Chapter 57 – The Truth (IV)
••• Aleena’s POV •••
I couldn’t believe what I just had heard. Did Andre really want to kill Luna Angie, his destined mate? Luna Angie had already wanted to sacrifice her happiness by asking Andre to reject her in return for releasing all the alive were-babies, yet he still wouldn’t let her off?
I didn’t know how to feel right now – Shocked? Furious? Confused? Anguished? Horrified? Those words still seemed like an understatement. Even Beta Erick and Gamma Brad looked shocked. How much more monstrous could Andre be?
“Alpha, if we kill her, you will…” Beta Erick said in hesitation. It looked like he was saying that for Andre’s own good, but I knew he was reluctant to kill their Luna because she was their Luna. After all, I always heard that Luna Angie was kind to her pack members.
“Andre… You can’t… You can’t kill me. I’m your mate. If I die, you’ll lose yourself too,” Luna Angie said with a trembling voice. She looked pitiful – her eyes were wide, and she looked pale. I didn’t even want to imagine how she was feeling at this moment.
“Quiet!” Andre looked at Beta Erick, then at Gamma Brad. “Aren’t you going to kill her?”
Luna Angie’s eyes widened even more while Beta Erick and Gamma Brad looked conflicted.Content property of NôvelDra/ma.Org.
Before any of them were able to say or do anything, Andre moved fast and stood in front of Luna Angie.
“Andre, you ca-” Luna Angie’s words were stopped, and I heard Andre roar in pain and drop to his knees before I saw Beta Erick and Gamma Brad let go of Luna Angie’s hands and staggered back with horrified expressions.
“NO!” I shouted when I saw Andre’s hand had gone straight through Luna Angie’s heart. He didn’t just… But he did… He just… He just killed his own mate!
Luna Angie’s lifeless eyes were wide open, as did her mouth like she couldn’t believe Andre had betrayed and killed her. Andre was still roaring in pain, and his body was shaking badly as he knelt with his hand still buried in Luna Angie’s chest.
Andre pulled back his hand with difficulty, and I saw Luna Angie’s bloody heart in his hand. His face was ashen as he dropped the heart and doubled over on the floor. It was apparent that he was in pain and anguish from losing his mate. However, I could feel no pity or sympathy for him. It was his own doing. He was just too heartless!
Beta Erick and Gamma Brad were still gawking at the shaking Andre, while Rose finally seemed to regain her energy and came to Andre. “Andre, I’ll help you!” She chanted a spell, and Andre finally stood up after nearly half an hour. He wasn’t shaking anymore, but he still looked ashen.
He looked at Beta Erick and Gamma Brad, who had already recovered from their shocks, and told them coldly, “Dispose of her body.”
“What shall we tell the pack members?” Beta Erick asked, and they fell silent.
“This baby, she’s the child of the Alpha and Luna of the Silver Shadow Pack?” Rose was the first to speak.
“Yes, Luna,” Gamma Brad answered.
“Her name’s Aleena, right?” Rose asked and seemed to think of something.
“Yes, Luna,” Gamma Brad said in confirmation again.
“Tell everyone she was killed while saving Aleena from the rogues,” Rose ordered them. “But not now; I still haven’t made the preparations to make everyone believe the story yet.”
Was Rose the one who came up with the idea of the lie? She was too much! But what kind of preparations did she need to make?
“Dispose of her body, and don’t say anything to anyone yet,” Andre didn’t seem to hesitate to agree with Rose. “Come back here after you are done with it.”
I saw Beta Erick and Gamma Brad drag Luna Angie’s body like she wasn’t their Luna at all. Her eyes and mouth were still wide open, and there was a gaping hole in her chest. They should’ve picked her up, yet they just dragged her by her arms – it was tragic.
I wanted to run after them; I wanted to see how they disposed of her body, but I knew I had to stay here and watch the rest of the scene.
“Rose, are you alright?” Andre sounded concerned.
“She’s going to be powerful. When I sealed her power, she took some of my magic into her,” Rose said as she looked at baby me.
“Will it… Will it change anything?” Andre looked anxiously at Rose.
Rose smiled at him and said, “No, it’s better this way. She’ll be able to use some magic, and I can control her in the future as part of me is in her.”
Part of her is in me? That’s disgusting!
“You can control her?” Andre’s eyes lit up as he heard Rose’s words.
Rose nodded and explained, “When she faced the Lycan in the future, I’ll have complete control of her mind. She won’t be able to resist killing the Lycan.”
“That’s great! That’s great!” Andre was so excited after learning the news. “What else should we do to her?”
What else should you do to baby me? Wasn’t that enough? I was still a baby, for Goddess’ sake! Anger coursed through every vein in my body again. How I wished I could tear their limbs away right now!
“I just need to cast a few spells to make her become the Lycan’s mate,” Rose looked at baby me, and there was a devilish glint in her eyes.
“Are you really able to do that?” Andre voiced out the same question I had in my mind.
She couldn’t… Only the Moon Goddess can create mate bonds! I don’t want to believe it! But she said it before… My anger was gradually replaced by fear. What if she really could? Then everything about me and Kyson was a lie? Our feelings and mate bonds were just fabrications? If it was true… I didn’t want to think about what would happen if Kyson knew about this.
“Don’t forget I know a lot of ancient dark magic, Andre,” Rose assured Andre.
“Alright. I won’t doubt you anymore. Let’s do it now,” Andre persuaded Rose.
I stood at their side as I watched Rose chant so many spells. After a long time, she stopped and looked doubtful and anxious; her forehead was even covered in sweat.
“Did you do it?” Andre was oblivious to Rose’s condition and still looked excited.
Rose didn’t answer him but kept chanting spells in baby-me. I noticed that the spells were the same as before; she was just repeating the process, and hope began to bloom in my heart. Maybe she didn’t succeed. My mate bond with Kyson must be from Moon Goddess. We must really be destined mates!
She tried so many times that she became really pale, her body began trembling, and her whole body was covered in sweat.
“You can’t do it, can you?” Andre accused Rose angrily after Rose stopped again.
“Give me a moment. I’ll definitely be able to do it,” Rose looked afraid of Andre at this point. She knew she had failed.
Yes! I knew it! No one could go against the Moon Goddess’ wishes! They must be lying when they said my mate bond with Kyson was Rose’s doing. I’m really Kyson’s destined mate!
“Alpha, Luna, we’ve disposed of Luna Ang-” I heard Beta Erick’s voice.
“Who’s your Luna?” Andre snapped and interrupted Beta Erick’s sentence.
Beta Erick looked down and changed his words. “I’m sorry, Alpha. We have disposed of Angie’s body.”
“Good. Now, get rid of all these babies. They are too noisy,” Andre ordered.
Get rid of… Get rid of the babies? They really were going to get rid of all the babies, even the living ones?
“Understood,” Beta Erick and Gamma Brad said at the same time.
They went to the still-alive babies and killed them mercilessly, leaving only baby-me alive.
I couldn’t even gasp anymore. They killed the babies by crushing the babies’ heads with their hands! It was a gruesome scene – the chamber was filled with black skin and bones and headless corpses of were-babies.
Too brutal… They were simply too brutal… None of them even batted an eyelid when they killed the babies! They were sick! Sadists!
“Get out first! Rose and I still need to do something to this baby,” Andre told them impatiently.
Beta Erick and Gamma Brad nodded before leaving the room and closing the door behind them.
“Do your thing!” Andre commanded Rose coldly. It looked like he treated everyone who wasn’t useful to him coldly; not even his beloved would be spared.
Rose looked tired, yet she seemed afraid of Andre and forced herself to do what he wanted. She chanted the ancient dark magic again with great difficulty more times than before, and the results were still the same – she couldn’t do it!
“You are useless!” Andre choked Rose and snarled when he realized Rose couldn’t do it.
“I can do it. I can do it. Give me one more chance,” Rose begged Andre.
“One last chance. If you can’t do it, prepare to join Angie and those babies in the afterlife,” Andre snarled again and released his hold on Rose’s neck.
Rose nodded and took a deep breath before chanting the spell again with more concentration than before. I wanted to laugh at them for being stupid, but I saw the glow surrounding baby-me look brighter. Rose seemed excited to see it and became more confident in chanting her spell.
After she finished, she smiled smugly and asked Andre to look at baby me. I followed her words, and I couldn’t help but gasp at what I saw.