Reclaiming My Broken Luna by Selene Souchon

Chapter 5: Bracelet Astrid's POV My heart was heavy with grief and my body was fully exhausted when I returned to the packhouse.

Being pregnant madebecmore emotional, and it also madetire more easily. With everything that had happened tolately, being pregnant made things more difficult for me.

Returning to the packhouse was the last thing that I wanted, but I had to. I had left all my things behind when I suddenly decided not to cback anymore.

Right now, I just don't want to meet anyone who would ruin my mood even further. I cto the packhouse to pack my things and that's it. I have no intention of meeting Killian or even seeing his face.

I also do not have any intention of telling him about our unborn child anymore.

I instinctively touched my bump as I had that thought. I bit my lower lip as I felt sorry for my child.

As someone who grew up without a father, I do not want my baby to experience that also. However, I couldn't also let him grow up with a father who doesn't want him either.

Since Killian already has a child with Giselle, it's clear he wouldn't want a child withanymore.

It doesn't matter anymore. My mother managed to raiseon her own before. I will make sure that I will be a better mother to my child than my mother was.

"You're back," someone spoke from behindwhile I was stuffing all my things in my luggage so I could finally leave this place for good. "You were gone for three days. What kind of Luna leaves the Pack for such a long twithout notice?" I gritted my teeth as I closed my filled luggage and zipped it up before turning around to face Killian's mother.

Killian's mother had always disliked me. She had always thought that I was too weak to beca Luna and that I did not deserve her son.

For years, I've tried my best to live up to her expectations and live in peace with her as my mother-in-law. However, no matter what I did, she never liked me.

She just hatedfor who I was and had always tried to forceto leave his son and denounce my position in the Pack.

Killian's mother glared atas she stood at the doorway with her arms crossed.

Every tthat I made mistakes, she was always there to point them out and shme. She must have been waiting forto cback so she could rub it in my face on how bad of a Luna I was and forceto denounce my Luna title once again. "I thought you did not wanthere. Don't you used to forceto leave this Pack and denounce my title? Why are you angry that I was gone for three days?" I shot back at her.

Before, I used to let her insult me, yell at me, and vent her anger oneven at the cost of my own dignity.

I never talked back to her since she is my mother-in-law and I had to respect her.

Now that Killian and I are getting a divorce. There's no need forto suck it all up when she and I will no longer be related to each other.

Her eyes widened when she heard my disrespectful response. "You!" she raised her voice as she pointed an angry finger at me. "Is that how you are supposed to talk to your own mother-in-law, huh?!" "Don't worry, you are not going to be my mother-in-law anymore. Killian and I are getting a divorce and I'll be leaving this Pack for good. You wouldn't have to see my face just as you wanted!" I yelled back at her.

Finally, after so many years of just being silent whenever she disrespected me, I could finally yell back at her and defend myself against her.

It feels good to be able to stand up for myself again instead of just accepting insults and keeping everything in. "Really?!" Her face which was contorted with anger suddenly brightened up when she heard my words. "You are leaving?" She asks again, not quite believing it.

"Yes! I'm finally leaving this place and I'm also so happy about it!" I yelled back at her angrily when I saw how happy she was to find out that I was leaving.

If she's happy, I should be happy too. I should be happy that I could finally leave this place where no one ever appreciated me.

"Finally you cto your senses!" She responded with a look of relief in her eyes. "Giselle is now pregnant, and the Pack finally has an heir. You have been married to my son for several years, but until now you haven't bore my son with any children." Hearing her words, I looked down on my belly and stilled.

"You have been holding back this pack and my son. It's tfor you to leave and let my son live with someone better than he deserves." Killian's mother is truly glad at the news that I'm leaving, not knowing that I would be bringing her grandchild with me. "Since you have decided to divorce my son and leave, don't you ever cback in the future? You only bring misfortune to us all. You are a jinx to our Pack," Killian's mother added without shat all.

I'm not coming back. I will never cback. Once I leave this place, I will cut all the ties I have in this Pack and live my own life as a free woman who doesn't have to please anyone else.

I smiled when I thought of the future that awaited ahead of me. I should have left a long tago. I shouldn't have let these people demeanand lower my self-value.

For one last time, I collected myself together and took out my belongings with me. I would make sure that this would be the last tthat I'd ever see this place.

As I was about to walk past Killian's mother, she suddenly pulledaside causing my bag to fall on the floor. All of the stuff inside was scattered all over the place just when I was about to leave this wretched place.

I dropped to the ground to bring my stuff back inside my bag when Killian's mother suddenly crouched to the ground and picked up my bracelet which was given toby my grandmother.

"I knew it, you little thief. You still dare to steal from us before you leave?" Killian's mother hissed at me.

I stood back up and tried to snatch my bracelet from her hand, but she was too fast. She raised her hand before I could even reach it.

"That's mine, I didn't steal it." I narrowed my eyes at her.