Filed To Story: In the Shadow of the Past Luna (Lily & James)
Anita, one of the omegas who worked in the kitchen, then stepped forward. “My question is for Margle don’t understand your trafficking business. How long have you done it, and why?”
“I started it after Robert cheated on me the first time. I wanted to leave him, but I did not have any money to do so. I fell into it sort of by accident. It started off really small; just a girl or two a year. It only started to become a bigger thing in the past 12 years or so.”
“Where did you get the girls?”
the next wolf asked.
“Runaways mostly. That was how the business started. I came across a teenage runaway wolf while I was shopping in human territory. She asked me for help. I agreed to take her home with me, but before we got in my car, a male approached and offered me $2000 for the girl. I didn’t think twice; I just handed her over. After that, I always kept my eyes peeled for runaways. When I did not have enough of those, I would sometimes kidnap girls. Usually they were human girls or wolves from orphanages, but for the right price, I would secure any type of girl requested. Thanks to some powerful drugs, most of the
I ran my hand down my face. The nice thing about alpha orders was that you got the truth. The bad thing about alpha orders was that you got the truth…. the full, disgusting, honest truth.
“What did you do with the money? Where is it now?”
asked the next wolf.
“I have $500 million dollars in account in Switzerland, and $350 million dollars in an account in Belize.
The $350 million includes $100 million that I started to embezzle from the pack when James started to act crazy. It was an insurance policy in case the pack folded:”
Margie covered her mouth with her hand. Ok, never mind what I said. I love these alpha commands.
A guard named Nora approached next. “Why was it necessary to torture anyone as part of Stephanie’s luna training? Especially Lily?”
Once again, Margle tried to resist. This time she held her hand to her mouth as tightly as she could, but ultimately she had to answer.
“I included torture in Stephanie’s luna training by accident. She walked in on me teaching one of the trafficked human girls a lesson; the girl had stolen money from me and tried to escape the home of one of our johns. Stephanie asked me what I was doing, and I panicked. The first excuse that I came up with was that I was setting things up for her luna training. I eventually told Stephanie about the trafficking business, but that was several months after I told the original lie and I was stuck… especially because Stephanie really enjoyed the torture activities.
I did not know that Stephanie was torturing Lily, but I would not have cared if I had known. The ability to torture is an important life skill, and the ability to torture someone close to you is a demonstration that you have mastered that talent.”
“I also have a question for Margie. I was friends with Lily in elementary school. You seemed to love her back then. How could you later hate her enough to want to kill her? What did she do?”
a wolf named
Anna asked.
“It is true that I used to love Lily. When she was younger, I never personally abused her. But I also never felt connected to her the way that I did to Stephanie, and my love for Lily died over time…. especially after
Stephanie died and even more so when she and James discovered that they were mates. I began to hate her like I hated myself.”
“But why?”
the next wolf asked. “Why couldn’t you be happy that James and Lily were mates? You would still have a daughter in the luna role.”
“No. It should have been Stephanie. Lily being mated to James did not make sense. I did not invest in
Lily; I invested in Stephanie. Stephanie was the one who deserved the role.”
Ultimately, we continued like this for about an hour, with most questions being aimed at Alpha Randall and Margie. The questions soon became circular and repetitive, with everyone trying but failing to make sense of all that had happened.
The longer the questions went on, the more I realized that no one was ever going to be satisfied with the answers that we were getting. And that was because we were trying to put logic and reason where there was none. Sometimes evil is just… evil. Poorly thought out, selfish in different ways at different times, and often inconsistent even with itself.
Finally, we got to the last two questions. How I wish we had started with these.
The first of the two was asked by Alexa, a 24-year-old hairdresser.
“Alpha Randall, I was one of the ones who was drugged and kidnapped from my bedroom and then raped repeatedly. I was just 17.
It just so happened that I had cameras installed inside and outside my room, because I had an ex-
boyfriend that had been stalking me and my parents were worried he might do something. The camera footage clearly showed that Margie injected me with something and then carried me out of my house unconsious.
The next day, I woke up in my bed hurting badly in my private areas. My parents checked the cameral
We took Dr. Miller’s report and the camera footage to you. You told me that I had to talk to Margie about it and you tried give us an alpha order not to talk about it with anyone else. Before you could give me the order, I pushed play on the video and forced you to watch Margie drugging me. Do you ou remember what you said next?”
“Yes.”
“Me, too,”
Alexa sneered. “Why don’t you tell everyone?”
“Margie does not have the body parts necessary to commit rape. A video showing Margie giving you an injection proves nothing. And the evidence of so-called rape is just a guess. It could just as easily be evidence of rough sex with your a&&hole ex. It was your fault for dating before you met your mate.”
“Correct. And then you gave us the alpha order. You told us to not even think about going to the werewolf council, because they would not believe me and even they did, you would have us out of this pack and our homes sooner than we could blink.
The only reason I can talk about it now is that you are no longer alpha. I could not even tell my mate.
Do you remember what happened three months later?”
“Yes.”
“I discovered that I was pregnant. I came to your office with the pregnancy test. You threw $500 at me and told me to have an abortion. I want to know Alpha Randall… why you did do all that? I was not the first one or the last one who was raped. Today you have made it seem like your only crime was putting your head in the sand.
But you that isn’t true. YOU KNEW. Maybe not everything, but enough of it. And I want to know WHY.
WHY DID YOU DO NOTHING?”
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Alexa’s voice cracked in pain.
“The abortion was in your best interest. The pup would have been an unwanted, hated ba stard. And I already answered your last question. I love Jane more than I love the pack. She was threatened, and that was all that I could think about. I ignored everything else, and I even lied to myself about what was going on so that I could sleep at night.”
“I guess I take back what I said a moment ago. You don’t know everything. Because if you did, you would know that that ba stard pup of mine was very much wanted, is very loved, and he is an amazing little boy named Donny.”
With that, Alexa dropped the mike and walked away, leaving everyone in the room speechless. Well..
everyone except Luna Jane.
She stood and glared at Alpha Randall. “I, Jane Anderson, hereby reject you Randall Anderson as my mate.”
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“I will not accept that rejection, Jane,”
he replied, pain evident on his face.
“I do not care. Just know that I will do everything in my power to cut ties with you, even if it is the last.
thing that I do. I do not need love like yours.”
With that, Luna Jane gestured to a security guard to take her to the dungeons. However, she froze in place when Nick approached the microphone with a question of his own for Margie.
“Before Luna Jane leaves, I would like to know… and I think Luna Jane deserves to know…. Did she really.
cause you to miscarry Tyler?”
“Yes,”
she responded adamantly. “And no.”
“Explain.”
We watched as Margie tried to fight the ongoing alpha command with every ounce of energy left in her. Eventually, the words came flooding out of her mouth.
“A week and a half before the miscarriage, I went to see a doctor in another pack. I did not like Dr. Miller and I did not trust him, so whenever I could find an excuse to see someone else, I did. The doctor did a routine ultrasound and told me that Tyler did not have a heartbeat. I accused him of lying, and begged him to tell me that it was a mistake. He said that sometimes the pup can be positioned such that the machines cannot pick up heartbeats, but it was very very rare.
He said that, more than likely, it was not a question of if I would miscarry Tyler; it was a question of when. He offered me a procedure to go ahead and remove Tyler from my womb that day, but I refused. I held on to the hope that Tyler would make it, and that we would be the .05% of cases in which the machines were wrong.
The longer I held on to Tyler, the more hope that I had. And then I ate the strawberries, and all hope was lost.”
Luna Jane gasped. “It was all a lie.”
THE END
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