Fated: The Alpha's Unwanted Luna

Chapter 195: The cousins conflict

Viola snapped her eyes away with such force she heard her neck cracked. She turned her back to him and said, "Put something on or I am leaving." She walked further into his living room, her face flushed so deeply red it felt like it had been pressed against something burning. Was he trying to kill her virgin heart?! How shameless could a man be?

"No, no, no, you don’t get to leave, honey. You and I have things to discuss. Like how you interfered in someone else’s business today." Sebastian said, his amusement and teasing giving way to the displeasure sitting underneath it, displeasure at everything that had unfolded today, on her very first day as Luna.

"What were you thinking to interfere in their business?"

"I interfered because it seemed like nobody else was going to. Everyone stood and watched a woman get abused and beaten and not one person thought to help her because of some stupid werewolf rule. Do you know he wanted to kill her? She was fed wolfsbane, that is how I found her. And I wouldn’t have interfered at all if you, as the Alpha, had done something about your cousin long before now."

Viola said, turning to face him, and completely forgetting in her displeasure that he was still half naked, because she was genuinely tired of the fact that nobody, including him, had ever taken any real action and now that she had, she would be blamed for it. It was totally unfair.

Sebastian’s eyes stayed calm as he met her blue, angry ones. "Tell me what made you think you could help a woman who didn’t want to be helped? She could return to her family. She could run away, Viola. Nobody is holding her here against her will, and yet she chooses to stay with Javier. Her family would take her back if she told them what her mate was doing to her, but she won’t. You saw it yourself today. Did Sofia appreciate your help?"

Viola, who had been ready to argue and stand firmly by her right to help, swallowed her words. Her shoulders slowly dropped. He was right. Sofia could walk away from her husband and go home to her pack, but she never did. Viola had even offered to help her find her way back to the Claws Pack, and the she-wolf had said she didn’t want to go.

Was it another form of the abuse and violence she had suffered that made her this loyal to a man who wanted her dead?

It was baffling, truly, deeply baffling, how much Sofia was suffering and yet still ran to the man and pleaded for his life when someone finally came close to making him pay for it.

"They are mates. There is nothing you can do to help her unless she decided to leave him herself. Javier broke their bond but she hasn’t accepted his rejection and still clings to him, that is exactly why nobody interferes in matters between mates." Sebastian said, looking at her quietly.

"But still, Javier has no right to torture her like that or try to kill her. Maybe she needs to see that he is no longer the man she married and that he no longer wants her..." She trailed off.

Sebastian let out a sigh. "I once invited the Claws Pack to Silver so they could see their daughter and perhaps take her home. Sofia played along with Javier perfectly, got herself a nice dress, smiled for her family. People call her insane, but she acted completely normal that day and told her family she was doing well and had no intention of ever leaving her husband. They both played the part of a loving couple without missing a beat." He said. "You don’t think I find it easy to watch a she-wolf get abused when I have a sister of my own and would never want her in that kind of condition."

Viola lowered herself onto his couch slowly, looking down at her hands in her lap as she said, "I am sorry if I caused you any trouble. I shouldn’t have interfered. I just couldn’t stand to see anyone suffer. I always think, if it were me, I would have wanted someone to step in..."

Sebastian walked over and sat down beside her on the couch, his eyes dropping to her hands in her lap where she had begun trying to peel off her artificial nails. She successfully pulled one free and he covered her fingers with his hand before she could work her way to hurting herself, and she looked up at him.

"I will never treat you that way." He said, his voice quiet and genuine. "I will never raise my hand to hit you, and if I ever do, may the moon goddess take the limb from me."

Viola felt her heart skip a beat, and her lashes trembled at his words. The Moon Goddess always listened; with him swearing like that to her as her mate, he was condemning himself. If he ever were to hit her, he would indeed lose a limb. Was he serious?

She looked into his silver eyes and saw the sincerity sitting in them, and then looked back down at their hands, his over hers, his fingers moving slowly over her knuckles and sending a quiet, tingling spark through her nerves.

"I know..." She murmured. She did trust that he would never hit her. She wasn’t entirely sure how she had come to trust that so completely when every man in her life before him had raised a hand against her at some point, she simply knew, with a certainty she couldn’t explain, that he wouldn’t.

"There is a reason behind why I never openly interfere with his abuse. My cousin and I don’t get along and we have always tried not to cross each other. After my father died, Javier and I became enemies and we made an agreement never to interfere in each other’s business unless one of us crossed the other first, and what happened today, honey, is me crossing him first by interfering. Whatever you do affects me as your husband. Do you understand what I mean?" He asked her gently and she nodded her head with quiet guilt.

"I didn’t know. I am sorry. What happens now?" She asked, turning to look at him with uncertainty. She hadn’t known about any agreement between them, or that the enmity with his cousin was this big.

"Javier will want to retaliate, and because of a promise I made to my parents, I can’t go further than punishing him. We have suffered so much death in the past that if we continue to kill each other, the Kade family would wipe itself out entirely. I never go back on promises, not the ones made to my parents. That is why I warned Zoe about him, and that is why she has never gotten involved with Javier. I suppose it was my mistake for not explaining to you the full extent of the enmity between us and why I don’t want him to provoke me to the point where I have to get rid of him and his family."