The Lycan’s Regret – Chasing his rejected Luna by MN. Kaur

CHAPTER-2

The atmosphere around them turned cold and heavy as Theodore silently stood in front of her. The controlled lycan beast inside him was still patient at his wife’s betrayal.

“Theodore,” Xylia whispered before she swallowed with an aching throat and slowly stood up. Her hopeful eyes were screaming at him to believe her. But He gave a look to his aunt who lowered her gaze in submissiveness and looked back at his wife.

“I didn’t betray you, please listen to me. You know I can never do that…” Before she could speak further, a stack of photos were thrown at her face, and she closed her eyes abruptly.

“Could you try to justify this, Little human!” She opened her eyes and looked into his deep sliver stormy eyes and his gaze chilled her bone. She knew that tone, she knew He was controlling his rage. Theodore kept his firm stare at her movements. The girl He thought might not betray him among all, did the exact same thing. She betrayed him in the worst way possible.

Xylia looked down and one photo on the ground caught her attention. Her eyes widened as she crouched down and picked up that photo in which She was making out with Ryker Lockheed, the gamma and cousin of Theodore. And it was not a normal photo but in which both of them were almost…n*ked.

She shook her head frantically, denying it. “No..no..no. It’s not true. It’s not true, please believe me.” She cried and grabbed a few other photos.

“These all are…fake. It’s impossible. I didn’t…” She choked a sob. Stress and pregnancy hormones were badly playing her and her mental condition was matching her physically weak condition.

Selena tsked and exchanged a gaze with her husband. Sarah felt pity for Xylia but stepped back in fear as they felt the fury of their king emerging out. Theodore clenched his jaws seeing her denying the truth. He tilted his head and looked at her thinking, exactly why He thought she could be different from others.

“Fake? Sorry to disappoint you, wife. These photos are as authentic as your pathetic existence in front of me.” He said with a calm cold smile but Xylia knew that He was anything but calm.

Ryker Lockheed entered the cell with a straight face, the very first person who made friends with her in the packhouse. Xylia looked at him with hope.

“Ryker.. You know they are fake, right! Tell him the truth, tell everyone that this is not what they are thinking.”

But to her crying statement, everybody kept looking at her like she was crazy.

“If you liked me, you should have simply told me, if not the King. We could have found some way to sort out this thing. You didn’t need to spike my drink and take advantage of me and my respect for you, Xylia. I always see you as my sister. I feel disgusted with myself to get involved with you like this even if I was not conscious that time. I feel bad for my king who had to face this. Who has to see his wife’s disgusting act with his own cousin? And for that I want him to punish me even if I was not at fault. Only in that way will the guilt be lifted off my shoulders.” Ryker expressed with utmost regret.

And Xylia couldn’t help but gape openly at him. What he was saying was utterly ridiculous. Even she did not know about this whole dramatic story which he just told everyone. Where had the friendly and funny Ryker gone?

“Oh my son!” Selena squeezed his shoulder to console him and glared at Xylia with much disdain.

“This girl ruined our peaceful lives and family. She should be punished in the worst way possible, Theodore. If Ryker will be punished for his stupidity in believing her then she should be punished ten times more.” She bitterly said.

Xylia shook her head, she didn’t know why she was facing all of this. It was like a worst nightmare which she never imagined. She never had any enemy then who was doing this to her.

“Yes, Theodore. Anthony would have killed her on the spot for committing this sin being a Luna Queen of the Lunar Guardian kingdom. But she also put him on The death bed. Now you are the current king so decide wisely. She not only disgraced the whole kingdom but your reputation too.” Sirus, brother of Anthony Lockheed and Theodore’s uncle said carefully.

“What.. What happened to Mr Lockheed?” Xylia gasped and looked at everyone for the answer. She knew Anthony Lockheed had been ill for the last few days but they would put the entire blame on her like this, it made her dumbstruck.

“Look at this cunning liar. Playing dumb and innocent all of sudden. You think you pathetic human can fool anyone here with your fake tears? We knew you wouldn’t accept your sins and wicked deeds. Don’t worry darling, your true face behind this facade has come out.” Selena forwarded her hand to her husband who gave her a phone and She played the video on it before showing it to Xylia.

Xylia looked at it with unblinking eyes and the ground beneath her shook hard. She covered her mouth with her hand. In one video she was spiking the drink which she gave to Ryker and pulled him into a room before making out with him. After they almost got n*ked, the video turned off. In another video, she also mixed something into the drink of Anthony Lookheed which he drank at the table on his birthday a week ago.

“Betraying your husband with adultery and trying to kill the former Lycan King with the wolfbane are more than sins. What did you plan to do further, kill Theodore or any of us? Do you have any idea what punishment you would get for these?” Selena snarled. Xylia felt everything around her shaking. She had no words to prove her innocence.

“She should be punished in front of the whole pack, so that an example could be made and Nobody dares to mess with the Lycans.” Selena proposed.

Xylia looked at Theodore with trembling lips and tear stricken face. He was looking at her intensely and calmly, still contemplating what He would do to her. The history was repeating itself, she strengthened the reason for his hatred towards women tenfold.

Looking at his calm face, Xylia thought to talk to him. She knew He would listen to her like always whenever she tried to talk to him with love.

“Theodore, please trust me, I didn’t do any of these things. Someone is plotting against me. I.. I love you..” She cried as emotions burst out of her. But

The moment He smirked in pure savagery, Xylia’s legs weakened. It seemed to her like she was seeing him for the first time and honestly she was seeing the dangerous Lycan as people said, not her husband. Whose mere presence terrifies others. Though the man had the look of a Greek god but his domineering suffocating aura was not matching positively with his attractive face and it couldn’t change the fact that who He was.

Love?

Theodore raised his eyebrows and stepped ahead towards her. He cupped her face slowly and looked into those deep brown eyes. He caressed her busted lip where his aunt slapped her. Xylia melted into his hand and gave him a watery smile but what He said next crumbled her entire being. she was not ready to hear it.

“I, Theodore Lockheed, the Lycan king of the Lunar Guardians kingdom, reject you Xylia Cortez as my mate, Luna and wife.” He snarled, looking down at her.

And Xylia gasped loudly as her heart sped up suddenly. It was beating erratically and painfully. Tears pooled out of her eyes cruelly as she felt immense pain and hollowness gripping her entire body after being rejected. Xylia looked into his golden scorching eyes glaring at her. Her breath turned shallow as slowly his words made sense into her mind.

She cried out loudly in pain. Her whole body turned cold as she staggered back near the wall and lingered on the ground not comprehending her situation. Though she was a human, but the rejection made her body snap like someone ripped her heart out of her chest. Because she was marked by the powerful Lycan. The Mark on her neck burned like someone had thrown an acid on it. She clenched her legs to curb the pain but it didn’t go.

Theodore was satisfied seeing her condition, He stepped ahead, sat on his knees to her level and spoke.

“You are nothing but a desperate cheap whore who doesn’t deserve to be my Luna. A whore Just like your sister. I thought you were different, an innocent girl with a kind heart but how wrong I was.. ” His ice-cold voice was like a dagger piercing her heart again and again. She could tolerate every nasty and hate filled word from anyone but him. It was like an acid on her wounds.

She lost the last person in the world whom she considered hers.

Xylia trembled, hugging herself feeling pathetic and looked down at the ground as her vision blurred with fresh tears. She cursed my ugly fate but she couldn’t do anything. Because she was a weak human being who had been used by everyone in her life including her husband.

The lycan king!

From whom she had this ray of hope, the smallest hope of getting love but He was not different from others. He was the worst among them!

Theodore looked at her and multiple emotions passed through his vision. She broke his trust but He was not the one to forgive people easily. He yanked her hair back and got on her face. She winced but didn’t look into his stiff silver stone eyes.

“I so want to rip you apart, kill you right this moment but just for the sake of my father and my people, I f**king can’t. Not yet!” He snarled, jerking her head painfully. Xylia whimpered in pain with closed eyes because looking into his horrendous gaze was impossible for her. His gorgeous face was not less than a disgusting monster that moment. The terror she felt for this man was greater than her love for him.

“Nobody will come to this cell until I say so. And no food or water will be given to her until she accepts her crimes.” Theodore bellowed and his voice echoed through the prison walls making Sarah flinch back. Everybody craned their necks in submission.

“I don’t want to see her ugly traitorous face and anything related to her right now. Denzer, call George Cortez to my office. I will decide on her punishment later.” He ordered his beta, who nodded silently and left.

He looked at Xylia’s face for a good minute. She was nothing to him now but his heart constricted thinking of her betrayal. For the first time in his life, when He started feeling something for this girl, she had to ruin everything for him.

She killed his newly emerging feelings for her. His stormy eyes darkened but Xylia recognised the hint of emotions in them for a second. But He turned around.

“Everyone, out!” He ordered and all of them walked out of the cell. Xylia looked up at him with widened eyes.

That’s it? That’s the end of her story? she couldn’t take it. She wouldn’t let him do this. Her father, George Cortez, will surely kill her for this in case Theodore spares her life.

She placed her hand on her belly and thought. ‘No, I won’t let my baby suffer from this. Our baby is innocent. Whatever Theodore misunderstood, I will clear out everything. I need to say this. I need to!’

She looked at his retreating figure leaving her. She stepped ahead and called him by the nickname she gave him.

“Theo, Iam..”

And the next second she was knocked into the wall hard with a tight grip on her neck, holding her in place. She tried to breathe through her nose and mistakenly looked into his pitch black eyes. His Lycan had surfaced and He growled loudly before clutching her neck tightly and raising her up in the air.

Her eyes popped out of their sockets as she envisioned her death flashing in front of her. For the second time she got choked today but Theodore didn’t care nor did He budge a bit.

“Don’t f**king call my name from your dirty mouth you bitch, otherwise I will kill your mercilessly right now, without any ounce of concern. You get it?” His thick low voice sent chills down her spine and his eyes swirled with yellow waves. Theodore was hardly controlling himself from snapping her neck. She immediately closed her eyes, bobbing her head in agreement.

She couldn’t die. No! Xylia couldn’t let him kill their baby.

He growled, pushed her away roughly and left the cell leaving her miserable behind. Because He knew if He stayed there even a second more, He might end up killing her.

Xylia covered her mouth to control her cries, only one question was running in her head.

‘What changed in one night? Why did He accuse me of something wrong when He knew He was the first ever man in my life?’