Alpha's Cursed Luna
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ELEANOR

“What the fuck happened?!” Elijah stormed inside the room, darting his eyes to Adrian's beforemine.

My hands trembled above my lap. I stared wide-eyed at Adrian not daring to see the look on Elijahnor Veronyka's face when they saw Adrian on the floor. Groaning in pain.

"What did you do?” Veronyka's words rang inside my head. Each word was firm as she narrowed hereyes at me.

“I...I'm sorry” I whispered.

“No, you're not. Look at him!” Veronyka pointed her finger at Adrian who struggled to get up on hisfeet. Elijah was quick to help him and he managed to get him to stand. However, as soon as he didhe shoved Elijah and he stumbled backwards.

My gaze fixed on Adrian's chest. It was sweating. His breathing slowly increasing its pace, makingme feel a twinge of anxiety as I stared at him now. He was gripping his arm while pushing his backhard against the wall. The way he stood in an awkward stance let me know he was rendered abroken knee.

Scrambling out of the bed, I rushed towards where Adrian was and reached my hand out to touchhis arm. I flinched back when he abruptly snapped my hands like he'd just slapped a fly that wantedto fet on his face.

He lifted his head, glaring at me with his dark blue eyes. They were a shade darker than Alexander's,and somehow in this moment as I took in his features, I noticed for the first time how different hewas from his brother. The murderous look he was giving me. The way his eyes glinted mysteriouslyas he looked at me. The way his jaw clenched tightly when I advanced a step towards him. All of itseemed to contradict all my first impressions of him the day Alexander took me in this pack.

And for a moment, I thought I'd saw his true colors, right before the corner of his lips archedupwards revealing a sheepish smile.

"Don’t worry about this, I'm okay. I just feel sad...” He mumbled, sighing.

“No you're not okay, lan. Let me call the pack doctor for you,” Before Adrian could protest, Veronykahurriedly rushed towards the door. As soon as she opened the door, she staggered back as threewell-muscled men all wearing black leather jackets and black pants stood outside looking like theywere just about ready to barge in.

I squinted at the men and one by one, they walked in the room uninvited. It was then that I noticed,they all looked pretty much the same. All having black spiky hair with matching lip piercings on thesame spot.

Two maids followed them closely and lowered their heads when they saw Elijah.

"We tried to stop them,” One maid said quickly.

Elijah immediately stepped in front of me, blocking me from the three bulky men who just bargedin.

"Who are you and what do you want?” Elijah asked with a firm, yet calm voice.

One of the men peered at me over Elijah’s shoulder, making Elijah let out a low growl.

One of the men then took a step forward before saying, “We are from the Alliance, and we're herefor Eleanor Raven of Blue Mountains Pack.”

“Sorry for the intrusion, we just need to ask a few questions concerning the beta.” The man on theleft also spoke.

Elijah glanced at me and threw me a meaningful look.

He nodded at the men and said, “Alright. Let's talk downstairs” The bulky muscled men allexchanged looks before spinning around to the door.

“You go, I'll stay and wait for the pack doctor with Adrian,” Veronyka says, locking her arm withAdrian's as she looked over at us.

I saw Elijah smirk mockingly at Veronyka, which earned him a sharp glare.

“So you finally decide to make yourself useful for once, huh?” Elijah grinned at her whilst she rolledher eyes. Before I went downstairs with Elijah I changed into my casual clothes, mindlessly choosingthe outfit Alexander picked out for me. As I was in a rush, I didn’t bother looking at the mirror andshoved in every piece of clothing to fit my body.

Without another word, we exited the bed room and sauntered downstairs.

The three men were all sat at the large table in the hall, waiting for us.

We walked over to the table before Elijah and I took our seats.

“Shall we start?” Elijah spoke, breaking the silence that enveloped the air around us.

The man on the middle nodded. I noticed they were all staring weirdly at my face, or maybe it wasmy pink hair that distracted them. I take a mental note to wear a bonnet next time 1 go out inpublic.

"Before we start, let us introduce ourselves. I'm Devin, the one to my right is Louie, and to my left isSam, short for Samuel.” Devin stated while pointing his finger to each man beside him. Elijah and Inodded to acknowledge their names.

My gaze landed on Louie. He avoided my gaze, looking at the other direction as though he didn'twant to look at me in the eye. As if things aren't weird enough, I suddenly get this feeling like he’sfamiliar. Have I.seen him somewhere?

“Ms. Raven, you claimed that your pack’s beta, Mike Darcy, has physically assaulted you a couple oftimes?” It was Devin who asked.

I was about to speak when I noticed my throat was still parched. Clearing my throat briefly, I took adeep breath before opening my lips to speak.

“It wasn't just a couple of times. It was a million times more.” I say softly.

They exchanged looks with one another again and one who I recall was named Sam nodded at me.“Ms. Raven, you are known as the wolf-less daughter of Alpha Victor, correct?” He asks.

I nod curtly.

"And that means when you receive an injury or wound, you heal slowly just like a human would?”That made my body stiffen for a moment, and I paused, thinking. Then, several images of my scarssuddenly flashed in my mind and a newfound confidence burned within me.

"Yes, I heal slowly and I retain scars too.” I say as a matter of fact.

Devin and Louie squinted at my face, staring as though they don't really believe my words.

Sam leaned back on his chair, crossing his arms against his chest before saying, “Show us.”

I looked at him for a few more seconds before my brain was able to process what he said. My facesuddenly flushed and heat burned across my skin at the thought of stripping in front of four men."Yo-you don't understand. I have scars all over my body, and that means—"

“We're not telling you to take your goddamn shirt off, we're talking about pictures.” Louie saysfirmly, his tone sounding a little irritated and I blushed. The awkward silence after that fueled myburning embarrassment for being stupid.

“Do you have any?” Devin asks, fixing his gaze on my flushed face when I shook my head inresponse.

“N-no."

Louie suddenly slammed his hand on the table and growled.

“Do you think of us as fools?!” His chair made a loud, screeching sound as he rose to his feetabruptly. His finger pointed at me accusingly.

His eyes were glowing, hair almost covering his whole face as his grey wolf peeked out.

I flinched back in my seat, whilst Elijah stood and growled dangerously at him too.

I hear Devin let out a sigh.

“Louie, enough. Sit. Down.” Devin shot him a look that effectively made Louie sit down. His eyes nolonger glowing, and his face looking like it's been shaved clean from his wolf's fur. Louie glared atme and I stared hard at his face for a moment.

Yes, I've seen him somewhere before. With beta Mike.