Alpha's Lost Luna Returns With His Twins-Chapter 188-He Came For Us Or For Himself

Iris:

Even when Kash had told me that I meant little to nothing to him, seeing him in front of me still gave me hope.

Then I remembered he must have arrived here thinking he was going to take over the East, only to find out that we were also stuck here.

Before my mood could sour, or before he could remind me that he was surprised to see me, he started speaking.

"So I knew you were hiding my mate," he spoke bitterly, clenching his jaw.

That alone told me a lot.

"So you came here looking for your mate? I thought you wanted the East," Wilson remarked, using a mocking tone as he turned to me.

"So that is Kash," he whispered before looking back at Kash. "I’ve seen your pictures. I didn’t think you would be so impressive in person," he commented, elbowing me.

I did not know what was worse, him acting like we were close enough to joke like that, or the fact that he was so calm.

"Why are you forcing my wife into marrying that man?" Kash grunted, raising his voice. There was fire in his eyes.

"He is not forcing her. Iris wanted to marry Luca. You know that," my mother replied as she finally stepped into view, and Kash looked even more confused.

Of course, he did not know what was going on, who these people were, or what Wilson’s connection to me was.

"How could you let your daughter be treated this way?" Kash yelled at my mother. She turned to look at Wilson.

I guessed she was expecting Wilson to take a stand for her, and I thought the same. I thought he would lose control if Kash so much as raised his voice at my mother. But Wilson did not seem to care.

"How can you let some man force your daughter into marrying Luca?" Kash took another step forward. His voice was loud like thunder.

"He’s not just some man. He is her brother. He is my son," my mother revealed.

I closed my eyes, then opened them to look at Kash, who was staring at me with deep disappointment.

It was probably because I had kept so many secrets from him throughout my life that I would not have been surprised if he had confessed he did not know me at all.

There was a brief pause in him, almost as if he was taking in yet another secret of mine. But he was Kash. He knew how to calm himself down.

"Here’s the thing. You will release my wife to me and give me back my children, or else war will come not only from my side, but from the South, North, and West," Kash spoke, threatening them with a warning.

My mother started to chuckle.

"If you want, you can take the kids, the children," she said.

The moment she said that, my head snapped toward her. They were causing a division.

They were going to deprive me of my own children, and I was afraid Kash might even accept it.

He did not really care about us. He had told me that before. It was more of a power issue for him.

He was afraid they would use his children against him.

Otherwise, Lara meant more to him than his own children. He had confessed that himself.

"But you cannot take Iris away. She is no longer your mate. Do you not remember? You rejected her."

The moment my mother said that out loud, Wilson started to chuckle, and Luca looked down, as if it confirmed that I had gone through with the rejection.

"As per the pack’s rules and territory laws, you cannot come and demand someone you have rejected," my brother spoke up, clicking his tongue.

There was a small sense of ease on Kash’s face, and I knew exactly why.

Flashback.

"You want what?" Kash asked me as I stood in his room.

I knew my mother was waiting for me to come back with the rejection, and if he did not give it to me, she would make my life miserable.

"I want rejection," I demanded in a shaky tone.

"No, you don’t. Someone else does, and I don’t know why and how this person is able to control you, but I will find out. And I know this because the Iris I know would look me in the eye and demand rejection bitterly instead of asking while shaking," Kash said, surprising me with how attentive he was to my body language.

"Well, then, if confidence is what you want," I started to speak, but he pressed his finger against my lips, silencing me.

"Go ahead and tell whoever wants you to take rejection from me, that I have rejected you," he said, grabbing my arms and pulling me closer to his chest.

"What do you mean?" I asked, gulping hard.

"What I mean is that they will never find out what the truth is. So go ahead and tell them that I have rejected you, because that is all the rejection you are getting. You are not getting a real rejection from me, ever," he whispered, then stepped back and gestured toward the door.

I could have asked him again and forced him to reject me, but he was not wrong. I was being forced into it, and he had given me a good idea. I could lie. I did not have to promise anyone anything.

"Go tell them I rejected you," he spoke more softly, with warmth in his eyes and voice.

End Of Flashback

"Actually, you’re very wrong," Kash spoke softly. This time, his confidence and calmness raised eyebrows. "I have not rejected Iris. I have never rejected Iris."

As he revealed the truth, my mother’s head snapped toward me. There was a hint of betrayal in her eyes, as if she had realized I had lied to her. Seeing that betrayal in her eyes made me feel fulfilled.