Lahat ng Kabanata ng Return of the Rejected Luna: Kabanata 1 - Kabanata 10

“Genevieve? Look at me.” I turn wordlessly to Derek. “Your parents were criminals, you know you aren’t allowed to bury them. Their bodies will be discarded in a manner fit for condemned criminals of our pack.” I say nothing as tears fall uncontrollably from my eyes. I can’t see anything besides my parents’ faces twisted in pain and agony, I hear nothing but their piercing screams. I am unable to look away as a guards wrap the bodies up and carry them down the aisle and out of the hall. Every member of the Blood Moon pack present does not miss the opportunity to see the bodies of the criminals. “Members of the Blood Moon pack, what you have just witnessed was the uprooting of evil from the root of our pack and the service of justice to the betrayed. However, you have come here for a wedding and for the crowning of your new Luna. This shall still take place.” The murmurs in the hall grows louder and my head snaps up to look at Derek incredulously. He killed my parents before my eyes an

“Stop!” I look back to see three guards hot on my trail before turning around. It’s been almost an hour since I parted with the masked man at the cave. Thanks to his distraction, I was able to move undetected for a while before I was spotted by the three guards who were now behind me. There was no way I could out run them and if I was caught, I was going to be killed immediately. They had already made that clear by the arrows dipped in poison that they had shot at me. It seems the council decided I was to be killed immediately. The rain had started to fall heavily now and the forest had become very muddy. It made the guards’ job of catching me hard but made my escape harder. My wedding dress was ripped and stained with mud and I had lost my shoes somewhere during my escape from prison. My arms and feet were covered in wounds and gashes but still I ran. I was in so much pain but I had to get away even when I felt my strength failing me. An arrow stabs me in my shoulder and I fall to m

“Genevieve?” The name has me freezing, turning to stone in the stranger’s arms. My mind comes up with too many thoughts in that moment, how did he know? Did he recognize me? Did I do anything to blow my cover? Did the plastic surgery fail to cover up my real face? “Hey.” The man gives me a little shake that brings me out of my thoughts. “Who?” I say with an unsure smile. His green eyes laser focus on my face and seem to scan my thoughts while I fight to hold my smile steadily and calmly and not look suspicious. Then it hits me, I know this face, I know this stranger! Asher King. The beta of the Blood Moon pack, best friend of Derek and the boy who was secretly taught by my father as a young kid. I remember my father bringing home a tall, thin, lanky boy with spiky rough hair and dirty torn clothes. “This is my home, feel free to come back here if you need help.” My father had said to him. The man before me looked nothing like the boy from my memories –except for the green eyes, those

The day before Genevieve’s parent’s deaths… I paced from one end of the room to the other while Derek leaned on his desk with his arms folded, watching me. “You’ll walk a hole in the floor Asher.” I stopped pacing and turned to face him, “I don’t get it, how could their fingerprints be on the murder weapon? There weren’t even here when the murders took place. Anthony Franklin is the least violent man I know and his wife –there’s no way she can kill anyone either. They were framed, that’s the only explanation that makes sense.” Derek gives me a look that sends alarm bells ringing in my head. “What is it now?” With a sigh, he says, “The other servants in the Campbell house confirmed that Gus Campbell only allowed Anthony to touch his weapons. They were very dear to him and because Anthony had a lot of knowledge about weapons, he was the only one with access to the vault. Only Anthony could have gotten his hands on the silver dagger that was used to murder the Campbells.” Everything

I look away from Asher as the cheers die down and everyone takes their seats. Derek steps forward and addresses the crowd “We thank the goddess for her blessings upon the pack this new year. The council met today and we have decided that the pack needs a bigger home for the alpha. The new house will be built to accommodate guests from other packs and even some workers under the employ of the alpha and the luna. The old house will be given to the beta and will become his personal residence.” “Why does the alpha and luna need a new house?” I ask Hope. “The current residence of the alpha and luna is a little bit old and kind of small for the alpha, luna and beta to stay in comfortably especially when there are guests from other packs.” I nod. From the expression on Beta Asher’s face, he doesn’t seem to care about it or want to be here for that matter. “The floor will be thrown open to every member of the pack for your opinion on where the new house will be. Let us here your suggestions