All Chapters of The Alpha’s Banished Luna: Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

❀° ┄───────╮ Sylphiette ╰───────┄ °❀Strong arms circled me—warm and steady, almost… grounding.And his scent, coiled with the warmth he exuded, wrapped around me like a warm blanket, chasing away the cold. But it only made me want to pull away faster. Because I knew…I knew that if I let it sink in, it would engulf me. Eat away at my defenses—at the walls I’d learnt to build and I’d crumble faster than I wanted to.That’s just how Cassius had always made me feel—how it used to be with him when the heat of our mate bond was strong. Unbroken.But a true mate bond couldn’t be completely broken even with rejection—not unless there’s a spellcaster in the equation. But that didn’t happen with us.And now, with him this close, his scent tingling my senses, his warmth engulfing me like a silk blanket—his large body comforting, strong, steady against the quake that sizzled through my skin, grounding me. I wanted to sink deeper into it.Because then I felt it. That low, humming fli

❀° ┄───────╮ Sylphiette ╰───────┄ °❀ Cassius’s words hit me like a tidal wave, flooding through my system with such a rush of emotions that it felt overwhelming. His professions of reassurance evoked something tucked deeply inside of me. Trust. A feeling I once held for him, so deeply that I could sacrifice my own life for him. That's how intensely I had believed in him, loved him. But after his heartbreaking rejection and cruel banishment four years ago those feelings dissipated. Or so I thought. Seeing him again after four years, I thought I'd despise him, for everything he’d made me go through, for breaking my heart so crudely. But it turned out I was wrong about how I truly really felt—just as wrong as I was with everything else that concerned him; his judgment, my banishment. Deep down, I really just wanted to be held by him, coaxed into his arms so that I'd soak into his warmth, his scent that always felt like home. That nature-bound fragrance that made you feel lik

╔═━─────━▒ Cassius ▒━─────━═╝I knew it right then… I wasn't ever going to let this woman go.Not over my dead body.Sylphie’s tears finally slid down her face, bringing me to ruin at the sight reflected in her gaze—her suffering, her agony, the life she had to live that almost wrecked her.But beneath all that… I saw her strength, the battles she’d fought and won and… her will to live, not just for herself but for her son.My son. Our son. My heir. Our future.And now, she was back in my arms. Fate had willed it.Just as I was going to weave the rest of our lives with the chance it had given me.Just as I was going to spend the rest of my life making up for the things I've missed—with her, with my son.Kian. The little boy flicked into my mind and I had to grit my teeth at the thought of what he’d had to experience at his age—though most of the burden had fallen on Sylphie.But… he was still my son.I should have been there for him. He shouldn't have had to live such a sad life.

❀° ┄───────╮ Sylphiette ╰───────┄ °❀My heartbeat felt jarred in my chest as I skedaddled out of Cassius’s office, thundering so loudly it rang out in my head as though it were going to be ripped out of my chest.My hands glued against my chest, my breath raging out you’d think I was about to have a panic attack. And I collided against the wall to tame down my rash breathing and unsteady heart. But it wasn't because I felt fear.I was… overwhelmed. I'd been too caught up in my emotions and everything with Cassius and having Gilles, his Beta walk in on us was the icebreaker.I ran because I didn't want him to catch sight of me in that state, having him walk in was embarrassing enough.My heart finally settled in my chest, pulsing lightly but slightly thumping when my mind flitted to the thought of Cassius—of his wild yet homely scent, of the ground-quaking emotions that had flooded his bright, hazel eyes when he held my gaze, the warmth of his embrace, his quiet strength and

❀° ┄───────╮ Sylphiette ╰───────┄ °❀A pang rose in my chest, jeering at my earlier thought as my feet slowed to a stop.Catching my bottom lip between my teeth, I lowered my gaze, fiddling with my fingers as she’d done with hers, moments ago. I sighed, then opened my mouth to speak but Nerina’s up in my face before I could say anything.She grabbed my hands, hers trembling lightly as she locked them in hers. “I’m so sorry,” she stuttered. “That was stupid of me to say. I shouldn’t have— I didn’t mean to spring this on you…” she paused when I shook my head.“It’s fine. It’s just… I don’t know, really.”I’d thought about it…I thought about it when I had been with Cassius in his office earlier. When I’d learned the truth.And I thought about it every day else since I returned here, to this pack, because I selfishly wanted Kian to enjoy the warmth of the luxuries, I couldn’t afford to give him.I guess, it just felt harder to digest when she said it.I’d been baring my heart a