No Redemption (Completed book 6 of the Atonement Saga)

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Desmond’s POV

Back to today..

“You knew this would happen?”

i snap at Carter

“Yes, so did heartly”

I’m slammed with guilt right in the chest. I took her here, I put her in danger, I did this, this is on me.

“No you didn’t do this Desmond. It was fate, it was always going to happen”

“And her injury, was that always going to happen”

I snap back, he closes his eyes and nods his head

“Injury? What injury?”

Gavin ask, I glare at Carter pissed shaking my head in complete disbelief, I felt vexed and a little betrayed that he never trusted me with this information before today.

“Why don’t you tell him your highness! What the f**k were you thinking keeping that from me? It’s not like it’s not about me or gavin too!”

“Yes but it’s her body”

Carter snaps back, I growl glaring at him

“Tell me the injury”

Gavin snaps looking between us, his face was a picture, he was ready to kill someone. She had truly won his heart the second he layed eyes on her.

“Her ability to have children, it’s gone isn’t it!”

I snap at Carter, gavin gasps as I glare at him. He nods

“Yes, she was told what would happen, it’s the only way to break the curse”

“What curse?”

Adlai asks walking into the room with Gerald, both of them looked pissed

Carter takes a breath sitting back so we could all glare at his damn stupid f*****g face together.

“It’s not my story to tell!”

“I don’t give a rats f*****g ass who’s story it is to tell! I want to know what the hell is going on with my mate and I want to know now!!”

Gavin shouts, Gerald and Adlais face falls looking between us

“You have another mate? She only moved out a day ago and i've missed a month's worth of drama! I told you all that she was not ready to move out!”

Gerald shouts, Adlai takes his hand, rubbing calming circles on his back

“This is gavin, he is our fated. And he’s right I want to know the story too”

I say to Carter

“For the record I told her to tell you all but she wasn’t ready to face it!

“Spit it the f**k out dad!”

Adlai snaps, he groans

“Fine, fine I’ll tell you”

He sighs

“Ok so a few hundred years ago there was this woman, she was Lycan, she was a good pure woman, she loved her family, she loved her kid, she put them first at all times. At that time the witches and Lycan lived side by side like we do now. But it was different”

He says thinking, then he shakes himself as he continues

“It was more like the Lycan we’re enslaved to them, but her daughter had a best friend, they did everything together, they were the same age so they would spend a lot of time with aurora playing”

He sighs pushing himself against the wall

“One day The witches child was with the Lycan woman. The kids were playing when the place was attacked. The witch raced back to get her daughter but as she arrived the rogues had both kids and the Lycan mother. The witch tried to save them but the rogues caught her too, these rogues had banded together, they hated the witches and they were looking for loyal pack members but to do that they acted in the wrong way. The Witch girl was future coven leader, the Lycan girl was unranked. The law back then meant the witch's child came first, but when the rogues realised this they asked the Lycan mother to choose. Choose what child to save, she saved her own by killing the witches daughter in the witches face”

Carter stops to clear his throat shaking his head sadly before he continues

“In anger the witch got up and cast a curse on the lycans child, one that would travel through the generations, one only the lord could break, the curse being the child would go deaf, back then that was basically a death sentence. But there was a clause, when that woman had a child her hearing would slowly return as her child slowly loses her hearing, the process would be long, drawn out and painful. The mother would always blame herself. In doing so the woman actually gained the loyalty of the rogue pack, she chose her family over another breed and that’s exactly what they were looking for so the alpha took her as his Luna, his queen. In turn he loved the deaf daughter with all his heart”

My stomach drops as I look to Adlai, she gasps grasping the bed to steady herself

“They would only ever have daughters, sometimes twins but the first born one would always suffer with the curse and also be much much stronger than the others. It couldn’t be cured, it couldn’t be fixed and on the eve of their 16th birthday they would relive each life like it was their own, they would feel the pain each mother went through as they passed on the curse to their child. The eve of her 16th birthday heartly had a meeting with Jesus, had him break the curse. There was only one way and it was her choice, she took it. The line will die with heartly, she won’t ever regain her hearing and she won’t ever steal her child’s because she won’t have one.”

Nobody said a word, we just sat in stunned silence taking in what he had just said.

“Jesus said she will be a mother she just won’t birth the baby herself, she knew it was coming, I begged her to tell you but she was adamant. She said this was her choice and she would never allow anyone else to influence her”

“But I would never try to force her to have a baby”

I whisper, Carter shakes his head

“I know that, but accidents happen and it would have happened”

“Why not go for an operation?”

Gavin asks, I look to Carter for the answer

“Because this way the pack will accept her fate, otherwise they would continue to rise up against her. Not only is she a deaf Luna but she’s a deaf Luna who refuses to have kids. Instead she’s now the deaf Luna who had that ability stolen from her yet she rose up against all odds and overcame it. That’s now what they will say, it will take time but they will bend the knee to her, to them this will be her story and it will be one of strength, heartache but also fear. This world is not rainbows and roses, it’s dark, twisted and wrong. Our people are cruel creatures, they don’t kneel to the kind, they kneel to those who they believe will kill for them even if they hate them. We don’t live in a human world and our people are not human. There will always be a few that are better than the others but not a lot, our people will always be ruled by fear because there is no other way. When they see the bodies of those who attacked her they will never dare touch her again. They will realise they are far better of with her then they are against her”

As harsh as it sounds I know he speaks the truth. We rule by fear and always have done. Some packs were better than others, ours generally are better but as the packs grow, more and more turn sour and keeping those in line at all times are hard but if any of them doubted her before this they would never doubt her again.