why put me through

Xyla’s P.O.V.

I must appreciate how quickly he came out of his shocked state and raised his hands towards me, shaking them badly.

“It’s not what it looked like, Xyla.” Lucian spoke to me in a panicked tone, coming towards me, fear written all over his face, but I growled menacingly, making him stop in his tracks.

Naomi also tried to come close to me, but she also stopped. I didn’t know why I was so angry when I already knew about their betrayal, but right now I was fuming in anger, ready to kill both of them at this very instant.

“Now, I understand why I was restless from time to time, feeling pain in my chest. It’s you two. Two people whom I trusted the most.” I spoke through my teeth, shooting daggers at them through my eyes.

Naomi turned eighteen five months ago, but she was involved with Lucian for almost a year.

I hit my chest with my fist, giving the whole situation a dramatic touch. Right now, none of my pain and anger was fake.

“So, that’s why you asked me to wait until my twenty-first birthday, huh?” I asked Lucian tauntingly.

Honey almost gagged in disgust at the back of my mind while seeing Lucian’s almost naked body.

“It… it’s not like this, sis. I…. I had a nightmare, a… and I.”

“You had a nightmare, and instead of calling me, your sister, who is only a corridor away from you, or instead of calling your mother, who is only a floor away from you, you called Lucian, my mate and your brother-in-law?” I growled aloud, shaking the whole room in the end.

“What’s going on here?” Dad roared while entering the room, but both my parents froze in their tracks.

Naomi was still reeking of Lucian’s scent, and the thick scent of s*x in the room was enough to understand what happened between them.

“I was scared, sis.” Naomi screamed dramatically, looking at my parents’ support.

“So, you had s*x with my mate because you are scared, huh?” I threw the accusation right after she stopped screaming.

“Did you forget that a werewolf will be in immense pain if his or her mate has s*x with someone else, Naomi? I was in so much pain that it woke me up early this morning. I ….. I thought th… that something is wrong with my heart, but i… it never crossed my mind th… that my beloved sister and mate are the ones who are causing this pain to me.” I added it while screaming and whimpering.

This was Naomi’s tactic to turn the situation in her favor.

As I said earlier, I changed a few things, and one of them is learning a few tactics from my beloved sister.

I kept on hitting my chest, showing my pain to my parents. “Xyla.” Mom held me tightly from behind, calling my name worriedly, pain and helplessness evident in her voice.

But more than that, I sensed her anger towards Naomi, which surprised and confused me.

They already knew that Naomi is having an affair with Lucian, and it’s their indulgence of her that makes her dare to do such a low thing.

“If you had your eye on him, you would have told me, Naomi. I sacrificed so much for you all my life. I would have given him to you to play with for as long as you want. You shouldn’t have caused me so much pain. How could you not think about the pain you forced me to endure, Naomi? Why?” I continued wailing like a broken soul as I portrayed myself in front of my parents and a few warriors who were now also standing outside the room.

Both Naomi’s and Lucian’s eyes widened in shock when I portrayed Lucian as a plaything.

A worst humiliation for a he-wolf of a high rank.

After all, I was still his mate.

“Xyla, calm down, honey. Calm down.” Mom pleaded in a shaky voice, tightening her embrace around my torso.

I deliberately raised my voice so that more people in the packhouse could hear us. Most of them already knew about Naomi and Lucian’s affair, but they kept their mouths shut because Naomi was the favorite daughter.

“B…. but you aren’t mated to him, sis. H… ow could you be in pain?” Naomi asked me while stuttering hard in fear, but she was more confused than fearful.

Because I shouldn’t have felt the pain of betrayal because of the poison that she was feeding me.

“Are you nuts, Naomi? They had acknowledged each other as their mates long ago. Even without the mate mark, they can feel each other’s feelings and emotions very well.” Mom yelled at Naomi angrily.

The amusing thing was that she wasn’t faking her anger. She was genuinely upset and angry with Naomi.

“I…. I can’t take this betrayal. I cherished my younger sister as if she were my own daughter, and yet she betrayed me in the worst way. Lucian is not related to me, but she is. How could my own blood betray me like this?” I continued wailing, throwing all my bottled-up anger and resentment towards Naomi and Lucian out of my chest.

“Calm down, Xyla. You are the future alpha. You can’t just give out yourself in emotions.” Dad commanded me sternly, but I wasn’t having it now.

If it were in the past, I would have shut my mouth and suppressed my emotions for the sake of family and pack, but not now.

That obedient and understanding Xyla was dead.

“Can you keep yourself calm if your mate has done something like this, Dad?” I asked him bluntly.

“Xyla.” He roared in a fit of rage; his eyes widened in shock and disbelief. Even my mother gasped aloud in shock.

I snapped my head towards my mother, looking at her with painful and watery eyes.

“You tell me, Mom. If you were in my shoes, would you have controlled your emotions just like Dad asked me to do?” I asked her, sparing none of my parents.

Her face was also clouded with shock and disbelief. I asked them this question because I wanted them to realize what their indulgence towards Naomi cost me.

I wanted them to think about what they asked me to endure in the past life and what they were about to ask me in this life.

“Ever since Naomi started understanding things, she always demanded every good thing that you got for me. Whether it was a toy, a book, a new dress, or a new shoe….. everything she asked for was for herself, or she threw fits.” I continued in a cracked voice, my tears now streaming down like a waterfall.

“You….. you always asked me to be the bigger sister, and I became a caring sister. Did I not, Mom?” I threw out other questions before reminding her how she always asked me to give in to Naomi’s demand.

“I should have given Lucian to her too if she had asked me, but this betrayal? This pain? She knew that their act would make me endure immense pain, and yet she chose to make me writhe in pain instead of…” I couldn’t complete the whole sentence as I was hyperventilating.

Even when I didn't feel anything but hatred towards them, I couldn't deny that it hurt so bad.