LUNA ELIZABETH
"How can you say that?!" I lashed out, my anger growing by the minute.
I'd been in my room, dressing up for an evening outing with my mate. It was both for business and pleasure purposes. I was happy, extremely so. I had never believed I would be this happy but finding my mate had shown me how blissful and wonderful life could be.
Everything was going fine. The boys all loved and respected me. My mate was treating me more than I could ever wished to be treated by a man. He was just the perfect gift the Moon Goddess had given to me. But in this moment, in my room, I felt like slapping the hell out of him for what he'd just insinuated.
"Why won't I say that, tell me?" He growled angrily. His Alpha wolf's eyes flashed, I stumbled back a bit because it scared me.
At my fear, he relaxed and tried to come near me but I flinched out of his hold. Angry tears were blurring my vision. "So you believe I came into your life to deceive you?"
"What else can I say after what you've done?" He retorted, feeling angry that I'd not let him near me.
But I didn't care, he had said some very awful things to me, and as if that was not enough, he tried using his wolf to scare me. He had never done that. Yes, as every healthy relationship and marriage out there, we had our spats and differences but David had never tried using his Alpha wolf to bring me to my knees, but he'd done it and I did not even have a clue why.
"What did I do? I have been asking this over and over but you're refusing to tell me anything. You prefer to accuse and intimidate." I spat, impatiently wiping away angry tears.
There was no need for tears. I would not cry especially when I had done nothing wrong. He didn't deserve it. He might be the one with the cash and mansion and name and fame, but I would not let him walk over me. If his arrogance was going to come out and play with my personality, I was going to deal with it accordingly and without a thought to our mate-bond.
"Your daughter!" His voice rose an angry octave.
My heart kept in fear and worry. My daughter? Katherina? Was something wrong? Did anything happen to her? Questions churned my mind and I had to ask them else I would not get an answer. Willing myself to be calm and not think of the worst, I went closer to him, holding his hands. "What happened? Is she alright? Did she do anything?" I gasped at his grave expression. "Or something happened to her?"
"Does Katherina have a wolf?" My mate asked, his eyes were still angry but his voice was calm. He was trying to call himself.
I swallowed. The moment of truth. I had never told him that. It was not that I intentionally hid it from him but I just forgot. Katherina had seemed so happy, she'd looked contented and that was all I'd ever wanted her to be. She had gone through a lot as a child and when I'd discovered David was my mate and who he was, I'd been more than happy to introduce Katherina to that life she would stop feeling lost and sad.
I was all she had. After what her biological father did, I had sworn to give her the best and make her feel loved. Not out of pity but truly loved and I had been elated when I saw David love her not because I was his mate but because he saw her like his own.
"No, she doesn't." I told.
He snatched his hands away from mine. "I suspected."
I frowned. "How?"
He seethed, glaring at me. "You do not get to ask the questions, I do. Why didn't you tell me?"
I jolted in shock at his voice. "I'm sorry."
"You're sorry? What deceptive move did you and your daughter use to get her away from being caught that night at the initiation ceremony?" His face was scrunched in fury. He was feeling betrayed and deceived. But it wasn't my intention to deceive him.
"It was not intentional. I have always known she did not have a wolf and I wanted to tell you…"
"Then why didn't you?!" He barked.
I held myself from withering under his heated glare. "I forgot." I said in a low, defeated voice.
"You wanted to tell me." He sneered as though he didn't believe a word I was saying. "You forgot, my foot! You and your daughter deceived me."
Anger flared. "Stop saying that. I can take whatever it is you throw at me but leave my daughter out of this."
"Why? She's the reason for this talk, how can she be left out?!"
"You don't know anything, David. Your boys have it all. Katherina has never had it. You're the first man she'd ever know as a father."
"She does not even recognize me as that." He argued hotly.
"That is because she is reserved and scared. She does not really understand how it works. She's an adult, David. She still needs time to adjust herself."
"And I have no issue with that, but you both lied. You lied your way into our home." He accused, his gaze growing hotter.
I felt pain stabbed through my chest. "Repeat that statement, David."
"Don't even do that with me right now, Elizabeth because you know I'm saying the truth."
"So if you think we lied our way into your home, then I guess we should find our way out of it."
"Are you out of your mind?! Stop being selfish and think of me. What this means to my reputation. How can the most prestigious Salvatore family have a wolf-less member?!"
Tears welling, I jabbed a well manicured finger at his chest. "Maybe you're the selfish one. You do not care to know how this had mentally affected my daughter. I don't know how you found out and I'm finally glad you know, but I want you to know something."
"What?" He eyed me angrily.
"I don't care about our mate-bond. For my daughter, I'm willing to leave you, this house, even this pack. I don't mind becoming a rogue so long as my daughter doesn't have to be surrounded by people who will damage her the more."
My heart breaking at the thought of leaving my mate whom I was already in love with, I walked out of the room and out of the house. Katherina's happiness would always come first.