She Was The Queen

Chapter Thirteen✅

Grace never left her room, she just stopped going out. I bet the stench was putrid. Mom would always leave food for her at the door and she would open only for that. The same person who allowed her to stay didn't even talk to her. I would only see Grace if I woke up early enough to find her going to shower, very early. I could tell she was no taking it well but she also want supposed to get attached.
"So Grace stays?" An elder asked. We sat in a meeting, I and of all male elders of the pack, in my living room. It was two weeks since the breakage of the treaty and we were only having a meeting about it now. Things were always so slow with them.
"Yes." I sighed heavily as I stood in the middle as they all sat on the couches.
"No punishment?" Another asked.
"The Luna prescribes we don't."
"So you let your Luna control you?" An old friend of my father asked from the corner. I growled under my breath and sneered at him.
"She doesn't control me, nobody does." I bawled at him and he shrunk into the couch, not in fear but teasingly, Raymond was always so annoying.
"We haven't discussed the issue of the Luna." Raymond added. Great, just what I need.
"The issue?" Jacob scowled beside me, my right hand man.
"The Luna isn't an issue." I murmured.
"Firstly, she wasn't introduced to us. We don't know her but she was barking demands on the day of the broken treaty. We had no choice but to abide to her command, a person we haven't met." My uncle complained, blinking his blue eyes several times like a maniac. He had an issue of blinking his eyes more than needed.
"There was no time, I had just met her. I needed to know her beforehand" I told them, hating to explain myself to them when I was their alpha but I had to respect elders. "Besides she took her place, faster than expected. She exceeded expectations. I would appreciate it if you have respect for superiority." I snarled at them all, making them all shut up. They had no power over me, even if they wanted to, it would be difficult.
"Can we see her then?" My father's old friend broke the silence amongst many men. My breath hitched as I hesitated. Roman. They wanted to meet Roman, a girl I couldn't tame. She would control me at any second, she had that power over me. My eyes shifted to Jacob who watched me anxiously. My arms were folded not to show any weakness and only unfolded to cast Jacob away.
"Go get her." I commanded him and he did it with a quick nod. I stood there in silence, thinking about their thoughts on Roman, would they like her? Well they wouldn't have a choice but to like her. But would they like her if they did?
"Don't worry I'll make you a new one." Roman laughed as she got into the room with Jacob behind her, she was from laughing with someone outside the room. She was fond of Kyle and Eddie who she was developing a close relationship with, so it was probably one of them. She froze and watched all the several men in my lounge. Jacob probed her deeper into the attention and she stood there beside me. She didn't like attention unless she called it.

The men watched her with respectful adoring eyes. It wasn't a choice to adore the Luna, I noticed it was how they looked at mom before. So I knew even though Grace acted like she hated Roman, she still adored her.
"Her name is Roman... Roman. She was in danger before we met and the pack and I protected her from the Azraels."
"The Azraels!" An elder exclaimed.
"Yes, they were looking for her. She is their prey, their alpha wanted her blood for some reason which we are both soon to find out..." I couldn't keep my eyes of her as she tensed, her muscles clenching at her shoulders.
"They want my blood because it makes them stronger." She spoke unapologetically, this made me smirk a little, proud of my puppy. "Sun wolves are a special breed and our blood can make any other wolf powerful throughout the day. We are stronger in the day than we are at night." She explained.
My grandfather who was really quizzical pushed himself to the edge of his seat. "What makes Sun wolves special, why are they called Sun wolves?" The interrogation would never end and I knew it.
"Sun wolves were created by the Sun goddess Yaga, she blessed us with the gift of being powerful in the day at most and also in the night. The Sun gives us power and refuge. So basically our blood is divine and pure." I remember from her telling me about her species.
"Why did the Azraels do what they did?" Raymond narrowed his ancient eyes as he at her. I knew where this was going, he always did this.
"Um-" Her voice wobbled after taking a breath.
"That's enough Raymond." I told him.
"We deserve to know, how can we trust her if she isn't willing to trust us."
"Uh..." her voice broke out again.
"Its not a matter of trust." I gritted my teeth as I stood in defence of her. I picked up on her heartbeat racing, her emotions overwhelming as her nose became a light blush as she blinked a tear out.
"Well tell us girl!" Raymond shouted.
"That's enough!" I lashed out at him and he sat back in shock, no tease.
"No." Roman's little voice said behind me. She patted my back and filtered my anger as I stared Raymond down, who was probably twenty years older than I was but I didn't care, nobody treats my Luna like that. "Let me tell them. I have to."
"You don't have to." I said, turning to her glossy eyes.
"Well then, I want to." She stated and looked me in the eyes, calming me down. I sighed and nodded down to her.
"What we did was to be simply Sun wolves. We were a peaceful kind, no enemies but the Azraels. They wanted power and we had the key to their power, their stronger now but all they need is mine, I don't know why other's blood didn't satisfy them..." She sucked a shaky breath in and sniffled to wipe a tear.
"What-?"
"Thats enough." I used my alpha voice to shut Raymond up, which he did.
"Its my fault isn't it?" Roman asked, looking up, not at me but to the elders. They all gave each other puzzled looks. My eyebrows met, wondering what she was talking about. It wasn't her fault her family died.
"What?" I asked her and she stared at me.
"I know I am special, I have a special connection to Yaga and I just let them kill them all... when I knew I was the one they needed." She sobbed and covered her mouth.
"What are you talking about?" I felt myself boiling all over again. What was she talking about?
"Azraels were searching for a special wolf, kissed by the sun at birth. I am that wolf." She sobbed again. A fire flared within me and I walked to her, gripped her wrist and lugged her out of the room. Bile was burning up my throat as I listened to her panting cries as I led her to the nearest bedroom, Hannah's and shut the door behind me.

I threw her onto the bed and leaned on the door. "When were you going to tell me?" I felt myself barking instead of just asking. The bile was too bitter.
"Khai." She sobbed.
"When were you going to tell me?!" I yelled and she sunk into the bed as she sat on the edge. "Answer me!"
"I was going to tell you when I could." She stammered lousily as she covered her beautiful face.
"Roman, I can't stand being a fool for you. Every time. Now you come up, telling elders something that me, a person you even sleep with... doesn't know." I sighed, pressing my fingers on my temple.
"It just came out, okay. It just did." She justified.
"Yeah of course." I snorted. "I'm am tired of all of this hiding, this silence, the hiding of the truth. I hate it." Her lips fell agape but I couldn't stop talking. "Dammit Roman! Just when I thought we were getting along well, making progress you are still hiding things." Then I looked down at her sorry golden eyes. I couldn't be angry, not for long at least. Her tears were coming out nearly as golden as her eyes, I really couldn't stay mad but her eyes went unapologetic again.
"Yeah let's talk about hiding things." Roman stood up immediately and balled her hands into fists and wiped the tears away. "Since we letting it all out, tell me everything. What's outside?"
Firstly I was taken aback by the sudden change of emotion. She was adapting to me, wasn't she. And secondly taken back by her noticing. "What?" I chocked trying to brush it off. She couldn't know, she shouldn't.
"Don't act dumb, I felt it that day of the attack, another presence, a broken presence. Even when I first arrived." She mumbled. I stood back to open the door.
"Linda?" A failed attempt at acting natural.
"No, I know it isn't Linda." She was pumping the air. "I know Linda's aura and its not the one around the house, the one I feel is broken, malicious, disconnected." She described it so ironically perfect.
"Whatever you felt, it wasn't real. It's dead, let it go." I ended and opened the door to push past Hannah who stood outside like she was eavesdropping. My chest heaved as I walked on, listening and resisting her calling my name. I had to end this conversation now, I didn't want to talk about it, too many memories that will harm everyone would return.
"Let him go." I heard Hannah tell Roman who was also angry as I turned into the kitchen.
"What about the elders?" Jacob asked me as he ran into the kitchen as I took off my shirt.
"Dismiss them." I growled at him and pushed the kitchen door open to burst into black before I could do it in front of anyone I love. I knew what I could do when I was angry so I ran off into the cold, passing the presence which was beckoning me now. Only when I thought it was over, she had to bring it up. I would come see him soon.