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ROSHIDA“Oh, you didn't have to do anything. Your presence along with Liam presence alone is a present for me. You have no idea how I'm glad to have you both here.”Well, I wasn't feeling very glad right now. I just wanted to leave and I didn't know why.Liam had woken up and was busy tugging at the pearls on her neck and I was silently praying that he won't finally cut it because I was sure they were real pearls and even with all the money I would have in my life, I won't be able to replace them.Felix stepped forward, presenting his one present.“My Queen, my wife and I brought this for you. It was my idea.”Of course, he would take all the glory.The Queens isn't look pleased to see him though.“Where is that wife of yours?” She tried looking over him.“Oh, she's somewhere around. Probably drinking her head off.”How could he talk about her like that? She was pregnant.Suddenly, she ran in while holding her bump and her dress.“Excuse me, I had no idea that the Queen was receiving
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ROSHIDAThe King and Queen wanted to give the closing remark. That was why they called him.He stood beside them with his hands behind him and pursed lips, obviously thinking about when he would be able to walk away..As he stood up there, I couldn't help but think back to the fact that we had kissed. I had kissed the Prince. For the second time, actually.Just then, he looked down at me and I ckudjbg help the smile that came on my face.Deep down, I had something judging me. Why did I let the Prince kiss me? We weren't anything at all so why should it matter?Besides, he said that he had someone he loved so why did he kiss me?No, it wasn't his fault. I was just at fault as he was..Because I let him, knowing full well that there was someone out there who was faithful to him.I suddenly looked away from him and focused on the nausea in the pit of my stomach.Finally, they were doke with their speech and the party was over.The hall began to clear it while Sophia and I just sat at one
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VALFRED For the fact that Isabella was standing there with a huge smile on her face, I could already tell what was going on but I didn't want to believe it. The fact that Roshida was here when they wanted to talk about this rubbish made me even super uncomfortable. Why would they talk about this now? Couldn't they wait till another time? “Well, Lucas here had proposed something wonderful and when he spoke about it, I didn't see any faults with the plan.” My father turned to Alpha Lucas, waiting for him to say something. “What your father is trying to say is that we would like you to marry my daughter. Isabella has had a crush on you since she met you and now that you are both of age, marriage between the both of you is the best thing. What do you think?” I looked at my father, hoping that he would interrupt him and say that it's a joke. But he didn't. I didn't understand why it had to be her and no one else. I'd seen her before. She's often come with her father to
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2025-04-08Rejected and Abandoned: The Luna’s Reawakening 181
ROSHIDAOne thing I hated was people referring to Liam as a bastard. Despite the fact that he didn't have a father, he had me and he had a mother who loved him so much. And this man talking about him like that was one thing I wouldn't taken because not only did he not deserve to speak about my son like that, the fact that he belonged to Felix's family made him just as useless as Felix himself. He didn't know me or anything about me and the fact that he believed anything that Felix told him showed just how stupid and dense he was. I took a step forward. “I can take anything but I will not take any insults against my son from a man who doesn't know anything about me. I don't know you and I don't care to. But from what I can see here, you're disgraceful, bullying a woman who suffered at the hands of your immature nephew and attacking a kid who lost his mother! Don't you ever speak to me or my son like that!”His face turned red and I could see his breathing increasing. “How dare you
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2025-04-09Rejected and Abandoned: The Luna’s Reawakening 182
VALFREDAs I watched the car peel away from the compound, I turned back around and headed back inside. I had a lot of things on my mind to say to my father and all those people in here and nothing was going to stop me from saying them. Actually, my mother did stop me. “Valfred, I can't let you inside like this. Calm down.”I looked at my mother. “Mother please, move out of the way. Let me go!” Clarissa joined her. “You have to calm down. You can't go in there like this!”“Calm down?! Did you hear what they said to her?! Why on earth would father bring those people in here to insult her in my presence?! Who the hell is that man?”I felt like if I didn't say anything to support Roshida, I had failed her greatly. She hadn't deserved any of those things that they'd said to her. What my sister and my mother were doing was damage control but what was the use of ruining what was already ruined? I might as well just finish the job. I gragged my hand away from my mother's grip and stor
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VALFREDThe house was silent after they left. My mother and sister had come in at some point and they stood at the door, watching the drama. My father sat down in his chair at the head of the table in silence and I stood before him, just watching him in disappointment. “What got into you, father? Bringing someone I had never met in my life for me to marry? Especially when you know how I feel about Roshida?! I thought I knew you better. I thought you had integrity.”He finally looked me in the eye. “Alpha Lucas has access to the sea port. His pack alone handles all the imports and exports of this Kingdom. And the fact that we have opened the Blue Ridge Fortress again means that we need his pack. So he asked for something in return for the trouble that they would have to go through with the pirates.”That was no excuse for what he had done. “So you thought selling your son out to some man that I didn't know t
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2025-04-10Rejected and Abandoned: The Luna’s Reawakening 184
ROSHIDA I couldn't sleep that night. Maybe it was because I thought I was stronger than what had happened. I thought that I could handle being disrespected and I was disappointed in myself that I had cried. But crying wasn't a sign of weakness. Or was it? Whatever it was, I couldn't take it back. I'd cried and Valfred had seen me. The Queen and Princess too. My eyes fell on Liam in his cot, sleeping soundly, not aware of all the words that had been traded because of him. He was a poor soul, who didn't ask to be brought into this world. He shouldn't have to be insulted or suffer for something he didn't know. That was why I was his mother. I was meant to protect him at all costs. The sun rose with me hazing at the sky. I'm sure Sophia thought I'd be in bed because when she opened the door, she screamed and clutched her chest. “Why the hell are you doing up so early?” “I couldn't sleep. What are you doing up early?” Liam joined us in this world and she went to carry
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ROSHIDAIt was awkward.Maybe it was because I didn't want them to be here or because I was expecting one of them to say something first but right now, all of us were just looking at each other.My eyes met with Sophia who was standing across the room.“Roshida, I think an apology is not enough to tell what story I am for what happened back home last night. What Alpha Lucas and Felix said to you was out of bounds. If I had known that anything like that was going to happen, I would have stopped it. I mean, I have no idea why my husband would think to bring a girl for Valfred to marry just like that when he had never expressed her desire to be married.”I didn't want to get involved with anything that had to do with Valfred. In fact, I was trying to avoid it because it was his personal business and not mine. He was to sort it out with his father.“My dear, for the sake of little Liam, I hope you're not mad at us. I can assure you that my husband is aware that his act was soit of like an
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2025-04-11
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ROSHIDAHe continued.“We had been talking about our defense strategy, wondering how we were going to protect ourselves and we asked her if she had access to the Fortress. That was where she took it upon herself to insult us and even when we told her that it was you who had said we should ask, she didn't care. She just told us that she wouldn't give us access and she didn't care who sent us.”I was shocked. Shocked that he had the audacity to lie on me to my face and also, he had completely changed everything that happened. But I knew that it wasn't my time to talk so I didn't say anything. That didn't even sound like something I'd say. “So let me get something straight, Alpha. You're saying that Roshida said all those things? What else did she say? If she did say all those things at all, what exactly was it that semeed like treason against the King? I can see slander, but treason? That's a step too far.” I looked at
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ROSHIDAI told him everything that happened, trying my best to recount everything including the case that I was judging that day. “They’re doing this as revenge for that. I'm very sure you didn't say anything but you insulted them and they want to make sure that you pay for that.” Well, I'm glad we were both on the same page. I just wanted this to be over as quickly as possible.The Queen came into the room and hugged Valfred. I wonder where he went to that she hadn't been able to get across to him. Even Clarisaa didn't know where he was. “Where on earth have you been? I've been trying to get across to tell you what has been going on but no one knew where you were.”This now felt like we were plotting against the King. Valfred just smiled. “Its nothing, mum. I'm here now. I just went to take care of a few things, is all. Reggie was the one who called me to tell me about the whole issue. What's going to happ
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ROSHIDA“What did he say to you? Did he say he's coming back soon?” I nodded..“He said I should stay here until he gets back.” Now, keeping that instruction wasn't the problem. The problem was that I also had to keep the King's instructions. The King asked me to appear before him as soon as the sun rose. So following both instructions was going to be very hard. I couldn't ask him how long it was going to take for him to get here. But I hoped that he would get here before morning because that would just reduce the risk of me getting into more trouble than I already was. There was a knock on the door and all of us froze. Clarissa looked at me and put her finger on her lips. She motioned to me to get up and go into the bathroom. When I closed the door behind me, I heard her open the door and then mumble something before closing it back. “Roshida, come out. It was just the maid I asked to get food.”She handed me the tray when I walked out and it just seemed so unreal that I was
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ROSHIDAClarissa was waiting for me outside just like she said she would. “I’m so sorry for calling you out here at this time. I just don't have a good feeling about this.”I walked over to go and meet her and give her a hug. “I should be apologise for making you stay up and wait for me by this time. You should be sleeping. Where is the Queen?”She led me inside the house and once in, the guards surrounded us immediately. “What madness is this? Get out of the way, we need to go through.”Mark came to join the party. “My apologies, My Princess but they're under special orders to arrest her as soon as they lay eyes on her.”Had things gotten this bad that there was even a warrant out for my arrest? Clarissa stood in front of me. “Well, you didn't see her. You saw her with me, so when you see her alone, you can arrest her. Right now, you will move out of the way because we need to get to my mother.”I hated the fact that all this was happening because of me. The tension, the stand
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VALFREDIt took me a while but I finally figured it out. That's why I made the trip without telling anyone. Well, anyone in my family.“So you want to go over there to say what to them? You're supposed to be running away from them and not running to them.”I should have known he would never be in support. “She needs to stop the bullshit and stop sabotaging my life! Does she know how many steps back she has taken me now? Roshida won't even pick up my calls.”I spent days trying to figure out who the hell could have said anything to her. I crossed out all the people who knew about it before finally settling on Isabella. She was the only one with a reason to tell Roshida and who knows what else she told her. “I thought we were trying to sort this whole thing out. Listen, we don't need to blow things out of proportion. Just focus on sorting things out with Roshida. Going over there isn't going to make anything better.”No, it will. It will prove to them that I wasn't down for their bu
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ROSHIDAI should have known that my troubles weren't over. Working in an environment like this meant having to deal with things I didn't want to and that entailed being called by the King to appear in his presence because those stupid men had reported that I had spoken against the King.When the order came, I had to read it two times to understand what I was seeing. Spoken against the King? When the hell had that happened?I tried to recount what happened, wondering if I had even mentioned the King in my fit of rage but nothing was coming to mind. Sophia came to read the letter too. “What did you say?”“Nothing. I said nothing about the King. I wonder what those pigs have gone to tell him. The order says as early as the sun rises tomorrow, I should be in the Capitol.”They're trying to sabotage me, that's what they're trying to do. I mean, they knew I had a good relationship with the King and they wanted to do what they can to ruin that. That's the only way they can take the Fortre
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ROSHIDAI was completely confused.“No, I do not think it's a women's party. I know it's a meeting for pack leaders-”One of the Alphas interrupted.“You mean, Alphas.”These men piss me off so bad and I'm going to bed help, a lot of help to be able to deal with these people. “No, I mean Alphas and Lunas. If you have a problem with me being here, then maybe you should not have invited me. So tell me, do you have an issue with me being here?”The guy standing laughed. I didn't even know who he was and I was sure I hadn't seen his face before. “The only reason we invited you was because the Blue Ridge Fortress is in your territory. And apparently, we can't do anything without your approval. That's why we invited you. If not, this is a meeting for men only. So do we have access to it or not?”Wow, so this was how they wanted to play it? Very well then. There was a knock on my door and I saw the guard that I had sent to get that man from earlier. Before he could speak, I held my hand
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ROSHIDAThe thrill and celebration that came with being crowned Luna had washed away and what was left was the work load and the meetings and the sanctions and the judgement. It was like the people of the pack did not live before I became Luna because as soon as I started work, every little thing was brought to me. The other day, two women came to report each other to me because their kids had gotten into a fight and they both decided that they also needed to sort things out so they got into a fight as well. “What exactly were the kids fighting over?” Before that, I had barely gotten two hours of sleep in three days and I would be anywhere else but here. “Some girl in school that they liked. My son saw her first and asked her out while her stupid son went behind my son's back to snatch her away from him.”I finally looked up at them, trying to manage the headache that was raging in my head. The scene before me wasn't making sense. “So let me get this straight. You grown ups dec
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ROSHIDAI gave Liam to Marie that morning and asked her if breakfast is ready. “Yes, it is. The King and Queen are at the table already.”Well, it's a good thing that they can still eat without me being there. I had had another thing to worry about. What if the King and Queen were mad at me for what happened last night? This morning, I thought about it properly and realised that it seemed like disrespect. Not even that, it was disrespect to walk out of the King and the royal family. And I didn't want anyone to them to think that it was because we had become so close that I had the guts to walk out on them. As I stood in front of the door,.I pressed my ear to see if I could hear anything but I couldn't hear any conversation or cutlery clanking. What were they doing if they weren't eating already?“Roshida?”Sophia's voice startled me so much that I hit my knee into the stood beside me and the silent scream that I had to endure made me see stars. “Are you okay?”.When the pain had
