The Art Of Eve; Vengeance Of The Scorned Luna

Eve

This can’t be happening to me.

I thought to myself as I struggled against the growing ache in my heart.

Tears bricked at my eyes but I was determined not to show any weakness in front of him.

That’s only going to make him feel like he won.

I refuse to let him think he won.

“You are below me now and I never loved you. You were never my real mate.”

More hurtful words poured out of his mouth before I could even fully process what he said before.

“I no longer want you as my Luna and I am going to make the announcement right now.”

I couldn’t believe what he was saying to me.

I hoped it was a prank.

Prayed he was pulling one of his numerous tricks on me but this time, he looked too serious for it to be a joke.

“You can’t do this to me.”

My voice betrayed the confidence I pretended to have.

“Oh, but I can and I have. Baby?”

My eyes shot up when he said baby but I soon realized that he wasn’t referring to me.

The one he was referring to walked up to us and he took her hand.

Right in front of me, he kissed her.

No, not just a quick kiss but a deep kiss that only lovers share.

Lovers?

But they can’t be lovers.

We are lovers.

He is my mate.

He has been my mate for ten years now. We have been together since I was nineteen years old.

We built this pack together.

I worked so hard every day for the past ten years to help him build this pack and now, our pack is the biggest in the country boosting close to one thousand pack members.

We didn’t just grow in numbers in the past ten years.

We grew in wealth too. Currently, our pack is the richest in the whole country, and every day, I applaud myself for working so hard to bring the pack to its current state.

But now, he wants to toss me aside?

That can’t be.

I am Luna of the Nightstand pack.

No one can make me give up my place in the pack.

Not even Knox. I built this pack. Everything is mine.

“What are you doing right now? Who is she?”

I let out when they stopped kissing.

No, the woman wasn’t a stranger to me. I know her.

I have known her for five years now.

Iris.

She joined our pack after her father invested millions into the pack business and now, her father is one of the main elders of the pack.

I never expected her to be the one he chose.

It never once crossed my mind that he would even see her like that.

How can he choose another Luna when I am his Luna?

I have been his Luna since the beginning.

I gave up everything to build this pack with him.

I didn’t mind that my family disowned me.

I didn’t mind that my former pack cut ties with me and banished me permanently.

I moved across the country just to start a new life with him ten years ago and now that we finally have everything;

On the day he should finally honor me by announcing to the world that I am his Luna, he chose to bring in a new Luna?

It made no sense.

“How long has this been going on?”

I managed to ask.

“Do I really need to answer that? It’s none of your business, Eve. Your only business right now is to pack your things and get the hell out of my house.”

His house?

“It’s not your house! It’s our house! It’s not your pack, it’s our pack!”

I yelled at him.

How dare he claim sole ownership of everything we built together?

His laughter made me so mad that for once in my life, I considered violence.

“I am Luna of the Nightstand pack and you can’t cast me aside!”

I fired at him which made him laugh even more.

Iris joined him.

“Tell me, aside from the few pack members who know you, who else knows you as my Luna?”

I swallowed the lump that formed in my throat at his word.

He wasn’t wrong, no one aside from the pack knew me as his Luna.

That’s because I have been working in the background for ten years.

I wanted to show myself to the world again after our pack makes it big.

I wanted to show my family and my former pack that they were all wrong and that I made the best decision when I chose Knox over them.

Now, I realized just how stupid I had been.

I believed in him. I believed everything he told me in the past ten years and now, he wants me to believe that it was all a lie?

“Did you ever love me?”

I hated how my voice came out in a sob.

Knox laughed loudly at my question.

“I never loved you! How could I love you? The simple answer is I never loved you. I never saw you as my mate! To me, you were just a placeholder.”

My heart sobbed at his hurtful words.

A placeholder? For who? Iris? She is just nineteen years old and only got her wolf recently.

Does that mean, he kept me as a placeholder until his real mate became of age?

It made no sense that he waited so long for her.

What about our mating bond? What about what we shared?

Did everything we shared really mean nothing to him?

The questions were much in my head and I didn’t know which one to ask him first.

“Why her?”

The question fell from my mouth before I could stop myself.

Both of them laughed and mocked me in my face.

“Isn’t it obvious?”

I swallowed at his words and brushed stray tears from my eyes only for more tears to fall from my eyes.

I just gave up trying to wipe the tears off.

“If you must know. She is younger. Much more beautiful and the perfect woman to be my Luna. I can’t have a hag like you as Luna of my pack.”

My heart felt like it was being ripped into a million pieces.

Me? Hag?

“You are below the standard of the Nightstand and you can’t be the Luna I announce to the world. The goddess forbids.”

He declared and even spat out.

I closed my eyes as the pain in my heart reached an unbearable point.

“You have heard from him. It's out with the old and in with the new. This.”

Iris let out, pointing around.

“This is all mine now.”

She told me.

I slapped myself with both hands to get myself to wake up from the nightmare I was in but it didn’t work.

“You can’t do this! You can’t remove me from my position as Luna. What would I do if I were not Luna?”

I asked him.

He looked at Iris before he smirked at me.

“You have two choices. One, you stay in the Nightstand pack but as an omega who will work for my Luna and do everything she wants.”

I gasped in shock at his first suggestion.

“The goddess forbid that I would be an omega not to talk of being an omega who helps her!”

I let out.

“Okay, if you don’t want that then you can take the other choice. You are hereby demoted and banished from the Nightstand pack permanently.”

I couldn’t believe what he just said.

“You can’t demote or banish me!”

I let out.

“Oh, but I can! And I have! Eve Ysabel Oakwood! I stand as alpha of the Nightstand and declare that you are hereby banished from the pack! You are to leave today and never return. If you ever return, you will be severely punished and handed over to the council.”

I opened my mouth to speak but no words came out.

“The deltas will be here to remove you from the pack within the next hour so be ready.”

Even as I watched Knox take Iris with him and walk away, I couldn’t say anything.

I stood there trying to make sense of everything that happened but nothing made sense.

I don’t know how I managed to walk back to my room but I somehow did.

I got into my bed and broke down in tears.

While the announcement of the new Luna was being made, I stayed in my room.

All I could do was cry and wish for it all to be a terrible nightmare.

A knock on my door about an hour later told me it was time to leave.

I didn’t take anything with me.

Maybe it was pride.

Maybe it was my way of not accepting that this is my reality now.

I didn’t take anything as I walked out of the room.

I didn’t try to resist when I saw the deltas who came to remove me from the Alpha’s house and the pack.

“Why didn’t you choose to become an omega? You would have stayed in the pack. Now you don’t even have a pack.”

One of the deltas let out.

I didn’t respond to him.

I just followed them out of the house and into the car.

I didn’t say a word to them when they drove me far from the pack and stopped in at the city center.

I got out of the car and without waiting a second, they drove away.

Only when I was left on my own in the city center did I finally realize what had happened to me.

To make matters worse, I saw the news about Knox and his new Luna playing on the big screen.

I rubbed my aching heart and willed myself not to give in to the urge to cry.

I have cried enough.

I refuse to shed more tears because of them.

I looked around, wondering which way to go, and on impulse, I walked towards the right, skillfully avoiding the moving crowd.

I barely walked a few feet before I suddenly felt dizzy.

I tried to steady myself but I couldn’t.

The world around me slowly became darker and it wasn’t because of the night.

Just before everything went black, I felt a pair of strong arms grab me.

Eve

“Wake up.”

The voice of my wolf woke me up and I sat up immediately.

I looked around the room I was in trying to figure out where I was and how I got here.

The last thing I remembered was fainting on the street.

Fainting.

I thought that stopped a long time ago.

I haven’t fainted in years.

Not since I gave up my powers to Knox which helped him conquer most of his rivals.

Yes, I had powers and when Knox and I became mates, I gave it all up for him.

I didn’t stop there, I helped him every step of the way and he paid me back by demoting and banishing me from the pack we built together.

The ache in my heart increased when I remembered everything that happened yesterday.

If the time on the clock was correct then I slept for the past twelve hours which means everything happened yesterday.

I still couldn’t remember how I got into the room I was in.

I got out of bed and looked around but there was no one