Page 26 of Losing My Siren Luna

“Gain her trust and not act like such an intolerable brat. You are going to make her hate us more. She might hate you, but I did nothing wrong. If you keep messing up, I’ll take over. Apologize to the damn Delta.”

Even my own Lycan is shaming me. Goddess, I don’t want to do this, but I’ll do it for her. I can’t make her any more mad at me.

“I’m sorry I growled at you and hurt your feelings.” I tell him begrudgingly out loud. “You are going to pay for this later. I hope you know that,”I growl at him in the mind link.

He tries to hold back the grin on his face at hearing my threat. “I accept your apology, Alpha,” he says out loud, then adds in the link, “And I think you will be paying more for this than I will. Seriously, Alpha. The lass dislikes you enough as it is.”

I growl through the link, not liking the reminder of her disfavor. “Keep your hands away from her butt and my jealousy might not flare up,”I snap. . He snorts, not amused by my jealousy in the least.

Lira is looking between us, her eyes narrowing the more she studies us. She knows we’re mind linking.

I try to offer her a reassuring smile, but it doesn’t soften her disgruntled demeanor. Yeah, she hates me.

“I told you,”Killian grumbles.

“Shut up,”I snap back.

Lira sighs wearily, then turns to look up at my Delta. I almost growl again seeing the small smile she offers him. “Cherum, thank you for your help. I think I’ll head inside to assist Mimi and the maids.”

“Alright, Ela. I’ll be here early tomorrow to show you around your new home,” he says, gripping her shoulder reassuringly before letting her go.

She sends me one last nasty look before entering her new room, closing the door behind her.

“No wonder,” Cherum muses, running his fingers through his beard while staring at her door.

“No wonder what?” I grumble, , glaring openly at the traitor now that Lira couldn’t see.

He jerks his head to the side, indicating I should follow him as he starts walking down the hall. “She can probably still hear us,”He mind links me.

Shit, he’s right. I sigh heavily and walk with him back down the hall towards the main foyer. When we are a good distance away, he answers my question.

“No wonder the Luna hates you,” he states, shaking his head disapprovingly, then peeking around us to be sure no one is listening. “So, it’s true you had a whore here with you earlier and she caught you?”

I groan.. “I didn’t have a whore here intentionally. Leona showed up at my door drunk and wanting in. I was telling her to leave, but that was the moment Lira came. It was just a misunderstanding.”

He nods, continuing to pull on his beard. “She is your mate, correct? Ela, I mean.”

I glowered at his nickname for her. “I told you she was. Why else would I go out of my way for that horrible man’s niece? She’s mine.”

“I just want to be sure, because she is fighting the bond awfully hard. If I observed her actions alone, I wouldn’t think you two were mates at all.”

I ran both my hands down my face, feeling like I had aged twenty years in one day. “We got off on the wrong foot,” I mumble..

We got off on the wrong foot, and kept stumbling down a rocky cliff into an endless pit of painful mistakes and regrets for two years until she rejected me. Then, we both came back to this day with those previous mistakes lingering over us. Add to that the countless misunderstandings and bad occurrences of today and I’m feeling as helpless as ever.

“I’ll fix this,” I state confidently, more confidently than I truly feel right now.

“You better,” Cherum says, “because all you are doing is proving all the rumors about you to be true today. If I lose my Luna because you can’t get yourself under control, it is you who will have to answer to me. Quit mistreating my Luna, or I won’t blame her if she rejects you. Hell, I might encourage it.”

I can’t even argue with him. It is his sole purpose to protect his Luna, even from me.

“I’m still running your ass into the ground in the morning,” I growl..

He chuckles at my threat. “That’s fine. Just make sure you’re just showing your asshole self to only us. Don’t let her see that side of you. Not until she accepts you, at least.”

When I growl at his insult, he holds his hands up in surrender, “No offense, Alpha. I just don’t want her to hate you more than she already does.”

“Too bad she already knows that side of you, better than anyone else,”Killian mutters in my head.