Bernardo“What happened?” I asked him, waiting to hear the worst news ever. Damien wasn’t one to create false alerts. If he said it was bad news then it was certainly bad news that I might not be pleased to hear.“They discovered the bug we planted at your uncle’s house.” My heart sank at his words.“Can you come to my room? We have to talk about it.”Damien added. I nodded and stood up.“Will be there in a minute.” I told him and turned to Hillan who was looking at me expectantly. At first, I just wanted to tell him goodnight and go meet with Damien on my own but on second thought, I decided to trust him and carry him along since he already helped in a lot of ways.“We have a situation and Damien wants me to meet him at his apartment. Want to come along?” I asked him. He nodded and stood up immediately.“Why what happened?” he asked him.“We will talk once we get there. But he told me the bugs we planted at my uncle’s house have been found.” I informed him. he didn’t respond as
Bernardo “Before you ask me how that will help, let me tell you that the father and son might be on the same team but they don’t get along. for one, that fool talks down on his father a lot and calls him a failure for failing to get the throne after taking out your father and the Zeta.” The fact that Theo and his father had issues even though they had the same goal was news to me. I mean, I used to think he wasn’t on his side the way Sean talked about his son and how disappointed he was at his action until he bugged my office and showed who he truly was. “He told you what his father did to mine and Harlyn’s father?” I asked Hillan when I realized that I only found that part out not too long ago. “Yes, even told me about wanting to take out the other possible heirs but failed because your brother has been on another continent for years and your sister’s son that he planned to kill was healed by your mate. He hates you by the way.” It wasn’t news that he hated me. That's one o
HarlynI don’t know how I knew that something wasn’t right but I just knew that something wasn’t right the moment I woke. I just felt something was going to go wrong today and I would probably end up crying myself to sleep.First of all, I woke up alone and to a note from the alpha king that he had an important meeting and had to leave the palace. I wondered what it was because he didn’t say anything about it last night when we talked about plenty of other stuff.I ate breakfast with the princesses and assured Leah that I would go to her for my Luna lessons since I promised Bernardo that I would focus on that. The note he left mentioned that the midwife would be in soon.“Definitely pregnant.” I whispered to myself and dropped the book that I had been reading to get my mind off things. Everything felt off but so far, nothing has happened but it was still too early to think that. For one, I didn’t see Hillan even though I was told he was still in the palace. I wanted to call him but a
Harlyn “That’s nice, how was your night?” I asked him. He smiled and reached for my hand, I pulled away and regretted it immediately I saw the hurt in his eyes. “Har---” “I am sorry,” I whispered. “No, don’t be. I shouldn’t have touched you. Can we talk?” He asked, keeping his hand to himself. I felt like hell. This is Hillan. Someone who helped me at my darkest moment. Someone who protected me and let me stay in his home even though he didn’t know anything about me. Why did I suddenly start acting like a bitch with him? He hasn’t done anything that he doesn’t do before so why am I the one trying to ruin our relationship? I reached for his hand and held it in mine. “I am sorry, what do you want to tell me?” I asked him. He smiled and turned to the guard who stood watching us. “Leave us,” I told him. He looked like he wanted to argue at first but decided against it, good for him. I waited until he was gone from the room before I looked at Hillan again. I reminded my
HarlynI knew without being told that we were in trouble, I pushed forward and stood between him and Hillan as I didn’t want him to hurt him again. Hillan tried to get in front of me but I stopped him. If there’s anyone to calm Bernardo down then it would be. We talked last night so I just have to assure him that he has nothing to be worried about.“What’s that bastard doing with you? Why was he touching you? What are you telling her?” Bernardo let out when he got closer to us. I tried to reach for him to calm him down. I didn’t want them to fight or something because the man already looked like he was out to commit murder and I refused to let him kill my friend.“It’s none of your business what I have to tell her.” Fucking Hillan, I turned to look at him in shock. Did he really say that to my murderous-looking mate? He looked like he had a death wish or something because why else would he say something like that to an already angry Bernardo? “What did you say, Lovie?” “Bernardo.
HarlynHe told me to stay away but I couldn’t stay away so I wiped the tears from my eyes and ran towards them. One of the guards outside the room tried to stop me from leaving but I growled at him and dared him. He backed off when he saw that I wasn’t playing with him.“Bernardo let him go!” I yelled at Bernardo when I saw him still dragging Hillan who was acting like he didn’t have strength, not to mention that he was still bleeding. His cut hasn’t healed yet. How would he heal when Bernardo continuously punched him in the same spot?“I told you to stay away, Luna.” Bernardo let out without looking at me, he just kept dragging Hillan away. I broke into a run and got ahead of him.“Stop! What the fuck is wrong with you, I am your Luna and I command you to stop.” I yelled at him. Okay, I didn’t expect him to actually stop but he did. There were people around. Guards, palace workers, and the king’s relatives and they just witnessed me commanding the king but I didn’t care. He liste
Harlyn “I hate it here.” I let out as I made my way to the room that I shared with my mate, I really do hate it. I hated everything that happened today and I realized that that’s why I felt off. Today turned out to be as bad as I had thought it would be when I woke feeling off. I don’t know if things would have ended differently if I had just stayed in the room like I had earlier thought. Hillan wouldn’t have come to meet me in the king’s chamber. It would have prevented what happened. He would have left and probably called me to tell me how he felt and it would have been easy to deal with it on the phone. we wouldn’t have created a scene and I wouldn’t have had to command the alpha king in front of his people. “No damn it, you are Luna, you have the power.” My wolf let out. I didn’t expect her to side with me. “I am you,” She reminded me. Yeah, we might disagree a lot but at the end of the day, she is me and I am here and she is right, I am Luna and that’s why Bernardo li
Harlyn“What are you saying? Planned? When? Why? How?” I asked in confusion but even in my confusion, I felt a small light of hope start to bubble inside me, hope that Hillan and I can still be friends and that our relationship wasn’t ruined yet. “Sorry baby. But to be fair, it wasn’t my plan. your savior wanted it that way and I tried to talk him out of it but he and Damien ganged up against me and it was two to one. I lost and agreed. Again, I am just a secondary character in the plot.” He repeated. He was clearly trying not to get in trouble with me. Not like I was mad at him. I just don’t get what he meant yet and how they decided to plan it. “But why? You beat him up, you broke his nose and he was bleeding so bad.” I reminded him. “That wasn’t supposed to happen but he told me he is okay, you healed him.” Yeah, I healed but then, why would he go through such pain just to prank me? It has to be a prank. “Why did he need to prank me? I don’t find what he did funny.” I let
Bernardo “That was easier than I predicted.” I let out on the drive back to the palace after spending hours giving out orders and making a list of intruders in my kingdom that I hadn’t been aware of. Funny how they all gave in without a fight. I expected them to fight back or try to escape but it went the opposite way which was okay by me. I might have the strength but that doesn’t mean I want to fight all the time. They were all leaving my kingdom tonight. Not one of them will be left. I already warned them that if they ever tried to come back, it would be death on arrival. A total of one hundred and thirty intruders. Seventy of them were bears and the others were made up of different breeds. I don’t know how Sean was able to gather that much and hide them away in the pack without being noticed. Who was I fooling? I knew how. I just hated how much freedom he had to do those things and get away with them for years. “It looked easy to you because you didn’t have to beat those
Harlyn“Don’t even bring that up, I don’t want to hear it. It won’t work!” She warned me. I sighed. Both my clients don’t want to know each other. Such a loss.“Fine, I won’t bring it up. You both are not fun. I just don’t want Octavia to get him.” Helaine stared at me in confusion. “Octavia, the witch. It’s clear that she likes him and wants him. He told me that she kind of became a friend and he only sees her as a friend but I don’t think that will last. They are bound to get together at some point.” I lamented.“So?” “So? Is that all you have to say? The man might be your mate. Don’t you care that there’s a witch out there, out to get him?” Helaine shook her head, eyeing me as if I was crazy.“Do you really want me to be worried about that? I don’t know this man and you seem to be forgetting the keyword in your sentence. ‘might’ I can assure you that he isn’t my mate. He can get on with whoever he wants.” Helaine said firmly, leaving no room for argument.“Just give up.” M
Harlyn“Helaine!” I yelled and ran into her arms. Crazy girl. She scared me. I pulled her into the room with me. I hugged her again. “Laine! You scared me!” I scolded her and pulled out of the hug to make sure I wasn’t seeing things. She was really here. I didn’t expect her to be back already. She didn’t even say anything when we spoke on the phone.“Baby girl. Surprise.” She cheered. “Surprise? You didn’t even tell me that you were coming! I thought it was another fucker trying to trick me.” I let out and hugged her again. “Sorry, sis. I didn’t think of that. I just wanted to surprise you. I didn’t mean to scare you.” She apologized. I didn’t mind anymore. She was here. She was really back to the Crimson Moon. I eased out of our hug again and looked her over. She dyed her hair black and now, we looked so alike that it would be hard to tell us apart.“You dyed your hair.” I pointed out. she nodded and smiled.“I wanted us to look exactly the same. Do you like it?” Do I like
Harlyn“There’s no one here.” I whispered to myself, looking around again. I must have hallucinated the movement. Maybe I was seeing things that weren't there because I was worrying so much. I can’t even talk myself out of worrying because there was literally a war going on in my kingdom right now and it could get worse.I really don’t want it to get worse. I don’t want the pack members or others in the kingdom to be affected by what’s going on. So far, no one in the kingdom except the people involved knew what was going on. I wish we would resolve it without it escalating to the point that everyone else would be affected.“Please,” I whispered to myself as I turned and made my way back to the room. I could only wish and pray for safety now. There was nothing else I could do. If only I could fight. Maybe I should learn how to fight too. “That’s not what a Luna does!” “Bernardo.” My heart sang when I heard his voice in my head. I thought of using our mind link but I didn’t want to
Theo “Shit!” I cursed when I heard her walking towards me. Yes, I came for her but I didn’t want her to see me yet. Not yet. I don’t want anyone to know that I was already in the Crimson Moon. It took everything to escape that witch. She had been on my tail every day and made it hard for me to leave. I caught her off-guard and left when she least expected it. If my hunch was right, she already called that bastard and told him that I left. Fuck her for choosing to be on his side when I found her first and even gave her my mark. When I am done here, I will surely go back and make sure to pay her back. Even when she had been helping me, I planned on disposing of her when I no longer needed her but now, she made it so much easier to do away with her. I hid behind a pillar and held my breath as Harlyn's footsteps grew closer. I didn’t want her to see me until I was sure I could get her out of the palace without anyone finding out. It didn’t take long for me to find out that my stup
Harlyn“What happened again?” I asked him as soon as he dropped the call. He looked at me worriedly. Well, it was definitely bad.“He found it.” I stared at him in confusion.“He found another den of bears.” Of all the things I expected him to say, bears weren't one of them. Bears? For the Crimson Moon, bears were as unwanted as vampires and witches. They were the worst because of the history the Crimson Moon has with them. “What? In this pack?” I questioned even though I already knew the answer to that.“Yes, I found a map that day at the underground hideout of Sean and I gave it to him. That’s what he and Damien went to check out and I have to leave right now.” He explained and started walking away. “Are you going back to the Orange Moon?” I asked him. He turned around and shook his head.“No, I will call my pack to let them know just in case Theo shows up there and I will call my parents too. I am needed more here.” He told me and started walking away again. “Let me come
Harlyn “Why did she call you this time? Does she have new information?” I asked him. He nodded. “Okay, is it bad? Do you not want me to ask?” It was clear by his body language that he didn’t want me to know but I wanted to know. It was important that I know as I am the Luna and Queen of the Crimson Moon. If it concerns my kingdom, then it concerns me. Unless, maybe it’s not about my kingdom. Either way, I still wanted to know. “I would much rather speak to the king.” I resisted the urge to curse at him. Really? It wasn’t the first time he said something like that to me but for the first time, I felt offended. What did he see me as? Did he think I couldn’t handle whatever news it was? “You will tell me because it involves my kingdom and my people. I am Luna and I deserve to know. You have no choice!” I told him firmly. I could tell by his reaction that he didn’t expect me to react the way I did. “Lyn I sh---“ “No! Tell me. It’s a command!” I let out. I didn’t mean
Harlyn “There’s a handbook. I asked her and she told me she has a lot written down in all the years that she has known about her powers. She is willing to give all that she wrote down to you. She also wants to meet you but I told her that you can’t see her now. Hopefully, soon.” Hillan explained. I wanted to jump on him. I wanted to hug and kiss his cheeks. It was the best news ever. I really wanted something as some form of guide because right now, it feels like I am using my powers without knowing the depth of it. “I would love to meet her too and yes, I really need the handbook.” I told him enthusiastically. “I will have it sent down to the Crimson Moon by tomorrow.” “Wow, so soon?” I let out. He smiled and nodded. “Yes, I told you. I already asked her before. I was going to get it down here anyway. I just have to make a call and someone will send it over. It should arrive in two to three days.” I really wanted to hug him but I didn’t. Instead, I reached and touch
Harlyn I woke up the next morning alone. I was used to waking up alone now so I didn’t think much of it, I just went about my morning routine before breakfast. After the events of the past two days, I actually hoped that today would just be a normal day for me. I really didn’t want to deal with any negativity. I knew I was reaching out because as long as Theo and everyone associated with him and his father are still out there, there will definitely be negative things happening. I just hope it doesn’t affect those I care about and all the good people of the Crimson Moon. Even though I knew the chance of it being a peaceful day was low, I still made a mental note to make the most of today. I didn’t even notice Bernardo had left a note for me until I finished getting ready. I only saw the note because I went to pick up my phone from the bedside. I smiled when I saw the note. “I didn’t want to wake you because you were sleeping so peacefully. Out for my daily kingly duties and w