Lunatic

VI

Eden's point of view

"Because Eden will be sitting next to me," Kane announced.

All eyes in the room snapped towards me. The shock was evident on their faces but I chose to ignore it. Instead, I make my way toward him and placed myself down on the chair.

Luna Peyton smiled at me, she had a knowing look on her face. One that I hoped didn't mean she had figured out our little secret already.

Usually mates were quick to recognize and accept the mate bond; it was customary after all. However, we seemed to do things differently, and I was glad. I did not need, nor want, an over-baring Alpha male as my mate.

Goddess, I had never even wanted a mate in the first place. Yet here I was, tied for eternity to the most powerful wolf in the world.

Rose practically purred at the idea. She had always been the polar opposite of me. Whatever I wanted she wanted the exact opposite. So while I tried desperately to think of ways to remain mate-less she was already dreaming of his wolf.

I focused my attention back on Alpha Blake as he began talking. There were so many questions that I had for Kane, however, I couldn't even formulate a coherent sentence around him.

"Kane, how in goddess's name are you alive?" Alpha Blake questioned.

My Alpha was collected, hard to anger but fiercely protective. And yet now, as he sat such a short distance away from me, closer than he had ever been before, I never felt so distanced from him. I felt as if I staring into a portrait of a man, a man that looked very similar to Alpha Blake but so distinctly different to him at the same time. This was not my Alpha, no, this was a father. A broken and scared father.

I tilted my head slightly towards Kane, trying to catch a glimpse of his expression. Maybe I was trying to decipher the answer through his eyes. I don't know, all I do know is that I was watching him from the corner of my eye, waiting for him to do something.

Instead of answering the question Alpha Blake had asked him, Kane leaned backwards in his chair. His large frame expanded slightly as he contorted. He dominated my attention. There was something about the way he moved, how the air seemed to move to his will, how the Earth seemed to spin a bit faster since I met him.

Suddenly, a smirk appeared on his lips, as he scrunched his eyebrows together. But, before I could even think about it twice, it was gone. Rather now replaced with a determined expression.

"Tell me, father, did you miss the Moon Goddess while I was gone?" Kane questioned.

"Did you spend the last twelve years wondering what you could have done wrong to deserve such punishment?" Kane continued, his voice deepening an octave lower, "Did you scour the forest but not find a single trace of me?"

"Kane, how do you know?" Luna Peyton interjected, her green eyes boring into her son's.

"Because she took me," He stated plainly.

"Who took you?" Alpha Blake pushed, his body pulsing forward slightly, grasping onto every word that left Kane's lips.

"The Moon Goddess."

The room went quiet, and I stared between the small family. Alpha Blake stared confusedly at Kane. He couldn't quite understand why the Moon Goddess would ever do such a thing. To punish her prized warriors, to cause suffering to her most loyal creatures. Alpha Blake couldn't understand it, but I could.

I noticed how he moved differently from us. How the sun shone on his skin as if Apollo himself was enchanted by him. I noticed how the air bent to his will and how he glowed with power. Not power like the rest of the Lune Pack, divine power. Higher and greater than ours. He was blessed by the Moon Goddess, attuned to a wavelength much different to us. I realized that now.