Nostalgia

Andrei’s POV

I hated to feel emotions deeply, it messed with me way too much and after Euthalia I somehow managed to swear off feelings. I was wary and cold, my family always made sure to mention how much I had changed and I wasn’t slow to tell them the world has given me a million reasons to be cold. 

“We are almost there,” Baron muttered from the front seat of the van, I could see him staring at me from the rearview mirror, I could see he was bothered. 

I should have known any re-entry of Talia into my life would send me into a pull of spiralling and deep heart-wrenching emotions and this was only just the beginning.

It had been two years, two years of me pretending the pack members were the only ones who needed her back. Of course, I wouldn’t admit it elsewhere that I still cared deeply. 

“I know this pack,” I muttered, meeting Baron’s deep eyes in the mirror. He quickly removed his and I caught the shadow of a smile on his face. If only he knew I wasn’t feeling humorous.

“Lincoln Young,” Baron whispered, saying nothing more. 

We both knew all that was associated with that name and if it was in another scenario, we may have probably laughed or joked about it, but we were literally in opposition territory, a very sly opposition.

The van stopped in front of the palace, the aura had changed immediately after we entered the border and even though my wolf had cried to come out, it took most of my nonexistent restraint to remain in check. 

I looked up at the palace and I felt tingles run through my whole body. I was very angry. The sort of anger that had led me to conquer my first pack and unless his information was shady, this was where she had come. Against his knowledge, it was where she had snuck to and where she hid him.

“Are you alright?” Baron asked me as we walked towards the palace gate, it was grand, if I was in a better mood I would have given credit to whoever structured the architecture but I really needed answers from my Luna, or ex Luna in this case.

“Don’t ask me that,” I snapped back at him and he said nothing, the gates opened as we got nearer and as we walked through the gates, Tim cried out loud, fighting to come out.

 “She is around,” I muttered and just immediately, I saw her pretty face coming towards the gate, a look of great fright seeped into her face, and she stopped in her tracks and slowly moved backwards.

I was a little disappointed and an odd sensation filled me up immediately I sensed her fear. Was she scared of me? Somehow, somehow I didn’t like that, but I knew our new relationship dynamic needed that. 

She needed to suffer for her evil, for what she made him feel and if this was also true if she had his child and hid him from her, she would suffer for it too. 

I walked closer to her and she looked up at me “What are you doing here?” I asked, making sure my voice was steady, I knew her and I knew she may even want to add a joke but she remained indifferent, she probably hated me, but then, she had no right to, she was the one that wronged me.

“I came to see the Luna,” she managed to say amidst stutters and Indefinite words, I knew she was lying. It was never hard to know with her, that was why her betrayal had come as a shock.   

“Liar!” I yelled, unable to hold any of the feelings In any longer. “How long will you lie?” 

Her hands went up to her ear, she looked confused and annoyed, I could sense her wolf. Tim was scrambling to be let out and so was hers, but I hated her in that moment, I hated the judging look in her eyes. 

A strange man came up from behind her and I watched as he stood in between us. He was frail and lean but tall, but he very much looked like a flick of my hand would send him flying away.

“How did I lie?” She asked me, her voice was raised as she went around the man and stood directly in front of me. “You didn’t care about me for the past three years but you now suddenly care about when I lie to you?”

I stared at her, her face was ridden with hurt, anger and double whatever it was that I was feeling. I calmed down, but the anger and doubts in me remained, I just rationalized my feelings.

She looked like she would start crying any second. I didn’t want to care for her tears, but I knew she was struggling with them.

“What happened to my baby?” I asked her, dropping the bomb and willing to watch it all explode.

A thousand emotions were running through her face, her lips slightly parted and finally, she shook her head. “I lost it,” 

I chuckled, it was a lie, she was lying to me and I hated that she still chose the option of having to lie. “You’re doing it again, Euthalia, where is Dave?” 

The man behind her coughed and my eyes shot up at him, he moved back and so did she. She shook her head repeatedly. “Oh my, you have got it all wrong, just as before you have gotten it all wrong.”

“Is that the excuse you have to give? That I am lying or that I got it all wrong? When will the lie end?” I asked her and I sensed more people eavesdropping and Baron was even closer.

“I mean it. You have it all wrong Andrei, sorry, Alpha.” She said with a lot of bile in her tone to last us a lifetime.

“What is your excuse now?” I grounded and she chuckled, moving back to the frail man, she pulled him towards me and with a smug smile on her face, she shattered my heart for the millionth time in two years.

“Dave is not your son, he is Eddie’s,”