Ch. 186..190: Reclaiming My Broken Luna Chapter 186-190

Chapter 186: Manipulator

Astrid's POV

Alpha Theron slammed his fist on the table in anger after Asha raised her heavy accusation against her father.

My muscles turned tense, and I lowered my head as the tension hung thick in the air.

The anger radiating off from Alpha Theron felt heavy and suffocating as it filled the entire room.

"Asha, know your place," Alpha Theron muttered coldly, his voice laced with threat.

Still, Asha did not back down. Her sharp gaze didn't leave her father as she pinned him down.

"Asha, let's calm down," Andros discreetly whispered to his sister before things could escalate even further.

He reached for his sister's hand to pull her down. However, Asha shook his hand away and glared at him. "Brother, are you just going to sit here in silence as that woman takes everything away from us?!" Asha spoke to her brother, hoping that he would take her side. "Asha, Astrid is our sister. We might not come from the same mother, but she is still a part of this family and she shares the same rights as us in the Pack," Andros tried to reason with his sister, but Asha was too overwhelmed by her anger to even think properly. I shifted uncomfortably on my seat with my head lowered as I felt Asha's burning gaze bore through me.

"The world needs to know the truth and Asha deserves to be recognized as a part of our family, whether you could accept that or not," Alpha Theron interjected, stealing everyone's attention.

The whole room was met with silence after he dropped the words. As the Alpha and the head of the family, his words are the rules.

"Astrid." I looked up when Alpha Theron suddenly called my name.

"Yes?" I muttered in almost a whisper when Alpha Theron stared straight into my gaze without saying a word.

"Do you agree with my words? Is this all right with you?" Alpha Theron respectfully asked with hopefulness in his face as he stared straight through me.

My eyes widened slightly, and my mouth went dry after his words registered in my mind.

He is asking me for permission if he could finally publicize the fact that I am his daughter.

I swallowed hard without turning my gaze away from him. I've made him promise before that no one should know that he's my father. Throughout the years that I've been staying here in the Pack, I've always shown him how much I don't want to have any connections to him or to his Pack.

I had told Drystan many times that I would go back to Nightsong Pack no matter what. Drystan had waited for me for three years, and I finally have the choice to live in his Packnow

that Beta Alek is back, but

"Yes," I answered without even thinking much of it.

Alpha Theron's eyes widened when he heard my words, but he didn't say anything. He must not have been expecting that I would say yes so easily.

Asha's head snapped towards me when she heard my small, steady answer. "You bitch," she cursed in a low voice as she looked at me in disbelief.

"I knew it... I knew it!" Asha raised her voice as she pointed at me angrily. "All of it was just an act, you've been planning to stay here all along!"

I couldn't look at Asha as she said those words. Of course, it wasn't an act. Until now, I still don't want to have any relations with Alpha Theron or with his Pack.

I did not want to be recognized as his daughter when I couldn't even accept him as my father.

Asha slowly clapped her hands as

she looked at me with ridicule in ber eyes. "What a great act! You made everyone believe that you are just a simple person who doesn't want anything more in her life."

I clenched my jaw as I remained silent in my seat, unable to explain myself. Would she even believe if I told her that I wasn't putting up an act, that I had never changed my mind? "Asha one more insult out of your mouth and you'd be punished according to our Pack's rules," Alpha Theron reprimanded his daughter as he pinned her down with a sharp gaze.

Asha scoffed as she turned her gaze to Alpha Theron with a betrayed look on her face. "Can't you see?!" Asha yelled at her father. "She's trying to manipulate all of us!" "Asha, please sit down," Andros whispered to his sister once again, hoping that she would listen to him this time.

"Even you brother?!" Asha questioned him with her eyes wide open. "You also believe her more than me?" "Asha, she's our sister," Andros reminded her again with his brows furrowed together.

Asha couldn't take it anymore; she took a few steps back and looked at her father and her brother with a bewildered look on her face. She couldn't believe that all of them would take my side.

"Someday, you will realize that I was right all along. When that time comes, you will eat back everything that you said!" Asha spoke one last time before storming out of the room. "Asha! Asha!" Alpha Theron called out his daughter's name to stop her from leaving, but Asha never even looked back.

Andros stood up to defend his sister before Alpha Theron could call out punishment on his daughter for being so disrespectful.

 

 

Chapter 187: Waiting Time

Astrid's POV

Our eyes turned to Andros when he suddenly stood up.

"Don't worry about her, father. You know how stubborn Asha could be, after a while I'm sure she would realize her mistakes once she had calmed down," Andros spoke up to appease his father's anger. Alpha Theron sighed. "That girl, she always let her emotions control her. As my daughter, she should always be capable of handling her emotions well."

"Astrid, I want to apologize for Asha's behavior. Asha is not usually like this, she was just surprised with the sudden changes," Andros bowed his head to me to extend his apologies.

"It's okay, there's no need to apologize," I spoke hastily as I felt uncomfortable and undeserving of receiving a bow of respect from him.

Andros gave me a warm smile, grateful that I accepted his apology on behalf of his sister.

"Father, please excuse me. I'll go after Asha and try to talk to her," Andros said, turning to his father for his permission.

"Okay, you should go. You know your sister, she listens to you more than she listens to me," Alpha Theron replied with a shake of his hand.

Andros chuckled when he heard his father's comment before he rushed out of the room to follow after his sister.

I followed Andros with my gaze as he disappeared out of the room. Hearing his father's comment and seeing how much he cared about his sister showed me how deep their sibling bond was.

"Astrid, I'm sorry for putting you in an uncomfortable position," Alpha Theron began after Andros had left. "I know I gave you my promise that no one would know about your real identity, but still I did this."

I shifted to a comfortable position on my seat when I heard Alpha Theron's words. I was curious to know what made him do this, to ask me for his permission to break his promise, but I was afraid to ask him questions because he might ask me questions in return, and I wouldn't know how to answer him.

I'm just glad that he didn't take Asha's words seriously, and I think that I was just putting an act all along because that wasn't true.

"Alpha," I spoke carefully as I lifted my gaze to him. I was surprised when I saw how the light in his eyes suddenly flickered when he heard how I addressed him.

I momentarily paused when I noticed his reaction. He thought I had forgiven him; he thought I'd finally accepted him as my father because I agreed to be recognized as his daughter.

"I-I need to leave, I still have to wake up early tomorrow and discuss the changes to Beta Alek," I almost stammered as I continued to speak and tried my best to ignore the flicker of his emotions.

Alpha Theron forced a smile on his face. "Yes, that's right... We are already done here anyway," he replied as he slowly nodded his head.

Now that Beta Alek is back, I needed to familiarize him with the changes in the Pack, so he would know how to handle everything as the Beta. He has been gone for three years, and

there's been a lot of changes since

then.

As I walked through the hallway to go back to my room, I couldn't help but shut my eyes. I felt a headache coming from thinking about how I could explain everything to Drystan tomorrow. Last week, Drystan was just so excited, thinking that I would be coming back to Nightsong Pack with him tomorrow.

I don't know how I'm going to tell him that I will never be coming back to Nightsong Pack anymore.

Once Alpha Theron officially

announced me as a part of his family, I will be forever tied to the Shadowfang Pack as their Alpha's daughter, and I won't be allowed to join other Packs except if I marry.

I had betrayed Drystan by allowing Alpha Theron to publicize my true relationship with him. Now I don't know how I'm supposed to face him tomorrow and explain things to him. Being part of the Nightsong Pack would have been so nice. It would also be nice if I could live without any relations or connections to my father and his family.

However, I need to think of the son that I lost and how the people who took him from me are living a good life after they ruined mine.

I had to be honest with myself. The Shadowfang Pack could help me more than the Nightsong Pack.

It's the Silvermoon Pack that I have

to go against, not just Giselle or

Killian. I want to have my revenge, I will need Alpha Theron's help and the whole Shadowfang Pack behind my back.

I was fooling myself into thinking that I could have my revenge by just having Drystan's help.

It's already been three years since I lost my son. Three years of Giselle, Killian, and their son having their time together while I'm here suffering on my own.

I just cannot wait any longer. I need to grab the opportunity that Alpha Theron has given to me.

If I turned that down, I would have waited another three or ten years in the Nightsong Pack before I could enact my revenge.

I couldn't afford to wait anymore.

Once my real identity is announced in public, I'll start with my plans one by one.

 

Chapter 188: Equal Rights

Asha's POV

My chest heaved as I entered the confines of my bedroom, my lips drawn back in a feral snarl.

I couldn't believe that my wise and powerful father would be tricked by that woman. Even my brother was manipulated by her. How could they not see that woman has evil plans going on in her mind?

She lied about everything. She acted like she did not want to have anything to do with us, but the moment she was presented with an opportunity to become a formal part of this family, she did not even hesitate to say yes. How could my father fail to see through that woman? Even if she was his daughter, we cannot just allow her to trick us into getting what she wants.

She had only been staying in our Pack for two months, but she had already managed to convince my father to make her our Pack's acting Beta.

Now, she had finally convinced everyone to officially welcome her into the family.

Astrid is clearly trying to make her way to the top. If this continues, she might even steal the Alpha position from my brother.

My eyes turned ablaze with fury as I snatched everything within my reach-books, pillows, clothing - and hurled them onto the floor as the intensity of my rage cackled inside the room.

My brother, instead of siding with me, he sided with that woman instead. My brother is too naive. Isn't he afraid that Astrid would turn into a threat in the future?

My arm hung in mid-air when someone suddenly knocked. I dropped my hand, my chest still heaving as I stared at the mess I'd made.

"Asha, can we talk?" I heard my brother's voice at the other side of the door.

I didn't answer. I'm not in the mood to talk to anyone. However, he still twisted my door open and entered without my permission.

I was so deep in my anger earlier that I forgot to lock my door close.

"Asha," my brother mentioned my name carefully.

I whirled around, ready to unleash my fury on him for entering inside without my permission, but when I saw my brother's face etched with concern, the fire in my veins momentarily died down. "Asha, what's going on?" he asks, his voice gentle but laced with worry as he surveys the mess that surrounds me. "What happened?"

I held my breath and pursed my lips as I glared at him. I wanted to lash out, to scream at him for not taking my side and accepting Astrid into our family so easily, but the words got caught in my throat, strangled by the very anger that brought me to this point.

"Why don't you just leave me alone and go to that new sister of yours?!" I snapped at him and rolled my eyes.

My brother's brows furrowed, and for a moment, I thought he was going to yell back to tell me I was being unreasonable. But instead, he steps closer, reaching out a hand to rest on my shoulder. "Asha, why don't we just sit down first?" My brother answered calmly as he guided me to my bed.

Feeling guilty for his kindness, I silently sat on the bed beside him with my head turned away, not willing to talk to him.

"Asha, I know this is hard for you,"

fet

Andros spoke softly. "Astrid's presence is a big change and it's okay to feel angry about it, but it's not right for you to hurl insults at Astrid and throw a tantrum in front of our father. Destroying your room isn't going to make things better either."

I want to pull away, to tell him that he just doesn't understand. As I turned to face him with sharpness in my eyes, I paused when I saw the genuine concern and compassion in the way he looked at me. Unlike me, he had already accepted Astrid as his sister. He even took her side while knowing what I felt against her.

"I don't like her. I just can't accept her," I finally confessed to him. "She already had our father wrapped around her finger and now she had won your heart too." Hot tears stung the back of my eyes.

My brother used to have my back no matter what, but just earlier, he took someone else's side and tried to rein me down for the first time.

Andros squeezed my hand in his as

he tried to calm me down. "I'm sorry

that I made you upset, Asha. No matter what you will always be my little sister. It will always be my job to protect you and be there for you," Andros spoke softly as he stared straight through my eyes.

The tears that I've been holding back finally fell out of my eyes when I heard his response.

"Even if I have a thousand sisters out there, you will always be my little sister that I grew up with," my brother adds, fully winning my heart.

Unable to hold it back anymore, I jumped into his arms and hugged him, then he hugged me back.

"Stop crying Asha and stop trying to talk father out of his decision. Astrid is still our sister by blood." My brother whispered over my shoulder.

I pulled back when I heard his words. I shook my head as I locked gazes with him. "Even if she is our sister, we do not have the same mother as her. Our mother is the Luna of this Pack, she shouldn't share equal rights as us."

 

Chapter 189: The Instigator

Andros's POV

I held back a smirk after Asha finished her words. I'm glad that Asha understood the situation and saw how these things are unfair to us. I no longer have to say anything to open her eyes.

As her older brother and only sibling, I know Asha more than she knows herself. Asha rarely dislikes someone, but if she does, she won't change her heart easily.

Asha is willful and stubborn, not to mention that she's also very competitive as well.

When Asha confessed that she didn't like Astrid, I knew Astrid would never stand a chance in winning Asha's heart like the way she did to my father.

Asha is straightforward, but she can also be petty at times. I could only wonder what kinds of troubles Asha had thrown upon Astrid in the three years that she'd been staying here. Knowing my sister, she's not afraid of anything. If she's angry, she's angry. She never fakes anything.

"Asha," my brows bent downwards as I uttered her name. I softly reached out to her and gently squeezed her arm. "You know how much Astrid suffered, growing up. Astrid is already pitiful enough. She grew up without the same privileges as us, we should understand why father gives her so much favor."

Asha's pout turned into a scowl when she heard my words. "She doesn't deserve what we had. Just because she was abandoned she thinks she's entitled to everything." Asha clenched her fist as she held in her fury.

"Ever since she arrived, dad gave her everything. He showered her with love and care. We were pushed aside as she took all dad's attention, but what did Dad get in return?" Asha asked me with coiled fury.

"Not once have I ever heard her call him dad. Dad treats him like his one and only daughter, but she had never acknowledged him as her father. She's being so obvious that she's just using dad for his position and power." I opened my mouth, about to interrupt her, but she continued.

"For the past three years, she always told me and dad that she had no intentions of staying here, but what answer did she gave us earlier? The moment dad presented her an opportunity to stay here forever as his daughter, she did not hesitate to say 'yes'," Asha huffed angrily after she finished what she had to say.

"Asha, Astrid must have her own reasons. Something must have changed her mind along the way. I don't see any reason why she would lie about her intentions," I tried to reason out with her.

Asha scoffed at my reply. "Unless she had no plans of ruling the Pack, she would lie about her true intention."

"You are thinking too much, Asha.

Father would never do that, he would never do that to me. Ever

since we were little, he had already decided on passing the Alpha

position to me. He trained me for the position since I was a kid, nothing would ever change his mind," I

assured her confidently.

"Of course I know that brother. It's Astrid that we need to worry about. What if it is her intention to become the Luna of the Pack? She was a Luna once, it's normal for her to have the desire to be in that position again," Asha argued. I momentarily fell silent as I considered her words, but instead of showing that I was worried, I gave her a smile instead.

"We were fortunate that she has

experience in being a Luna before, Asha. If it wasn't for that, she wouldn't be able to handle the Pack as the acting Beta so well. You are worrying about so much things, Asha. You should stop thinking things like this or else it will poison your mind."

"But-" Asha tried to interrupt, but I did not let her.

"Next time, don't speak against father again, okay. You made dad so angry earlier, if you were someone else, dad would have never let you go without a punishment," I pinned her down with a sharp gaze as I warned her. Asha frowned and averted my gaze. She couldn't say anything back because she knew I was right.

Both of us know what Dad's temper is like. If that had been me, I would have also been punished, but because it was her, she was able to get away unpunished.

I took a deep breath after the long silence that emanated between us. "Next time you should be more nice to Astrid Asha. She's officially going to be a part of our family soon. What would people think if they find out that you are mistreating your own sister?"

"I don't have a sister!" Asha rebutted angrily.

"Even if you don't see her as your sister, you need to be nice to her as a person." Aggravated by my words, Asha pulled away from me and shot up from her seat. "You can be nice to her if you want, Andros. No matter what you say, I could never be nice to her," she crossed her arms together as she snapped at me. I stood up to match her. "Just try to be easy on her, okay? Do this for father, you know it will hurt his heart if he sees his children hating each other." Asha couldn't respond. Asha might be cold-hearted outside, but she always holds a soft spot for people who are close to her heart, like me and her father.

 

Chapter 190: No Turning Back

Drystan's POV

My heart raced as I approached the familiar borders of the Shadowfang Pack. After three long years, Astrid is finally coming home with me.

I waited for one year and then another two years to finally be with her in my Pack. I held on to her promise that she'd be coming back no matter what.

I have everything arranged for her in the Pack. The room where she would be staying was already waiting for her. I have also informed all the Pack members that she's coming, and everyone is excited to welcome her.

For the past three years, the Pack had developed a lot, but even so, I wanted her to feel that nothing changed much since the last time she left. I don't want her to feel out of place in the Pack and make her think that the three years were too much.

My smile deepened when I already saw Astrid waiting right at the Shadowfang Pack's entrance. I wonder how long she has been standing there all alone, waiting for me. She must have been as excited as I was.

Last night, I couldn't even sleep, thinking that she'd be finally staying with us. I could already practically see what it would be like to live in the same place as her again where I could see her every day and any time that I wanted to, and I no longer have to travel long distances just to meet her.

I pressed the car's brakes when I finally arrived in front of her. She slowly lifted up her gaze when the car stopped in front of her.

My smile dropped when the smile I had envisioned on her lips was nowhere to be found. Instead, her expression was etched with a deep sorrow, her eyes downcast.

My world slowed down when I saw her expression as fear started to cloud my mind. Thankfully, the car windows were heavily tinted. Even a werewolf wouldn't be able to see through it.

I plastered an excited smile on my face and pushed away all my thoughts before jumping out of the car. I shouldn't be jumping to any conclusions yet.

My steps slowed as I approached her, a knot forming in the pit of my stomach.

Instinctively, I tried to reach for her hand, but she pulled away, her body radiating with guilt and shame.

"Astrid, what is it?" I whispered, my voice laced with concern.

I glanced around her to look for her bags so I could put them in the car, but there were none.

Astrid's gaze finally met mine. My throat constricted when I saw the anguish that consumed her. "Drystan, I." Astrid paused, her mouth agape without a sound coming out of her lips. "I'm not coming back with you," she stammered, the words barely audible.

My world seemed to shift, the ground beneath my feet suddenly unstable. "What do you mean?" I asked as I tried my best to hold back my emotions.

Astrid's eyes suddenly brimmed with tears that she was trying to hold back in front of me. My heart twitched as I witnessed how difficult this was for her.

"Did Theron asked you to do something again? Is he forcing you to stay here for a few more years?" I asked her, wanting to wipe the tears from her eyes.

"I'll go talked to him," My expression turned hard as I stepped forward, ready to fight Theron and help Astrid.

I would have done this many years

ago if only Astrid had never talked

me out of it. Astrid had lived a miserable life in her three years of stay here. Now that her term is over, Theron must fulfil his words and let her go.

Astrid grabbed my arm, stopping me from leaving. I glanced at her with my brows furrowed in confusion. Why is she stopping me?

"It's not like that," Astrid muttered with tears in her eyes. "Alpha Theron is going to introduce me as his daughter in public," she answered with guilt and shame in her eyes.

I stiffened at her words. "He left you with no choice, didn't he?" I asked her before I jumped to any conclusions.

Astrid shut her eyes tight, unable to look at me. "No, I gave him my consent."

My face paled as her words hit me

like a physical blow. I thought we had talked about this. "Astrid..." I uttered her name, desperate for hope. "If the world finds out that you are Alpha Theron's daughter then you can't be a member of our Pack anymore."

Astrid didn't respond. I knew she was fully aware of that when she made her decision.

My shoulder slumped as I felt crushed with betrayal, but all I could muster was a whispered plea, "Why?"

"I thought you don't like it here. I thought you don't want to have anything to do with your father." I spoke painfully.

'You made a promise,' I wanted to add, but I didn't

"I'm sorry... I just had to," Astrid answered, matching the pain in my voice as tears rolled down her cheeks.

I couldn't speak. I felt suffocated as I watched her trying her best to hold back her pain. I could see that she was not happy with this. She also doesn't want this. "You are doing this for revenge," I muttered.

Her eyes snapped open when she heard my words. "Drystan, I—"

"I understand," I interrupted her.

I always knew she never forgot

everything: There wasn't a day when she did not think of her son and the people who hurt her that are living the best of their life; and I am here to support her.