No Redemption (Completed book 6 of the Atonement Saga)

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“I don’t know, can you be her friend or is that too difficult? You will always be beta and my friend but can you be that for her?”

He chews his lips nodding his head

“Yes, yes I can do that. It’s her birthday right?”

I nod

“Yeah, why?”

“She wants me to come for breakfast, so we go to training and I’ll come to breakfast, if the conversation comes up we tell her the truth”

I nod my head

“Ok then let’s do that”

“Can I borrow shorts?”

I nod my head

“Yeah go grab stuff, I’ll wake her”

He nods, getting up and heading down the hall to my room. I get up and go to her, kneeling down I kiss her lips softly, pushing her thick brown hair from her face. She groans kissing back. I smile against her lips as she opens her eyes.

“Morning beautiful”

She grins at me, sitting up she pulls me into a hug, burrying her head in the crook of my neck. I grab her waist and yank her up and off the sofa, she wraps her legs around my waist kissing my throat.

Her sweet lavender scent wraps around me like a blanket, her arms around my neck made me realise I really had made the right choice. Her happiness comes first, she comes first.

I take a seat at the table, kissing her cheek and nose and lips, she pulls back grinning, softly pressing her lips against my own but she freezes as gavin walks up the hall from our room.

“Morning”

She signs, looking back at me confused

“He wanted to tell you happy birthday”

She grins looking at him

“Happy birthday, how do you feel?”

He asks her

“Better now that your ok, you are ok?”

She asks, I pull her back against my chest, resting my cheek against her own and smiling, her touch was amazing, how her skin felt against my own was always so nice but somehow this morning the tingles felt even more intense

“Ofcourse I’m ok, are you?”

I watch her face, feeling the bond as she signs back

“I couldn’t sleep thinking about you, but I feel better today”

“Good because we are going to be choosing your guards today”

He tells her, she looks at me with her nose screwed up

“Seriously? I don’t need guards”

“Yes you do, this pack is not used to having a deaf Luna, your pack adapted very quickly but my people are slower to trust, and frankly I trust nobody but the people in this room with your safety”

She rolls her eyes shaking her head

“Hope has my back and you both have my back, I don’t need a guard. I’m going to get dressed”

She kisses my lips softly then she hops up and heads down to our room. Gavin smirks at me

“She really has no issue telling the truth does she”

I shrug my shoulders

“If you lived your life in silence you wouldn’t beat around the bush either”

“True, but it’s still funny watching your face when she tells you no”

“she’s had plenty of practice, she’s been telling me no from the moment she could communicate”

He sighs resting his head on his hands and yawning

“I have a meeting with mum and dad so I’ll need you there to help her choose her guards”

He nods

“Yeah, do they know she’s deaf?”

I shake my head

“Nope, I don’t know how to even tell them. They won’t like it”

“f**k them, they listen or they die. She’s more than capable of running this pack”

I smile at him, he really was one of a kind. Not even my parents thought she was capable of running the pack, I had no doubt and over time my parents got used to the idea but nobody but me and her family ever had faith in her.

“I’m glad she has you, even if it’s just as a friend”

“Always, you know that right. I don’t want to hurt her so if a little pain right now means no pain later on then that’s what I will do. I’ll put her first like you have”

I smile at him but truly my heart was shattering, if only he had found his mate this would be all a lot easier but it wasn’t and it won’t ever be. I just hope she understands too.

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Heartly’s POV

i stood infront of the growing crowd of warriors nervously waiting for Desmond to start talking, he wraps his arms around my waist, kissing my cheek then he rests his face next to mine.

I could see the shock in all of their faces but they still didn’t know about me being deaf, we had agreed we would tell them together after I arrived so they couldn’t kick up a fuss. Or so when they did they had nothing to hold against us.

As the crowd slowly starts to settle in, Desmond clears his throat, I could feel his anxiety through the bond as he looked out at the crowd, with one last kiss to the cheek he stands up taller to talk, I watch his mouth move so I could keep up.

“As you all see my mate has finally arrived. I've been waiting a long hard 18 years for her to come home with me so she could become my Luna. She is extraordinary and I’m so proud to introduce her to you all. This is heartly McGreger, Luna of the Oneil pack”

Hands immediately start to rise, Desmond nods to a man infront

“I don’t have an issue with this but I am wondering is Luna the deaf Lycan princess?”

Desmond smiles down at me, pecking my lips then he looks back to the crowd

“Yes, yes she is. Your Luna is deaf and because of that she’s stronger than anyone that I’ve ever known, she’s unique yet capable, beautiful and very very honest aswell as one of the most extraordinary fighters iv ever met”

I grin up at him as he looks down at me, hope prances around with pride as he looks at us, the look on his face was full of love, wonder and faith. He has faith in us to do this and because of that I have faith in myself.

“Line up, start sparing and anyone who would like to interview for the position as the lunas guard can come to the side where I will be personally checking your abilities”

Gavin tells the crowd, as he does I see some girls from the corner of my eye talking about me

“If she’s so capable why would she needs guards, how the hell is she going to communicate with us all, this is bullshit”

“I know, I bet she can’t even fight”

“Seriously girls give her a chance, she is the princess. They train them like the damn military over there and the kids are even more impressive”