The Only Alpha Luna

Secrets

"I Lu...." My voice was cut off instantly by an intense, fierce, powerful growl. I looked in the direction it had come from and it was Tom.

"No, don't you dare!" It was a shout, an Alpha command. One that made me quake on the spot. I stood for some reason feeling as though I needed to validate the power, I myself held.

"Don't tell me what to do!" I shouted, instantly softening. "By letting you go I'm protecting you." I say trying not to cry.

"Protecting me from what?" Tom says with nothing but confusion on his face.

"From my enemies, from my secrets, from me," Again I was at a loss for words. Everything I do everything, everything I had done was my fault. There was no family to blame for my habits. Especially since I raised myself.

"Tell me!" Again a shout, an alpha command. The pull to listen was lessened because we were mated but, it was more powerful than any other Alpha I had ever heard.

"Who are you?!" It was a shouted thoughtless question. Tom the man I loved, the man who knew something as close to the truth as it gets. He'd never hurt me, and me the person who was going to kill him inside had no right to ask.

"I won't tell you why? Because you don't trust me with the truth. You share a half truth. One that's good enough for people to not ask question or look further. I'm not everyone else and I will not be treated as such." Tom's face shattered, as though a humble thought crossed his mind. "I mean nothing to you. I'm merely a means to an ..." I slapped him tears falling freely down my face.

"Don't you dare say that about yourself! You're not just anybody. You're the only man that has loved me and accepted me even knowing just the half truth. How can I tell you the truth when I know you'll hate me? It's been so long since I've confessed or spoken about that night." I was still crying through the tears. My nose was bleeding, the curse taking effect at just the thought of speaking about that night.

"Lucy." Tom was lost that much was clear. Yet, the concern, the worry, it was all evident.

"No Tom you want the truth?" He nodded his head slowly and cautiously. "Here it it, that diary is filled with nothing but half-truths and lies. The things that have prevented Alpha's from killing me. My father didn't drown, I killed him."

"I know it was an accident I shouldn't have said you killed him. Especially since you didn't." Tom said rushing in trying to take back the words spoken in the car. A car ride that happened weeks ago.

"Stop! Don't say another word. If you do then I'll know you're not ready for the truth." I say bitterly. The rustic taste of blood as it slid down the back of my throat I brought my hand to the front of my nose. It was still bleeding, and the migraine I was nursing. It's all part of the curse, things that would get worse as I continued.

"That was the night my Mom left my father. All of the chores, and jobs that were required of both my Mother and I were finished. I was huddled in the corner of my bedroom. Waiting, knowing, that my father would figure out she was missing and blame me.

"I was right my father bursted into the room. Busting and breaking the locked door, he had to go through. I was already crying remembering the last beating I got when she didn't come home. He punched me square in the jaw causing two full rows of teeth on one side to fall into my mouth. Instead of swallowing or having them roll I spit them out on the white carpet. "Let me help!" he yelled as he kicked me in the stomach causing me to hurl the one meal I had that day." The pain emotionally from remembering. The physical pain from the curse as my nose bled and the migraine continued, getting worse. My voice deadpan and steady the one mystery to me. How did I do it? I kept going.

"After hurling, I was kicked and punched for 10 minutes more. Then I was dragged by my hair to the part of the pack house where all the unmated males were located. My Father dangled me in front of them like a piece of meat. "If any of you are mates with her speak now. Reject her and have your entire family be promoted. Or accept her, become rogues together, and take her as the trash she is." Those were my father's words. Proud of his lovely daughter.

"The best/worst thing was that one of them was my mate. Them being young and privileged rejected me. Allowing me to be mated to you. However, my wolf was heartbroken and horrified. Yet, she was worried as I am his rejection isn't enough since my mom was mated to two people.

"After the rejected mate beat me up himself, a boy no more than 14, to prove to my father there wasn't a smidge of regret or an ounce of love. I was on the brink of death." I took a very deep breath since if I hadn't I would've lost my place. The hospital room was completely silent, as I took a seat on the bed staring at my feet. I was exhausted the curse taking a toll on my body. Yet, I didn't think I would ever have the courage to finish if I didn't now. Right now, at this very moment.

"I was taken to a witch employed by a nearby pack. There I was healed to the best of her ability. My teeth were back, and when my father wasn't looking she apologized for the scars, hoping when I found a mate they'd take them away. She cursed me at both of the Alpha's requests. That's why my arms and body are covered in blood. Why telling the truth causes so much pain.

"Anyway," I took another deep breath.

"Stop, that's enough for today." Tom says using that Alpha tone, the one that made me want to listen.

Tom left the room then, which caused me to not be able to continue. I looked on my nightstand there was a note. That explained each and every aspect of him. Why he was the way he was.

I'm the rightful King.