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The Shadows and the Girl
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Scent of Betrayal The Party
Aria "Oh, Luna. Come dance with us." Someone says, but everything feels hazy around me, and I can barely focus on one thing. The girls in front of me look around my age, and their dresses, although shorter than mine, are equally as strappy, and see through. Their giggles grow louder the closer they come to me, and someone stretches a drink towards me. "I think I'm okay. I don't want to-" "Have fun with us, Luna." Something about the way their voices swim around me, causes my thoughts to swirl further from me. I accept the drink one of them is handing to me, and take a small sip. The drink is surprisingly very sweet despite the dark green color of it. I don't think I've ever seen a drink like this, and I almost want to ask them what it is, when my feet start to feel a little heavy under me. "Luna?" The girl closest to me peers at me intently, her smile still firmly in place. My mind struggles to wrap around where I am for a moment, and I stagger onto what I can only assume is
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Kaidën Her hands immediately leave my torso when she hears her name, and she takes an involuntary step back. "Alp-Kaidën." She whispers, still behind me. I sigh to myself. This is all my fault. With everything going on concerning my real mate, and then getting Aria to pretend to be my mate, I forgot all about her. "Eliana, what are you doing here?" I turn slowly, slow enough that I don't startle my shadows into going into defense mode. And Eliana? My gift? Anger bubbles in me when I realize what this means. Is she one of those omegas now? Her covering slips to the ground, and she seems to stand straighter. "I missed you." "Missed me? What do you mean?" I ask, already getting agitated with whatever it is she is doing. I have a lot of questions, but not the patience to stay here while she answers. My mind goes back to Aria, and how she must be doing at the party. Is she getting along well with the other omegas? I should have instructed Riven to go back to her a
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Aria "Who are you?" Kaidën's voice is thick, and holds the kind of authority familiar to Alphas. The kind that has you submitting to them whether you want to or not. It's a trait most Alphas have. It makes me wonder what kind of life Kaidën would have lived if he'd not been born a rogue. He probably would have still ended up an Alpha just like Cassius. So who was his father then? A former Alpha I haven't heard anything about? Part of my Luna training has been to learn the history of most of the Alpha's and Luna's before me. I try to move the rope tying my hand together again. All these aren't important when I've been abducted again. It seems the moon goddess has forgotten me these days, or maybe bestowed a curse upon me? Why am I so unfortunate? First it's my best friend that betrays me. Then I lose my scent and my mate. And my grandmother... Now, I'm tied up somewhere I don't even know. And yet again, it's someone in the rogues camp that's kidnapped me. If I remember it
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Eliana I part my lips in a crooked smile. Kaidën is staring at me with a vicious look in his eyes, like he can't see me, and in a way maybe he can't. Maybe all he can see is his mate-his precious chosen mate, giving to him by the moon goddess. I almost let out a hysterical laugh. What a hypocrite! What about to all the hate he's harbored for the moon goddess and all the other goddesses? All the nights we've spent together, staring at the moon, and wondering why her goddesses have decided to fail us. Has he forgotten everything just because of her? Because he's been given a mate? This time the laugh bursts out of me, and I can't control it. Soon, I'm holding my stomach, and clutching it for dear life, because it's so funny. Kaidën shoots an irritated glare at me, before he asks. "What do you mean by when she's gone?" I'm not surprised. She's still all he can think about. He's practically been bewitched by her. By her long flowing golden hair, and her soft features, that no
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Aria "Wake up, child." The voice feels close yet so far away. Something inside me feels like if I stretch my hands out, I could reach out to whoever is speaking to me. I can still feel the shadows too, their warm and smooth embrace, holding me like a cherished egg. "Child? Wake up. I must speak to you as soon as possible," she says again. I shift in my sleep, half thinking why she won't just let me sleep. I am so tired of staying awake. "Let me sleep some more, grandmother." I mumble more to myself than her, but I feel her hands shaken me awake. Grandmother? What? Why is she talking to me? Is she... Oh. I recognize the trick for what it is this time. "What do you want, Selena?" My voice is softer than hers, and I still feel a little drowsy when I speak, but I'm sure it's her. She's the only one capable of bringing my pain so close to me, and rubbing it in my face. A light laugh fills the space, and a shiver passes through me. "I see you've grown very brazen in my absence c
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Kaidën I use nearly all my restraint not to hit something, or someone while staring at the unconscious form of the girl in front of me. Her mass of golden hair is spread around her like a halo guiding an angel. It's been two hours. Two hours since my men found her, and two hours since Eliana has been locked up in the dungeon. When I think about Eliana's words, I try to find a way to blame myself. Maybe if I hadn't crossed the line with her. Maybe if I had treated her differently than I did. Maybe if I had kept a boundary between us. But what could I have done? "Kaidën, I love you." Her words still haunt me, when I think about them. The girl that stood in front of me hadn't been someone I'd recognized. No, she'd been different. And some of her words held truth, but if only she knew how sorely mistaken she'd been. When Aria was found in the room beside the one Eliana had been in, bound and gagged, her body brushed against the wall, I'd felt two things at once. One was immens
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Aria I'm so immensely relieved by the face in front of me that it takes me a moment to remember what I've planned to do. "Kaidën?" My voice sounds hoarse, even to my ears, and I let out a dry cough. This seems to alert the man in front of me, as he jumps up quickly and rushes out of the room. My brows furrow in confusion when he leaves, but before I can ask where he's gone to, he reappears. There's a cup in his hand, and when he pushes it towards my lips, I take several sips of water, that slide down my throat too sweetly to be real. Whatever was in they drink must have dried my throat, as I take down the gulps of water faster. I feel Kaidën's hands beside my jaw, and behind my head. He holds me in place, and I stare up at him. "Don't drink it so quickly. You'll choke." Oh, sure. I nod in return, and take the water down slower. Finally, the cup is empty, and he takes it away from me, but I can't take my eyes off him. "I'll leave you alone now, Luna." An older woman I hadn't
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Kaidën "Huh? What do you mean no?" She is quick with a reply, as she jumps to her feet. One minute, she's staring at me like I hung the moon, and the next she's watching me like a caged animal. Like she's scared I might pounce anytime, like some prey watching a predator. I clear my throat, and fold my hands in front of each other. "Exactly what I said. No, I can't let you leave." A dry chuckle escapes her, one that doesn't sound like her at all, and her eyes darken like the start of a rainy day. I knew this wasn't going to be easy, when I gave her that answer, but it's the route I'll have to take. "You can't do that. I'm not your captive. I can leave if I want." She yells in my face. And I can only stare at her in surprise. Why is she so quick to assume the worst about this situation? All I've said is that I can't let her leave, yet she's blown this so much. Why? "Did someone talk to you?" I ask carefully. That has to be it. She pauses, mid movement, and gives me a quizzica
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