Claimed By The Dangerous Alpha King: Betrayed Luna Novel by Gorgeous Aliyah

Mara

I couldn’t believe it. I had been looking forward to spending time with Aston all week. He just returned from his trip with that st***id ***h, and I was eager to catch up with him, to touch him. I had missed him so much, and I couldn’t wait to just pull down his pants and get him into mine. But when I arrived at his quarters, he barely even acknowledged me.

“Hey, Aston, I missed you so much you know,” I said, trying to sound cheerful. I walked over to him and gave him a big hug, but he just patted me on the back and stepped away.

He grunted in response, not even looking up from his phone. “I’m not really in the mood, Mara. Can we do this some other time?”

My heart sank. He was never not in the mood. He might have been hard to get through to a few times but he was never not in the mood. I had been expecting a warm welcome, not a cold shoulder. I felt like so embarrassed but I wasn’t going to back down just yet.

“What’s wrong?” I asked, trying to keep my tone light.

“I just need some time alone, okay?” he snapped. “I’ve had a long week.”

I felt hurt, I had always tried not to let Aston’s mean words get to me because I knew he could be like that sometimes but I actually felt hurt.

Hadn’t he just spent weeks away from me, gallivanting around with Kira? Didn’t he owe me some quality time? I thought we were going to spend some quality time together, catch up on everything we had missed.

“But Aston, I thought we were going to catch up,” I said, trying to reason with him. “I’ve missed you so much. I want to hear all about your trip.”

He sighed and rubbed his temples. “Mara, I know. And I’m sorry. But can’t it wait? I’m really not in the mood for company right now.”

I felt tears prick at the corners of my eyes but I tried not to let it fall. I couldn’t let him see me cry about his bad attitude. Not today..

“Fine,” I said, trying to keep my voice steady. “I’ll leave you alone. But can I at least ask you something?”

He nodded curtly. “What is it?”

“Did something happen on your trip with Kira?” I asked, my heart racing a little. I would be s**d to think I was the only one that Aston was sleeping with but I didn’t know how I would feel if he was sleeping with Kira too. It would drain whatever humanity I had left.

Aston’s expression darkened. “Nothing happened, Mara. Just drop it, okay?”

I knew then that something was wrong. Aston was hiding something from me, and it was tearing me apart. I felt like I was going crazy, like my mind was racing with all the possibilities.

I bit my tongue, hard. I wanted to yell at him, to scream at the top of my lungs. I wanted to remind him of how he had fawned over Kira when she fell, how he had been so quick to make everyone jump at her beck and call, like she was some sort of princess. But I didn’t. I knew that if I did, he would just dismiss me as jealous. And I was more than jealous. I was murderous.

I remembered the way he had looked at Kira, the way he had touched her, the way he had spoken to her. It was like he was under some sort of spell, and I was the one who had been left behind. I wanted to bring all that up but he didn’t even want to be touched, there was no way he wanted to hear what he did wrong too.

*******

So I left. I turned around and walked away, without saying a word. I didn’t know where I was going, or what I was going to do. I just knew that I had to get out of there, before I did something I would regret.

As I walked, I felt my anger boiling over. I felt my heart racing, my fists clenched. I wanted to scream, to yell, to break something. But I didn’t. I just kept walking, one foot in front of the other.

Eventually, I found myself at the garden. I sat down on a bench, and put my head in my hands. I felt like I was going to cry, like I was going to break down completely. But I didn’t. I just sat there, feeling my anger and my hurt and my jealousy.

After a while, I got up and started walking again. I didn’t know where I was going, or what I was going to do. I just knew that I had to keep moving. I couldn’t stay still, not now. I had to keep walking, one step at a time.

I was walking by, trying to keep my cool, when I saw them. Kira and Brax, strolling around like they owned the place. I tried to avoid them, but Kira had other plans.

“Hey, Mara, what’s your problem?” she asked, stepping in front of me with a smug look on her face. Her eyes sparkled with amusement, like she knew a secret I didn’t.

I felt my anger sp**e, but I tried to keep my cool. “I don’t have a problem, Kira,” I said, trying to brush past her. But she wouldn’t let up.

“Oh, come on, Mara. You’re always so uptight,” she said, her voice dripping with condescension. “What’s wrong?”

It felt like she was screaming; “I f***d Aston and I f***d him real good.” In my face but she wasn’t and I hated what my mind was doing to me.

She kept trying to talk to me and it felt like she was doing it on purpose to get a rise out of me and unfortunately for her, I had no reason to prove to her that I was a patient person. I slapped her hard across the face making sure the slap carried with it most of the anger I was feeling.

Brax rushed between us to defend her and I would slap him too if I didn’t know he wouldn’t hesitate to beat me up.

I thought it was all over when they were all out of my sight but Brax just had to come back to tell at my face.

“I don’t know what’s going on with you but lay hands on that woman again and I will rip you the f**k apart. Aston would watch me do it, I promise you.” He said and those last words really pr**ed at my heart.

I took a deep breath, trying to calm myself down, but it was no use. “You know nothing about our relationship, Brax,” I spat, my words laced with venom.

Brax’s face fell, his eyes wide with fake concern. “Mara, I know him more than you do, known him all my life.”

“Shut the hell up Brax before you make me do something I might regret. I might want to kill you but that would hurt Aston and I don’t want to hurt the one I love now, only monsters would do that now, don’t you think?” I spat.

I didn’t have time to think about it, though. I had to get out of there before I did something I would regret. I turned and walked away, leaving the drama behind me. But I knew it wouldn’t be the last I saw of Brax and his schemes. He was currently out for my blood and my flesh and the way things were going, it seemed like he was going to get it soon because Aston would not hesitate to feed me out rogue wolves at this point. He would sign off on it without even looking at the papers.

I sat in my room, staring at the wall as I thought about my failed attempt to abduct Kira. I had been so sure it would work, but now I was back to square one. I couldn’t just confront her again, that hadn’t worked last time. I needed something more subtle, something that would catch her off guard.

Something that would not be traceable back to me. I needed that but I put of they house and I needed her out fast before I lost both my man and my mind because I was really close to both

I still didn’t know how she got out of me kidnapping her, I had planned it so meticulously well and she ended up getting saved like Aston. Or the time when she almost drowned or the fire, this f** b***h has more than twelve lives.

*****

As I thought, I remembered all the times Kira had ruined my life. She had stolen Aston’s attention, manipulated Brax into doing her bidding, and even tried to sabotage my relationships with my friends. I couldn’t let her get away with it