The Unwanted Luna
Chapter 9

"Amelia? Amelia, wake up" I hear my name being called but it sounds so far.

As if I am under water. I don't want to wake up because it has been a while since I have gotten a peaceful sleep.

I didn't go through any pain and I didn't have any nightmares so I just wanted to sleep a bit more, taking advantage of the peace, you know.

"Amelia come on, you need to eat something" whoever it was that was trying to wake me up shakes me a little.

"A few more minutes please"

"Absolutely not, you have slept for almost the whole day, it is now evening, you need to eat, think about the baby"

That gets my attention and I grudgingly open my eyes. When I do I come face to face with Sophie.

My first instinct is to tell her to go away and leave me alone but then I remembered that she was the one who saved me and my baby the last time and also she is here now with food.

I look at her because I don't know what to tell her, we used to be in sync with each other but now it is totally awkward. It is almost as if we are now strangers stuck in an awkward silence.

"Come on, eat up...I saved you some chicken and mashed potato with a dash of soup, I was not really sure what to get you so I settled for those instead" she is nervous I can tell. Probably because she expected to be thrown out.

I look at her, really look at her and see sincerity there so I decide to take the olive branch she had extended.

Maybe we will never be as close as before but that's okay, besides I needed an ally in this pack and she was the only who did see me for me.Many paragraphs are missing. Read the complete book on J o=b n-l b. c (o) m. "Thank you for this and for saving my baby" I finally tell her. If I was not hungry I would have laughed at her shocked expression, but I was so I dug into my food as she watched.

Once I was done I put my dishes aside and scanned the room while trying to think of something to say. I noticed the door had been fixed which was weird because I hadn't heard a single thing while I was asleep. I guess I was really tired.

"Why are you helping me? After all this time, I just can't figure it out" I finally ask, because it was true, I just could not figure it out.

"Because I owe it to you, you didn't deserve what I did to you and I have been regretting it since but I was just scared of approaching you. But after what happened with Xavier and your pregnancy and also your sister coming back, I knew you needed me...no one should go through what you are going through alone." She pauses to catch her breath then continues.

"I am sorry, really sorry for abandoning you, I know it is not enough and I am ashamed that I did that to you even after we promised to be there for each other, this is me making it up to you and I hope you can give me a chance to earn your forgiveness" she finished while holding my hands and tears running down her face.

I am relieved to have her back but I am also weary and doubtful am I being too lenient, too forgiving? I know I have trust issues and a lot of them.

But for some reason I trust her words and decide to give her the chance and so I hug her, and it felt good to have her hug me back just as tight. I realize just how much I was starved for affection.

From there on the chatter is light.

She fills me in on everything I have missed and it feels like old times. I have never interacted that much with Jayden, but since he is Xavier's best friend my opinion of him is not that high.

Sophie does try to get me to see a different side to him but I just can't plus there is the fact that he is probably nice to her because she is her mate as for me, he has never defended when Xavier was treating me cruelly, he has never cared that his best friend was rejecting his true mate for someone else.

So I have no love lost for him and I guess after a while Sophie realizes that I don't want to talk about Jayden so she changes the topic.

Soon I start yawning and she takes the hint and leaves promising to come back the next day.

I pull my covers and go to sleep even though it was only around eight according to Sophie's phone but I didn't care because I was tired and I have been feeling more of that of late.

My sleep this time is not peaceful as I expected because I was awoken again by pain and this time it was from my heart.

I tried to grit my teeth against the pain but it didn't help because I kept intensifying and until it became too much to bear and a scream tore from the depths of my soul.

I was delirious with pain trying to make sense but nothing did. I felt a tear from my fingers and I knew that for the second time in my life my claws were out.

I could hear myself screaming and thrashing on my bed. It was as if I was having an out of body experience and isn't it just funny how I have been having a lot of those lately.

My heart was breaking and I could hear it shattering around me. I could feel the bond rotting and I didn't want it anymore. I wanted it gone, I wanted it out of me, far away from me. "Amelia!" someone was screaming my name but my mind was not there.

I could hear more voices joining in but I didn't care. I wanted my peace. I was mad, mad with fury and pain, I was dying from the inside and nobody cared.

"Amelia, stop it! You are hurting yourself" this time I recognized the voice and it was my mate's, and instead of having the calming effect it should have, It only made me more out of control.

This was his fault, all of it...for refusing the mate bond and betraying it. I felt hands on me, trying to hold me down but I could not let them.

I needed to remove the rotting bond inside me. So instead I clawed at them and attacked anyone who tried holding me down.

"She is too strong, we need to sedate her" I heard someone say.

I knew the moment they did I would be lost, lost in the pain and I couldn't take any more of it, it was too much.

When I heard what they were planning to do to me, a rush of strength flooded me and I managed to surge up, crouching on the bed tossing aside those holding me down. I could feel that my fangs were out and I was snarling at the people in my room. I couldn't see them nor recognize them, not really. None of them registered in my mind, it was like they were faceless.

"Goddess! Her eyes!" I heard someone say and soon gasps could be heard but I didn't care, I had to get away from here.

I focused on the door and then before anyone could stop me I charged towards it, thankfully no one stopped me, probably too shocked to do anything.

Soon I was outside but my relief didn't last long because I sensed guards surrounding and within minutes Xavier's scent reached my nose.

"Amelia, my love"

I could hear the change in the voice and I knew that Xavier had released Ace but I couldn't reconcile them as two different entities.

To me they were the cause of my pain and suffering so I ignored him and turned to leave.

I released a roar when the guards tried surrounding me, a clear warning to stay the hell away from me which actually worked.

Without much thought I charged through them, deep inside I hoped that I had not harmed my son, but luckily they moved out of the way when they saw I was serious about ploughing through them if I had too.

Soon I was in the forest, with no idea of where I am going other than wanting to be far away from Xavier.

If I had been thinking straight then I would have seen how stupid this idea was given what happened the last time.

I was here in the forest but the truth was, I wasn't thinking just feeling and also I wasn't even sure that it was me really or someone or something else entirely.

I suddenly feel a piercing on my arm and I begin getting woozy. I should have known they wouldn't have let me get far.

My knees weaken and I begin to fall but before I can fall, strong hands catch me and Xavier's scent surrounds me.

Right before my eyes close, I see a flash of red eyes staring at me behind Xavier, almost as if they were trying to communicate something. What it is I didn't know.