Filed to story: Rylee the Orphan Luna Novel
“There’s no better time than the present!” Allie said, her voice full of glee.
“We don’t have …” I wanted to object, but William stopped me.
“Rylee, we can make time. You have been dying to know why you’re so drawn to them. Now we can figure it out.”
“Luna, we have a doctor here who can run the test. We can request rapid results,” Chad informed me. I didn’t know what to say to all of this.
“Rylee?” I glanced over at the twins who were pleading with me and giving me puppy-dog eyes. They wanted to know as much as I did. Just then, Kaleigh spoke to me.
Rylee, we need to know. If they are family, we need to know.
What if Allie is wrong?
I have spoken to her wolf, Mercury. They share their gift, just like we share ours. She too believes that we are connected to Lexie and Lanie. I also feel that I am connected to Atlanta and Brooklyn.
Kaleigh, I don’t know if I can go through with this.
Rylee, they are not wrong. They are just not sure how close the relation is. It is important that we find out.
“Dearest?” I looked up at Wyatt who gave me a warm smile and nodded his head. He wanted to know too. “We have time to prep for the wars. Why don’t you, the girls, and Allie go to Golden Moon’s hospital and get the answers that you seek.” “Are you sure?” I asked him.
“I am. The ranked men need to come up with our game plans anyways, we have time to get you three answers. Go,” he said genuinely. I let out a deep breath and nodded.
As Wyatt suggested, Allie, Lexie, Lanie, and I went down to Golden Moon’s pack hospital, where their pack doctor was waiting for us. Thankfully, we were in and out of there pretty quickly.
“Lunas and Beta Lexie, please allow the technician an hour to get the results. As soon as he has them, we will call you to my office to review them,” the pack doctor told us and we all nodded. An hour would take a while, so we decided to go to the waiting room and I figured we might as well get to know Allie better.
“So, Allie, how long have you been Luna of Desert Moon?” I asked.
“Just under four years, you?”
“Officially, one; unofficially, two,” I answered.
“I haven’t actually started yet,” Lanie chimed in, making us smile at her. “I’m nervous, but I’m sure Rylee can teach me a lot.”
“I doubt that, Lanie. I haven’t been the best Luna. I mean, I’m not technically a Luna, from what I just found out,” I said truthfully and looked down in shame. I still couldn’t believe all this time, the distance I felt from pack members and Wyatt had to do with the fact that I forgot to take back my rejection and request my title back.
“Rylee, how old were you when all of that happened?” Allie asked.
“18.”
“Yeah, I think you can cut yourself some slack then. You were practically still a child when all that s**t happened to you. And from what I’ve heard, you were a child slave?” I nodded my head. “Rylee, you were young, you’re still young. I’m not much older, but I still have a few years on you. I was named Luna at 22 and while still human. I can’t even imagine the s**t you went through being a child slave, becoming Luna and getting pregnant at 18, then having to leave it all behind because a psycho b***h teamed up with a dark witch to f**k with your mate’s head.”
“Geez, when you put it that way, you make it seem like nothing at all.”
“You know that’s not what I meant,” she snapped back. “Rylee, stop beating yourself up for what you did in the past. Leave your past in the past and concentrate on your future.”
“That’s easy for you to say! You didn’t go through what I went through! Did you lose your parents at the same time!? Did you become a child slave!? Did someone try to kill you on more than one occasion because they wanted what rightfully belonged to you!? Have you ever lost everything important in your life because of someone else!?” I shouted at her. She couldn’t possibly know what I was feeling.
“Yes, yes, yes, and yes,” she said. “We can also add on the fact that I’ve technically died four times.” My eyes widened and I looked back at her. Lanie and Lexie were silent but also very attentive. “Granted, everything that happened to me happened over a period of 20 years, but still. I know what that feels like.” I gulped and bit the inside of my cheek with remorse.
“What happened?” Lanie asked.
“Lanie!” Lexie shouted.
“What? I’m curious! She claims to understand, so I want to know,” Lanie defended.
“I’m so sorry about my sister, Luna Allie,” Lexie said. Allie just smiled and shook it off.
“It’s fine, Lexie, and please, call me Allie,” Allie replied. “I have nothing to hide. What happened in my past is what makes me who I am today. As I mentioned, I was once human. My parents were immigrants and died in a car accident when I was two. I was an orphan and grew up in the foster system. A place where unwanted children are bounced from home to home to people who only want money from the government. Some homes were better than others, but the ones that were bad were very bad. I may not have grown up as a slave or in a cage, but when you grow up being a government paycheck for someone and have to clean for them and are told to be grateful to have a roof over your head, I would like to think that it’s similar. Either way, I went to school, got good grades, and then when I was 17, I met my first and only boyfriend before Dorian.”
“You had a mate before Dorian?” Lexie asked.
“Humph, I’m glad you asked that. So, at first, because I was human, I didn’t know what a mate was, obviously. My then-boyfriend, Devin, was strong and fit. Things were good at first, but when I refused to give up my virginity to him because I wanted to wait until marriage, he started to hit me. And I don’t just mean slap me, he would beat me.”
“Oh my god,” I winced.
“Yeah. It went on for about nine months. Then, one night, after I graduated high school and was getting ready for college, I went to go see Devin in his college dorm. He was fed up with me not putting out, and he well … took it.” My jaw dropped and the girls gasped. “What happened after that?” I asked without realizing how emotionally invested I was in her story.
“I woke up covered in blood and found my way to a hospital. I got him sent to prison for what he did. He threatened to kill me for turning him in. So, that’s how I ended up in Las Vegas. Four years later, I met Dorian, and at the same time, Devin had found me. Devin then conspired with Dorian’s ex-girlfriend and tried to have me killed. But before that, Jessica, Dorian’s ex, beat me so bad when I first showed up at the packhouse, I was in a coma for a month.” “Please tell me they’re dead,” I said.
“They are, but here’s the kicker. Devin turned out to be a werewolf, and I never knew. And I was his mate apparently.” “WHAT?!?!” we shouted.
“Yeahhhh…”
“Wait, you said you died four times. When?” Lexie asked this time.
“Oh, according to the moon goddess, I died in the car accident, I died when Devin, you know, I coded on the table during surgery after Jessica beat the s**t out of me, and most recently, I died for ten minutes after fighting a deadly poison that my arch-nemesis tried to use on my husband,” she said nonchalantly. Did Allie not care that she just gave us her entire life story?
“How are you not mad at the world?” Lanie asked.
“Who says that I’m not?” Allie countered. We didn’t know what to say to that.
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