Page 49 of Forever My Siren Luna

“I asked you a question,” I could keep the malice out of my voice.

“I’m simply sitting here,” she said, her voice as feather soft as I expected it to be. She still doesn’t turn around or move. She just sits there, staring at the sea.

“I just got back from defending this pack against the vile races that plague us. Do you have anything to say to me?” I asked coldly, my ego hurt that the woman who was begging for my attention not too long ago now wouldn’t give me any of hers.

“No, Alpha,” Lira gently shook her head. “Not anymore.”

Not anymore? What does that mean? Is she sympathetic towards the demons and vampires, and the horrid clans that tried to kill us? Is she upset that I came back?

I slammed her door, anger eating away at me as I stomped down the stairs. She couldn’t even spare me a glance. She didn’t even move. Now that she knows I won’t sleep with her, is she too good to spare me even a glance? Is she trying to hold onto her pride now, after begging for me for nearly a year?

If she wants to be alone in that damned tower, fine by me. She can have her wish.

“If your tone were a bit nicer, maybe she would have looked at you,” Killian offered, though he wasn’t too sure himself. He wasn’t sure what to make of her behavior either.

He never wanted to concern himself with her, only wanting his mate, but I can feel his desire to discover what is bothering her right now.

“She isn’t our concern. We shouldn’t have even expected any sort of warmth from that corrupt alpha’s niece.”

Killian grumbled, and then retreated to the back of my head.

Why did I even try to find her? Now I just feel like shit. I didn’t even bathe before leaving to find her. I still have the stench of war all over me.

She didn’t bother to even ask if her own husband was alright after living in constant battle for weeks.

I needed to put her out of my mind. One more year. Just one more year and I will be free from her and her conniving uncle too.

~A year later~

“Today is the day,” Meldec delivers the annulment paperwork to my office. “You can finally make her sign you back your freedom. You can start actively looking for your mate now, just as you wanted.”

I glowered at the papers he set on my desk.

I don’t know how to feel right now. I wanted this, I know I did from the very beginning, but now I feel as if I have this hole tearing in my chest just imagining her leaving this place.

“This is it?” I looked over the first page. “Just a few sheets of paper and some ink and I’m no longer married?”

“That’s right. Even Alpha Wayne can’t dispute this. After the war with the North, he has been kind of quiet anyway. There shouldn’t be any problem.”

It’s weird how quiet Alpha Wayne has been. I know he was sending his men to meet with Lira the first year of her being here, but there haven’t been many visits since the war ended. He was probably trying to gain intel on our pack from her, and once he knew she wasn’t getting any, he gave up on her.

She seems to have given up on herself too. No matter how I try to coax her or taunt her, I can’t get her to respond with anything more than a “yes, Alpha” or “no, Alpha”. She clearly doesn’t want to be here anymore either, so why am I so reluctant to let her go?

“If you would fucking talk nicely to her, maybe she would respond better to you. She might act differently too.” Killian has remained upset with my treatment towards Lira, though he can’t really tell me why.

“She could still be a spy for her Uncle. Nothing about my desire for her makes sense, and you shouldn’t even care if she’s not your mate,” I snapped back at my Lycan.

“You can still be nice,” Killian grumbled, retreating to the back of my head.

I wish I could be nice. I don’t know what comes over me when I’m with her. I get so angry at her coldness. It seems like she thinks she was the only one trapped in this marriage. Was she so loyal to her uncle that she rejected her mate to try to seduce me? I don’t know how she could so happily accept this marriage unless she was a spy for Alpha Wayne, or at the very least a tool he was using to gain more access to my pack. Why else would he be sure she could give me an heir in the two-year time limit? He must have been sure of her ability to seduce a man. I probably just hurt her pride by refusing her for so long.

“Want me to have it delivered to her?” Meldec asked me.

“No,” I stood at my desk. “I can see her one last time.”

I should get this over with. I almost expected Killian to reject the annulment at this point. He stays silent, though, even as I climb the tower stairs, which are becoming more and more familiar to me now. I find myself taking them more often lately. Even at night when I can’t sleep, I’ll sneak up here to watch her sometimes.

That all stops today. She will be leaving this place, and we can stop torturing one another.