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Chapter 227
Zora
Getting Nicole and the children settled in wasn’t a challenge. The children were pleasant and a joy to have around. They were eight years old, and I was a bit envious of them but glad I had my little bundle of joy growing inside me.
“Lady Zora. I am grateful that you would welcome us into your home.” Nicole said while her husband helped put their bags in the room. It was my old room.
I thought Lori would be in it, but I was told Darius changed his mind about putting her there and put her in the smaller room.
“Oh, I am not Lady yet. Our wedding is in two weeks. Nellie Hand is still the Lady of the north; they refer to me as Luna for now, and having you in this place is a joy. It is also your home,” I said, and she smiled and came to hug me.
“Thank you so much. It really means a lot. We had been running around and hiding before we had our triplets. At least now we can rest.” She said. and my heart broke.
Hearing her say they have not known peace for the years they have been together was hard. It is the worst thing that can ever happen to anyone.
“Please rest,” I said, and she held my hand.
“If there is anything you need me to help with, kindly let me know. I am good with house chores,” She said and looked at her husband.
“We do not plan to be freeloaders here. We would like to earn our keep,”
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she said, and my heart broke into pieces. David is a Hand. I wonder how he grew up and how they have lived for them to be this way.
“I am sure Darius would find a place for his brother. As for you, you’re a luna here too, so start acting like one. My friends and I are having evening tea later; I would like you to join us,” I told her, and she looked at David, who nodded.
I did not know if Darius would want to spend time with his brother and get to know him. We were planning an operation, I could not jeopardise it and send David to where Darius was having his meeting. I would have to allow Darius to move at his own pace.
“Do you know where my older brother is?” David asked me, and I knew he was talking about Abelardo.
Abelardo might have changed, but he was still a douchebag.
“You mean Abelardo?” I said, and he nodded.
“I am sure he will come searching for you once he is through with his engagements,” I said, not wanting to get into details and start explaining things to him. I wanted to keep it simple.
“Okay, ehm, I will take the triplets to their rooms. Tanya and Liz would have a room while Justin would have a room to himself,” I said, and Justin squealed.
It was clear he had to share with his sisters most of his life.
“A room would be fine. I am sure you have other guests,” Nicole said, and I shook my head.
“He is a boy and deserves his own space, and the girls deserve their privacy, too,” I said, winking at Liz and Tanya, who grinned at me.
“Come on,” I said, and with that, I exited my former bedroom, which was
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I did not take the children too far away from their parent’s room. I gave them the rooms immediately after their parents‘ room. Justin started jumping on the bed when we entered the space allocated to him. He looked so excited that it warmed my heart.
I gave the girls the only room left; Lori’s room was beside it. I needed to question Lori before the tea party.
Once the girls were settled into their room, I excused myself.
I went to the door of Lori’s room, and one of the Brians lurking about used the key to open it so I could enter the room.
I entered the room, and there she was, standing by the window with her hand on her bump, staring outside. She turned to look at me. Her eyes were swollen, and I knew she must have cried her heart out.
“Lori,” I said, and she left the window and approached me. She looked like she had aged a bit from the last time I saw her at the Arena.
“Lady Zora,” she said and bowed her head to show her respect.
“Why?” was all I could ask her.
We stood there for a few seconds, and she looked at me. I knew she was thinking of how best to start. I was all ears.
She wiped away her tears.
“I had no choice. My father already had set everything in motion. I did not know until they took you to the north. That was when he became forceful. He had set everything in motion.” she said, and I sighed.
“Before then?” I asked her knowing she had visited her father too often for comfort before the north attacked. I thought she went to complain to her
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“When he asked me to lie that Casey accepted me, I went along with it because only a fool would defy my father. Everyone that defies him ends up dead,” she said, and she did not need to elaborate on this. My parents paid the price for their defiance. Casey’s father, their Alpha then, could not protect them.
“He would invite me, and during my visits, he would ask me what was happening in our house, pretending he cared about my well–being. I did not think much of it, so I talked.
I said everything exactly how it was, and he would tell me to hang in there and that it would soon improve. It sounded generic and rehearsed, but I would excuse it since I knew he did not know how to show
affection.
When you gave yourself up, and they took you away, everything changed. He began to push me to marry Casey, and he started asking me private questions about Casey’s moves and what Casey was up to if he was going toKarange the attack and so on. I thought that was a bit too nosey, so I pushed back. He told me I was dispensable; if I did not do what he wanted, he would just get me out of the way and do what he liked. Knowing his brutality. I knew he could kill Casey and me, so I agreed to feed him information. After that decision, I did not know what to do, but I knew it would buy us time.
You need to understand that I was grabbing on straws. Casey hated me, so I dared not confide in him, and you were no longer with us. I was alone. Everyone looked up to me as the head Luna of the east, so I had to keep going. I performed these luna duties to the best of my abilities while I fed my father lies to satiate him.
It was getting tedious, especially when I feared my information would not check out.
One day I decided I would run away. Casey didn’t love me, and he didn’t
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want me around him, and I knew my father would soon find out that I had been lying to him. Casey had the power to push back; he had Sheperd and Cruz, but I had no one, and I doubted he would protect me from my father since he blamed me for losing you.
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