Lahat ng Kabanata ng Contracted Luna: The Mate He Once Rejected: Kabanata 11 - Kabanata 20

DAMONShe betrayed me. I have been pacing my room restlessly since the past hour, my rage boiling to the surface with each second that passed and still, I couldn’t understand why Alethea had dared to toy with me in such a way. I had everything planned out. I was going to give her a new life, and all she had to do was spare a year from her life for me but I shouldn’t have expected the daughter of a gambler to be trustworthy. I didn't know better and that was my first mistake. In the face of death, she was desperate. She saw the chance to take advantage of me and took it. And after the deed was done and she’d been crowned, she decided it was time to confess the truth. Foolish of her to think she could go scot-free after deceiving the entire pack. I slowed my steps, my eyes red and sharpened as I finally spared the room a look. It was a mess. The lamp she had broken was still there at the entrance of the room, and seeing it again was enough to cause my jaw to clench hard. I just kne

“You called for me.” I voiced for the umpteenth time since I've been in his chamber, knelt in the middle of the room while he stood with arms crossed, gazing out of the window. Usually, he was direct and goes straight to the point but this one was different. He was scarily silent, and the more time that went, I knew my life was on the line. Or could it be that he suddenly doesn't want to talk anymore? Does that mean I could leave? Damn, but I needed to speak with him. If I leave and lost this moment, who knows what’d happen next. The thought of failing as a sister if Lena ended up dying together with me was making my chest heavy, I couldn't restrain myself from speaking again. “I’ve thought about it and I have decided I'm going to accept my punishment, whatever it turns out to be. But the thing is, my sister had nothing to do with what I did. So, can you please leave her out of this?” My voice came out unsure as I requested, eyes staring downward as I could no longer afford to look

“W…what condition?” “From this moment on, you’re no longer a Luna,” She spat. “You’re a slave. And you’ll be living in the slave quarters, both you and your sister.” She declared, her voice holding finality and I blinked rapidly, silenced. My sister hoisted herself up, her hope crushed but before she could say anything, I had already made up my mind. “We accept.” I choked out, faking a smile and Zelda smirked knowingly. “Good choice. The guards will be here to release you both from the cell soon.” She simply replied, swirling around and making her way out of the cell. Left alone with my sister, I turned to look at her and saw a scowl etched on her face as she glared at the spot Zelda once was. “Now I feel so stupid for kneeling in front of someone like her. She thinks any of this was your fault? No one asked her mate to rescue us, or serve you the contract in the first place. How could they be so selfish?” She gritted, and I’ve never seen her this pissed. Not even the night our

Before I could say a word, he turned sharply, already moving toward the door and ready to call the guards in. Without thinking, I reached out and grabbed his hand, my grip trembling as he froze midway. “What do you think you’re doing?” His raging eyes snapped to mine. For a second, I thought he might actually yank his hand free and drag me out himself. But he didn’t and I didn’t let go of him either.“If you knew this is how badly you would be treating me, why hadn’t you just killed me?” I asked, daring to look him in the eye challengingly. “You should have allowed your men to do their jobs and not bring me here. Living here in this hell is far worse than death itself.” I yelled all at once, before freeing his hand, my heartbeat accelerating as I made for the door.He wants to call his men on me, doesn't he? Then I’m going to help him. Suffering isn’t new to me, I can take every punishment in this world. After all, being born into this world as an omega was the first punishment. “Yo

I braced myself for the first lash but when the whip hit my skin, stinging so cruelly, I realized I couldn’t hold it in and screamed out. Yet that didn’t make them stop. They couldn’t care less about my pain, or show any pity. If anything, it only made them whip me even harder. I had promised myself not to show any weakness in front of them and walk out of here without a single drop of my tears on the floor, but now I realize, I shouldn’t have underestimated them. It hurt like hell and in no time, tears began to well up in my eyes, in which I didn’t try to hold back. “How much longer?” I choked out, tears falling freely from my eyes and I was sure I heard one of them snicker. “We’ve only just started.” The whipmaster barked, his voice mocking and indifferent. Maybe it was my question that pissed him off, or the fact that I dared mutter a word at all but as soon as the guard's hands tightened around me, holding me down, he struck. It was hard, stinging, and more painful than the