KANE

"ENOUGH!" I bark out.

I have had enough of being poked and fussed over by mindless pack doctors who think I don't know shit about my own body.

I healed ten minutes after the pack doctor got to my house and released all the fluid for fuck sake.

Sneaky fucking shifters.

To think they would hide a dagger laced with silverweed venom. Does nothing against killing me but it does slow motor functions, hence why I couldn't fucking move and it makes your wolf highly irritable.

Dex hasn't shut the fuck up since.

"You are reckless, I wanted to go home to mate but you wouldn't listen!" Dex growls out.

"Be quiet!" I growl out louder and he huffs out but listens.

I get a mind-link from Lex. "Alpha, Luna is in the building and she's incredibly pissed."

I grumble out a thank you and then it hits me.

My mate's scent. Her addictive scent that I am obsessed with, ever since she moved in with me it's like I'm constantly riding euphoria on her smell. How fucking creepy is that? But I don't give a fuck.

Then I had to fucking check the south border due to some suspicious activity and I got fucking jumped by shifters. They shifted into birds then suddenly I was on my ass with a fucking black silverweed dragged sticking out my chest. Not before I ripped them all to shreds for daring to even challenge me then try to get away.

I wouldn't be so pissed off if it wasn't for Lucas.

He hasn't stopped asking questions since and I'm livid. I'm torn between keeping my secret hidden and protecting my fucking pack and my mate.

My mate. Who is opening the door, looking as beautiful as the first moment I first met her.

"Sor-"

"Don't you dare!" She angrily tells out pointing at me.

I look at her and I realize how exhausted she is. Her eyes are tired and red, she was crying and her clothes are wrinkled and her hair is messy. Plus she's so fucking pissed at me that it's really turning me on, my little mate has grown more confident each passing day and I couldn't be more proud. She's becoming herself around me and I fucking love it. She's becoming a Luna.

Pacing around glaring at me. "I can't believe you Kane! How could you make YOUR men drag me out of OUR home last night! WHEN YOU WERE BLEEDING MAY I SAY! Gosh I can't believe you, how could you be so reckless! You infuriating big-headed stubborn wolf!" She screams out at me and lets out a frustrated loud sigh, refusing to look at me.

I let out a nervous laugh at how pissed she is. I bring her to me for a hug. I've missed my girl.

"Shhhh." I whisper into her hair, smelling my girl and she sets me at constant ease.

"I'm so sorry for worrying you baby." I kiss her head and inhale her scent, I love it.

She snorts as she cries softly into her chest. "I wasn't worried about you!" She says, her voice breaking slightly.

I sigh and move so I can see her face. "I suppose you know what happened then." I say and she nods and I wipe away her tears.

Frowning. "They tried to capture me." I say slowly.

"I have a lot of people who want me dead Sora, I didn't want you to see me in that state I was in last night.. I have to keep you away from this, I will never forgive myself if you got hurt because of me." I say softly to my girl, trying to explain the situation.

She frowns and looks slightly mad. "Kane I am your mate!" She says frustrated. "I am a grown woman! Why am I here if you don't trust me with this? I live with you for god's sake!" She huffs out.

She's right but my overprotective nature won't let me show her the other side of me. The side that has done really fucked up things for this pack, sometimes not for the pack but just for fun. I'm not proud of what I've done but I would never change the past, it shaped me and taught me how to thrive and survive and mainly keep my pack safe, even if they are scared of me, they are alive today because of what I've done, they know that.

"I'm sorry, you are right baby." I kiss her forehead and she pulls back from me causing me to growl frustrated. "Sora I am trying for fucks sake! What do you want me to do!" I grit out frustrated from lack of sleep.

She jumps and I feel guilty. "I want you to keep your promise to me." She whispers. "No secrets Kane.. I can't be with you if you keep things from me and shove me away every time something happens." She says softly to me and I grunt.

I mind-link everyone in the building around my room. "Leave, no one enters until I say." Then I close the link so no one can disturb us.

"Okay."

"Okay?" She says confused.

"Sit." I instruct as I move from the bed and she sits on the chair.

Taking off my shirt to show her, she looks confused until I sigh and then this is where I don't know what to do. No one has seen this side of me but family. Not friends, not pack members.

I let my horns come free and my claws come out as my chest once bare of anything but hair and the stab that was once there is now bearing a sign shaped of a pentagram and my initials KB in the royal coating.

The sign of demons, the sign that has haunted my family for generations because of him, led back to the revolution that once ruined our line until it passed to me. I kept this part of me hidden for as long as I first turned and found out from my father that I held the mark. At first, I did not understand what it was until my anger got the best of me. There have only been three Alphas in our family that have gotten the mark.

I was named after one of them, the first Alpha, Locus Black held the demon mark of Demonia.

I am a Demon wolf hybrid with royal blood, making me a fucking monster to my kind.

".. you have horns? I-I don't understand.." Sora mumbles confusingly and I frown.

"This is my curse baby, this is why it scares me to let you see too far into my world, it's dangerous and unforgiving Sora. I have done unforgivable things, I regret none of them because I did what I could to protect my people as did my ancestors who also bared the mark of Demonia Black." I kneel in front of my beautiful frowning confused mate. "Demonia Black was amazing, insane but amazing. He was a Demon Prince and his mate was a wolf, the moon goddess blessed him with the gift to shift so he could protect his mate but not everyone found it a gift." I squeeze my mate's hand. "He killed his mate." I whisper out and Sora gasps.

"He lost control and killed her, the royal family of the underworld then decided to lock him up for his crime, to kill your mate is unforgivable and there is no trial, the outcome is a slow painful death, the punishment is called 'The 7' because that's the number of days it takes for you to lose your mind without your mate." I sigh.

"He was beheaded on the 7th day, and the Black name was frowned upon since in the underworld. The royal line was tarnished for many years until their son Locus was showing signs of Demonia and it was passed to him on his 18th birthday, making him the second Alpha of demon blood. It passed his children until my father passed it to me. Skipping generations until it found me, I have to live with that history and it terrifies me to think I could lose control and hurt you Sora." I kiss her hands and keep my eyes focused on my hand in hers.