Surrender To Us, Our Luna (One Luna, Four Alphas) novel Chapter 45

Chapter 45: 45-And We Celebrate

Clementine:

She said it so bluntly that even my heart skipped a beat. Haiden stared at her in disbelief.

"The train is right here. We can still go back north to look for her. And since she has been gone for maybe a few hours, we should be able to find her," I said, trying to make Miss Rue understand that it was really important and that we couldn’t just keep leaving our people behind like they meant nothing. We are better than monsters.

"I understand what you are trying to say, Clementine, but if we did it for her today, tomorrow we would have to do it for others too. And you guys said she went missing out of the blue. She must have left on her own." The way she said it made me feel pity for her brain, for how it worked.

"A pregnant girl living on her own in a world where she wouldn’t even be able to defend herself—how does that make sense to anyone?" I argued, and I noticed how upset she looked that I was the one raising questions.

"Clementine, her own family didn’t care for her. They sent her to the academy," She argued back as if that would justify sending her out to the north.

"Yeah, just because her family didn’t care doesn’t mean we shouldn’t either."

At this point, I was the only one talking. I guess the others were pretty shocked that I was taking a stand for Haiden’s girlfriend.

"I know I’m being insensitive," she continued, "but before someone else tells you in a worse way, I want to let you know she was probably due in a month or two. There’s no way she could survive on her own out there." With those words, it became clear we had made the wrong decision by bringing Haiden back. If he had wanted to stay with her, he should have. It was his choice. And I would have stayed too. I wouldn’t have come back if I knew someone was being left behind to die.

"We can’t do anything?" I asked her.

That was when Haiden snapped.

"You stay the fuck out of it. Don’t act like you care when you’re the reason this whole mess happened," he yelled at me.

I stepped back, humiliated. Miss Rue was watching, and I didn’t know where to look.

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