Chapter 75


    She could hear them in the hallway. They had been out there pacing for hours already. They had


    been sending people in to check on her every time Lucy made a sound. She reached for the


    form again when Lucy started crying. She effortlessly made the battle and shifted Lucy on her


    lap to feed her. She stared down at her daughter as she held her own bottle. Her door opened and


    Sommer came in, shutting the door softly behind her, before sitting on the edge of her bed.


    “Lily, talk to me. What happened? How can I help you?”


    “You can’t. Go away”


    Her lifeless voice was quiet, but she didn’t care. All she could do was see herself surrounded by


    men. Her arms tightened around Lucy and she looked


    “Get out,” she whispered, letting her aura re out.


    Sommer got u


    up and was forced out of the room. Everyone outside fell silent seconds before the door was kicked


    off the hinges. Her father stormed into the room with Papa Slonsky by his side. Papa Slonsky


    removed Lucy from her arms and continued to feed her while her father picked her up.


    “We are not doing this again,” he growled.


    He leapt over the balcony where a group of men were waiting. He grabbed her arm and threw her


    into the middle of them. They closed the circle around her while her father started walking around


    them.


    “What are you going to do, Lilianna? Are you going to let them touch you? Are you going to give up


    and let them use you?” He suddenly stopped to look at her. “Who are you, daughter?,” he sneered.


    One of the men pulled a dagger out of his pocket and began to approach Lily, who sank to her


    knees with her head down, whimpering


    “I knew you didn’t deserve my son. You don’t deserve anything. You were born nothing. You are


    nothing You will never be anything,” her father taunted her.


    Lily closed her eyes as she slowly repeated his words, her heart breaking even more. Lukas


    opened their link and began to surround her with love and peace. She brought her hand up to her


    mouth as silent sobs wracked her body. She began to rock back and forth. One of the men


    grabbed her arm and pulled her forward. Lukas pushed even more love through their link at her


    increased panic.


    ‘I am so sorry, Lily. If I had known, I would have taken you away from all of that. I always failed


    you, Lukas whispered in her head.


    He felt like he had failed her? She had failed herself, letting this part of her past impede her


    progress to get back to him. She had buried it so deep, it had been like she could pretend it didn’t


    happen. She had thought she was over it, but she clearly was lying to herself. The look on his face


    when…. she let out an anguished wail and Gemma took over, shifting. She tore through the men


    with her talons and her teeth until there was nothing. She turned towards her father and bared her


    teeth. She let fire out and it twirled around him, before going out. He smiled at her.


    “There’s my Lily. Wee back, my queen.”


    He knelt before her with his head lowered. He would never see hering if she chose to rip his


    head off of his shoulders. She turned her head and the carcasses she had torn up were gone. In


    their cey shredded clothes and pounds of y and mud. She shifted back.


    “What- what’s going on?”


    Sasha smiled at her as she came out of the castle with Kni by her side. “Sorry, honey. We


    needed to remind you who you were.” She came over to grasp Lily’s hands in hers. “You are not the


    same scared little girl that couldn’t trust anyone, love. You are a survivor, a mighty queen among


    peasants. You always were.”


    She went over to kneel beside their father. Kni, Gregory and Aiden joined them, bowing low to


    her. Her hand went around her throat and she took a step back. Small noises behind her had her


    spinning around. Aunt Joy, Slonsky, Sommer, James and Casey were kneeling behind her. Her


    heart thundered in her chest.


    “LI


    Her father looked up at her. “Are perfect. There is nothing wrong with you. Not a single thing that


    happened to you was your fault. I’m d we know that happened to you. It exins so much. We


    knew Luis wanted to touch you. He told Lukas that much. We just didn’t realize he had.”


    up


    and cupped her face, wiping away her tears.


    “He told Lukas that?”


    Her father nodded. “Right before Lakas killed him for hurting you. He really does love you, Lily.


    Everything he does is for you. I understand that you are hurting right now, because ofst night, but


    I know he would want to be there for you. Let him be there for you, Lily. I’m not saying to run to him


    and put yourself in a position you’re not ready for, but don’t push him away. He needs you as much


    as you need him. I talked to him this moming and I’ve never heard him like that,”


    “Like what?”


    “Distraught. He wanted toe here and make sure you were okay. He really does love you,” he


    repeated,


    Lily sighed and began to twist her shirt in her hands. “I miss him. I know I see him in my dreams, but


    it’s not the same.”


    Her father opened his arms and she moved into them. “Then go see him, Lily. I know he would


    love to see you.”


    *I was thinking about it,” she confided.


    He pecked her cheek. “Good. We’ll all support you.”


    “I know thank you.”


    “Why don’t we go eat and then you can go to bed. You need to rest.”


    He draped his arm over her shoulders and led her inside.


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    “Do you think he will me me for what happened?”


    “Not at all,” he reassured her.


    She quietly ate dinner while she fed Lucy. She reyed the dream over and over again in her


    mind, finally pausing on Lukas’s face. The look she had thought was pity, showed more sorrow


    than anything. She reyed it again, paying more attention to the tension in there that had


    hovered inside of her. His frustration had grown every time she had danced away and his desire to


    protect her shot up drastically. His heart breaking was thest thing she felt before she exited the


    dream. She cleaned her daughter’s face.


    “I think Mummy needs to go to talk to Daddy” She picked her up and carried her to Sasha. “Do you


    think you could watch her for me tonight?”


    Sasha immediately took her and gave her a hug. “Of course. Are you going to bed now?”


    Lily nodded. “Yeah.”


    She turned around and left the dining hall. She climbed into bed and looked at the clock. It was


    almost 9 o’clock. She sighed and settled in to wait for another hour before she called to him. She


    laid in the dark and gave herself a lengthy pep talk. She needed to know and she was going to get


    her answer tonight, no matter how afraid she was. Right at ten, she closed her eyes and let herself


    sink into slumber.


    She looked down at her body. She knew the robe she wore would confine him, but it was needed


    for the night’s activities. She took a deep breath and called to him. He instantly appeared in front of


    her. He eyed her for a second, before opening his arms. She took a step back, shaking her head.


    “Lily,


    “They used me that whole week. Before then, they were okay to me, but after you came they were


    so angry. I didn’t understand why I do now, but I didn’t then. They didn’t want me to be your mate.


    They thought that if they broke me that I would reject you or something. They didn’t understand that


    you were the only one that made mepletely safe. They didn’t know that when I was here, I


    could be myself. I got to live like a real child. I got to see what real love was.”


    She pushed her hand into her stomach. “When you took me home after Sasha’s wedding, they held


    me down while my father forced me to give him oral and he Angered me. He bit me and beat me.


    His cronies just stood there andughed. Preston, his gamma, was my father figure. I used to sneak


    out when I thought / could and him and his wife would hold me.”


    She paused to take a deep breath. “Every time I saw you, theye to me. They would force me to


    do stuff to them. When I started developing, he woulde into my showers and feel me up. He


    liked to touch my breasts. I hated it. I hated every time that they touched me. It made me feel so


    dirty.”


    She fell silent as she looked into his eyes. She yed with the knot on her belt.


    “I never felt that way with you. Your touch was never to hurt me. I felt cherished and loved. You


    made me feel safe. You made me feel like for that moment in time, I was worth everything”


    He leaned towards her to ce his forehead against hers. “That’s because you are.”


    She removed herself from his reach and let the robe fall from around her naked body.


    e street.”


    “I want you to touch me, like I was a stranger on the


    “But you’re not.”


    “Lukas, please. I need to know what you’re capable of.”


    He reached for her again and she took a step back. His hand fisted, before dropping.


    “No, Lily”


    She met his eyes and let her our re out to surround him. She felt him try to change the scene,


    but she kept it steady and let her power wrap him up in her


    order.


    “Fuck me like a one night stand.”


    Chapter Comments


    chike brooke


    what! Omg! why did you do that Lily? I’m so sorry for Lucas…….my not yet mate


    chika brooke


    Thanks to papa Sterling he alwayses through for Lily. Seems he’s the only person who knows


    how to talk to her


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