Moon Child

Hopeful~

Welcome back, we got a few chapters left to this story. So I hope you all have been enjoying it so far. Be prepared for a major character death, maybe even two...

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My mind was spinning at what felt like a hundred miles a second, jumping endlessly back to my mom. I had been thinking about her since yesterday, which was when Calypso and Esma showed me the truth. They showed me why they wanted to hide that from me so badly.

My mother was a monster.

And I was her child.

I dreaded the fact that those people knew my mother and what she had done. I dreaded even more that I had to be related to her. Though the witches treated me normally, part of me couldn't help but think that they didn't trust me. I couldn't help but think that they thought I was going to snap just like she did.

And maybe before my death I would have worried about turning into her. But not now. Not after my previous mate had killed me just like she did my dad. I had seen what kind of person she was, and I loathed her for that.

I would never be like her.

I gazed out at the lake, hiding my dissatisfaction when I felt someone sit down next to me. There was only one person who I didn't mind interrupting my thinking, and that was my mate. So one could imagine my irritation when I looked to the right to see my brother.

The same brother that called me unnatural, and hadn't spoken to me in weeks, now sat next to me. I was about to roll my eyes, but I decided against that and just stared back out at the lake instead.

"Come to treat me like a little science experiment again?" I asked bluntly, not bothering to spare him a glance. I was angry at him, so he was lucky that I was even speaking to him. If he had caught me a couple days ago, I probably would have thrown him in the water.

But luckily for him, I was only mildly irritated.

I felt him shift right beside me, and out of the corner of my eye I saw him pull his knees up to his chest. He looked like he was making himself comfortable, which annoyed me even more. I didn't want him anywhere near me. Yet here he was, being a pain in the ass.

"I'm here to talk." He grumbled, and I snorted.

"Yeah, because our last talk wasn't good enough for you, was it?"

"Listen, I'm really sorry about that. I took it way too far and-"

"And you expect everything to be alright? Where were you when the pack land was being blown up by Savannah and Harrison?" I asked him, finally turning to look at him. He seemed surprised that I had noticed his poor attendance. And I was surprised that he would have thought that I wouldn't notice.

Like did he think I just suddenly forgot about his existence like he did mine?

Absolutely not. Well kind of. But we aren't going to talk about that.

I stared at him intensely, watching as he looked down at his hands. I knew that being with an alpha had made it so that everyone automatically looked down when you looked at them, but the fact that Ethan did just made me mad.

"Fucking hell, Ethan," I snapped, "I'm your sister for fucksake, stop acting as if you have to tip toe around me!"

"I can't help it, Estrella!" He shouted, "You were dead for four years! And you come back to life expecting everything to go back to normal when you have no idea what I've went through? I can't do that!"

I was taken back hugely by his reaction, but not because anything he said was a lie. I was taken back because everything he said made sense. Up in the stars, time went by so fast, so the fact that I was dead for four years rarely crossed my mind. But when I realized that life went on for four years without me, it sucked.