Filed to story: Rylee the Orphan Luna Novel
Torrance closed her eyes as she took in all of the information presented to her. After a minute or so, she opened her eyes, and they were black with rage. She was silent for a minute, but she suddenly turned around and smacked both Damon and Lorelai across the face, leaving claw marks on their cheeks.
“M-mo-mom!?” Lorelai stammered as she held her cheek and blood seeped through her fingers. Damon was shocked and stayed frozen in his spot, looking at the floor as his face bled.
“You attacked the ranked members!? ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MINDS!?” she roared at them. “I didn’t raise you two to be this stupid, this immature, this … irresponsible, this … this … EVIL!!!” “DAD ALWAYS TOLD US TO FIGHT FOR WHAT WE BELIEVED IN!” Damon shouted at her.
“He always told me to fight for what I want!” Lorelai cried out as well while still holding her cheek.
“Your father!? Are you seriously still going on about what he told you!? HE’S f*****g DEAD BECAUSE OF HIS OWN STUPID DECISIONS!” she spat. “I shouldn’t even be surprised that you two are just as stupid as he was!” she ridiculed them. “You’re our mother, you’re supposed to be on our side,” Lorelai muttered.
“No, Lorelai, that’s not how parenting works! Parenting is making sure you raise your children to be decent and kind people! Parenting is about putting your kids on the right path in life so that they know right from wrong! Being a parent is about pushing your kids to do what they’re passionate about WITHOUT having to step all over others to be successful! There is no such thing as taking sides when you’re a parent! Being a parent means not always making your kids happy. If your kid f***s up, like the two of you have, then it’s the parent’s job to discipline them before someone else does, before someone else kills them for doing something stupid! I did all of the above, and yet it seems that your father undermined my parenting, and he went about it the complete opposite. Now, I’m not surprised that he’s dead! He got himself killed, regardless of whether Patterson killed him!”
“You should be dying too!” Damon yelled at her. “Your mate is dead, and yet, you’re just peachy! You’re perfectly fine! How is that possible!?”
“Want to know why? Because your father had broken our bond long before he betrayed this pack. He betrayed me one too many times as it is, but I forgave him for the sake of you two. Because I didn’t want to raise you two in a broken family!” “What are you talking about!?” Lorelai shouted.
“Your father broke our bond the day he cheated on me with a human.” The entire room gasped. And I mean, the entire room. The pack members, the girls, us guys, and even Trent and the guard who were standing by at the door. “Torrance?” Richard called out to her.
“I’m sorry, Richard, I should have told you,” she confessed to him without looking in his direction.
“When did he-“
“When Damon was two, and before I found out I was pregnant with Lorelai.”
“NO!” Lorelai screamed. “YOU’RE LYING! DAD WOULD NEVER! HE COVETED AND RESPECTED THE MATE BOND! HE WOULD NEVER CHEAT ON YOU! YOU’RE LYING! YOU’RE A f*****g LIAR!” Without saying a word Torrance knelt in front of her daughter and pulled her turtleneck to the side. Lorelai took in a sharp breath.
“That can’t be,” Damon whispered. Torrance stood up and faced all of us while still pulling her turtleneck to the side.
“Torrance, when…” Jackson started to ask.
“Not long after he died, I’m assuming,” she replied. “I didn’t feel the pain one would normally feel when their mate passes, but I did feel this start to disappear,” she responded, referring to her smooth neckline.
“A mark can disappear?” Lanie asked.
“Only under extreme circumstances, but it’s very, very rare,” Richard answered.
“Holy s**t, their mom was in a bondless bond?” Maverick questioned, scratching the back of his head.
“But we never suspected anything. Dad was always with us!” Damon exclaimed.
“He was only with us because his human lover died during childbirth,” Torrance replied, making the room gasp once again.
“Wait, are you saying that we have a hybrid half-sibling out there somewhere!?” Lorelai questioned.
“No, the child died as well. It was premature and was more human than a werewolf. Since it was born after just five months in the womb, like a werewolf, the organs didn’t fully develop. It died only 24 hours after being born. Your father was devastated. I had never seen him cry before. Ever. He didn’t even cry when I rejected him for infidelity. He left to be with her when he found she was pregnant. He only came back to me because he found out I had Lorelai.”
“What!?”
“Hold on, are you saying that Thornton didn’t even know you were pregnant with Lorelai?” Jackson asked for clarification, and she shook her head. “He found out from another pack member whom he was still in contact with that I had given birth out of wedlock. Thornton came back because the pup was a girl. Apparently, the child he lost was also a girl, and he felt that the moon goddess was giving him the daughter he thought he wouldn’t have.”
“Are you saying that he only came back for Lorelai!?” Damon exclaimed.
“At first, but, over time, he came to love you and became the father that I always hoped he would be. Unfortunately, our bond was never the same. It never came back, even though I took back the rejection. I suppose it was because he didn’t come back for me.” All of us were silent, and things had taken a really awkward turn. What should have been an easy vote to banish or kill Damon and Lorelai turned into a TV drama in the rec room.
“Is this where people normally say they wish they had popcorn?” Lanie asked me. I turned to her in shock. “What?”
“I did everything I could to provide for my family, to give you two the best home you could possibly have, and yet, it all seems that it was for nothing. Because no matter what I say, you two will always put your father before me. You always have.” “What are you talking about!?” Lorelai spat.
“When’s my birthday?” Torrance grilled them. They looked at each other and didn’t answer. “What’s my maiden name? What’s my favorite color? How old am I? What’s my favorite food? What’s my favorite flower?” She kept shooting off questions to them, but they couldn’t answer a single one. I felt horrible for Torrance. I really did. As she was firing off these questions, I was mentally answering them about my mom. I wasn’t the son of the year, but I knew my mom, at the very least. She was the one who carried me for five months and gave me life. I knew firsthand how hard it was to raise a child. After all, I have a son of my own. I even watched my sister raise her three pups. It was daunting, but it was so rewarding. “Wow, what worthless kids,” someone muttered.
“Pst,” Maverick got my attention. He showed me his phone, and it looked like he had pulled up the pack files on all current pack members. My eyes widened at what I saw.
“No way,” I said, and he just nodded. Now I felt really bad.
“What’s going on?” Brent asked. He, Lanie, Lexie, and J hovered over the phone and also saw what I just saw. They all gawked at me, and I could see the sympathy in all of their faces. Even J. “What are we going to do?” Lanie asked. I bit my bottom lip and thought about it.
“Torrance,” I called out to her.
“Yes, Alpha?” she turned to me.
“The pack members who witnessed their crimes will vote on their punishment. Either they will be banished, or they will be given the death sentence. If they’re banished, it will be effective immediately.” “And if they’re to be executed?” she asked with tears in her eyes.
“I will stay their execution for 24 hours so that you can spend one final day with them, but that’s only if you want to,” I informed her. More tears welled in her eyes, and she nodded her head once.
“Chad, do you know what you’re doing?” Richard asked me and I nodded my head. I showed him Maverick’s phone, and he, too, sympathized. He nodded his head.
“If you vote for Damon and Lorelai to be banished, raise your hands,” I instructed the pack members. Not a single person moved.
“Banishing them is showing leniency they don’t deserve!”
“Yeah! What’s not to say they won’t follow in their father’s footsteps and go find Patterson as well to get back at us! We can’t risk retaliation! “Here, here!”
“Okay, quiet please,” I told them. “All in favor of the death-” I didn’t even have to finish my statement before everyone’s hands shot up in the air.
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