His Dark Obsession

15 Her Secret

EVANGELINE.

I am fighting my tears as I run out the gates of the castle, trying not to let his lies and deception shatter me entirely.

A part of me is telling me to calm down and go back to him and make it clear he’s mine alone, but another part is telling me I had given him chances and it isn’t outside the norm for alphas to have mistresses.

Just the way his brothers and his father do…

I bite back a whimpering sob as Luna curls up within my mind.

Weren’t mates supposed to be one for one?

‘He won’t betray us.’ Luna whispers.

I can feel her pain but she’s still trying to comfort me.

‘Won’t he?’ Evelyn murmurs, unhelpfully.

Nothing I do can remove the image of him hugging her from my mind and even when I was trying to make sense of it, he was hell-bent on protecting her.

I keep running, speeding up when I sense others hot on my heels. It’s not hard to outrun them, although I know I can simply command them to stop and they would have to, but I don’t want to abuse my powers.

Soon, I find myself at the river bank, yet even the soothing sound of the gushing water does nothing to help the discord that has settled within me.

I approach the river and stare down at my reflection. My white fur seems to almost glow and my brilliant blue eyes are full of sadness.

No one explains how painful love can be…

I whimper softly as I walk along the riverbank until I spot a place down by the rocks and leap down, curling up pitifully. Anyone passing wouldn’t be able to see me unless they specifically look for me and step to the edge of the rocky cliff.

‘We need to go back to him.’ Luna urges, but I don’t want to hear it.

Not right now… I just need to collect my thoughts.

‘I know… but for now, I just want to be left alone.’ I reply, trying to hide my tears.

I can hide from Evelyn but there is no way to hide from Luna. She is my counterpart, a part of

Closing my eyes, I try to hide the pain that is crushing my heart.

The way he told me to stay quiet… his protective growl… but one that was not in my defence but hers.

I whimper, curling up tighter when I suddenly smell her.

The last person I want to see right now…

I hear the sound of bones snapping and don’t bother looking up.

“Evangeline, can we talk?” Isabella’s voice comes softly.

‘No.’ I reply.

I promise I will not

her, pushing away the doubts I had, only for them to

How foolish of me.

been a relationship between Zedkiel and me, on my eighteenth birthday one of my friends had added a strong dose of herbs to the drinks to get us all drunk… and in that state, we did make out, but that was it, we

So, something had happened….

That hurt…

didn’t he just

he pretended

had come on to him, but it

on my child’s life that

rocks, but I know it’s more because she doesn’t want me

am the goddess. Why would I run

move as she

alone in that bed, with the potent smell of blood filled my nose. I panicked, thinking something had happened to him. But… what I saw was far worse. We

and before him were two chopped-up bodies… There was blood everywhere. It was a nightmare… I wish I noticed

her voice, and the thumping of her heart as her words sink

look at her, she’s naked as she sits there a few feet away from me, her arms. wrapped around her

“Then?’ I ask.

I clutched the bedding to me and asked him

see that she has been hiding so much more than I could have ever imagined. She’s not the sparky Isa,

said, get rid of the bitch, or…” Her voice breaks and she takes

go right ahead. My own fated mate said that to his men.’ She finishes through the

have overreacted, but more than her, I’m angry at

as I shift back, taking a similar position to her, and pulling

my child, but because he is a monster… I know if he finds out that I had his

sounds like a monster. No, he is

every right to know and perhaps I would have been ok with him pretending the child is his, but to hide

between the two of

On the moon goddess….

I almost smile.

are so rare… and it’s said for those who find their mate, that it is

looking at the river, her eyes void of emotions, and I

“Who is he?”

turns towards me and tilts her

shadow before she answers

the beast of the

my heart thuds as the

I know of him.

that he doesn’t exist because he is never seen… yet

from him, because if he knows

stare at her, trying to make sense of it

understand… I’m sorry

my fault, and I should never have involved him.” She

when I’m still alive.”