•𝑺𝑻𝑶𝑳𝑬𝑵 𝑴𝑶𝑶𝑵•【√】

ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ᴛʜɪʀᴛʏ ᴏɴᴇ

I wake up and I feel my soul is replenished. Even in my dreams she has the power to save me. I saw her last night come to me and take me in her arms. She was sleeping right next to me, her breath on my chest, her arms on my waist. In my dream, she has forgiven me. She didn’t hate me for all the games and the lies I wove around her just to keep her close.

I sit up in my bed and I look around. I was in a bad place last night, half-drunk, forlorn, lost. After so long, after... I swallow to wet my dry throat and fall back on my pillow. And then I smell it. It’s her!

I dive into the pillow next to mine and I take in deep breaths. That is her, the smell of my mate, my Luna. She was here? This was not all a dream? I tense and look at my bathroom. Empty. Where is she?

That’s when I hear a noise from the room next door. No! I get up and slip into my sweatpants before I storm out of the room. Once I am in the hallway, I freeze. The door to the next room is open. I take one step and look inside.

Emery is there, in her simple t-shirt and she stands in the middle of the room. The little light from outside pours in through the drawn sunblind. I clench my jaw but I can’t stop the tears that run down my cheeks. I haven’t opened that room in years.

That’s when Emery turns and looks at me. Her eyes are also crying and her shoulders are trying to get in satisfying breaths. She stands barefoot on the round, colorful rag and holds a bunny doll in her arms.

“Jinyoung,” she sighs and takes one step to me.

I shake my head and look at the crib near the window. One week more. That’s all her baby needed to be born. One week...

“Jinyoung,” Emery walks even closer. “I am so sorry. Who was she? She looks a lot like you.”

I can’t deal with so much pain right now. I lost my twin sister, heavy with her pup, mauled by rogues. I almost lost my mate, the one I trapped to eat a fucking breakfast with me. I must be as rotten and bad inside as the others think I am. I must be born to be only a killer. That is why the Goddess lets no one get close.

“I told you to never enter that room!” My voice makes the windows in the house tremble.

“I had to know, Jinyoung. Oh, my goddess, I am so sorry. Please...” Emery opens her arms to me.

“NO!” The Alpha Command pins her on the spot.

I say nothing more, just go into my room and I lock the door. I hear her plead outside but I don’t care. She can’t stay, she doesn’t want to stay. She just feels sorry from me but when she realizes what I have done, who I am, she will go back to hating me. It’s the bond, the mark I forced on her. It’s not real. I do not deserve anything real.

When I am ready, I go out the room and I ignore her as she holds me by my arm. I get out of the house and go straight to my office. I call Yugyeom and I sit on my desk. I am Alpha Jinyoung park, the Killer of Rogues. I shouldn’t have forgotten that.

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“Jinyoung!” Emery demands for the millionth time.

“She is outside,” Yugyeom hisses.

“I can hear her.”

“Don’t do this!”

“Do no tell me what to do, Beta!” I yell in his face. “I am your Alpha! You will obey and bow down to my orders.”