The dining hall falls into silence the moment Roman walks down the stairs into it. Even the children keep quiet and I feel Maya move closer to me on instinct.I reach out instinctively across the mate bond but Roman’s emotions singe me back. It’s like I have a mental burn and Fen meets my gaze when I look away from Roman. His gaze is knowing.I feel Roman when he stops. His presence across the mate bond becomes heavier and I remember I want to ask Danis about this mate bond now. I want to ask him why I can feel this much but that’s irrelevant now.I need to be near Roman.The room seems to release bated breath when he leaves and Maya makes a sound that comes off like a purr. Danis is already looking at me when I look at him and so is Fen.They want me to go after him, and I should, I know I should. But a strange fear has me paralyzed in my seat. I… I…should go to him. Roman would never hurt me while he’s angry. He’d never do that, he’s not Hunter.“Scarlett…”Roman isn’t angry at me,
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Scarlett's pov “Is he okay now?” I hear Maya’s voice and my head snaps up to look at her. She’s with Fen and Danis, holding a hand from each one of them as she stands in between. Fen is looking at me for an answer. Danis looks like he already has the answer and that just makes me feel slightly annoyed. I squash that annoyance and smile at Maya. “Are you asking about Alpha Roman?” She nods and cocks her head to the side lightly “Is he in the woods? Did he shift into a wolf?” Two questions that are too precise for them to be mere coincidence. Danis chuckles nervously and he meets my eyes, really meets my eyes, for me to see the slight panic in his. He clears his throat. “Let’s get you tucked into bed Maya. I’m sure Alpha Roman will come around when he’s ready.” “But is he in the woods though?” Maya doesn’t look my way again as Danis leads her away. Fen stays back and his eyes ask all the questions his lips don’t. I get up from the grass and dust the dirt off my hands. I’m grate
The air is vibrating with magic.It smells sweet and like ozone, and Maya is laughing instead of being scared out of her mind.“Mummy! Look at the shiny drums!”Danis stops playing and the illusion falls immediately. He’s still holding a violin though and I don't know why it surprises me.“You can play the violin can’t you?”Danis looks away and nods like that’s something to be ashamed of.“I can’t play any instrument to save my life.”The confession comes out unbidden and I’m slightly embarrassed by it, but only for a moment because fucking hell….“Did you generate those illusions just now from the violin?”Danis frowns and cocks his head to the side and gives me a suspicious look.“How do you know they were illusions?” I almost scoff. “I’d know what an illusion is. I’ve watched movies.”Danis makes a slightly yuck face and nods at Maya who jumps in glee before he raises his violin to his chin and starts playing again.This time the melody is soft and gentle and so is the magic. A
“Stop Danis.” My chest is tight and I feel like I can't breathe. Fuck. “He cursed you?” I don’t mean for my voice to rise but it does. Maya is sleeping and I should keep this rage to myself but what the hell? What the fuck. “Let me see the marks.” Danis freezes and he drops the violin slowly. “I didn’t show you that memory because I wanted you to see the marks, Scarlett.” “But….. how come I've never seen them?” Sure I haven’t spent a lot of time looking at his feet, but “You’ve worn shorts recently haven’t you? I would have noticed it.” “You’re missing the point, Scarlett.” I stop and try to quell my anger alongside the righteous fury roiling in my heart. Some aspects of Danis’s story aren’t clear yet, but one is clear. A child was taken advantage of by someone meant to protect him and that child’s father beat him up for it. Cursed him for it even. “Breathe Scarlett.” I take a big inhale and try to exhale all the tightness in my chest. I feel like something has unknowingl
Hunter's pov. “Tell me you’ve found her.” My patience is running thin and my body betrays me by aching but Quinn still shakes her head. I grip the bed sheets and take deep breaths because if I don’t, I might do something that will cause my body more harm, so instead of that, I focus on the crone trying to wear me out. I chuckle. “I will kill that child Quinn. Don’t think I can't. I killed her mother, didn’t I? Your failure of an Alpha son is yet to come for you” My chest tightens and I have to bite back a hiss of weakness “I brought you here to find Scarlett for me Quinn…… If you’re going to be useless, then expect the dead body of your grandchild in your hands.” My heart feels like it’s frozen over but my anger keeps me warm. Anger at the fact that Scarlett, my mate, is cheating on me with someone else. And she isn’t just cheating on me, no, no. She’s cheating on me, and she dares to make me feel pain through the mate bond. A bond that was more or less dead a few days ago, bu
Scarlett's pov.She’s been listening in. The strands of Danis’s soul do not stop gleaming and I freeze because shit.This… this isn’t good.I look at Danis and he’s still not speaking. He’s just looking at me, and for a moment I wonder if he’s being controlled by someone else. This is one reason I do not like anything related to magic.I never know what to expect. Do I….start using sign language to speak to him? Would he even understand that?Danis hisses as he pulls in a sharp breath through his teeth and it is one of pain. I know it is. His face makes little quirks and jerks, the muscles trying hard not to contort, and with the panic that runs through me because of the concern I feel, something at the side of my neck heats up like it’s in a furnace.I hiss and reach for the mark.My hand comes into contact with it and it’s like something is shot into my veins. The world explodes in brightness and when I glance at Danis, I can see the magic of his soul clearly.The seven strands are
Scarlett's pov.Fen takes Danis into the packhouse and I sit up all night waiting for Roman. He doesn’t come back.Finally, I have to go back into the packhouse, get Maya ready for school, and get ready for work since Roman hasn’t made an appearance.My heart is heavy as I carry out every activity and my brain feels muddled.Okay, so someone has been listening in through Danis. That’s unexpected and alarming and for all I know that person could be working for Hunter, or that person might not even be related to Hunter at all and I am just being paranoid. Something else might be happening in that’s not related to me, but still,“He’s back.”My head whips to the sound of Fen’s voice so fast I hear the bones snap. My breath hitches and my throat becomes dry.“He’s back?”Fen nods and in the next second, I'm walking past him and out the doors. I almost run through the hallway and I reach across the mate bond to feel for Roman.I feel him. His end hums with life but there’s no energy to i
Hi wonderful readers.First of all, I’d like to say thank you for reading so much and so far. Thank you for the time invested into this book.Without you, nothing would have been possible, so thank you for that.We have come to the end, and while it is a bit abrupt, I’d like to clarify some things.The book is already at 290 thousand plus words, I was really worried about its readability because anything longer would probably scare readers off. I don’t know how everything usually operates because I am a mildly new author on the platform and this is my first completed book, but it felt like Luna Scarlett was getting long, and if I was to go further into settling some other points in the story….. It’d have been way longer.Now to pick up some of the points I left unfilled in the story (Without giving any spoilers of course.) (Okay, maybe one spoiler, or two :)The fact that Hunter’s mother killed Oliver: I’d say this would have led into a whole other story, and it will, it’s basically
Roman carries me in his arms.Diane is helped along by the mage.We’re laid on beds and the pain from the contractions almost makes me pass out.“Your body’s burning, Scarlett.”I feel water enveloping me and I hear Diane’s low low grunt as she’s laid into the pool too.The contractions make everything feel hard and painful. My mind slips in and out of a haze and the water is red, so red, but through it all Roman stays with me.His red eyes are as clear and pure as two scarlet moons.The indoor swimming pool is converted into a labor room the moment the doctors arrive. I open my eyes weakly to see a whole team of them, strange faces in blue overalls, and the smell of the hospital lingering in the air.The contractions hit again, and this time Roman helps me onto a table as I grunt and cry my way through them.This is stronger than anything I've ever felt.I hear one of them tell Roman firmly, “If you want to be here, wear one of these.”Roman is back at my side in less than a minute,
Scarlett’s pov.Each blast of energy I let out makes me grit my teeth in pain.The doctor and Myrtle watch me with calm eyes and though it rips my heart to see them standing there like that, I don't stop.The shield over me shimmers with each blast of energy I release and I can see the impatience filling them because they can’t touch me while this is still going on.There’s an impatience to the way Myrtle grits her teeth but I can't bring myself to be happy at that…. because I'm killing him.Hot heavy tears flow down my cheeks and I burst into a sob because I can hear the sound of his pain each time I release my power.His shield is directly linked to his power, to him.I’m like a bomb in a can. He is the can.He can’t contain me.He can’t keep me in.I will go off as many times as I need to. I am a woman. My energy is endless, but while I do it… he suffers.It’s either I stop and get my stomach ripped open, my baby… my child will be killed.I would never forgive myself because it wou
The scarlet glow in his eyes grows in strength and all the dots come together in my head.Elara was never abducted. She orchestrated the attack.The strangeness of the wolves that attacked us was because she had infused them with the gene mutation she stole from me, and Ironclaw warriors weren’t able to do anything but die at their hands, because they had never met anything like that.They couldn’t take over the pack totally, because, like everything that’s stolen, it’s never stable. The look in Elara’s eyes makes me chuckle as another truth hits me and I let her get himself to full strength. I let the shift take him over, and in a moment of nostalgia, the scent of jasmine comes carried on a gentle breeze as little lines appear in the wind.They blaze to life with bright but silent lights, each one swaying as if blown by a light breeze. I see the lines extending through the wall behind me, the room where all those in the packhouse are being held currently. I see them in my mind, from
Roman’s pov.The bond between me and Scarlett stretches taut due to the distance and it’s the first time I've felt something like this between us.Feeling her and barely feeling her at the same time.The cars pull up to the gates of the mansion and I can tell my packhouse has been taken over by foreign forces. No one makes themselves visible when the gates come open, everyone is hidden but the moment we drive in, the gates slam shut faster than they ever have.The feeling of arrows already poised at us sends a light tingle down the side of my neck and I send a message to my father through the mate bond, ~Take the children to the safe house. Drive there like it’s what you always meant to do….Stay safe Father, and keep the children safe.~My father sends a feeling that echoes low on the mindlink, one that tells me he will obey my words to the letter because he is a wolf under my command, and I am his Alpha.But as a father and someone who’s watched me grow into who I am today, he’s
“Scarlett.”A brief silence punctuated by mumbled words and then the word comes again.“Scarlett.”The tone is more insistent this time and my eyes flutter open as a headache burrows it’s way through my head. I groan as i open my eyes fully because my head hurts a lot.Surprise steadily flow s through me when i realise i have been bound. I can barely move my hands or my feet.I try to struggle against the ropes but i can’t, and the voice comes again.“Psst, Scarlett.”I raise my head just the slightest bit, unable to see through the large mound of flesh that’s my belly.I feel my baby moving andd kiclkin, the discomfort stinging me like pins.“No, no need to raise your head.It’s me… the mage.”My fuzzy head clears up enough to remember where i am and what happened to me before i blanked out. I feel my body go rigid as shock courses through mel, a healthy dose of shock and fear.No.I struggle against the ropes.NO. NO. NO.Hunter wouldn’t dare.Hunter would never!“Hunter!”My heart
Walking through the halls of the Nightshade pack has me feeling… not nostalgic.I can remember wallking through here when i came here with Danis once. We delivered wolfsbane to Hunter.Then simply being in the compound had shaken me. It had made images of me back here float around in my mind, and then i knew Hunter would have done something horrible to me and Maya if he had gotten his hands on us.I don’t know what must have caused the sudden self proclaimed change in him, but i wouldn’t risk myself and anyone i know depending on that.I’m only here because Hunter knows who i am now. He knows i cannot be hit or hurt by him, without him suffering consequences.“About the conversation we had the other day.”I turn to look at Hunter and i see the way he maintains eye contact with me for a second before looking away to stare at something else. His voice comes out more sulky than i imagined he wants it to be.“I only knew Oliver.I didn’t have any relationship that was out of the normal w
Scarlett’s pov.It’s a bloodbath.I feel the tang of blood on my tongue, the smell of death in the air, I smell the power leaking off Roman, and as it leaks off him, it goes into me.“Roman…”My voice is hoarse and croaky. I can barely hear it. It’s a rasp that leaves my throat feeling sandy and hollowed out yet Roman hears it.His head snaps to me the moment I whisper his name and I realise now why everywhere seems so silent. There’s not a sound emanating from the forest, not from the archers in the trees, not from the warriors Roman brought along, not even from the birds - probably already scared away by the violence, or the attendants - scared into silence by Roman, currently dotted in large splatters of blood. Roman’s presence jolts when he comes to me.I feel his aura wrap around me faster than anything i have ever felt before, and when he cradles me in his arms, i feel the shift take over him and his claws retract, the red glow from his eyes fade, the heat radiating from him d
Roman’s pov.The world pauses as I feel Scarlett’s anxiety spike through the mate bond.It’s a thick and heavy feeling in my gut.My head snaps to her, searching for any traces of what might be happening and for a minute all I can feel is Maya telling her there’s something wrong with the boy.There’s something wrong with Axios.Before anyone can pull another breath, I feel my wife fill herself with power so pure it leaks into me and sets my nerve endings on fire.“Everybody down, Now!”The blast of wind Scarlett releases makes a boom when it rips out. Screams come from the attendants now on the floor, the shrill whistles of arrows are almost masked by the boom of air but not quite. I see the arrows fly back with the force of a snapped twig and they find targets.Scarlett fills herself with that power again, needing not even a second to fill herself up, already primed for an attack while I'm still trying to make sense of it all.The orders come from my lips not a moment later, “EVERYO