Rejected, Then Reborn
Chapter 39

“Start talking, Lacy… and you better tell me the whole truth.” The Lyken Princess glared at her human friend, a strict look on her face.

She had been worried about her friend since the Alpha King had carried her out of the club, but being the only Royal of Rank left behind, she had had to tend to the crazy man who had been suicidal enough to challenge his Alpha King.

Want to know the crazy thing?

Unlike in the human society where Reed would have no doubt been arrested even if he had been the world’s most powerful person had the man died, over here, he was being hailed for defending his title as Alpha King.

Yes, he may have been a tad extra about it… you know, taken things a little bit to the extreme, and at first, Princess Anaya had thought that it was just Ace’s insane thirst for b***d that had caused that rather unfortunate incident, (Everyone knew of Ace’s cruelty and his strength) but now, with what she had just walked in on, the she-Lyken was willing to bet everything she had that it had had something to do with the girl without a Lyken wolf demurely sitting before her.

“Well?” She gave the human a pointed look, “What are you waiting for? Out with it already.”

And so Lacy Reynolds proceeded to tell her friend everything, from finding her husband cheating, to how he tried to kill her more than once, to the Goddess arrangement and how things turned out differently and she was paired with Reed.

She told her friend about the guards who had tried to abuse her, told her about the s*x contract and how Xavier had even saved her once over it.

She even told the Princess about her k****s with the Alpha King and how despite everything that had happened to them, he still wanted to cling to the belief that Lykens did not get mates. As for what had happened in the room earlier, that was pretty self-explanatory and so Lacy skipped that bit, explaining to her friend that they had both amicably agreed that she return back to her human family even though the rejection process failed.

“No, Lacy. Don’t do this. You can’t leave? Can’t you see that this is a sign?” The Princess argued passionately when she was done. “The very fact that this bond between you is so unbreakable that iron clad rules of rejection is not working on it should be enough of an indication.” Tears stood in the she-Lyken’s green eyes, “You two can work past this.”

Lacy smiled sadly at her friend.

It was not every day one met a soul sister in the oddest of situations, and Lacy knew without a doubt that if nothing at all, she was always going to be grateful to the Moon Goddess for bringing this one into her life if not for anything else. The girl was one of the people she was certainly going to miss when she returned back home. “Some things just can’t be fixed, Anaya,” She explained to her friend quietly.

“How could I have been so blind to all of this?” The princess stood up this time, finding that she actually needed to pace a little to clear her head. It was all a little too much, and the funny, and sad thing was that she was so pumped up about it that she couldn’t even bring herself to be devastated for Rieka. But that didn’t mean she didn’t pity the woman.

As a matter of that, Anaya pitied all of them, three clueless, powerful in their own right people made pawns to forces above them, tied together in an intricate entanglement that was only going to lead to pain and heartbreak.

But if Anaya was being honest with herself, it was exactly the kind of thing she had been praying for all her life.

Something as fairy tale-like as this, a pull towards another that was beyond common understanding, divine love and divine selection, one that no one at all could come between. It was exactly what she wanted.

It was exactly what she wanted with the good doctor, Xavier Mendoza.

Which was why she couldn’t for the love of her fathom why Reed would so easily toss it to the curb.

She knew her elder brother was all things, but all this while, she actually didn’t think stupid was one. She didn’t think blind was another one either.

“Can we stop talking about this, and you know, move on to other matters? This is like my last night here at the B***d Moon Clan after all.” Lacy changed the topic, trying to pump some excitement into the way she was feeling even though she was feeling anything but, “Where are your girls?”

Anaya rolled her eyes at the question, her reaction causing Lacy to burst out in laughter. “If they annoy you so much, why are you friends with them anyway, Naya?”

“I don’t know? Just so I don’t remain alone?”

“Life is too short to be saddled with people you don’t really like, you know?”

“I know.” Anaya said the words grumpily like a little toddler being allowed to hand over her favorite play toy to the house guest. “It’s just that the societal class situations on here do not really make room for that.”

“What are you talking about?”

“Well, unlike in your world where the class systems have been made flexible now and you people can mingle and have fun amongst yourselves, they’re still pretty much distinct here.”

Lacy c****d her head to the side, a look of confusion making its way into her eyes. “Wait. So, you’re telling me that someone from your Delta or, I don’t know Epsilon ranks cannot interact with the Eta’s?”

“Exactly that. And it’s not some staunch laid down rule, it has just become some sort of convention since that’s practically what’s been done for centuries.” She shrugged, sweeping her bone straight hair to one side on her right shoulder, even as the human girl pondered over what she said.

“But—but no, that’s just horrible.”

“It’s not horrible. It’s just the way things are done here.”

“And are you okay with how things are done here?” Lacy quipped back at her friend, not even bothering to mask her disappointment. “You were able to so easily and so comfortably approach me the first time we met that I’m actually surprised that you’re going along with this.” She admitted truthfully.

It was truly one of the beauties of their still budding friendship that Lacy liked—just how easily she could call her friend out when she was being wrong without acknowledging her rank.

“Meeting you was different, Lacy.” The Princess clarified, “You were not from around here, and were therefore not bound to the social conventions we had tied ourselves to. You know, meeting you was one of the best things that had happened to me in a long time, and then we interacted and I realised that it was like kindred spirits finally reuniting, it filled me with this inexplicable content,” A tear dropped from her eye, and then two, and then she was full on bawling her heart out, “And now you want to leave me, I’m going to be here all alone and nothing over here is ever going to be the same without you, and the worst part is that you’re going to forget about me and any memories we might have made of this place.”

Awwww.

Lacy pulled her friend in for a tight hug, “I could never forget you, Anaya. I don’t know, but doing that to me would practically e like forgetting how to breathe. Both are impossible.” She assured her friend, but Anaya was totally having none of it. “You’re going to forget about me, Lacy. It is something that’s practically inevitable if you’re still hell bent on leaving.”

Okay, now Lacy was worried.

There was just something about the absolute certainty in the girl’s voice and tone that was not sitting right in the human girl’s chest. “What are you talking about?” She found herself asking, despite the chill of foreboding that swept over her entire body, clothing her with goosebumps.

“Okay, Lacy,” The Princess started, reaching for her friend’s hands, “Remember when I told you that we Lykens would do whatever it takes to make sure that humanity does not get to know about us?”

“Yes?”

“Well, one of the things we do, involves mind wiping.” She answered, “So all memories of your stay here and all the things that happened to you in the past month, and probably in your time with the werewolves too would be completely erased.”