied and Sophie nodded as if she knew what he was talking about.

"Can you direct me to her room so I can lay her down?" he asks her but he wasn't even staring at her, his focus was completely on the woman in his arms, my mate to be exact.

He stared at her as if she was his world and nobody could miss the affection he clearly had for her which made me even more pissed.

"Sure, just climb up the stairs, it is the last room on the left with a golden handle and frame" Sophie says sweetly.

"Thanks, I won't be staying long so say hi to Tristan for me...tell him I haven't forgotten our match" he says making me want to rip his head off.

I hated the fondness of which he spoke Tristan's name with.

He continued to hold Amelia tightly in his arms which makes me jealous because I should be the one holding her like that.

I should be the one to know all the details about her, I should be the one whose arms she can soundly sleep in undisturbed, not this prick.

"I will, and take care" Sophie tells him and by the looks of it, they are friends because he gives her a peck on the forehead which makes Jayden growl, before he leaves heading towards the stairs.

After he leaves, I shake the hands of my pack mates off and storm towards my office feeling angry and hopeless at the same time.

I slam the door behind me and just stare at nothing, my muscles completely rigid.

How can I compete against him? Someone whose affection for her is unconditional, who didn't throw her aside nor did he sleep with her sister, who was always there for her and didn't constantly reject her? "We can't lose hope, she loved us once before everything went to shit, and we can convince her to love us again." Ace's voice in my head manages to bring me out of my self-pity.

He was right, I wasn't willing to lose her again and I wasn't going to let anyone else have her.

Amelia was mine, she has always been mine even if it took me a while to realize that. I just have to make her see this and convince her to give me a second chance.