Moonlight In Chains (Trinity and Asher) novel Chapter 16

Asher headed back to the packhouse to keep Spencer away from his house. He didn’t want Spencer going back to the house if he was in on the abuse. I mean, he laughed when he saw Trinity in her bed. I can just imagine what she looks like, which is making me a little scared to actually go

inside that house.

I don’t know if I can control my wolf once I see what Trinny looks like.

We’ve known about the abuse for so long and that’s the whole reason why Asher came back. He

knew that she was in trouble. She just doesn’t know that.

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He doesn’t want me to tell her and it’s killing me. She has a right to know, but I also have to

the wishes of the future Alpha even if he is my brother.

All we want is for Trinity to tell us the truth, and then we would have a starting point to investigate.

But she obviously doesn’t want anyone to know.

He doesn’t want me going into the house. Not yet anyway. He wants me to just sit out here and watch. To see what I can see while they think they are getting away with what they’re doing.

I’m just standing here, outside her house, heart thudding so hard I’m sure she can hear it through the walls. Every minute I don’t go in feels like a betrayal, like I’m leaving her alone when she needs me

most. She’s in there, broken, hurting, and I can’t reach her. I can’t hold her, can’t tell her it’s going

to be okay.

I promised I’d keep watch. I promised I’d make sure no one else hurts her. But staying out here, doing nothing but listening for the creak of the door or the thump of footsteps, it’s killing me. She’s all alone, and all I can do is stare at these outside walls of the house and wish I could tear them

down.

Every check–in from my brother makes me flinch. I want to shout at him, tell him it’s not enough, that I need to be in there with her. But I stay silent. I have to stay silent. I have to be the barrier, the shield she can’t see but needs. My hands are itching to reach through the wall, to pull her into my

arms, but I can’t.

I feel every second of her pain as if it’s my own. And yet… I have to wait. I have to stay here. Just…. stay here.

By the time her father got home for dinner, her mother and father sat in the kitchen eating and didn’t even bother offering any to Trinity. She needs the strength now, more than anything. Not that they care about her or want her to regain her strength.

SHAPTER 16

I hear her parents walk upstairs and her father opens her bedroom door to check in on her.

“Is she still alive?” Sabine asked.

“Yeah. She’s breathing.” Hank said. And then he closed the door and they both walked to their bedroom.

That made my blood boil. I wanted to burst in there and kill them both. What the f**k is wrong with these people?

I know they weren’t always like this. They never used to treat her like this when she was younger. It’s only been the last few years.

What the f**k could she have possibly done wrong to deserve this?

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Nothing was making sense to me. I had to find out why they were doing this to her. She didn’t

deserve what they were doing to her.

No one deserves such treatment.

I was really trying to understand this, but nothing was coming to mind. Nothing was making sense. My mind was being ripped into a million different pieces and I didn’t know which way I should

follow it.

Why would they do this? She hasn’t done anything–at least, nothing I’ve ever seen that could make

them snap like this. Was it something she said? Something she didn’t do? I’m trying to piece it together, replaying every interaction I’ve seen, looking for some reason, anything, but it’s like staring into a wall of darkness. There’s nothing there. No warning, no logic, just… brutality. My

ram at them, shake some

chest feels tight, my stomach twists. I want to sense into them, but what would that do? Nothing. I just have to keep her safe, even if it kills me to stand outside while she suffers inside. I hate that I can’t protect her completely. I hate that I can’t fix this. And yet, I keep thinking–maybe it’s my fault? No, no… it can’t be. She didn’t deserve this. Nobody deserves this. So why… Why would anyone do this to someone they’re supposed to love?

When Asher checks in again, he tells me that Spencer has finally left the packhouse, and it’s dark. with little movement around town. But the bar was still open and Asher said that Spencer was

going to head there and try and get lucky.

I don’t know any i***t who would want to go near that loser. However, I suppose I have heard of girls having a nasty taste in men.

All Spencer has to say is that he’s the future Beta of the pack and he will have them eating out of

the palm of his hand.

I’m still pissed that Asher made him his Beta. That never made sense to me and Asher never

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explained it to me.

Q+25 Point

I am hoping he has a plan for all of this, but who the hell knows with him? He keeps a lot to himself.

I’m actually surprised that he’s told me as much as he has. But then again, he needed my help when he came back so he didn’t have a choice but to tell me as much as he had.

Arlo knows just as much as I do. So that’s why he’s been insistent on being there as well. To help

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