LOGINValerie"Sorry. I wasn't looking." I say and her brow raises.She just huffs and starts patting dirt off of her shoe while I look around. Everyone else scatters off leaving us two alone.I clear my throat."So, I think you and I got off with a wrong start. Can we start over?" I ask.Her eyebrows practically shoot up to her hairline."Really?" She asked back, raising a brow.I nodded and tossed her a friendly smile. Although Zayne warned me I shouldn't go too far, I have a way of dealing with things on my own."Of course. I really want to get to know you, since I and Valerian will be staying." I said, gauging the reaction from her eyes.I was more surprised however when she sighed."No. I'm sorry. I'm too much of a hothead." She huffed and I chuckle."So I've been told." I said with a smile.She smiles back and we go into training together. Surprisingly, she is really easy to get along with. She's tough, and when we spar her combat skills are top-notch. However I noticed how easily she
Chapter 35ValerieI make my way to the training field and notice that most of them are smiling at me. Well, except for one.A grimace falls on my lips as I see her, and Liana is about to hand me my ass for being afraid.'What are you gawking at? Go,' she hisses.'I'm going to, alright!' I snap and sigh, forcing on a smile as I make my way over."Hi everyone," I greet, and they all greet me back except for one person.Lucielle throws daggers at me, and instead of greeting me back she tilts her chin up and walks away."Tough week, huh?" A voice sounds to the side of me, and I snap my head to see Easton. One of the trainers who had it easy on me on the first day. Liana purrs in my head, loving what she sees.'Will you stop it?' I reprimand, but as always, she doesn't listen to a thing I say and keeps purring.'What? He's a cutie. You can't deny it.' She huffs before I throw her back and let her have a piece of my mind. Literally."Yeah." I smile at him, and he smiles back. Damn. I don'
VALERIEIt has been three weeks since I left, left Evan to be with his goddess-given mate. Valerian has stopped receiving the pains, thank the goddess. He is free, and so am I.It was during training that I received the news.I positioned myself in front of the punching bag and began to hit. About an hour later, my shoulders begin to ache. I groaned. Still not enough.I haven't trained hard enough.For some reason, all this anger in me couldn't contain itself for long. So I usually spend my nights in the training grounds when no one is around, just so I could pour out this boiling anger within me. All these years, as a luna I never complained. Never once made a bloody remark about how my husband has treated me. How many criticisms and comments I have ignored for holding the title of luna yet never being acknowledged by it. I have done so much for the pack, for Evan, but in the end none of that mattered so long as he treats me like nothing. Thoughts like these swirl in my mind and it
ValerieThe water is cool as it rained down on my head. It helps me calm even just a little after watching Valerian all night, worried there might be repercussions. There had been none, but it seems I can't get much of a relief. He is sleeping now and I am free to get some shut-eye for a couple of hours before breakfast.Yet, each time I am left alone, I think of him. How the tables turned and how quickly it all fell apart.I guess that's what happens when you force yourself onto someone. I bitter smile falls on my lips. Maybe I deserved it. Maybe all those years of chasing after the one love of my life that fatw finally has it in for me. Because rejecting the bond before you even find it is kind of life rejecting mother moon's will. That's kind of like in human terms. Just like us they have gods. Yet they intentionally betray them. Betray their will willingly. A sin, as you may call it. I wonder if that is what this is. The goddess punishing me for falling for a man just waiting for
Valerie"Mommy?" Valerian stirs, and my eyes tear at the first thing that came out of his mouth."I'm here, baby. I'm right here." I say, and hold his hand.He blinks and looks around. Zayne and Priya both stand on the edge of the bed while I am seated next to him.He winces. I look at Priya."I thought he is already healed?" I ask confused."Like I said, he needs to complete the ritual. He has to reject his parental bond to sever his connection and keep the betrayal pain from reaching him." She explains and I turn back to Valerian."Honey, I need you to do something for me." I start as Valerian raises his big blue eyes to mine. My breath hitches at what I am about to make him do."I need you to reject your father, sweetie," I say, guilt coursing through me with every word. I can't believe I am saying this, but I have no other choice.He blinks up at me, confused, and tilts his head."Father?" he asks and I feel my body go rigid. How could I forget? He has always called him Alpha. Not
VALERIEPacing the floor for the hundredth time, I look back at the door and bite my lip.Should I go after them?'Absolutely not.' Liana hisses at me making my eyebrows shoot up to my hairline. She has never been this stern with me before.'But it's been over two hours. I wonder if they're ok...' I trail off not hearing myself.Liana pauses for a moment and when I thought she had left, she speaks and her words rattle me.'Are you really worried or are you just itching to find out his reaction?' she asks and I swear if she is human, she would have been the one raising a brow at me now.I purse my lips into a line.'I...' I pause and sigh. 'I don't know.''You know what happens if we go back.' Liana says softly this time.I nod, coming to realize what I really am so worried about.'You know that when you go back there and see the regret in his eyes, you would want to go back to him. You won't be able to resist. It is better this way.'I nod my head and grit my teeth at how well my wol







