Rejected Luna: Untamed Desire Of The Lycan Alpha novel Chapter 222

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Chapter 222: The Worst They Can Do?

And there she was. The aether that had been twirling and swivelling around her rippled and faded in golden glitter as Inez opened her eyes. Unlike the other sirens, she didn’t have better control over her magical abilities yet. The second she lost control, it would disappear, but at least it got the work done.

"What are you doing here?" Inez questioned, taking Selene by surprise. The woman was sitting by the small pond that was hidden deep in the forest. "Don’t tell me you came this far to see the stars?"

She noticed that Selene’s hands were tightly clenched in her lap. From her tense shoulders to the hard gritting of her teeth, Inez could see that something had happened when she and Laxus left her. Something that stepped on Selene’s pride, and yet the woman couldn’t counter because of her pitiful condition.

Inez sat down on the floor and started speaking, "You know, when I was a kid, my mother never took me to any parties. I even missed that big quinceañera—she told me that I didn’t deserve it for being a monster."

"Monster?" Selene turned to look down at Inez, who nodded with a smile on her face.

"Yes", Inez looked at the sparkling stars in the sky and sighed. "Usually, shifters only take the properties of one of their parents, but I was an exception. Somehow, I inherited the abilities of both of my parents. I was a shifter and you know..." she trailed off. "My mom couldn’t accept it; she couldn’t believe that she gave birth to a freak. She wanted normal, or as normal as she could get, when she didn’t — she lost her control."

Though people told her that memories would fade, and so would the scars, Inez didn’t quite believe it. How could the scars of the past fade when she still remembered the berating words that her mother said to her?

"But that’s wrong!" Selene snapped with a frown on her face. "It was not your fault that such a thing happened. You couldn’t choose what you are—if anything, it’s your mother’s fault for getting entangled with someone she had no idea about." There was very little known about sirens. Thus, it wasn’t anyone’s fault but Mrs Sinclair’s for getting involved with someone she knew nothing about.

"You are right," Inez agreed with her. She pulled her knees close to her chest and placed her hands on top of her knees. "Just like none of this is your fault. It’s not your fault that you were poisoned, nor is it your fault that you are in a wheelchair. You shouldn’t let others guide your life, you know?"

Selene stiffened. In her understanding, she knew that Killian would have told Inez all about what happened between her, Laxus and his brother. She knew that he would tell Inez about it, and she wasn’t against it, nor was she unhappy about it. It wasn’t a secret to begin with.