Chapter 262 – True Luna Book Free: The Darkness Within

“Fair enough,” he said as he wrapped his arm around my shoulders.

I smiled at him and we continued walking toward our mom’s office.

I took a deep breath as Lex opened the door. We walked inside and Anna looked up at us.

“How is she?” Anna asked worriedly.

“Fighting,” I said. “She has a fever.”

Anna sighed and shook her head. “It’s one of the symptoms. Her body can’t take it so it’s trying to fight back every way it knows how to.”

I nodded as I sat in the armchair. I watched Lex as he walked to the couch and sat down with a huff.

“Where is Hunter?” Anna asked and I looked back at her.

“Talking to his dad,” I said. “He will probably have to go to his pack for a day or two.”

Anna raised an eyebrow at me.

“And leave you?” she asked, making me sigh.

“He is an Alpha,” I said. “He hasn’t been back home in a very long time. There are issues his dad can’t solve anymore.”

Hunter’s pack members were starting to ask a lot of questions. They hadn’t seen their Alpha in a while and they were getting suspicious and worried. Alpha Nathan explained the situation to them, but he felt like it would be better if Hunter came home for a day or two. Hunter wasn’t too happy about it, but he knew that his dad was right. He was an Alpha and he needed to go talk to his pack members.

I would miss him terribly, but it was only for a day or two. He would come back as soon as he could.

Anna nodded and walked to my mom’s desk. She sat in my mom’s chair and opened the book that was in front of her.

“Tell me you found something,” I said, my voice trembling slightly.

Anna looked up and furrowed her eyebrows.

“I am not sure,” she said, leaning forward and flipping a page. “Not much is written about this curse or the darkness that followed.”

I wiggled in my seat nervously. I already knew that.

“But?” Lex asked, making Anna glance at him.

“But there is a paragraph in the original books about the curse that I can’t seem to get out of my mind,” Anna said, flipping through the pages.

I furrowed my eyebrows and looked at Lex. He was staring at Anna with a confused expression on his face.

“Ah, here it is,” Anna said as she picked up the book.

“What does it say?” I asked, swallowing the lump in my throat.

“It says that the witches didn’t choose the first True Luna only because of her qualities and her mate being an Alpha,” Anna said, keeping her eyes on the book. “Another reason is mentioned here. There is only one sentence written about it and that’s probably why we never paid much attention to it.”

“What reason?” Lex asked and I could hear the impatience in his voice.

“There was a rumor going around that True Luna’s fated mate was going to reject her,” Anna said as she looked up at us. “The dark witches thought that him rejecting her would only add to his anger and jealousy once he realized that there was another man for her.”

My heart raced.

“I don’t understand,” Lex said. “How is that connected to my mom’s darkness?”

Anna took a deep breath and looked at me.

“Our dad rejected our mom,” I said quietly, making Anna nod.

“Your mom is now fighting Sienna somewhere in her mind,” Anna said. “She is someone who hurt your mom. She is a dark stain on your mom’s past.”

I swallowed the lump in my throat. It was getting harder and harder for me to breathe.

“Unfortunately, a lot of fuckers hurt my mom,” Lex said as he stood up and approached Anna and me. “Are you telling me that she will have to fight them all?”

Anna looked up at him and shrugged.

“I am not sure,” she said. “Maybe she will.”

Anna glanced at me before looking back up at Lex. I knew what she was going to say next and my stomach kept twisting and turning.

“But I believe that the last person she will have to fight will be the hardest,” Anna said. “I believe that if she defeats him, she will defeat the darkness.”

“Who is he?” Lex asked angrily.

I closed my eyes and tried to force the air into my lungs.

“Your father,” Anna said and I felt my heart break into a million tiny pieces.

Alexander’s POV

Waiting for my uncle to wake up was the longest four hours of my life.

I wanted to wake him up immediately. I wanted to scream and tell them all that Anna was insane.

Because she was.

There was no fucking way that my mom would have to fight my dad. No fucking way.

What did Anna even think would happen? Did she think that my parents would even want that? Did she think that my dad would willingly fight my mom? He would surrender immediately. He would never hurt her, not even if it cost him his life. But why did Anna think that my mom would just accept that? Did she really think that my mom would hurt my dad? She gave herself to The Rogue King to save everyone, including my dad! There was no fucking way my mom would hurt him. No fucking way.

“Lex…,” Fia spoke, but I interrupted her when I looked at her sternly.

“I don’t want to hear it, Fia,” I said as I continued pacing around the office. “She is wrong.”

“I could be wrong, Alex,” Anna sighed. “But something is telling me that I am not.”

I growled at Anna.

She was wrong. She had to be wrong. Not only she was wrong, but she was insane too.

The door opened and I turned around abruptly, ready to scream at my uncle and tell him that Anna was fucking crazy.

It wasn’t my uncle, though. It was Hunter.

I rolled my eyes and continued pacing around the office.

“What happened?” Hunter asked as he approached Fia. “I could feel Alex’s Alpha aura even before I entered the room.”

He was glancing at me worriedly, but I couldn’t give a shit about that. Where the fuck was my uncle?

“Why is it taking him so long?” I growled as I ran my fingers through my hair.

“He will be here in a few minutes, Lex,” Fia said with a small sigh. “He was sleeping. He should still be sleeping. The only reason Aunt Daisy woke him up was because you wouldn’t stop pressing her to do so.”

I rolled my eyes at her.

“Will someone explain to me what is going on?” Hunter asked with annoyance in his voice.

I continued pacing around. I wasn’t going to explain anything because there was nothing to explain. Anna was wrong. She was so fucking wrong.

“Well, Anna thinks…,” Fia began explaining, but she was interrupted when the door opened.

My uncle, aunt, Mason, and Jake walked inside. My uncle looked exhausted and regret washed over me. Maybe I should have left him to sleep for a little while longer.

But we had more important things to do. He would sleep later.

“What’s going on, Alex?” my uncle asked as he sat on the couch.

“I think that I know what Emma needs to do to get rid of the darkness forever,” Anna said, making my uncle jump off the couch abruptly.

“What?!” my uncle exclaimed loudly.

Aunt Daisy gasped and a smile spread across her face. I could see small glimpses of excitement on Mason and Jake’s faces.

“Don’t be so excited,” I said, glancing at Anna angrily. “It’s not true.”

“Just because you don’t want it to be true, it doesn’t mean that it’s not,” Fia said with a small sigh.

I growled at her and Hunter immediately growled back at me. I rolled my eyes at him.

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