Chapter 76
“I understand how you must be feeling, I assure you, you may speak freely with me.” I watched Carlos’s face drop and his head bowed.
“I’ll mind my tongue, lord beta, but please do not tell Lorellia.” I could see Carlos begin physically shaking as his eyes remained on the floor in front of Lewis, he was terrified of his mate, what had she done to him? I thought he was just a prisoner with obviously the occasional physical activity, but his fear, was worrying me.
“Hey,” I placed my hand gently on the man’s quivering shoulder and stepped in front of him, prompting him to raise his head. “You have no reason to trust me, but you are safe in here. Beta Lewis, won’t say anything to anyone.”
“How can you stand there and say you trust a wolf?!” Carlos practically yelled in my face, his shaking getting worse and worse as he stared at me in disgust. “How can you trust him? He’s not even just a wolf he’s the royal beta? He’s the kings best friend, do you think he got his title by sitting pretty during the take over?! No, he’s just as guilty of slaughtering our people as the king is himself. Are you that desperate for interaction that you’d get it from the likes of him.”
I never actually thought about it too much, but Carlos did have a point. Lewis must have helped in some regard. Otherwise the king wouldn’t have appointed him as his beta, however Carlos was severely out of line. Sure, he had his own problems but he didn’t have a clue what I had been through.
“Don’t judge me, you have no idea how hard it has been.” Carlos sneered and looked me up and down before jingling his chains.
“Your right, because while you were up here living the fucking life of a queen, I was left to rot down there.” Lewis said nothing, he simply remained quiet, watching my interaction with the kings step uncle.
“I’m not saying you’ve not had it tough these past few months, but I’ve been in complete solitude for years.”
He was right, it’s only been a few months for me, he has dealt with being a prisoner for years. I couldn’t imagine going through all of this for as long as he has. No wonder he was so scared, especially now as he’s finally out of the dungeon, after all that time it must be so strange to walk freely, well semi freely as he was still in chains.
“Hang on a minute.” Beta Lewis quickly piped up at Carlos’s words, maybe he was angry at being called out. “Look, you can say whatever you want about me, but don’t stand there and dismiss everything Dylan has gone through just because she hasn’t been here for as long as you have.” He was coming to my aid? I thought he was going to defend himself. “While you were obviously left down there alone for so long, Dylan hasn’t only had to survive his graces treatment but she has also had to do so while being solely and directly in the public eye.” He rambled on, I wasn’t sure when his hand had begun to rest on my shoulder, but I relished in the warmth it gave me.
Carlos looked completely taken aback by the betas words and actions, his sight was darting between the two
of us so fast I thought he might have gone dizzy. His eyes made their way to where Lewis had placed his hand
and a frown made it way on his face. A thousand questions began to quickly flood his orbs, but only one came blurting out, as he looked me straight in the eye.
“How the Fuck did you get the Royal Beta to fall in love with you?!”
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Chosen By The Moon
Chapter 77
Dylan POV
just stood and stared at Carlos as he continued to hold my gaze, he was out of his mind, me and Lewis were just friends, there was no way he was in love with me, the man in front of me was definitely delusional.
“What are you talking about?” I asked absolutely bewildered that he would even suggest such a thing, especially when we were in the palace, the king literally had eyes and ears everywhere. If someone had heard him then it really would not just be me to get it in the neck, but the royal beta would too.
“There’s no way, a wolf would ever come to our defense like that without there being a reason.” He argued, but it made no sense. Lewis had already had a mate, and was rejected, and it’s a known fact a wolf doesn’t just take any partner, they will only take a mate.
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“He just knows what I’ve been through, ok. I have no idea how hard it has been for you, just like idea about me or my time here. It’s really easy to speculate and say we’ve had it worse than the other but we have no
will never know, because we haven’t been in each other’s situations.” It was the truth, neither of us could ever compare our positions in the matter because they were both vastly different.
“You’re not exactly locked up right now though are you?” I could tell that being consistently confined was getting to him, even in freedom he was restricted, but just because I wasn’t wearing a set of chains it didn’t mean that they weren’t there, I had a much different set of restraints on me.
“No, I’m not. But that’s because I got punished three weeks ago, and I haven’t gotten my strength or my full range of movement back yet. Im still very much restricted, it’s just my chains aren’t visible.” I shrugged, casually leaving out the part about King Josh almost killing me. “Onto a more pressing concern… Do you know what would happen to me and Beta Lewis if you were caught saying something as ridiculous as that. We are just friends. He’s a wolf, surly you know they only accept their mates, they don’t get to choose who to be with.”
Well I suppose they do sort of, as it is very possible to reject their one and only mate, however most of them die from a broken heart before they’re even able to look at someone else. Never mind forcing themselves into a relationship that doesn’t feel at all natural.
“That’s not entirely true…” the beta spoke to me and had my full attention drawn to him after his words had met my ears. “We are actually very capable of choosing our own mate if our goddess gifted paring ends in either death or rejection.” Well, I wasn’t aware of that.
“I didn’t know that!” I really didn’t, I really have to do more research on the werewolf species. It might help me navigate my current situation better. “So our mates can quite easily reject us, they just choose not to?” I of course spoke in regards to mine and Carlos’s current circumstances. It’s a known fact that neither of us wanted this life and yet here we are, unfortunately fated to members of the royal family.
“They can, but Its not something a wolf would typically do, rejecting your mate, well thats an extremely rare occurrence, and there’s absolutely no going back once it’s final. Only a handful of people get rejected or loose their mates anyway, and being able to survive the heartbreak is even more rare. So actually finding someone who a broken wolf feels could make their soul complete once more, well that’s a phenomenon that happens once in a blue moon.” Wait, so if not many lycans, actually manage to survive being rejected then how did he?
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