Ch. 116..120: Reclaiming My Broken Luna Chapter 116-120

Chapter 116: His Chance

Astrid's POV

The room was covered with silence when everyone left the room.

I turned to my side, facing the opposite direction and covered myself with a blanket.

I don't know why Alpha Theron has to stay. What else does he have to say to me? Isn't it clear that I don't want to talk to him? Haven't I pushed him enough away from me already?

"Astrid, I know you hate me. What I did to you and your mother was unforgivable, and nothing that I do will make up for all the mistakes that I had done to the both of you," Alpha Theron started to speak, his voice solemn and filled with remorse.

"I don't deserve your forgiveness... I never will. All that I'm asking is that please give me a chance. You can hate me all you want, I will accept that, just let me be there for you. Give me a chance in your life even if I cannot break through your heart," Alpha Theron pleaded. As the Alpha of the Shadowfang Pack, Alpha Theron has never pleaded with anyone before; it was always the other way around. Alphas had knelt and begged in front of him before, yet he is here, begging for me to accept him.

I pursed my lips as I remained silent at his words. I don't know exactly what he is asking me for.

He wanted me to give him a chance. What is he going to use it for? He said himself that he would never make up for all the mistakes he had already made in the past, so what is this chance for?

Is he pleading with me to use him? He says he wants a chance and that it doesn't matter if I don't forgive him. Doesn't that mean he only wants me to use him?

"You are my daughter, Astrid. You are the child that Erika and I had who was separated from me for many years. I only found you last week. Give me the chance to be with you much longer," Alpha Theron swallowed back the tears that choked the back of his throat. "When I found out that your mother was dead, I was devastated. I always wished we could meet each other again. I had no idea how too late I was to see her." Tears fell from my eyes upon hearing his words.

If my mother had met him for one last time before she died, would she have been happy, or would she have been so overwhelmed with anger that she would have tried to kill him even though she could no longer move her body?

"Ever since your mother left, there wasn't a day I never thought about her. You are the only one I have of her. I don't want to repeat the same mistakes I did and let you go too and live in regret for the rest of my life," Alpha Theron continued.

"Then why didn't you come looking for us? You are the Alpha of the Shadowfang Pack, you got all the power and resources that it takes to find us. If you really thought of us and missed us that much, then why? Why didn't you come looking for us?" I asked back without turning to face him.

Alpha Theron was silent for a moment. "I thought I was doing the right thing. I thought I was doing what was best for us."

I scoffed at his answer. Best? If he had only searched for us, then he would have had the chance to save my mother from the deadly disease that took her life.

"Astrid, I'm not asking for a chance just so I could win you over. I've already made mistakes. Whatever k do, I will always live with regret for the rest of my life. Just give me a chance to be there for you now. I will never let you and your mother down again," Alpha Theron pleaded once again.

It was my turn to fall silent.

A chance... I will give him a chance to fulfil his role to me as my father. If I did that, then I would be fully

considered as a daughter of the Shadowfang Pack. Not just his

daughter but also his eldest child.

"Fine," I finally answered after I went down a spiral of thoughts. "But only for one condition."

"What is it?" Alpha Theron eagerly asked.

"I don't want anyone else to know that we are blood-related. You can have your chance in the shadows," I answered.

Alpha Theron's eyes went wide; by the looks of it, it looked like he was having a hard time accepting this.

It seems that he has been planning to announce me as his daughter in public, just as I had thought of.

For now, I don't think I'm ready for anyone to know the truth. I'm still recovering from the scars of my past.

My child had just died, and I'm still suffering from traumas. I'm not ready to deal with another big thing like that again.

"If that's what you want, then so be it," Alpha Theron surrendered. "In exchange, you will stay here with me."

"Only until I wanted to," I argued, making him fall silent again.

"Agreed," Alpha Theron replied.

He really doesn't have much choice. It's either he agrees with my conditions or he takes the risk of making me change my mind.

 

 

Chapter 117: Gold-Digger

Astrid's POV

"Astrid, are you alright?" Nova's soft voice entered my ears as soon as I stepped out of the therapist's office.

I shook my head softly in reply as I held on her arm tight.

Every time that I go for a session with a therapist, I always leave feeling raw and exposed afterward.

The carefully constructed walls I had built around my emotions were always methodically dismantled, one brick at a time, by the therapists's well-thought questions.

Nova wrapped a hand around me to comfort me. "Don't worry, you're done already. You can finally relax," Nova whispered soothingly as she helped me out of the room.

I could only nod my head and swallow hard at her words. I always feel weak and out of myself after my therapy sessions.

With the therapist's keen insights and probing questions, she always got into the buried feelings that I had desperately tried to bury and tuck away from the deepest corners of my mind.

It's her job to unearth those buried emotions, forcing me to confront the grief that I have been suppressing.

My miscarriage, my dark past, and then that incident. That has always been our topic.

As Nova and I walked, I could still hear the therapist's words echoing in my mind that true healing could only come through facing traumas head-on, through giving voice to the experiences that had threatened to consume me.

It is a long and painful process, draining me both physically and emotionally, but the therapist insisted it was the only way forward.

I know that the therapist is right, that I have to keep pushing through the pain if I ever want to find my way back to wholeness. But at this moment, all I ever craved was an escape, a chance to just retreat and gather the pieces of myself back together.

If Drystan had been here, maybe things would have been easier for me. I have only realized it just now, but I have become more comfortable and relaxed whenever Drystan is around. I didn't realize that my body had learned to rely more on Drystan's presence.

Maybe that is because he was always there for me during dangerous situations. He was always the one who protected me from the different dangers I was in in the past.

Nova suddenly stopped in her tracks, making me stop, too; when I raised my head to see what made her stop, I saw Asha standing in front of us with hatred in her eyes. "Where are you going?" Asha asked us with coldness in her voice.

"We are going to the Alpha's office," I replied.

"I've noticed that you've been visiting my father's office more frequently recently. I think I know what you're doing," Asha's eyes narrowed suspiciously as she spoke.

My brows furrowed in confusion. "Alpha Theron told me me to visit him in his office daily."

"Oh please," Asha scoffed. "We all know you only hang around my father just to get your hands on his money. You are nothing but a parasite, latching onto him for your own gain." "Excuse me!" I blurted out when she started calling me a parasite.

"I heard what happened to your Pack. The Nightsong Pack was practically bankrupt now ever since all the Alphas broke their alliances with you. That's the reason why you came here, isn't it? You are just using my father's power to keep your Pack afloat," Asha said, her voice dripping with malice.

"How dare you bring that up!" I exclaimed. "Drystan and I will never use anybody to save our Pack. You have no idea what Drystan had gone through to raise his Pack on his own with a clean conscience."

"Save it, Astrid. Ever since you came

back, my father has always been pre-occupied with you. Everyone could see how much you fawn over him to earn his favor. You are just like your mother, a gold-digger and a slut No wonder why people would easily believe the rumors about your affair with Drystan."

My eyes widened, taken aback by Asha's sudden shift to this more personal attack. "You don't bring my dead mother into this Asha," I hissed at her.

"Why shouldn't I? The apple doesn't

fall far from the tree. Why else would

my father, the great Alpha of the renowned Shadowfang Pack would have

an a

affair with a mere omega, unless if she had seduced him."

Asha leaned in, a cruel smile playing

on her lips.

I clenched my fists at my sides, my composure slipping. I need to control myself. I don't know how long I had to stay here in the Shadowfang Pack, but I know it would be better not to put myself on Asha's bad side. I know she's deliberately doing this to gain a reaction from me and to have a reason to ruin me.

"In fact, I don't believe that you are my half-sister. That's just impossible. You don't have an Alpha blood in you. I made tests when you arrived. You're a hundred percent omega. How could you be a child of a powerful Alpha? You're trying to fool us, are you? Your father must also be an omega, just like your ambitious mother. You and your mother have been using my father all along!"

Fueled by her words, anger shrouded my mind, and my vision turned red. The next thing that happened was that I heard Asha screaming in fear and Nova shouting for me to stop.

 

Chapter 118: Takeover

Astrid's POV

Asha's terrified screams pierced my ears as I blacked out for a moment. I couldn't see anything, nor did I know what was happening.

I have lost control of myself, like I was trapped inside my own body.

"Astrid STOP!!! You are going to kill her!" Nova yelled at me, but I had no idea why she was shouting for me to stop.

Panic started to set in as I struggled to get out of myself. I clawed desperately at the boundaries of my consciousness, fighting for control over my body.

My wolf had never done something like this before, blocking me from full control over my human body, including my other senses. All that was left of me was my sense of hearing. Usually, in werewolves, the human side should always have higher human control over the human form, just like how the wolf side has higher control over their wolf form.

I don't know how my wolf managed to take full control over my human body, trapping me and keeping me from taking over.

"Lyra... Lyra stop. What are you doing?" I spoke to my wolf.

Lyra hadn't appeared to me for months, and now she just suddenly appeared and took over my body.

"Stop blocking me! That's my form. You cannot do this until I shift into my wolf form." I tried to make her listen to me.

Fear gripped me when I felt something bad from my wolf. That dark desire of shedding blood, that strong killing intent.

"Lyra! Lyra, stop!" I yelled at her as I hurriedly tried my best to claw out of the place where she had trapped me, blocking me from everything.

Her emotions and her dark desires weren't something she wanted me to see. However, it was too strong that it leaked into the little space of connection that I still have with her.

Even though she had blocked me of all control and of most of my senses, she couldn't fully block me from everything because I was technically still a part of her.

I froze when a magnificent silver wolf appeared in front of me. My wolf, Lyra, is just a small wolf with a coat of dirty brown fur, but the wolf that stood in front of me is a magnificent creature that I've never encountered before.

"Where's Lyra?" I asked as I wondered who this silver was and why she was inside my body.

The silver wolf didn't answer. She just stared at me with that piercing golden gaze of hers that seemed to bore into my very soul

Many questions filled my head as the silver wolf just stood there staring at me. "Where did you come from?" I breathed, scarcely daring to move a muscle since I believe it wasn't Lyra who took full control of my body. It was this wolf in front of me. The silver wolf regarded me silently for a long moment, its powerful muscles rippling beneath its thick, lustrous coat.

Then, without warning, it just turned around to leave.

"Where are you going? Wait! What did you do to Lyra?" I tried to shout after her, hoping that she would at

least talk to me until she disappeared, leaving me alone and utterly captivated.

Suddenly, the invisible confines that restrained me were lifted. As I swam back to my consciousness, I finally gained back full control and sense of my body.

My eyes widened when I opened my eyes and saw Asha with blood dripping out of her mouth.

I was straddling on top of her hips, pressing her to the ground with one arm raised to attack her.

Asha's head was turned to the side. She's holding her breath, and her eyes are closed as she waits for me to hit her.

"Astrid! Please, don't kill her!" Nova shouted, making me turn my attention to her.

She is standing by my side with fear in her eyes. As I turned to look at her, I noticed that my raised hand was actually holding a huge and heavy rock.

I gasped in fear, making me drop the rock I was holding to the ground. I jumped back and crawled backward when I realized what I was doing.

That rock! If I wasn't able to stop myself, I would have bashed that rock on Asha's head and killed her

Asha hurriedly stood back up and distanced herself from me. With fear and anger in her eyes, she yelled at me. "You tried to kill me!"

I shook my head as I held myself with trembling hands. I didn't try to kill her. I don't even know what happened.

Asha's hair was disheveled, and it looked like I had attacked her so badly because of her bruises and the blood coming out of her cut lip. "You're a murderer!" she shouted at the top of her lungs.

With werewolves living in this Pack, they would have surely heard her with their special hearing.

"Lady Asha, is everything all right?" A Pack guard came in a hurry to check on us.

"She!" Lady Asha immediately pointed at me. "She tried to kill me."

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Nova instantly ran to my side. "Astrid," she whispered her name with her brows wrinkled together. "Astrid, what happened to you," she asked me softly.

I couldn't speak. I'm still overridden with fear.

That silver wolf that appeared to me earlier was the one who took over my body. I couldn't forget how much she wanted to kill Asha earlier and how it was so easy for him to block me out of my body.

At that moment, I was truly afraid I was afraid that something like this would happen again, and I might not be able to go back to my body on time.

 

 

Chapter 119: Judgement

Astrid's POV

The room felt thick with tension. The air is practically crackling with unspoken conflict. After Asha and I were caught in a fight, we were brought to Alpha Theron's office to make his judgment on us and think of what punishment he should give us. Luckily for us, we are his daughters. We weren't directly subjected to the law. The Pack guards brought us directly to him instead of bringing us to the Pack's tribunal, the one in charge of things like this.

"This is embarrassing," Alpha Theron spoke in a disappointed voice. "I didn't even believe it when one of our Pack guards rushed to my office and reported that you two were fighting."

I lowered my gaze in shame, unable to meet anyone's gaze. Meanwhile, Asha is still giving me that smoldering glare across from me while pressing an ice Pack on her bruised cheek.

"You two are behaving like an uneducated rabble out there," Alpha Theron said, his voice dripping with disdain. "Even the weakest omega in our Pack has more restraint than the both of you."

Alpha Theron shook his head, the disappointment evident on every syllable. "You've brought shame upon yourselves with this violent act you have displayed. What do you think people will say when they hear of this? They'll think you're nothing more than unruly savages, unfit to bear our family name."

I turned my head to the side. It sounded more like Alpha Theron was pinning all the blame on Asha.

"Father, it was Astrid who attacked me first," Asha spoke up as soon as her father was done speaking. "Look at what she had done to me," she showed her injuries.

"Asha, I expected more from you," Alpha Theron pinned her with an accusatory glare, his lips pressed into a thin, disapproving line. "It's not just yourself you've embarrassed, but me as well. I had thought I raised you well to carry both dignity and grace, but clearly, I was mistaken."

Asha's eyes widened when her father just ignored her words. "It wasn't I who started the fight, father. Astrid attacked me first. Look at her and then look at me," Asha spoke, desperately trying to convince her father. "She attacked me brutally." she showed her injuries once again. "I could win against her in a fight, but I didn't fight back."

I fell silent and didn't bother to argue with her words. On our way here, Nova explained everything that had happened to me. She said I was so swift and strong that Asha was never able to block my attacks and defend herself.

She tried her best to land a punch on me, but she never succeeded. Instead, I had beaten her up rapidly.

"Astrid, is this true?" Alpha Theron turned his gaze on me.

The evidence was already clearly there, but he still asked me. Asha sharply looked at me, waiting for me to answer her father's question.

I let out a deep breath, knowing that what I was going to say to them next would be hard to explain and hard to believe, but since Alpha Theron had asked me this question, I should answer him with the truth.

"It's true that I attacked her, Alpha, but I didn't mean to do that. Something had triggered me, making me lose control of myself. It was too late when I had recovered," I answered him truthfully.

Asha scoffed when she heard my explanation. "What do you mean? It was your fist that connected to my body. It was you who tried to kill me!"

"Asha, no one was asking you to speak," Theron snapped at her, making her fall quiet.

Asha's lips thinned in anger. Once again, she pointed her anger at me.

"What really happened here?" Alpha Theron demanded, his tone brooking no argument.

My shoulders were hunched as I avoided his piercing gaze. Instead, Asha answered the question for me.

"It is what I said, Father. She attacked me first! She tried to kill me, and I didn't fight back against her," Asha spoke up.

Alpha Theron looked conflicted as his gaze went back and forth between me and then his daughter.

Alpha Theron raised Asha. He knew her all her life. He must find it more hard to believe that Asha didn't fight against Astrid than to believe that Astrid had lost control of herself.

Finally, Nova, who was also

summoned as a witness to the fight, finally spoke. "Astrid is not crazy that she would attack you for no reason. If you didn't insult her, she wouldn't have done what she did."

Asha took in a sharp breath and clenched her fist as she glared at Nova.

"Astrid attacked me first, and she tried to kill me. You also saw that! She was about to use a rock to kill me!" Asha yelled back to silence Nova. "She should be punished for attempting to kill me."

"Well, you're here, so she obviously didn't attempt to kill you," Nova retorted.

"Enough!" Alpha Theron silenced them before everything could turn into a petty fight. "Asha, what did you tell Astrid?" Asha fell silent, unable to answer her father's question.

"We were about to pay you a visit in your office, Alpa, when we suddenly encountered Asha in the hallway. She was asking for a fight when she accused us of coming here just to use you for your power to fix our Pack's reputation."

"Shut your damn mouth!" Asha snapped, trying to intervene.

"One more word from you, Asha, and I will no longer seek the truth, and I will consider you guilty beyond doubt," Alpha Theron spoke in a cold, hard voice, silencing Asha.

"She said more mean things, Alpha," Nova continued. "She called Astrid a slut and a gold-digger just like her own mother."

I swallowed hard when I heard those words again. I can accept all kinds of insults, but I cannot hear anyone insulting people who are close to me.

"It's no wonder why Astrid suddenly lost control of herself, Alpha. Astrid is battling with trauma. That must be the reason why she suddenly lost control of herself."

 

Chapter 120: Grounded

Astrid's POV

Asha's scowl deepened, and her knuckles also turned white as she gripped her armrest tightly.

Sparks of rage flickered and danced in her eyes, casting an almost unnatural glow upon her features as rage coursed through her. "How dare you try to justify Astrid's actions by using the trauma she had endured!" She lashed out at Nova. "Trauma will never be an excuse to hurt others!" she spat out, her voice laced with venom. "Astrid made a choice to lash out, and that choice was wrong-unforgivable, even. Her trauma will never justify her actions."

Suddenly, Alpha Theron stood up from his seat; his powerful frame cast a shadow upon them.

Asha's blood ran cold as she recognized the fury etched across her father's features a look that no one ever dared to provoke before.

"You have the audacity to call Astrid and her mother a 'gold-digger' and a 'slut'?" Alpha Theron bellowed, his deep voice rumbling like distant thunder.

Asha shrunk back, the weight of his accusation pressing down on her like a physical force. She opened her mouth to defend herself, but the words caught in her throat under the intensity of his glare.

"Do you have any idea what you've done?" Alpha Theron continued, his eyes blazing with a rage that Asha had only witnessed him use on his subordinates before but never on her. "Your callous words are what provoked Astrid's attack in the first place!" At that moment, Asha had never felt more betrayed. The injustice of the situation made her skin crawl.

"So this is my fault?" Asha scoffs bitterly. "It's my fault that I nearly died!" she continued dramatically.

Alpha Theron was taken aback by his daughter's response. She doesn't feel any remorse for her actions at all.

"Your words triggered Astrid's traumas, Asha! What has she ever done to you for you to treat your own sister like that!" Alpha Theron retorted.

Asha's facial expressions turned dark as she slowly turned her head to face me with pure hatred in her eyes, placing all the blame on me.

Asha doesn't even have to explain. The way she looks at me already speaks volumes.

She sees me as a threat not just to her Pack but also to her family. She doesn't want me here. She wants me gone. She would never accept me as her half-sister.

"It's always Astrid, Astrid, ASTRID!" Asha screamed at her father. "Ever since that outsider came into your life, you've already forgotten that I'm also your daughter!"

I flinched when Alpha Theron's palm made contact with his daughter's cheek. I couldn't make myself look, feeling that even if I just stole a look, I would only add to Asha's embarrassment.

Even though I had only known them for a short time, I know that Alpha Theron spoiled her daughter and pampered her like a princess. For sure, this was the first time that he ever raised a hand and his voice on his daughter. And it all happened because of me.

Asha's shoulders heaved as she held her painful cheek. She looked into her father's eyes with a look of betrayal in her eyes.

Alpha Theron instantly regretted what he had done to his daughter. His features softened as he slowly brought down her hand.

"Astrid tried to kill me, yet you are more worried that I triggered her," Asha spoke as tears fell down from her eyes.

Alpha Theron swallowed hard, unable to say anything. He just turned around, showing his back to us so he could no longer see his daughter's teary-eyed face.

"I've made my decision. Since you

showed no remorse for your actions, you will be confined in your quarters until you earn your lesson," Alpha Theron commanded, his voice leaving no room for argument. hope this will help you clear your head and bring you back to senses.

"No!" Asha blurted out.

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However, she was unable to plead her case when Alpha Theron suddenly faced her again with a thunderous look in his eyes.

"You will remain in your room until I say so!" Alpha Theron continued to show how serious he was. "If I found out that you tried to escape, you will be met with severe consequences."

Asha's chest heaved as she boiled in

anger but was unable to do anything about it. The anger still simmered beneath the surface, a fiery rage that demanded to be released. But she knew lashing out would only make the situation worse.

"There's no need to detain her!" I suddenly stood up to defend.

Everyone's eyes turned to me when I spoke. However, instead of being grateful for my help, Asha only turned angry because I tried to help her.

"This is my fault, Astrid. I was unable to discipline my daughter well, so I had to discipline her until now. You don't have to blame yourself for this," Alpha Theron answered.

"It's just a big misunderstanding. There's no need for things to escalate this big," I argued.

I looked down at Nova when I felt her tug at my shirt. She looked up at me with big question marks in her eyes.

'What are you doing?' she seemed to speak with me through her gaze.

I sighed and faced Alpha Theron once again.

Just like Asha said, I'm just an

outsider. My mother and I weren't supposed to happen in their lives. I

don't want to ruin a family, and I don't want to ruin their relationship with my presence.

As someone who grew up with a broken family, I don't want to break families either.

"Stop talking. I don't need your help!" Asha snapped at me. "I would rather be imprisoned for the rest of my life than to receive help from you."

My face paled after I received her cold response. I was just trying to help.

"Fine, if that's your wish, then I will grant it!" Alpha Theron replied to me instead. "Guards, take her away and do as I say."