Rejected Luna: Untamed Desire Of The Lycan Alpha

Chapter 214: Foolish Pride (2)

Inez closed the books that she had collected. She wondered if she could ever finish the ancient hymns written by the goddess of healing herself. When she picked up the task, she thought, –Oh sure, it’s going to be as easy as eating a little pie. After all, she was a siren; this should be in her blood. Only now did she realise that it wasn’t that simple.

She didn’t feel the tug, nor could she see the aether turning golden whenever she finished writing the lost verses of the hymns. According to the book, the aether—the very soul, the mana or the magic within the hymns—was supposed to turn golden if a siren succeeded in writing the correct hymn.

But forget about turning the aether golden; Inez couldn’t even see any fizzle of it till now. No wonder the sirens who tried to rewrite these hymns turned crazy. Because she, too, could see herself walking down the same path. The lost hymns were not just hymns; they were the legacy of sirens – one that every siren dreamed of.

Sighing, she walked down the path. Her eyes flickered as she looked at the white and golden decor. The white flowers were a mix of white peonies, lilies and jasmine. Tall decorative vases sat all over the paths, which were now covered by a golden carpet.

Flashy. This was the first thought that came to Inez’s mind when she saw the many decorative items that were placed all over the pack.

"No, no. Like I told you, I am trying for a more serene...atmosphere, you know? Remove the red ribbons and replace them with golden ones. We need everyone to feel at home," said Nyx with a frown as she quibbled with the man who stood beside her.

The man nodded and said to her, "I will get them down at once, Miss Virella."

Nyx hummed before adding, "Don’t try to make these arrangements different, Mister Hopkins. My mother is going to be fifty, not fifteen. She is not a fucking teenager; if someone saw the decorations getting all flashy, it would look simply wrong on my mother’s part. Not to mention it’s just not her birthday. Edira is celebrating too, you know?"

"Of course, I am really sorry about the mistake made by these idiots. I will arrange only the best for you and the pack. Don’t worry; by the time I am done arranging everything, this place will look like heaven’s entrance to you," promised Mister Hopkins.

Nyx nodded. She was standing at the end of the same path where Inez was coming down from; thus, when she moved her head up, she saw Inez at once. She called, "Inez, I see you are done with the healing sessions. I was worried that you were thinking of keeping yourself cooped up all because you wanted to avoid the party."

Inez suppressed the nagging feeling in the back of her head. After finding out the twisted personality of Nyx, she kept herself away from her. She didn’t understand Nyx and her actions, but at the same time, after watching Morrineth always comparing her to her dead sister Lyra, she had an inkling that Nyx wanted everyone’s attention on herself.

At least that way, she could feel good about herself.

As for how honest she was toward her, Inez never stopped to consider. She stepped forward and looked at Nyx with a smile. "I was, but Morrineth sent a word that she wanted to see everyone at the party." A subtle suspicion told her that the woman was only doing it because she wished to see Inez embarrassed.

After all, Dominic would be here.

Inez waited for the subtle pang in her heart to appear at the mere thought of the man, but nothing. She felt nothing. Somewhere, she wondered if she was completely broken, but Inez couldn’t care about that man at the moment. If anything, she wondered what Killian was up to at the moment or what he was doing. Or would he look just as deliciously tempting as he did last night when he was thrusting within her? noveldrama

See good thoughts. She was capable of having good thoughts. Though she had no idea what her wolf thought about it. Because she was still silent as ever.

Inez knew that there were chances that her wolf could just, you know, disappear, but she had a feeling that her wolf was very much alive. Nia was one tough shit, and she would hate to give all her space to Inez’s siren.

Within her, she could hear her siren snort as if she was disgusted by the thought that Inez even thought that Nia was suppressing it. Instead, it was she who was being generous and letting that mutt be a much bigger presence within Inez.

"Of course she does," Nyx exhaled heavily. She reached out and held Inez by her shoulders before saying to her, "Don’t take anything she says to you seriously; my mom can be one pain in the arse but she will be too busy to make things anymore difficult for you than she already does." As if realising that she had said something that she shouldn’t have, the woman turned to look at the front and said, "What do you think? It’s good, isn’t it?"

Inez looked around and nodded. "It’s indeed beautiful."

"I know, right? Selene said that we should go with roses, red and white ones, but I refused," said Nyx as she spared a glance in the direction of Selene’s lodge. "I told her that with my mother and Edira crossing fifty, there is no point in using red roses. It will not suit their age; what do you say?"

"I don’t understand such things, Nyx," said Inez, trying to subtly step away from the conversation for she knew Nyx well enough to not take her words seriously at all.

"Oh, it’s alright," said Nyx as she continued to prattle, "By the way, did you see the main lodge? Where the party will be held today."