Chapter Eighty Eight
Thane was already there by the time I returned back to our room.
That could only mean one thing.
“Where did you go?” He asked
“I needed to take some air… why?”
He turned to me. He was only in a black bottom–down shirt; the sleeves of his shirt had been rolled up, and he had a glass of whiskey in his hands.
“You are back early.” I noted aloud.
“Yes” was his only response, his gaze on the glass in his hands.
“Any luck tracking down the rebel?” I asked
“Let’s not talk about that right now,” he says, and I let out a sigh of relief.
I walked towards him, and he took my hands.
“You are very special to me,” he says, and my heart fluttered. This was the second time he had told me that. “I want you to tell me now, is there anything I need to know, Riley?”
There it was. He knew something; I was almost sure about it, but never would I give my mother up.
“I am not hiding anything from you, Thane,” I lied, and he nodded. He brought my hands to his lips, placing a kiss on it.
“I’ll miss this a lot.” He whispers to himself.
My heart pounded in my chest.
“I’ll be here… always.”
“Yes, you will be,” he agrees. “You stepped out for some fresh air… Yet you ended up in your mother’s apartment; could you explain that?”
Now his eyes were on me; there was no doubt; he knew. I had thought I would have until the morning to help my mother escape, but how wrong I was to think that.
I should give up the act, but what if he had nothing but a clue? What if he hoped that I’d give in to his suspicions?
“So what? I visited her.” I agreed coolly.
His hold on my hand tightened.
“Had you been a part of the plan?”
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“What plan? I don’t understand what you are saying, and you are freaking me out.”
“Am I freaking you out?”
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go of my hand.”
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Our room was
“Perhaps I could refresh your memory,” he said, and just then the door to our ro slammed open, two soldiers matched in, and they held…
Mother!
I wanted to go to her, but his hold was incredibly strong; I couldn’t break free..
“Leave us,”
away.
” he said to the guard, and they dropped my mother to her knees before walking
Thane finally let me go; he walked towards my mother. I tried blocking him from getting through, but very easily he moved me aside too. He lifted my mother to her feet by her arm. “An injury that would only be inflicted by a silver weapon… a dagger maybe,” Thane said, taking of the material now stained with blood and revealing the jagged scar on her arm. I gasped; she hadn’t let me see it; I had no idea it was this bad.
“Mother!… Let her go,
“Why would I do that?”
Thane.”
“Because I am your Luna,” I say, desperate now.
“I must admit, you held on to your little secret longer than I expected you would. So now tell me… what had the both of you planned next?” He questioned.
My mother stared at him, hatred clear in her eyes.
“She had no part in this. It was all me.”
“I do not believe that,” Thane said, a smirk forming on his lips. 1
I watched my mother swallow down her hatred for him. “Please, she is all I have; she knew nothing; it was all on me.”
“She paid you a visit when you were away, and when I asked if she met you, her response was yes‘. So tell me why she would hide a thing like that if she hadn’t been a part of this plan.” He asked.
Mother turned to me, clearly wondering why I had done that.
“I was so scared,” I explained to her, and she nodded, understanding.
“Let her go; you can have me. I’ll confess to my deeds and bear the punishment.
“No, mom, please.
Chapter Eighty Eight
“Slade wants you dead, so I guess you know what the punishment would be?”
“Yes, I do.”
“You made a very insensitive move, woman,” Thane said to her, his voice cold and empty.1 couldn’t believe what was happening.
“And I’ll do it again if I have the chance; if there is an afterlife, I would come for you too.”
“And what makes you think you can kill me, now or in another life?”
“Slade thought the same, but see where that got him.”
My mother was being reckless, speaking back to him, threatening him, and referring to the Alpha King as ‘Slade‘.
“Mom, please stop.”
“I’ll die either way,” she says, her eyes equally cold, matching his. “I do not regret a thing” “If not for yourself, then for your daughter, you would have tried to stay alive,” Thane said to her.
He walked out of the door, but not before pulling the bloody cloth back over her wound.
I rushed to her. “I’ll find a way.” I promised again
“No, you won’t; you will let this happen.”
“I will not.”
“He is right,” she admitted, her eyes tearing up. “I had been selfish, and that is my only regret.”
“I forgive you.”
“I do not deserve your forgiveness.”
Just then Thane returned with those same two soldiers, and my mother was pried off my arms and taken away… I could guess where she was going to be placed. The dungeons.
I couldn’t lose her; she was all I had.
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