Scarred Luna

Kieran’s POV

I didn’t see that coming. Even in a million years there was no way I would have predicted that. I mean, what were the odds? As I stood rooted to my spot, my mind whirled with a million and one thoughts. How was this even possible?

“Hey.” Someone’s fingers snapping in front of me was all it took to bring me back to earth. I blinked twice, just to realize I was still at my door, with a very unwanted visitor staring me down. “Can’t you speak?”

Honestly, I couldn’t. Up until now, we had no reason to talk. No reason at all, except the usual lunches and dinners, and even that was once a while. So why the hell was she standing at my door?

Like I hadn’t just gone through the biggest shock of my life, Alice turned her head sideways, almost as if she was checking if we were alone or looking out for someone. After a couple more seconds of doing that to her hearts content, her hands wrapped around mine as she pushed me back.

“Hey!” I exclaimed as I staggered back into my room. I had barely gotten a hold of my balance when Alice shut the door, leaving both of us in the same room. My room. “What is the meaning of this?”

“Shut up!” Alice spat, and honestly, I was taken aback by her audacity. “You shut the hell up. Just shut your fucking mouth!”

“You’re joking right?” I scoffed. I even threw in a chuckle because there was no way you could walk into my room and start bossing me around. “This has to be a sick joke.”

“Again.” Alice shook her head, irritation clearly laced in her tone. “I should be saying that.”

“What exactly is going on here?” I barked. “How dare you barge into my room unannounced, just to ask me useless questions?”

“If you don’t shut your dirty mouth….” Alice raised a finger at me, but before she could get any more words out, I cut her off.

“What will you do?” I stood my ground. “You know you could get into trouble for this right? How dare you barge into my room, just to start giving empty threats?”

“Um.” Whatever switch in Alice’s head that had caused or given her so much audacity seemed to have flipped back down again. In the blink of an eye, I watched her countenance change immediately. “I.. I , actually.”

“Can’t you speak anymore?” I pressed on. ” Why are you suddenly quiet? Where did all of your fiery conscience disappear just now? Have you exhausted all of your threats? How dare you walk in here just to tell me to shut up?”

“Fine.” Alice’s voice was low, lower than usual. “I shouldn’t have done that. It was a mistake.” she said forcefully.

It wasn’t a complete apology, but I guess it was better than nothing. Plus I needed to know exactly what prompted her to do that. From her countenance, you could easily tell the apology didn’t come from the deepest part of her heart. It was shallow, but right now, I would take whatever form of apology she gave just so she could get the hell out of this room.

“What do you want?” I crossed my hands under my bosom. “Why are you here and how can I help you?”

“I want to know your secret.” Something shone in Alice’s eyes and I felt my stomach drop to my feet. “How were you able to do it?”

“Do what?” A bigger part of me knew I shouldn’t have asked, but the smaller and most stubborn part couldn’t help but want to find out what she meant. “What are you talking about?”

She scoffed.

“I knew you were going to try to play dumb” Alice said.

“And since I’m so curious to know how you did it, I’ll just dive right into it.” she said as she narrowed her eyes at me?

“How did you get Xander to be your mate?” Alice let out after a couple of minutes. “Tell me, i’d really like to know.”

I felt the world around me slowly stall to a halt. My vision blurred as Alice’s words got louder and louder in my ear.

Wait, what?

There was no way I had heard right, right? This just has to be a silly mistake. Since Alice was involved in the gossip that flew between and among the staff in the mansion, there was no doubt she would be up to date on the affairs and everything else in between. But how exactly did she find out about us? No servant or guard had caught Xander and I together, not even once, so how come Alice knew all about us, since she was being supplied info on a daily basis.

Xander. It sounded far-fetched but the only one I’d told was Xander. I felt something, a sharp pang in my chest and after a while I recognized the pain as betrayal. Xander had promised me that after Oliver, no one else was going to know about us. So how the hell did Alice find out? After trusting him, he went behind my back and in barely an hour too.

A mix of anger, hurt and shock buzzed across the surface of my skin. I hadn’t told anyone about it, so there was no way she was from me. So how the fuck did Alice find out.

“Hey?” She snapped her fingers in front of my face, just so she could catch my attention. “It’s true isn’t it? I knew it” she said knowingly.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.” I managed to blurt out. ” You’re completely talking nonsense and I would love to find out where you got your information from.”

“I knew you were going to deny.” Alice scoffed, not answering my question.

“That was a classic response and mind you, I expected it all along.” She said as she scoffed again.© 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.

“I knew it. I fucking knew it. You’re a fucking witch, that’s how you were able to get the Alpha. I’m sure you must have charmed him and used some kind of witchcraft to hold him down. Because, how could he think you were his mate? You’re nothing but worthless-” she rambled on before I cut her off sharply.

“Stop calling me that.” I cut her off.

“Stop saying that.” I said again, in an attempt to make it sink into her head.

“Why?” Alice bit back with a sneer. The sheer audacity of this girl was insane.

“Does it bother you that I know the truth so well? That’s because I know what you’re capable of and there’s just no way you would be able to bag him if not for some sort of witchcraft. I can just tell that you have a lot to hide and-” she rambled on. Again. But I cut her off, yet again.

“Now, you listen to me.” I let out in a low voice as I walked straight towards her.

I chuckled humorlessly as I took my sweet time getting to her, and when I did, I made my voice even lower.

“If I hear so much as a word come out from those dirty lips of yours, I swear you’re going to regret it”

Anger nipped at my skin like a strong breeze.

With a straight face and a voice I didn’t even know I had, I continued.

“For this stunt, you just pulled, ” I paused dramatically. “Believe me when I say I’ll stop at nothing, and I mean, nothing, just to see you fired and thrown out, and if I’m in the mood, you might just find yourself in the dungeon too” I said and I took pride in the brief moment of fear that crossed her eyes.

“If you don’t leave my room right this instant, I swear I’ll make you pay and it won’t be through money” I ended and raised a brow at her.

The fear that clouded Alice’s face was clear as day. Tension crackled in the air as I took in her reaction. Alice was tall, really tall. Taller than me even but I didn’t care. Even with how she towered over me and her demeanor, I was sure of one thing, there was no way she could bully me, at all. I was not going to let her, of all people, trample all over me.

At that moment, she didn’t even look like she could do it. No matter how hard she tried to hide it, it wasn’t hard to spot the glimmer of fear in her eyes.

“Huh?” Alice scoffed, but even that wasn’t as haughty as when she had walked in here.

“I promise you this isn’t over. In fact, it is far from over. You’ll hear from me, I promise you and-”

“Get the fuck out” I cut her off immediately with a straight and bored face.

Alice let out a frustrated groan before she turned around to face the door. Like a child whose candy had just been snatched, I watched her stomp out of the room, shutting my door so hard, it rattled in its hinges.

The moment my door slammed shut, something washed over me. Uncertainty nipped at my skin as I tried to fight it out. How else could she have known? I literally told no one else.

Xander. A voice whispered in my head. Even though I didn’t want to believe it, he was the only possible culprit at this point. I had specifically told him I wanted no one else to know about it and he’d promised me, then why would he lie to me?

It was barely minutes since we got back from our date and he had already broken his promise. My heart ached on all sides. I didn’t see this coming at all. Up until now, I thought he was different, different from every other shitty man I’d met in my past. He had given his word, when he knew fully well that it meant nothing.

Slowly, my hurt morphed into another emotion, one I could clearly recognize. Anger.

How dare Xander do this to me?!