Chasing His Betrayed Luna

AURELIA

I left the room I shared with my kids and Hazel because I was overwhelmed by raw emotions that threatened to tear me open even though my kids were sleeping peacefully in between Hazel and me.

I came deep into the forest because I needed to be alone not so I could run into a jackass who had grown nosy with the years.

"Stay back!" I repeated those words when Raiden took another step closer to me.

I'd have taken a thousand steps away from him if there wasn't a body of water behind me. He was closing in on me and had me cornered. I wiped my face angrily, refusing to appear weak before someone like him. "Stay the hell back, Raiden. I'm warning you." I barked at him, tears threatening to spill out of my swollen eyes once again.

"How do you expect me to stay back when you have obviously been crying, Aurelia?" Raiden asked like he actually had a heart. "What's wrong?"

I chuckled, unable to believe his audacity. He must think I was still dumb. "The same way you stayed back during our marriage, jackass." I spat at him, the sorrow in my heart switching into rage.

Knowing that Dakota was dead was killing me and these past few days, I had stayed away from training or participating in the games because I needed time to sort out my feelings but clearly, I wasn't doing a good job with that.

The reason I came out here was for some sort of peace and control over my spiraling emotions but that was no longer possible with Raiden's presence. I thought about walking away but then I didn't want my body to come in contact with his at all and there was no way to avoid contact if I wanted to escape him.

"Move out of my way." I breathed as I took steps towards his body, determined to get as far away from him as possible but he didn't move.

"Shove him in the lake!" Inara growled within me but rather than take her advice, I used a single hand to shove Raiden out of my way, grateful for my upper body strength.

Raiden was hot on my heels but he didn't touch me and I didn't stop walking either, even when he said, "Okay we don't have to talk about why you are crying in the middle of nowhere, Aurelia."

Hearing him say my name infuriated me like crazy yet I didn't stop walking.

At least not until he muttered, "Let's talk about us, Aurelia. Please."

I halted, anger bubbling underneath my skin. I could feel Raiden's hot breath on the back of my neck. My mind betrayed me as flashes of the days he used to have me flat on my chest and bury his face in my neck, consumed my mind momentarily.

My body reacted to those steamy memories but Raiden's next words snapped me out of my unrealistic trance. "You left and rejected me, Aurelia. How could-"Content (C) Nôv/elDra/ma.Org.

"How could I reject a man who didn't give two fucks about me?" I snapped, cutting his statement short. I made a quick turnaround, spinning to face Raiden so he could see the undiluted fury blazing in my blue eyes.

"Your audacity irks me, Raiden. You're full of shits." I spelled out to him, turned away, and continued walking down the path.

We were over so there was no reason to go down that lane with him. He should be thankful that I hadn't already stuck a dagger in his cold heart. I'd be doing the rest of the world a favor if I killed him.

Raiden put himself in front of me

again, stopping me dead in my

tracks because I didn't want to

collude with his naked chest. His et

very naked chest. "You're still my mate and this pack's Luna, Agrelia. That should mean something to you."

"That's impossible because we both signed the divorce papers you threw in my face and I rejected you, Raiden. I know your ego is bruised but get over it and leave me alone!" I snapped.

He raised his voice an octave higher, "I never accepted your rejection, Aurelia. We're still bonded even if you can't feel the bond. You belong to me and I'll have you back."

He didn't accept my rejection?

Why would he carry a broken bond for so many years and still mate with another woman?

"To manipulate you, obviously. He's not just a cheater but a psycho." Inara bore her canines in my mind pushing against my skin so we. could shift even though she knew we should never shift before Raiden or anyone at that.

We made a promise to Alpha Tristan to keep my wolf a secret... Inara was a rare breed. The last of her kind and despite not knowing how I got to have a special wolf, she was still mine. The moon goddess kinda did some things right in my life.

"You're my mate and Luna, Aurelia. Please let's-"

"The same mate and Luna you sent assassins after because you wanted to get rid of her just so you could enjoy your life with another woman? I snarled to Raien's surprise.

Stupid man. He clearly thought I would fall for his manipulating words but I knew better now. He was a good-for-nothing bastard.

"Assasins?" Raiden played dumb and frankly speaking, I wasn't shocked. "What assasins, Aurelia?"

I shook my head, wondering why the moon goddess tied me to this man in the first place... I couldn't even remember why I fell in love with him or see the person I used to love dearly within him.

"You know what? I'm sick of you, Raiden. Don't bother to approach me with whatever rubbish you cooked up. You didn't want me when I was your woman but now that I've become a woman of my own, you want me, right?" "Aurelia-"

"Just get your lame ass off the path, Raiden." I cut him off and tried to slip past him.

However, he grabbed my hand, holding me tightly as he asked with an emotion that had me grasping for dear life, "You've said a lot of things but you still haven't answered my question, Aurelia."

"What question?" I inhaled sharply, my walls cracking slowly.

"What assasins?" He questioned, his silver-gray eyes holding me captive.