The Grateful Rejection novel Chapter 26

***EXTREME TRIGGER WARNING***

The club was mildly crowded when Thomas entered. With a thumping head and a heavy heart he quietly walked to the bar and sat down with an acknowledging nod to the bartender. His head was throbbing painfully, with all the emotions going around, he was sure his brain would burst any moment now.

He has been a fake since the start. He was the 'golden boy'. Everyone expected the best from him and that was the problem. Expectations. Initially he also fed off the lies, he did too believe what others thought him. A part.. very very very small part of him knew better. He was not. But he didn't understand that part quick enough, at least not untill it was too late.

It wasn't their fault that he became the monster he is. It was his. He made a choice. And that's exactly why he is where he is now. The parents who's eyes used to lit up with pride everytime they saw him now sneers at him in disgust. All the people around him who used to once pat his back in praise is now snickering Everytime he walks by. He has lost his kids in a battle, his wife is withdrawn from him. And all of this because because he is a eunuch.. or is it?

It is and also the fact that.. he killed his sister and watched their own do it. He was a monster. It wasn't untill he held his kids for the first time he understood what had he done. What he had let them do. The dire mistake he made.

He remembers the day vividly, the day he lost himself. The day he lost his kids. Even after the rouge attacked him and snatched a part of him, all his concern was his kids. His two little ray of lights, the only one he really loved.

He cried silently as he crawled through the maze of dead bodies and hid under one whenever a rouge would be around. Only he knows how his life was dangling by a single thread but all he could think was the safety of his kids. His entire world turned upside down when he saw his young kids shredded into pieces. It was a parents worst nightmare, and unfortunately for him it came true.

His hatred for everyone around him increased, he knew he made a mistake but his choices but that didn't give the goddess any right to take away his kids lives. They were just babies, couldn't even utter a fucking word. They were innocent. But not for that woman who calls herself the moon goddess. They were just pawns in her game to make him feel worthless and powerless. And she did a fine job in doing that.

The only one he couldn't hate was his mate.

Ah a joke of a mate she is! That woman didn't even cry for the death of her kids. The same kids that she carried in her womb for months. Initially he thought it was her way of dealing with the situation with the lack of emotional connection she had with them but no. She is just that. An emotional-less shell. He was just disappointed.

He gulped the fourth glass down and sighed in frustration, "It's too fine of a glassware to be broken by you" a voice snorted. He released the breath he was holding, time to make things right.

"Did you call me here just to show that your glare couldn't even brake a fragile Christmas glass?" she said sarcastically as she sat down. Thomas looked up at the familiar grey eyes that have been riding his nightmare for 13 years now.

"Nora" he acknowledged her with a nod

"Thomas" she replied with a sarcastic smile.

There was a few minutes of silence, "Seriously dude! Our judicial system works faster than you!" she snapped at him. Who just rolled his eyes.

"Still impatient, I see" he chuckled, a light that had been gone for years just came back.

"Still stupid and beating around the bush I see" Nora said and ordered a glass of wine.

He sighed, "Nora, I am sorry." He whispered

"Is that why you called? To apologize?" She asked nonchalantly.

"Don't you think it's too early to make amends?" The corner of her lips tilted into a smirk.

His head automatically fell down in shame. Tears had gathered around his eyes, he never thought it would be as hard as it is. His heart squeezed with hatred for himself as a sob left his mouth.

"Why now?" His head snapped to Nora who was glaring at him with loath making him flinch.

"Why now after all this time? Why after a year you knew I was alive? Why now?" She spat vemon at him.

He looked at her in shock, "H-how did you know?" He asked making her snicker humourlessly.

"What did you think? You're the only ones keeping eye on the 'enemy'?" She mocked air coated the last word.

"You're not an ene--"

"WHY!!!" She yelled banging her first on the table. The anger in her had now taken complete control of her. She was shaking in rage, her lycan howling-growling to tear the man I front of her apart.

"BECAUSE I WAS SCARED, OKAY? I was scared to confront you sooner. I was chickening out every time I thought about talking to you!" He said as the tears he was holding leaked out of his eyes like a free flowing river.

She scoffed at him folding her arms, "And I believe you" she said with a sneer. He shut his eyes tightly, "I know nothing I can say or do can make things better or change the past. But please hear me out!" He begged with his hands clasped together. Nora's nose twitched with anger. She fisted her hands as her nails digged into her palm.

"No matter what you say, it won't reverse what has ready happened. And you my dear, dear brother are and always will be a murderer. Murderer of his own sister! And even though you didn't rape me, it still makes you a rapist. Because you just stood there, watching me.. Being. Degraded, with a fucking smile" she sneered at him and got up to leave. Her lycan had unleashed herself, trembling in exorbitant rage and there are too many people here for her to kill him.

"Nora wait please!!" He begged as she dashed out of the club with him hot on her trail.

"Nora! Please! Give me a chance! At least let me explain my self" he begged her. She let out a warning growl, her eyes had turned devilishly white when she saw one of her murderers.

"How can I trust you?" Nora yelled turning back to face her 'brother'

He looked at her pleadingly as tears kept running down his eyes. She sniffed, "Give me a chance Nora! Please. I promise you won't regret it" he said softly. His heart tugged in grief and guilt, in front of him wasn't the Nora he once knew. The one who was kind and always those guys of others, put others before her. No. This Nora was far from that Nora.

She is wild beast, ready to kill anyone at any moment. One should be cautious of how they breath her way, even that could aggravate her enough to tear their limbs apart.

"How do I know you and you mother are not playing again? Tell me??" She said memories of last week came back when her entire hard work was on fire before her eyes.

"After what your mother did last week?? How can I trust you? TELL ME!!" she yelled out the last part.

Thomas looked at her in confusion, "What are you talking about?" He asked. Nora furrowed her brows, she could tell he genuinely had no idea about what she is talking about. She pulled out her phone and showed him the video where Thomas' mother was pouring gasoline all over a place that looked like a restaurant.

He watched silently, confused as to why it is even related to Nora. Brianna, Thomas's mother lit a torch on fire and threw it on the very expensive looking restaurant. Then he remembered, "Yes! I remember a well known chef's restaurant was set on fire last week. I read it on news.." he told Nora.

"But why would she set the restaurant on fire? And how is this related to you?" He asked her. She rolled her eyes, "THAT chef is me and THAT restaurant is mine" she said incredulously to him. Shaking her head.

"Why am I even telling you this" she said to herself and walked away. In desperation to hold her for a second Thomas said the first thing that came to his mind, "I'll help you" Nora stopped hot on her tracks.

He cautiously walked to her, "I'll help you get the justice you deserve..." He said as he stood in front of her. She cocked her head to the side and folded her arms in front of her, "A word like justice does not suit coming from you" she mocked him.

"I know, you are thinking this is some kind of joke or an evil plan to bring you down. But I swear Nora! I swear on my dead kids that it's nothing like that. I just.. I just wanna mend our relationship" he said in all honesty, "I have done a lot of unforgivable things in my life, I wanna mend everything. I wanna right my wrongs" he pleaded. Nora's heart tugged at her once chauvinistic brother to see him begging for a chance.

"Fine" she exasperated, "But if you mess this time, I'll roast you alive!" She warned him. A smile tugged on his face, "I'll lather my body with barbeque sauce that day" he joked. Nora shook her head chuckling.

That night both of them went to another bar and drank their feeling. They shared a lot of tears, laughs and heart breaks. That night they finally bonded as brother and sister. But the night hadn't come to an end.

"Urgh.. I wanna sleep" Nora said yawning and stretching her limbs out.

Thomas looked at his watch that said 3.27 am

"It's pretty late.." he muttered. Nora groaned and looked at the watch herself then another groan left her mouth, "The guard would have already closed the compound and the gates by now" she cried in frustration and leaned back to the plush chair.

Thomas looked at her hesitantly, "You know... You could crash at my place tonight" he offered kindly. He was 100% sure that she'll turn down the offer. But she looked him them shrugged, "Okay, just don't let they weird mate of yours came near me or else I won't be responsible for the damage" she said with her hands up in surrender.

Thomas chuckled, "I remember when I first introduced her to everyone. Nobody liked her" he snorted along with Nora who snickered. Now he knows what others saw in her before he did, a pathological liar and many more adjectives. But that one standing up the most.

They both quietly went to Thomas car and drove to the TealRiver pack ground. Thomas had told Alice (his mate) that he'd be out for two days and she did too inform him that she'll be at her friend's house so their place would be locked. Thomas didn't have to worry about Alice running into Nora. He didn't want that mate of his to spoil his quality time with his sister.

Thomas parked outside his house and opened the door for Nora. She smiled at him and walked towards the house. A part of her was glad that Thomas doesn't stay at their old house. Too many haunting memories.. for both of them.

Thomas's heart quicken it's pace when he heard two heart beats already in the house. He furrowed his brows in confusion and looked at Nora who just shook her head. She looked at him sadly, "You should go to your bedroom" she said softly.. as if trying to console him.

He didn't question her, just quietly walked to his room. The further he came the noises increased. He didn't wanna believe his ears, it was her. His mate, her moans. With a aching heart he opened the door.

A lone tear fell from his eyes. People always underestimate the power mates have over each other. If they can built you. They can break you just as easily. Wolves go through so much just to have a mate and that's all they need mates. Nothing else from them apart from love. But love has become an inanimate object now. It's nothing but materialism and sex. Nothing more nothing less.

And there she was, the one he loved, riding another man's cock. The sudden rage that ran through him not only shocked him but also the other. In a blink of an eye Thomas's hands clutched the man bloody throat. A shrieking scream made him snap, "WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO??? WHY DID YOU KILL HIM?" Alice screamed at him.