"I will never run away from The Eclipse Thunder Pack again, Reese. I'll never run away from you again either. I already said all the things I felt earlier. And I'll say it again if you want, Reese."
"No. You don't have to do that, Eleanor."
Reese slowly removed her palms from my face, and slightly distanced herself from me by taking a step back.
"I may not know what your true intentions were in saying all those things to Asher. But I was indeed satisfied when you said all those things to Asher so firmly. It's just that... to be able to believe all those words of yours? I don't know if I can just trust you now, Eleanor. Everything you've said and done has been so different these past few days. And I'm not someone who can easily trust others so quickly."
I fell silent as I listened to the words Reese had just said there. I let out my breath slowly, and nodded my head with a faint movement. I knew that Reese would definitely give me that kind of reaction. Especially with all the things I had done before, it must still be hurting her feelings until now. Regarding her trust and disappointment.
"I know that you will need a lot of time to be able to trust me again, Reese. And that's fine with me. I also know that I've made a lot of mistakes and must have made you very disappointed in me. But I will try very hard to make you trust me again. I will no longer disappoint you. It doesn't matter how much time I have to go through to make you believe in my change. I will definitely wait, Reese."
Slowly, I handed the food box that I had been holding right to Reese. He, who was silent for a moment, immediately looked at the food box in front of him and in turn looked at me there as well.
"I made this food for you." I muttered back.
After that, Reese took over the food box from my hand, muttered 'thank you', and walked towards her desk. Reese sat there, and started to open the food box, then looked at my cooking now. Meanwhile, I walked over to the small sofa not too far from Reese's desk, and sat there. I'm really going to wait for Reese now. It doesn't matter how long it takes me, but I will always wait for him. I need to make Reese trust me again. I watched Reese who began to eat with gusto the dishes I made for him. I hope it was really delicious.
I leaned my body on the sofa that I was sitting on slowly, and returned to silence there. I began to rest my head using my right hand that was resting on the sofa, and continued to watch Reese who was even more focused on the food she was eating right now. My eyelids closed a few times, and the sleepiness was starting to really get to me now. After all the tension that had occurred, I felt a sense of relief that even had the effect of causing intense drowsiness like this now.
Waiting for Reese to eat will also make me even more sleepy. It doesn't matter if I take a short nap, right? I slowly closed my eyelids and fell asleep. Usually, even if I'm asleep, I can still hear and feel everything around me, even though I won't give the slightest response later. If Reese finishes his meal later, I hope he can wake me up soon and take me back to his pack. I completely relaxed my body on the sofa, and threw myself down to fall asleep right there right now.
"I should have said this earlier before your obsession with possessing Eleanor Jane intensified, Reese Carson."
I woke up instantly as I heard that voice speaking in a fairly loud tone. I opened my eyelids and fell silent. Because I had just realized that I was no longer on the sofa like when I fell asleep earlier. I was now in a room that seemed to be directly connected to Reese's study. That was proven when I realized the door to this room was slightly open and I could clearly see Reese's workspace there. Is it possible that Reese carried me to sleep here?
"It wasn't just an obsession to have her, Cole. But I was truly in love and deeply in love with Eleanor. And those two things will never change."
That's Reese's voice. And Cole? Is he Reese's friend? What are they talking about right now? And why are they both mentioning my name?
"Oh my god, Reese. You are the Alpha of The Eclipse Thunder Pack. A pack that is even stronger and more powerful than any other pack. If you think about it, your pack, as well as Eleanor's father's pack, are very distant in status. Eleanor's pack is far below yours, and yours is in a place too high to be easily reached. Even with your status, it is far more honorable than that of any other Alpha. Then how could you just fall in love with Eleanor Jane?"
That's right, the two of them are talking about me right now. I fell silent and remained in my position lying on the bed. I didn't dare to make a bit of noise and movement right now. I still wanted to listen to their conversation there.
"Don't speak loudly like that, Cole. Eleanor is in the room, she is sleeping peacefully right now. She even brought me the food she cooked herself earlier. She's also trying to change for the better. She has also promised to never leave me, with Asher, that illegitimate child. I know it will take a long time for her to accept me. But I'm sure he can do it."
"No, Reese. That might just be one of her new foul plans to play with you, and your feelings. Hasn't Eleanor, as well as Asher, been doing that to you since the beginning? How long and how many plans has she had to escape from you over the years? Eleanor Jane will never change. She will remain deceitful. Now, listen to me, Reese Carson."
I heard footsteps over there. I thought Cole must be walking toward Reese's desk. I felt tense about the conversation the two of them were having right now. What's more, it had something to do with me.
"I'm going to suggest something that you should have done earlier. It would be best if you just get rid of her, Eleanor Jane. With your status as the strongest Alpha, as well as being more honorable than the other pack Alphas here, you can have any woman you want. Be it any werewolf, from any pack, even humans. They will be very happy to be yours. You yourself can also get many women who will obediently become yours, without the need for you to force them. If you continue to be with Eleanor Jane, it's obviously of no use at all, Reese."
"Watch your language, Cole. What if Eleanor listens to all these words of yours?"
"Then that's better. Eleanor Jane isn't even any good. She wasn't even born a wolf. She's not a werewolf. She's just an ordinary human. She doesn't have a wolf. Then how could a great Alpha like you choose her as Luna?"
Deg. For some reason, it hurt a lot to hear all the words that Cole had just said to Reese, about myself. And even so, in the end I also had to pretend that I didn't listen to all those things later.
"That's all my business, Cole. The business between me, Eleanor, and Asher, is my business. I can handle everything that's going on right now with ease. Even if it takes a long time, I feel very confident that Eleanor will slowly accept me. It doesn't matter how much time she needs. You don't need to interfere with my decisions. If I want and love Eleanor, why does it seem to affect you so much?"
"Alright. But listen to me carefully, Reese, I'm going to keep trying to get you out of touch with that Eleanor who doesn't even have a wolf. How about I arrange some meetings in the near future? I'll introduce you to someone who is far more deserving of being able to stand alongside you as the greatest Alpha in the entire pack. How's that? She's a dignified woman, polite, doesn't talk much, and doesn't have a lot of sneaky behavior like Eleanor Jane does. She would be a perfect match for you, Reese."
"I don't want to. I'm not even willing to have whatever meeting you're going to have. If you have nothing else to do here, then leave right now, Cole. I still have a lot of work right now. And yes, I'm not at all interested in getting to know other people. Whoever they are. Whatever their status. In my heart and mind, there will only be one place, and that is for Eleanor only."
Reese replied to Cole's words coldly. And after that all I heard was footsteps going away and exiting Reese's office, while closing the door roughly. I paused, and felt Reese's different aura. He must be feeling very upset, after listening to all of his friend's own words. Of course he was.
But I thought back to Cole's words saying that I was useless, I wasn't born with a wolf, I wasn't a full-fledged werewolf, I was just an ordinary human, and I myself didn't have a wolf in my body all this time either. Which all those words said by Cole were lies. Lies that I had even considered to be the truth. A lie that became a wall between myself and the werewolf soul inside my body. A lie that made everyone always look down on me.
I remembered that actually, I was born a wolf. I really did have a wolf since I was born, but my wolf didn't wake up at all when I should have been at the right age to be able to turn myself into a full-fledged werewolf. It all happened because Fiona and Asher worked together to make my wolf continue sleeping forever. Making me a weak werewolf. Fiona and Asher even gave me medicine that unknowingly made my wolf sleep even longer. They pressurized my wolf to sleep
I trusted the two of them and never thought for a second that they would betray me and would do many things to harm myself. I didn't even realize in the slightest how cruel Fiona and Asher were in my previous life. It was because of the cruelty of the two of them that I died.
I thought back to my previous life, right on the day I died. Asher and I managed to escape together with Asher, because Reese started to give up on the rebellious attitude that I always did to him. Reese finally gave up and let me go together with Asher that day. But I myself didn't realize that it would be my last day to be able to stay alive.
"Asher, where are we going after this? Why don't we both just go straight back into your pack? We'll both be safer there."
I asked Asher as we both walked in the forest. We walked slowly there. But I knew there was a different feeling in my heart at that moment, I felt wary, but I completely ignored that feeling. I trusted too much that Asher would really take me back to his place.
"We'll get to the pack soon if we take this forest road, Eleanor. You just take it easy, Eleanor. After all, it was Reese himself who freed you from his grasp all this time, wasn't it? You are now free from the claims made by Reese all this time. You are free to do whatever you want."
"Yes, you are right, Asher. I'm free from the clutches of that stubborn, paranoid Alpha like Reese now. I can do all the things I want, and that's together with you. The two of us are no longer hindered by Reese."
Asher and I continued to walk through the forest there. Until not long after, we both came to a large rock on the left side of the river. Asher stopped walking and made me stop walking behind him.
"What's wrong, Asher? Why did we stop?"
Asher didn't answer my question immediately. He turned around and looked at me there. I knew that something was strange back then. But I never really wanted to think about everything with deep thoughts.
"We should stop here first. We have to wait for Fiona. After all, Fiona should also come back into my pack with us, right?"
I nodded my head as a sign that I agreed with what he had just said there. In the end, Asher and I waited for Fiona's arrival.
"Are you here? I've been looking for you guys since earlier..."
Fiona's voice was instantly heard approaching me and Asher. I rose to my feet and immediately approached Fiona along with Asher there. I hugged Fiona's body tightly, because I had previously felt worried if Reese still told the warriors in his pack to be able to follow where Fiona went. Fiona herself also immediately returned my hug just as tightly.
"I was so worried. Because you didn't get here immediately. I'm afraid that Reese still didn't really let me go, and instead told someone to follow you now."
"There won't be anyone else following me, let alone following us, Eleanor. Because this is a good time to settle things."
"What problems, Fiona?"
Srak. "Arrgg!"
I screamed loudly as I felt a sharp object pierce my stomach with a very fast movement. I let go of the hug I had on Fiona, and immediately touched my own stomach there. A sword was already fully embedded into my stomach. I raised my head to look at Fiona and Asher who were standing side by side in front of me. I looked at them in disbelief.
"Why did you two do this to me? What fault did I have with you?!"
"I should have done this from the beginning, Eleanor. Ever since Reese decided to love you and bring you into his pack. I couldn't bear to see the person I loved not even look at me and choose me. He chose someone else who was as stupid and naive as you. You're not even worthy of Reese's love."
Fiona said harshly. How could the best friend I had trusted be so cruel to me? And Asher? Why is he silent and just looking at me? Did he betray me too? Fiona is Asher's sister, could the two of them be working together? How could the lover I've been in love with betray me?
I fell quite hard right onto the ground. And I myself was still trying to endure the pain I was feeling right now. The pain in my stomach and also in my feelings. I still couldn't believe what Asher and Fiona had done.
"Uhuk." I coughed and immediately vomited blood now.
"You shouldn't believe in love so easily, Eleanor. You can't even see clearly, who really loves you." Asher spoke.
I looked at them while holding back my anger. Fiona walked quickly towards me and slapped my face very hard. It instantly sent me sprawling to the ground. I had almost lost a lot of blood by now. I closed both of my eyelids, to be able to continue to realize my mind, to continue to survive.
"We have to dispose of him immediately, Asher. I don't want anyone else to find out that Eleanor Jane is dead. We can dump her in that river."
"We can't dump her in the river, Fiona. Her body will be found and everyone will know who did it. Eleanor left with both of us. Of course, everyone will realize that we are traitors as well as murderers."
"You're right, Asher. Everyone will know that we planned this murder. But look at her. Why is there so much blood and clots coming out of her? Is there any chance that she's pregnant right now?"
Fiona's voice instantly made me open my eyelids slowly. I remembered that I had been nauseous and dizzy before. Was it possible that I was pregnant? And it's Reese's child? My baby with Reese? I, who was still pressing my stomach, sobbed. What if I really was pregnant, and now my baby is gone. Killed by Fiona's sword.
"I think she's pregnant right now." Asher answered Fiona.
"You guys are so cruel... I... I never once looked down on you. I trusted you with my life. But... but why did you betray me? What did I do wrong? Why did you... plan to kill me... and my baby?"
I sobbed even more and couldn't believe everything that was happening to me right now. And if I was pregnant, then that meant my baby was now gone. My baby and Reese are dead now.
"It's because Reese loves you too much! I, who loved him for a long time, he never even gave a second glance. But you, who didn't even love Reese in the slightest, got her love instead! I can't accept that, so my brother Asher and I are planning to make you completely leave Reese's life."
With my vision starting to fade, I saw Fiona moving her head as if she was looking for something around her. Until not long after, Fiona squatted down and forced open my mouth, she shoved a rock into my mouth. The tearing and bleeding around my mouth was instantaneous.
"I will make it impossible for anyone to recognize who you are now, Eleanor. Even if your body is found. They'll think that you're just an ordinary human who was attacked by an animal. Sis, break her face quickly! I don't want anyone to recognize her face!"
Asher quickly crouched down near me. He took out a small knife from his pocket, and began to scratch my face. Tearing and pain immediately filled my face. Even more so was Fiona who kept pressing the blade that was already embedded in my stomach to further enter my body now.
"S... stop! I beg you! Stop it!"
I tried to scream at the top of my lungs. I knew that with this stone in my mouth right now, it wouldn't be able to help me at all. My voice and words would not be heard properly.
"If you are pregnant, then die with your baby, Eleanor. Because after this, I will take your place in Reese's heart. I will make him love me and forget about you forever. I will be his Luna forever."
For a long time, I tried to endure all the torture they did. I could feel that this was the last second of my life, towards my death. My disfigured face, my blood that kept flowing, Fiona who cut my hair in a messy manner, made me really look like I was attacked by a wild animal now. I didn't even have the strength to speak anymore at all. I looked at Fiona and Asher who were already standing there. They were both looking at me with satisfaction, with what they had done to me.
"We should take her to the ravine immediately. It's the only safe and good place to dispose of someone's body." Asher muttered.
After that, Asher walked closer to me again, and immediately pulled my hair which was still short now. Asher dragged me roughly through the rocky forest road with tree roots in it. I could feel my skin and clothes being torn and also torn by the rocky road now. I looked up at the moon shining that night. In my dying hour, I wondered, could I still have a wish to the Moon Goddess?
"Hurry up and push her, Asher! I'm afraid if Reese really sends someone to check on us leaving now."
Asher stopped dragging me and released his grip on my hair, then crouched down. Asher looked at me with a look of feigned pity.
"What a wretched fate you have now, Eleanor. You can't get love from me and love from Reese anymore. Reese was even so disappointed in you that he decided to let you go. Everyone always says that you're weak because you weren't born with a wolf. But what if it was all a lie? Lies made up to make your status that much lower compared to the omegas in the pack. That sounds like fun."
I looked at Asher tiredly. But I still wanted to listen to him. Everything he said had to do with my wolf. The wolf that I couldn't even feel inside my body. I know that many people say that I was born without a wolf. That makes everyone think that I'm just an ordinary human, and will never be a full-fledged werewolf. But why did Asher say that it was all a lie? The biggest lie of my life so far.
"Before you die, it would be better if I told you another secret that Fiona and I still have now. Because, you won't be able to tell the secret of this lie to anyone after that. Not even to your own family. The truth is, you had a wolf all along. Fiona and I worked together to give you a drug that would keep your wolf asleep and never wake up for a very long time. You even took the medicine, Eleanor."
At that moment, I remembered Asher and Fiona who came with medicine for me. They said that they got the medicine from their pack healer, to help me awaken the wolf inside my body. They said it could help me switch shifts with my wolf. But the truth is that the medicine itself has been the cause of my wolf soul never being able to wake up all this time. How could they betray me so cruelly all this time?
"I'm sure you're feeling very shocked right now. But that's the truth. Fiona and I gave you medicine to suppress your wolf's consciousness. I didn't want anyone else to be Reese's Luna, other than my sister. Because by having a relationship with Reese Carson, it means I can gain the same glory as her. I don't need you at all, Eleanor."
Asher stood up and looked at me haughtily. Similarly, Fiona was smiling contentedly there.
"So now die with your baby, Eleanor Jane. No one will recognize or remember you now."
After that, Asher and Fiona pushed my body with their feet to fall into the ravine. I was thrown and kept rolling over and over the large rocks in the ravine. And when I stopped and lay down in the ravine. I wished that Moon Goddess could give me a chance to live for revenge.
I immediately closed my eyes, as I recalled all the events that happened at the moment of my death in my previous life. I hated them so much. I hated Fiona and Asher so much. And I swore that in my current life, I would definitely make them both pay for everything they had done to me. I will make them pay for the betrayal, and the pain I felt before Including to pay for the death of my baby.
My baby, and also Reese, who I myself never even knew, if I was carrying her in my previous life. And my stupidity all this time, had also killed my baby along with my old self. I will never let Fiona, and Asher live in peace after my death, and that of my baby. This will be my long revenge mission. And I'll never regret it, if I get another death later. As long as all the vengeance that I and my baby felt, had been properly paid to Fiona, and also Asher.