Scarlett’s pov.“Are you friends with my mum?”I shake my head and stare out the window. It’s safe to say I feel sour right now.Not just sour - bitter, because who the hell does she think she is coming into my home and telling me I’m not man enough to challenge her?I am the Luna of the Ironclaw pack. I won’t be belittled by someone who’s only there because I haven't asked Roman to throw her out yet.The thought rings discordant the minute I think about it but I don't care. She’s caused Roman enough pain to feel sorry for what she did but she’s never for a minute shown any sign of remorse.“Do you know the bad man who tried to hurt my mum?”I groan low because I am not in the mood for this right now. My skin feels like even words could graze it and irritation crawls all over my flesh, irritation, and anger because, “My mum says I should avoid you.” Again I am brought to a complete halt in my train of thought and I frown as I look at Axios, crinkling my face in confusion as I ask, “
“Have a seat Aria.”Aria doesn’t take that order nicely because she snaps immediately.“Where the fuck is he Horace!”They’re on a first-term basis.I take stock of Aria’s outfit and see it’s simple. A dark skirt that hugs her hips, obsidian dark heels, a toffee blue shirt with black stripes and a diamond necklace that gleams. Her hair falls in dark waves down her back, and again it’s surprising how much the dark consistency of their hair seems to be the same.She doesn’t look like she’s been out drinking or partying, she’d wear jeans for that. My eyes catch onto the tag I formerly thought was a design on the shirt.It’s Ironclaw Prep’s crest.“Hi, Aria.”Aria jumps and almost goes stumbling to the floor. Dean Horace moves just in time to catch her. She steadies herself and pushes away from him swiftly, turning to face me. There’s a shocked look on her face.“Scarlett.” A name that echoes with surprise.I nod and she takes the reins of her current expression back, her face goes blank
“Did you choose pink for the halls on the night of a jubilee?”This conversation floats into my ears as I walk past the main hall, one of the Ironclaw females replies the male who asked, “No, the pink ribbon is for the kid's section, that space at the far corner of the hall. Make sure you intertwine it with blue.”The man being spoken to nods before giving me a bow and scampering off. I walk over to Nadia and smile at her.“You’re doing a great job. I don’t know what I'd have done without all of you.”She smiles good-naturedly and sighs in contentment, “I’m just happy I get to take some time off work and do something simple like this. Sometimes it’s all about the simple things.”I nod still smiling and bid her keep up the good work.Roman isn’t in his office when I get there, but I know he’s somewhere in the packhouse. I can feel him. If I focus, I'd probably be able to locate him.Roman’s office looks clean and neat. Pristine even now that I think of it.I walk over to the desk and r
Roman blinks when he’s told the report.“What do you mean the footage disappeared?”I can see the female warrior giving me stink eyes from the corner of my sight but I know she’s not brave enough to expressly give me that look. The moment I look at her fully, she averts her eyes and looks away. The room is silent with Roman’s emotions being the loudest here, he asks again.“I said what do you mean the footage disappeared? I want the truth unless you’re both going to pay dearly. Do I have to bring to your notice what this might mean?”I can see Roman’s patience swiftly running out and the male warrior steps forward, “Punish me, Alpha Roman. I was the one in charge of safeguarding the security footage and I was negligent in my duties. No one else is to blame but me.”I chortle under my breath at that. He’s trying to take the fall for his woman. That’s cute, to be honest, but it’s not going to solve our problem. I speak to Roman through the mate bond.“Tell them to leave.”The warriors
His name is Reginald.Not a decidedly wolf name, but it suits him. The Ironclaw warrior in the lounge room with me isn’t one of the two who were present in the surveillance room when I got thereReginald is the lanky one. The one who worked fast with a computer and who mistakenly pulled out a video from eight years ago.“I really didn’t do it with malicious intentions, Luna Scarlett. I didn’t even know the video was there.”He’s young, younger than me. If I had a younger brother, I'd imagine they would be the same age but that’s not the point here.“I know you didn’t pull it out on purpose so you can relax on that Reginald, I’m not here to punish you for exposing the Beta and former Luna’s relationship, that’s not what I want at the moment.”He nods warily and looks at me skeptically, “What… Do you want then, Luna?”I divide the mass of cooked noodles I brought along with me into two small dishes for eating, keeping the rest covered in the ornate pearl bowl. I add the meat I know Iron
“In recent news, it has been discovered that Alpha Hunter Tyson of the Nightshade pack has a secret child. A male child to be precise by the name of Axios Tyson Nightshade. The facts about who this boy’s mother is are yet to be releasedSpeculations are, though, that he is the secret child of Luna Scarlett Collins, former wife of Alpha Hunter and former Luna to the Nightshade pack. If we all recall about half a month ago Luna Scarlett and Alpha Hunter were in the Alpha court at the Alpha conference..”I switch off the television for lack of a better thing to do and Roman’s voice floats clean and clear through my head.“Calm down Scarlett.”I want to, gods I want to!I want to calm down so bad it’s like a pang of hunger in my belly but … by the moon goddess and all things scared!“She leaked the news about Axios.Not even a day after I told her! It hasn’t even been a few hours yet, what the hell? And my child? Aria fully knows Axios is not my child, why would she leak the news of him o
“Scarlett Collins here.”The phone is like a violent radioactive device as I hold it in my hands. All I want to do is hurl it.“Scarlett? Oh my god, I’m so sorry Scarlett. I told Tria, and she told our mum and she blew it up to the media. I told Tria to keep it silent, but I think she’s trying to curry favor with Mother and it’s just…. I’m so sorry”I can hear the remorse in Aria’s voice.The Aria Tyson I knew would hardly apologize in person, much less over the phone.“Scarlett?”I blink, “I’m still here, and yeah, no problem, it would have gotten out at some point though I'd have liked it if it happened after the Crescent moon Jubilee, but there’s no problem.Axios is her grandchild.”“And so is Maya, but she didn’t make this kind of fuss. Her behavior isn’t acceptable Scarlett, I'm sorry.”Genuine surprise flows through me because wow, this is really a change.“It’s alright Aria. Should I expect her tomorrow then? You know her better than I do, is there anything I need to watch o
Hi readers. I apologize for the lack of updates these past three days. I forgot to inform you all i would be going on a temporary break. I'm back now (though i hurt my thumb on my break lol) Updates will come in soon, and since this is the last month of updates for Luna Scarlett, i will most likely upload 2 or more chapters each day, depending on how much i can write. I hope you guys are excited. I saw a recent comment about chapter length, i have explained the concept of this earlier but no worries, the new chapters should be longer hopefully. Love you all, and thank you so much for reading my book. Your support and readership means the world to me💕 I will think of creating a reader group somewhere so we can all connect and i can introduce some of my new book ideas as well as give updates on ongoing books.Hope to see you all there.