Filed to story: Rylee the Orphan Luna Novel
“I was at home. You can ask Trent. He saw me going home right before the ceremony was supposed to start. I was not about to watch you take the Alpha title and then give the Luna position to this-” she stopped mid-sentence when I snarled at her. “To Lanie,” she corrected herself. I quickly mind-linked Trent, and asked him to verify Lorelai’s alibi, which he did. He confirmed that she went home about thirty minutes before the ceremony was supposed to start. He had even asked her why she wasn’t going to attend, and she gave him the same answer she just gave me.
“Okay, your alibi checks out,” I told her. She huffed and crossed her arms, giving me some more attitude. I shook it off as I didn’t feel like dealing with her s**t right now. “Torrance, I saw you in the backyard with everyone, so I knew where you were. The only person in your family unaccounted for is Thornton. And don’t even think about trying to blame it on the banished pack members, they were banished long before Lanie and Lexie even came here. Everyone else in the pack has been accounted for that evening, except for your mate.” Torrance gulped, not knowing how to respond. “What’s the matter? Cat got your tongue. You were so certain that your mate couldn’t have possibly sided with Eric Patterson, yet you have no idea of his whereabouts that night. As a matter of fact, no one does. So, as it stands, your mate was the mole that betrayed this pack.”
“I … No, Alpha, he wouldn’t… He couldn’t… Why would he risk his life for that maniac!?” Torrance questioned.
“Simple, he wanted to get back at us and the Blue Lake pack for punishing Damon and humiliating Lorelai. He was their father, after all,” I replied.
“But Thornton and I agreed that Damon deserved his punishment! And that Lorelai needed to get over her obsession with you!” “MOM!” Damon and Lorelai exclaimed in unison.
“Don’t ‘MOM’ me!” she spat at them. “Lorelai, I told you that Chad was not going to be your mate, even after the whole situation with Killian’s mother. Yet, you refused to listen to reason. Your obsession with him was borderline psychotic! Then you had the nerve to slap the Luna here, all because she came from Blue Lake!” she scolded her. “And you!” she pointed at Damon. “You tried to rape the Beta’s mate! Only you were too stupid to know which room she was actually in, and you ended up assaulting the Luna of another pack! The Blue Lake Luna to be exact! With her young son in the bed with her, at that! You deserved your punishment and then some! I raised you both to be better than that! Goddess, where in the hell did your father and I go wrong with you!?” She then laughed at herself. “I don’t even know why I’m questioning this. Your father was obviously just as sick as the two of you. I mean, he went and betrayed this entire pack and me, his mate, his wife, all because he felt that you were wronged when, in reality, you two were the ones who royally f****d up!” she shouted at them. “How the hell you two were born from my womb, I will never understand!” Lorelai and Damon were both utterly speechless, hearing their own mother calling them ‘f****d up.’ They looked at each other and then to the floor because they didn’t know how to respond to anything.
There was an awkward silence in the room, so I cleared my throat and broke it. “Torrance, as I said earlier, due to his crimes, Thornton will be buried as a rogue. You have my deepest sympathies, but that is what has been decided,” I explained to her sternly while trying to be kind at the same time. Lanie was looking at Torrance, and she kept c*****g her head back and forth, almost as if she were questioning if Torrance really understood what I was telling her. For a split second, Lanie’s eyes turned stark white, and it seemed that only I caught it before they returned to their usual ocean blue. She looked at me, her eyes full of worry. Her eyes flickered to Damon and then back to me, signaling me to get them to leave.
“I understand, Alpha. He deserves what he gets for what he has done. For the first time ever, I am ashamed to have been his mate. I am ashamed to be their mother,” she sobbed.
“That is all. You are all free to leave,” I ordered them. Torrance didn’t miss a beat and stood to her feet before running out of my office. Damon and Lorelai looked at her retreating figure and then back at me and Lanie. “Yes? Is there something else you two need?” I asked them, annoyed that they hadn’t left yet. Without saying a word, they both turned their heels and walked towards the door of my office to leave.
“Wait!” Lanie called out to them. She ran from behind my desk directly to Lorelai and sized her up. It was a little funny to see, considering that Lanie was, at least, five inches shorter than her. “Before you go, I have something for you,” Lanie said. Lorelai looked at her confused but was caught off by the sudden slap across her face.
“LANIE!” I shouted at her. She ignored me and as soon as Lorelai turned to face her, she was slapped again, but, this time, her head whipped in the opposite direction. I couldn’t even react before Lanie grabbed her by the chin.
“That first slap was for the time you slapped me when I first got here. The second one was for you calling my sister ‘street trash.’ If you ever insult my sister again, I’ll do more than just slap you, b***h,” she gritted her teeth and then shoved Lorelai’s face away from her. Lorelai, on the other hand, was too shocked to say anything. “And you!” she directed towards Damon. She walked up to him and kneed him in the balls, making me groan in pain for him. “Holy f**k!” I yelled.
“If you ever come near my sisters or me again, I’m going to turn those grapes into raisins!” “You b***h!” Damon groaned as he keeled over from the pain.
“No, I’m not a b***h. I’m a survivor, and I will be damned if you two assholes try to ruin the life that I have now been blessed with. Unlike the two of you, my sister and I weren’t fortunate enough to have two loving parents that would bend over backwards at our every whim. No, we were both born in cages and treated like animals. Rylee lost her entire life at the age of ten because of Eric. Eric kidnapped me and my sister from our home and gave us to Marvin to be trafficked. And your father was stupid enough to side with him, look where that got him. All because the two of you were so ungrateful for what you already had, you tried to take from other people who literally had nothing their entire lives. Your dad deserved his death and more. Stop being greedy, ungrateful pricks, and be happy with what you have. There are literally millions of people with far less.” Lanie turned her heel before they could say anything and came back to me. I didn’t know whether to be angry that she assaulted two pack members or turned on by the way she handled them and stood up for herself and others.
“You’re going to f*****g pay for that, you slut,” Lorelai growled.
“Stop making empty threats, Lorelai. We both know that your biggest fear in life is becoming a rogue,” I sneered at her. “So, unless you want to end up on the streets and become trash yourself, you and your pathetic excuse of a brother need to get the f**k out of my office!” Tears welled up in her eyes as she ran out with Damon hot on her tail. After they were long gone, I turned back to Lanie who had an unknown expression on her face. “Lanie, what did you see?” I finally asked her. “Damon.”
“What about him?”
“He’s going to confront Brent.”
“When?” I asked. She looked at the clock.
“Right now.”
***Brent’s
P.O.V.***
What happened today was just plain foul. Nobody was expecting dead bodies to fall from the sky right as dinner was about to start. I found it in me to push past the initial horror, at least, enough to help Chad get a handle on the situation. After we cleared the dining room, Lexie, Maverick, J, and I were waiting for Chad and Lanie in the recreation area on the first floor of the packhouse. Most of the pack members had gone to their respective homes either due to loss of appetite or to make their own dinner where corpses weren’t being served. I saw that a*****e Damon and his family marching up the stairs earlier since Chad and Lanie wanted to speak with them regarding Thornton’s remains. I already knew the outcome of the decision; Chad and Richard had asked for Maverick’s and my opinions on the matter.
I never got over the s**t that Damon tried to pull when Lexie and Lanie first came to the packhouse. I honestly wished that Richard wasn’t so soft and banished him right when it happened. But, apparently, three days without food or water in the dungeons and an a*s-kicking by Rylee was enough punishment in his eyes. I didn’t agree and thought I should have a say in the matter since Lexie was his actual target, but Richard, Chad, and Rylee all told me to let it go since he didn’t get his hands on Lexie. Wyatt wanted to rip his head off, but even then, Rylee convinced him not to.
Maverick brought up the subject of their family by asking us, “I wonder what their reaction will be when they find out their dad is going to be buried like a rogue?”
“Pissed off, I’m sure, but he deserves it. He straight up betrayed everyone. Why should he get to be buried like a loyal pack member when he was anything but loyal?” I argued.
“I may not have known him, but I don’t think treating his family like that is the right thing to do,” J mentioned timidly. We all looked at her in shock. She immediately cowered behind Mav.
“Hey, it’s okay, darlin’. They’re not going to bite,” Mav comforted her and brought her out from behind him.
“Yeah, sorry about that, J. I’m just surprised you’re actually giving us your input,” I reassured her with a smile.
“Is that not allowed?”
“What? No, of course, it is! You’re one of us-well, hopefully, you will be,” I responded and looked between her and Mav.
“It’s, uh … a work in progress,” Mav replied cautiously. I gave a curt smile and nodded.
“Well, if you want my opinion, Thornton should be burned to ashes and buried with the dirt because that’s what he is!” Lexie declared, crossing her arms. “He had the nerve to be a mole in this pack and even tried to have everyone killed! And not just us! Wyatt, Sam, and all of the other Alphas!” she continued while huffing and puffing.
“Hey, okay, calm down, babe. He’s dead. Whatever he did or didn’t do doesn’t matter anymore. He’s dead.”
“Is that seriously all you guys ever f*****g do!?” someone shouted at us. We all looked up at the door and saw Damon and Lorelai standing there.
“What did you just say?” Maverick asked, clearly annoyed.
“Some leaders of the pack you motherfuckers are, sitting around gossiping and talking trash about pack members!” Damon retorted.
“You better watch your mouth, Damon. How dare you speak to us like that!?” I seethed. “Like it or not, we’re the ranked members of this pack now, and you better start learning to hold your f*****g tongue!”
“Or what, a*s-wipe? Do you actually think I’m afraid of you? You’re nothing but a lousy Omega newborn! You only got the position of Beta because of a gratuitous handover. You’re not even pure! You’re nothing but a street-rat brought in off the streets by Richard!” “Street-rat to go with street-trash,” Lorelai added, directing her insult to Lexie.
“What the f**k has your panties all up in a f*****g wad?!” Maverick growled.
“The fact that our pack is now doomed because that senile, old man Richard and those other old farts decided to hand the pack over to a bunch worthless clowns like you guys!” Damon taunted. What the hell was his problem? Did he have a f*****g death wish, coming in here and being a complete and utter jerk to all of us?
“What the f**k is your problem, seriously!? You’re the ones that f****d up, and yet, you’re blaming us for your stupid decisions. For your dad’s stupid decisions?” Lexie snapped at them. “How about growing the f**k up and taking responsibility for your own actions, huh? Isn’t that what being a responsible adult is supposed to mean?”
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