“Daddy, it’s not fair!”
“Hold your tongue, Sky!” Troy yelled at her, and she looked completely confused, he’d never denied her anything, this was not her night, she looked like she was on the verge of tears. “Madelyn, you stop this nonsense right now and accept Scott.”
“I would rather die!”
“Madelyn, I don’t understand your attitude?” Luna Morgan stepped closer to her but Koda blocked her from getting too close. “This isn’t like you. Why are you acting this way? Scott has always been so kind to you, so protective. You know he loves you. How could you hurt him like this?”
“Protective?” Madelyn snapped, “Kind, Luna he literally slapped me in the face yesterday right in front of you and you did nothing”
“He what?” I growled.
“You know that was an accident, Maddie.” The Luna said dismissively, “You burnt him first. He just reacted.”
“I burnt him to stop him from sexually assaulting me!”
“WHAT!” Koda shouted, and his eyes turned black.
“Why are you lying about something so horrid?!” The Luna said nervously as my brother and I growled at her son.
“I’m not lying, Luna.” Our mate went on, “I’m sorry, I am so grateful to you for all you’ve done for me, but you have no idea who your son is. He’s a monster, he-“
“Enough!” She shouted, “I don’t want to hear any more of your lies.”
Tears filled Madelyn’s eyes, and I felt the urge to hold her.
“I didn’t raise you to be so horrible and ungrateful.” The Luna continued, “I raised you to respect the goddess, she made you and Scott mates, and you will accept him.”
“I won’t.” Madelyn shook her head, sending waves of her scent on the wind and I felt chills of excitement all over my skin, “After everything he’s done to me, after everything Alpha Troy has done, I’ll never accept Scott, I’d rather be rogue then join your family officially.”
‘So now Troys wronged you too?” The Luna snapped angrily “How, by giving you a home and food and a pack, he gave you everything.”
“Alpha Troy took everything from me!” Madelyn spat back, though I could tell she was frightened, I doubt she’d ever yelled at anyone like this, let alone a Luna.
“Like what!?”
“Like Ava!”
“All Troy has ever done is to try and help Ava come forth. It’s not Troy’s fault, she’s too weak to shift, he never took her from you.”
“You actually believe that’s what these cuffs do!”
Madelyn raised her hand to reveal two matching cuffs on her wrists, I’d seen them but I thought they were a fashion statement.
“You think he put them on me to help Ava grow stronger?!”
“What are they!” I stepped closer to the Alpha who looked afraid.
“Tell him!” My mother ordered.
“They’re to bind her Lycan to me.” He admitted, and I got the overpowering urge to rip his throat out. “She can’t shift unless I permit it.”
“Troy tell me you’re lying.” Luna Morgan put her hand over her heart as she stared at her mate in horror.
“I had too.” Troy defended himself. “She’s dangerous and powerful, she can’t take them off, only I can. We had to control her.”
“Remove them now.” I said calmly, but I felt my control slipping. Never in my wildest dreams did I ever imagine my mate would have been subjected to such atrocities.
“No!”
“Remove them now, or I will have your mate killed.” My mother said, shocking me.
“You wouldn’t dare!” Troy glared at her.
“Guards!” My mother called out and several large man rushed over.
“Ok, okay!” Troy panicked and pushed his mate behind him, at least the b*stard cared about someone, “Come here!”
Madelyn looked nervous but stepped closer to her old Alpha as Koda and I flanked her for protection.
Slowly Madelyn raised her wrists and Troy ripped the cuffs from our mate to reveal large red rings around her wrists, making both my brother and myself growl again.
“I should kill you where you stand.” Koda snarled, and he lifted Madelyn’s wrists to examine them.
“Thank you.” Madelyn turned to our mother as more tears fell down her perfect face. “I can feel her already, you have no idea what this means to me, your majesty.”
“You are welcome, Madelyn.”
“What’s all this commotion?”
Finally, our father had arrived, and he looked over at our mate, but his eyes widened in shock.
“Lya?”
“I know.” My mother said and touched his arm, “I thought the same thing.”
“Your majesty.” Koda greeted our father, even us, his sons had to use his and our mother’s titles in public, “This is Madelyn, our mate.”
“Madelyn?” Our father frowned, “But… my goddess you look so much like… Who is your mother?”
“I don’t know your majesty.” Our mate answered shyly, “She left me in the woods as a baby, the only thing I have from her is my ring.”
“What ring?” Our father snapped at her, “Show me!”
“Um…” Madelyn looked at me nervously, but I smiled and touched her arm.
“It’s alright.” I assured her, “He won’t bite.”
Madelyn reached into her dress, which caused my eyes to go straight to her chest. I couldn’t wait for my hands to be there, all of this talking was annoying, she should already be in my bed.
After a second, she pulled up a gold chain with a beautiful golden ring on the end, but what I noticed immediately was that the ring had the same symbol that mine had, the same symbol my brother’s and my parents and cousins had… It was the symbol of our house, it was a family heirloom.
“Oh my goddess.” Our father gasped, “This belonged to my sister Iyarna” (Eye-are-na)
“What?” Koda gasped and looked down at our mate again, “It’s not possible, we can’t be related, we wouldn’t be mate’s”
“What sister?” I asked, “You only have a brother.”
“Iyo wasn’t blood.” My father said with wide shocked eyes, “She was adopted.”
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