The Luna's Pure Heart
The Luna’s Pure Heart – Chapter 40

(Damion pov)

That was the longest Titus had taken over in a long time..usually, we go on a path of destruction, hunting trespassing rogues, and keeping the woods around us empty and safe from intruders. But last night..he was different..he was civil for once in his life..it was shocking, to say the least.

I wanted to take over, to run from Eleanor and her wolf before she could see how much of a monster we were, but she actually approached us. She walked up to us without an ounce of fear in her eyes. I couldn’t believe it, even my Beta and Gamma were still afraid of Titus after everything we have been through together. That’s why I don’t let him out often, because he takes over and locks me in my mind. I see glimpses and bits of what he is doing but never the full thing. So when I saw Eleanor had shifted and actually hugged Titus in her human form I couldn’t believe it.

‘Our mate accepts us..she accepts me.’

Titus snarled, hating how I thought of him as a monster. But honestly, it’s hard to forget all of the times people ran away screaming from us like we were one and I was raised to think that way. So the fact that Eleanor didn’t run, the fact that she seemed to enjoy us was astonishing.

After last night and this morning, I don’t think I can keep this up any longer. This plan that seemed so simple before and now seems like the worst idea I have ever had in my life. The real question though was if she is able to accept Titus so easily, will she be able to accept me and the things I have done in the past? How I was a coward and let the people who were most important to me die.

I shifted back into my human form, walking towards a tree where I knew we kept an emergency set of clothes, and slipped them on.

I needed to get a grip on myself…I need to think about this alone and figure out how the hell I’m going to do this. How am I going to put it all out there and let her decide what to do. This is the first time in my life where I can actually see a future, and Eleanor Winters is it..she is my future.

I need to protect her at all costs, I can’t let her be alone any longer, and need to have her by my side no matter what. I know Pierce is with her now, walking her back to her room but after we talk and I show all of myself to her..if she decides to accept me and wants to give me a chance then she will never leave my side again because I know for a fact my uncle will do anything to get to her. He wants to take everything away from me and if I accept this, if I take Eleanor as my mate..she will be his next target.

Let’s see him f*****g try..I knew it would end up like this because even though the last girl was my fake mate..he used her against me, just because he wanted to prove something. To try and gain control over me and when I let down my guard for the briefest moment, she used that opportunity to try and kill me. Her allegiance to my Uncle got her killed..she didn’t confirm his name, but I knew it was him. Jake told me it was him but I had no proof. That’s how messed up this man is..he wants the throne, he wants everything I have because he feels he was robbed. He should have been king, and this life should have been his.

He won’t ever challenge me though, he knows he can’t beat Titus..he tried to have my father do it, that was the test, to see how easily I could be taken down and it ended up costing my father’s life, making me King. I don’t regret doing it, especially how my dad took the lives of my mother and sister, and how ruthless and cruel he was. That day plays back in my mind..the way my father went mad with rage, unlike anything I had ever seen. He said my mother had cheated on him, that she tried to seduce his own brother..that she wanted to take the throne from him.

My dad lunged at her, snapping completely as he began hitting her like a maniac, in the process my little sister was knocked back, her head hitting a rock and she died instantly..I just stood there in shock, watching as my father beat my mother to death. I held my sister in my twelve-year-old arms, unable to move as I knew my world had just crumbled.

After my father came to his senses, he looked down at his hands, as if the fog of rage had cleared and he realized what he had just done.

“Why didn’t you stop me..why didn’t you help them.” He yelled at me, lashing out. Not taking any responsibility, saying it was all my fault, that I was to blame

Why didn’t I stop him..it’s true..I should have stopped it all.

“You did this, you could have stopped this.” His words still echo through me as I look down at my sister’s lifeless body. A nightmare that still haunts me today..two lives that were taken..then my father sent me away, making me live a life full of hate..a life based on revenge, and I did it, I took the life of the man who destroyed my world. There was only one person left who is still responsible. He tried to convince the elders that my mother pushed my sister, tarnishing her name and saying my father saved me from her wrath because she wanted to destroy her monster of a son. I was locked away, a mere child without a voice.

I should have done something that day. I couldn’t help but wish some nights that it should have been me. If I would have tried to stop my father, it could have been me. Then they would have lived and their lives would have been worth much more than mine. Now I am seen as a ruthless monster, a beast with a heart made of stone, and no one had been able to get past that, no one except Eleanor Winters and now I need to tell her the truth. I need to show her who I really am before I give her my heart because I’m afraid that now that it has started beating again since that horrible day..it can also be broken.