All Chapters of Moonlit Betrayals: Chapter 91 - Chapter 100

FernThis was not exactly what we planned, but Jack and I couldn’t have been happier. Sometimes life does not give you what you think you want. It gives you what you really need and after our little girl, Esme, is born, it feels as if our family is complete.The first couple of years are stormy as we navigate teething babies and terrible twos. Just as we think it’s safe, they hit puberty and soon after they become terrible teenagers! Riley knows that I’m not his biological momma, but we are both okay with what we are. Mother and son.Neither of us blames the other for anything. We have always just been mother and son. Riley and Esme are siblings and boy do they act like it sometimes. I swear I can get whiplash because of their moods. One day they are so close that you would swear they are twins.The next you have to physically pull them apart before they hurt each other. I’m relieved when Riley shifts on his sixteenth birthday. I never said it out loud, but I was worried there for a l

EsmeIn the morning, I walk down the passage at school toward my locker and I can feel everyone gossiping about me. I don’t have to hear what they are saying to know that it’s not good. Sadly, I used to be one of them.It’s really not nice to be on the other side of this. I never actually thought about how it has to feel until right now. It’s almost as if the people we were talking about weren’t real people. I sigh as I reach my locker. Opening it, I stuff my books inside and close my eyes for a moment.“Hey, it’s strange to be back here and think we are going to have to spend the entire day here.” Jason stands behind me and I look at him only for a second. I was sure he would never speak to me again.“Listen, I’m really sorry. I didn’t think my parents would make sure an enormous thing about this.” I grab my books for my first class and slam my locker shut before turning to look at him. Jason leans over me and takes a step closer and smiles.“Oh, you are going to pay for that.” His w

EsmeMy parents' common sense made absolutely no sense to me at all. I’m grounded and can only go to school and am supposed to come right back home, and then they tell me that I’m skipping school so that I can visit my uncle and discuss my birthday.How on earth do they expect me to follow any rules if they can’t follow the rules themselves?! I have no choice but to meet with my uncle. I follow my parents to his house feeling worse than I did on that night that we were caught.I can feel the eyes on me as we pass pack members. I can’t hear what they are saying, but I can hear them whispering. I nearly laugh out loud when I realize that grown-ups aren’t that different from teenagers. They also gossip like we do.They also bully others like we do. They just call it something different and find creative ways to explain it all away. As we walk into the house, I catch my uncle and aunt’s scents and I wish I didn’t have to be there.We are shown to my uncle’s office and my heart skips a bea

EsmeIn the morning, I get up before my parents and walk out the door just as the sun rises over the ridge. I left a note on the dining room table to let them know that I’ve gone to the library to do some research for school. Now that the alpha order has been lifted, I can leave whenever I want again.I don’t know how my cancelling the party is going to affect our punishment, so I plan on getting as much use out of my freedom as I can before they lock us up again. The school is still locked up when I get there and I find my tree.I sit and read through some of my notes and, half an hour later, I see the janitor opening the side door. I rush over and ask him to please let me in. He doesn’t want to at first, but eventually does. I walk into the library, and he switches on the lights for me.A couple of minutes later, I’m walking down one of the aisles to find the book I have been looking for. I have decided to just get through the rest of this year and get my high school diploma so that

Esme“I am Gabriel, and you are Esme the birthday girl. It’s a pleasure to meet you.” He smiles and a shiver of fear mixed with excitement runs up the back of my spine as we move across the dance floor. I’m surprised that Jason isn’t my mate after all, but honestly, I’m relieved.Now Camile can have him. They can live their little gamma lives happily ever after and all that.“I can’t say the same since I don’t know you yet.” The words fly out of my mouth and I see the amused look in his eyes, making me curse the fact that I don’t have one of those dang filters my mother is always talking about!“Okay, then I suggest we get to know each other. You are leaving with me tonight, and I don’t want you telling people that a total stranger kidnapped you or something.” He smiles and his face completely changes. I roll my eyes and feel a slight tap on my bottom, making me lose my step and nearly fall flat on my face.“What the hell was that for?” I softly growl as soon as I regain my composure,