The Mute Luna: The Rise Of Skye

she is mine

Arthur’s P.O.V. (Continued)

I moved my gaze in his direction, keeping my pace deliberately slow, escalating the tension in the room.

“Her father, you say?” I asked him mockingly.

His gaze hardened, but he left his head high, showing his arrogance and trying to prove her claim over Skye.

“What a father you are, Wilfred. You asked the kidnappers to do whatever they wanted to do with her, and then kill her if they want…. Just don’t let anyone find her body…. What a devoted father you are.”

He froze, stopped breathing, and his eyes went still.

“What?” Mom gasped in shock, and I heard a faint, disappointed grunt coming from my father, but I locked my gaze on Wilfred.

“Skye….. m… my sister… she…. She is a great manipulator, Alpha Arthur….. d…. don’t let her fool you…. Pl… please, don’t believe whatever she said. I… we… know her better than you,” Gloria spoke fearfully, pinning the blame on Skye, but this was her biggest mistake.

“But Skye is mute, right?” I asked her tauntingly.

She froze….

“The whole estate knows that Skye was unconscious for more than three days after she was rescued from the river…. And she is mute…. Then tell me, Ms. Ashford…. What method did your sister use to manipulate me?” I asked her, throwing the ball in her court.

She looked at her father for help, but he was still in the same state of shock.

I looked at Wilfred again.

“Remember this, Wilfred…. The day you let her engage with me, you lost all your authority over her. She lives in my pack and is my pack member. Only I have authority over her,” I announced in a commanding tone.

“You…. You can’t do this to me, Arthur. She is my daughter, and no one can change this fact.” He screamed again, and I lost my patience.

“The day you sold her to me to save your reputation, you lost all authority over her, Wilfred. You don’t get to reclaim what you discarded. Now get out and think thrice before coming back here. I, now have only one fiancée and only Skye will be my Luna in the future, and will carry my mark. If…. If something happens to her….. I have already announced that I will not take another Luna.” I repeated my announcement in a commanding and cold tone.

“Arthur.” My mother called me softly.

“You let them in, mother,” I spoke to her coldly.

“You think that my fiancée can be replaced by anyone and it’s acceptable.”

“You think that my decision can be overturned, and I will accept it.”

“You think that it’s okay to discard a woman according to your convenience.”

“Tell me, mother. Where do you put me as the alpha of this pack in all these thoughts of yours?”

The room fell silent, and I saw tears in my mother’s eyes.

But I didn’t soften.

I didn’t want to confront her at any time soon, thought about giving her a second chance to treat Skye well, but it seems that my silence made them bolder than I had anticipated.

“For three months….” I continued in a tone colder than earlier.

“For three months…. That girl you deemed unworthy was being starved, abused, and fed leftovers.”

Her lips trembled, but I didn’t stop.

“You failed her as a Luna, mother.”

“You failed me as a mother.”

A sharp inhalation filled the room.

“I….” she tried to speak, but her voice choked.

“didn’t know.”

A bitter and mocking smile crept on my lips.

“And that led to her kidnapping.” I finished and looked at Thomas who was standing outside the living room, peeking inside from a corner.

“Escort them out and announce to all the guards……. No one will enter the pack without my approval.” I commanded coldly, and then without giving them any second glance, I strode out of the room.

“Arthur…. You… please don’t do this… our alliance.”

“Is over, Wilfred….. the second you sold your eldest daughter to me, our alliance was over.”

I didn’t leave a room for him to argue.

But he was persistent.

“But she is my d…”

I stopped in my tracks and snapped my head in his direction, startling him in the process. He stopped abruptly, falling backward in the process.

“Mentioned her name again, and I will forget that you are her father.”

This was enough to make him understand that he had no power over me.

Gloria was now a crying mess inside the living room.

I just threw a glance at my father from outside the door.

“Handle the political fallout,” I ordered coldly and strode away without waiting for his reply.

“You got defensive more than you should,” Fenrir remarked, his face painted with seriousness.

“Before my fiancée, she is a woman, and they need to learn how to respect a woman….. how to treat her as a human,” I replied to Fenrir sternly.

Skye’s P.O.V.

I watched them escorting Gloria and my father out of the estate with a cold expression.

They didn’t know that if I wanted to hear a conversation at a far distance, I could do it easily.

So, I heard every word spoken in the living room when I didn’t set foot outside the room.

I expected all the taunts and remarks about me to come from my father and Gloria’s mouth, but I didn’t expect Arthur’s strong reaction.

“What do you want to prove, Arthur?” I mumbled to myself while watching Gloria wailing like a shrew.

Her perfectly caked face was now a tear mess, but my mind was playing Arthur’s words in the back of my mind like a broken record.

They used my muteness as a leverage over me, and he used the same thing as a weapon against them.

Alpha Arthur Froste….

The insensitive Alpha whose heart had turned stone after his first mate’s death….

He never spoke more than two or three sentences in a day, spoke too much in my defense, using their words against them, and his determination to keep me as his fiancée….

And what was that….

I will be the only one who will carry his mark on my neck…

“What actually do you want to do, Arthur?” I mumbled to myself again, facing the storm going on in my head.

I sighed and slowly walked back to bed.

I could now stand up and take a slow and small walk, but they didn’t know.

They didn’t ask and I didn’t say anything to them.

After settling myself in the bed, I covered my lower body with the sheet and stared at the roof with no particular thought in my mind.

He taunted my father for discarding me…

But didn’t he do the same thing????

I sighed when I remembered that he still sent William to rescue me, and that’s why I am here, kicking and alive….

“Mora… when will you come back, girl? I miss you so much,” I whispered to my wolf, but all I got was silence as the answer.

If she were there, she would have rolled on the ground while laughing hard at my father and Gloria.

I should have been there so that I could do something to humiliate Gloria as a small act of revenge.

I looked at the door when I heard a soft knock on it.

William entered the room and passed a soft smile before greeting me formally.

"Good morning, Luna. How are you feeling now?" he asked me with a faint smile.

I just shook my head, stating that I am okay.

"I brought you a new phone and a new SIM card," he said again while taking a brand new phone out of the packet in his hand.

I immediately lit up and took the phone from him.

"I have fed three numbers in it as per Alpha's instructions," he told me further, and I just bobbed my head; my attention was on the phone.

I opened it and started browsing its functions.

"Alpha also told me to inform you that you will start training from tomorrow onward." I just bobbed my head in agreement while checking on the phone, but froze when I registered what I just heard.

"Great.... then I am going to bring some training gear for you. Alpha Arthur will personally train you. How lucky you are," William chirped, but I felt as if the sky had fallen on me.

"You.... you." I tried to speak hurriedly, but other than a gagging sound, nothing came out.

"Aaah.." I screamed helplessly and then looked at my phone hurriedly.

"No need to panic, Luna.... this phone has a special function for you," Arthur spoke to me gently, and I immediately looked at him expectantly.