h4Chapter 772: 772-Darcy’s Past./h4

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    I watched Emmet make waffles for us and te them separately, decorating each like a chef with edible flowers. Everything looked perfect.

    We walked out with the waffles in our hands, and as soon as we sat down in the garden, Emmet started helping me with the food as if I couldn’t eat on my own. Ever since they found out I was pregnant, they’ve been treating me like a child who can’t take care of herself.

    "So, are you going to talk to me about something?" I asked after taking a bite of waffle and closing my eyes to enjoy the taste. Emmet really knew how to cook, I had to give him that.

    He wiped his hands with a napkin. Even when he didn’t need to, he used a fork and knife.

    "So, remember when we were talking about my mom and how she said she thought she was cursed?" he said, making me nod along with him.

    "Yes, I remember we talked about it. Did you find out what kind of curse it was?" I asked Emmet, watching him nod. He looked pretty confident in his findings, and since his brothers also let him stay with me, I could only guess they already knew what the curse was about.

    "So basically, this cursees from a punishment the Moon Goddess gives to mates or anyone who don’t listen to her," he exined, making me shake my head to show I didn’t understand. "She punishes whoever disobeys her."

    "But where does the cursee from? What could your mother have done so wrong that she got cursed?" I asked.

    "So, you remember Mate Fullmoon?" he asked, and I nodded.

    "Do you know the history of it?" he continued. I shyly shook my head. History was part of our school years, but I usually went to training instead and skipped it. Even when I did take history, I didn’t have my wolf back then, so I couldn’t train. In the end, I barely remembered anything because I wasn’t left with the freedom to study anymore.

    "It’s okay. Nobody really knows," he said. He had probably noticed how awkward and out of ce I looked.

    "Basically, the Mate Fullmoon is a special night that used to be very dear to the Moon Goddess. Her people were supposed to enjoy feasts, especially the mates. But then some rogues used it to their advantage. They lured in young women, raped them on that night, and when the women gave birth, they killed them and took their babies. So the Moon Goddess decided nobody would ever mate on this night again because of how tragic it had be. Long story short, my mother thought the rules didn’t apply to her."

    As soon as he finished, my eyes widened. That was terrible, what happened to those women. As a rape victim myself, I deeply sympathized with them.

    "Maybe your mother didn’t know herself. Maybe she didn’t know about the Mate Fullmoon," I said, giving her the benefit of the doubt.

    "Actually, that doesn’t seem to be the case."

    I hadn’t expected Lord McQuoid toe up and stand behind me. I thought he had left for the academy. I turned my head and instantly got up to offer him my seat, but with a gesture, he let me know he would take the one next to me.

    "What were you saying about? Did you know about the Mate Fullmoon?" I questioned. Lord McQuoid nodded.

    "I’ve kept it in me for so long. But now I feel like this is where I messed up. I should have told my sons." Lord McQuoid rubbed his face in his hands. I had only ever seen him look this remorseful about his past. Whatever she had done to him was extremely wrong, and he had clearly suffered because of her actions.

    "Back when I married their mother, she had fertility issues. We went to doctors everywhere, and they all said she would never conceive. But then, I don’t know what came over her. On night of Mate Fullmoon celebrations, she made me drink a lot, and we ended up sleeping together. That same time, we found out she was pregnant. I was deeply disturbed because I knew it would mean a lot of trouble."

    Lord McQuoid paused and took a deep breath. Emmet quickly offered him some water. I could tell repeating it was hard for him.

    "What happened then?" I asked.

    "Then... I visited the Holy Mother. You must have heard about her. She was the most sacred woman of our time, a messenger of the Moon Goddess. She told me that if we stopped right there, the Moon Goddess would forgive us. So she began her prayers, apologizing nonstop every day. But my wife— she never followed the rules. The more she was told not to do something, the more she did it. And around the same time, her father passed away. She decided she needed someone, and she needed more sons, so Norman wouldn’t be alone when he was born." Lord McQuoid paused again, his eyes shifting behind me. I turned and saw two cars stop. Maximus, Kaye, and Norman all stepped out and walked toward us.

    "I wanted to talk about it in front of all of you," Lord McQuoid said. And in the next five minutes, we were all settled around him, listening to his heartbreaking tale of a terrifying and horrible past.

    As we all sat down and Lord McQuoid began telling us everything Darcy had done in her life, it became clear how terrible it all was. Her actions affected not only her own life but Lord McQuoid’s and my mates’ as well. I couldn’t understand how someone could be so evil and foolish. The fact that she had little regard for anyone else’s future wasn’t even surprising anymore. But every time Lord McQuoid began with, "And then this one time," I knew it would be followed by something awful Darcy had done.

    When he finished, I noticed his sons standing up to hug him. He broke down badly, ncing at them as if to see whether they were angry with him too. I don’t think he could have done much more, aside from telling them early on what their mother had done and what she was capable of. His kindness in letting her stay in their lives only gave her more confidence to interfere against their will. But that was all going to change now. I wasn’t Lord McQuoid, and I wasn’t my mother. I would show Darcy what it feels like to have the world against you.

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