My hands shook as I followed Harriet down the corridor to meet Emmett, one that had never felt longer before. The weight of how big and important this event was sat on my shoulders causing me to grow even more nervous, this event is life changing for not only myself but those of the pack members, this was the official introduction of me becoming their Luna, the start of all that I will bring to the table as Luna, the start of everything, comes from this one moment and I couldn’t mess it up. As I reached the very top of the private staircase, Emmett, who looked much better than he did this morning, stood waiting for me. The suit that sat on his body looked more expensive and, in some ways, vastly uncomfortable, the way he played with his collar showcased that. “Having some trouble there?” I ask with a little smile as I began my journey down the stairs, my question seeming to snap him out of his annoyed war with his collar where he looked up at me. “I’m alright, it’s just this fuc
The lobby slipped into one of the tensest of silences I have ever witnessed, Emmett and I didn’t break eye contact for even a second whilst Harriet remained at the door, a smile on her face for a moment before she too felt the tension in the air. “I will ask you again, what did you mean by the third invasion?” I ask repeating my previous question but adding more context in case that was the reason he was standing there like a plum and not answering my question. “Fern, I don’t think now is the time for us to be having this conversation-” He began to try and once again make me drop it all together, but that was sure as heck not happening! “I believe it’s the best time to have this conversation, I’m about to walk out there and be declared Luna of this place, perhaps I need to know what kind of shady activities the Alpha decides to plan behind my back.” I say with a little smile, but I wasn’t finding this at all funny, it was my coping mechanism to not rush out there and start an ar
After the official had given his little speech on how historic this event was and how honoured we all must feel to be a part of it, he backs away and looks to Archer, who I could feel and see was still a little nervous on my entire demeanour and the way I had totally, brushed him off. But clearing his throat, he turns to look at the crowed in his same dominating Alpha trance. “Good afternoon, everyone, I must begin with a thank you, this ceremony would not be what it is, if you did not all pitch in and help. As Marvin the official has just stated, this ceremony is one of, if not the most important event in a pack's history, we are here to welcome your new Luna, one that will promise to stand by the pack and its members throughout anything. One that will show nothing but deep compassion for each member and above all, be there for each and every one of you whenever you need.” He begins to say looking around the area at each person, my hands being forced to rest behind my back as the l
As like my birthday party, the celebration seemed to carry on all the way through the morning and deep into the afternoon, the feeling around the pack was so high with excitement and glee, each knew the party was to last until the exceedingly early hours of the next morning. Even though the ceremony had been a tremendous success, and I was able to speak with so many pack members who thanked me for accepting Archer and expressing how excited they were for the future of the pack now that I was the Luna. But what Emmett had told me before still clung to my mind preventing me from truly being in the moment. I just couldn’t understand why Archer would choose to invade my fathers pack for a third time, yes, even though I hated the fact he invaded when I was there, it was easier to accept because that whole purpose was to come and collect me. But as Emmett had offhandedly said, I was already here when the third invasion transpired, there was nothing left at my fathers pack that Archer woul
After leaving Archer’s room, I continued in my anger filled rage as I walk down the stairs of the lobby and out of the doors of the pack house, the party which was being thrown in my honour but something I now wanted nothing to do with raged outside. During my absence, the party had begun to get even more wild and most adults drunkly walked around the party, dancing, shouting, and seeming to make complete fools out of themselves. With a sigh, I walk as close as I could to the edge of the staircase hoping I would blend in so much that not a single person would notice me and begin to make conversation which I certainly, did not want to have after my interaction with Archer. But as fate would have it, as soon as my feet hit the ground of the path right in front of the steps, many eyes turn to look at me offering me the attention I did not want. “There is the lady of the hour, Luna Fern!” One drunken man begins to cheer throwing his hands in the air allowing some of the liquid from
Over in the middle of The Blood Wolf Pack stood a makeshift office, due to the invasion and the destruction it had caused upon their pack house, the Alpha and his son had no other choice but to set up tent like structures, his office and the hospital to heal the sick and wounded from the invasion being the main priorities. The rebuilding of their pack had been slow and tedious, Alpha Cameron didn’t have very many allies before and now with his reputation after his mates passing, not many others wanted anything to with him. But the allies he still had, once they heard of what pack had invaded, they wanted nothing to do with the rebuilt in case The Dark Warrior Pack sets their sights on them. This meant The Blood Moon Pack was left to rebuilt alone and with the many casualties, the manpower was so low it was almost nonexistent. “We may be able to source some bricks and mortar from Alpha Aidan, but he expressed how it may take some weeks as he is also doing some remodelling to some o
It was as though my body was hit with a high voltage of electricity causing me to jolt awake with a gasp, my heart rate pumping so fast in my chest that I feared in my delirious mind, it would burst out of my chest. Sitting up straight to look around at what surroundings I was under, I begin to only panic more as I realise, I was laying in some kind of bed, in a place which was hauntingly unfamiliar to me. What seemed to be hundreds of beds where people with vastly diffing injuries lay, if I would have given myself time, I would begin to see that I knew many of these people where the location of where I was in that moment would occur in my mind. But with my panicked state, I did none of that and looked around in an even bigger crisis. “Where am I?” I ask in such a panicked voice as I look either side of me, my pink dress which once held vibrant ivy’s placed so delicately around the fabric seemed as though it had seen better days, whilst I looked down at my clothes, I soon spot the
After the panic deep in my body had somewhat subsided, I sat on the same bed watching as the nurse from before ran even more tests to determine if I would be safe to leave and how substantial my injuries were. Hadwin and my dad didn’t leave my side for a moment, each watching intently as the nurse checked all my vitals. It was an odd feeling to be in the same room as the pair after everything, it was as though I didn’t even know them anymore. “How long was I unconscious for?” I ask looking up at the pair whilst the nurse drew some blood, I could tell it had been a while due to the sky almost pitch-black outside, I didn’t remember much about how I came here but I was sure it was around the afternoon. “We don’t know how long you were passed out for by our border until you were found, but you’ve been here a couple of hours.” Hadwin explained with his arms crossed, where I knew Archer was going to be so worried, I’ve tried mind-linking him but due to my head injury, my wolf is in pret
The sounds of the battle still roared behind me as I rush towards the edges hoping to get a glimpse of Aidan, I knew he had to be around here somewhere to control his creatures, but I couldn’t see him. Catching my breath, I begin to look around the landscape, as the sun slowly began to rise above a hill, I see him, stood at the very top watching the battle happen below. With a smirk, I decide to take the denser part of the woods in hopes of blending in and catching him in surprise. As I climbed the steep hill, using the fallen trees and debris to help me climb up, I begin to ask myself why he did this, he was my father's best friend and allowed him to die without a second thought. He could have called the flesh eaters off that day and none of us would have known, but he didn’t, he allowed my father to die because of his selfish desire. The higher I climbed, the angrier my anger began to boil and the image of finally, making this man pay for all he had done forced me to climb even
The sounds of nature around us were all we could hear, each of us knelling down and waiting in our last moments of peace before the blood hungry battle begun. If I’d allowed myself to go into my head, I would begin to panic from the fear of losing so many, but as like I had learnt, when walking into battle, nothing else had space in your mind apart from the battle in front of you. I crouched down behind a broken tree staring at the clearing before us, Archer beside me with his bright sword in his hand and our men scattering the land waiting for my signal. Each agonising moment which ticked by, the more I repeated to myself that I was born to do this, it was set in the stars from my first breath that in this battle, I would reign victorious. It was time to fully round up the book I was written into, the final chapters were before us. “If you’re here mum and dad, I could use some help.” I whispered looking up at the changing sky above us, this is what mother had meant in her card, s
It’s been a few days since I spoke with Alexander down in the cell, he and Archer spent hours talking in his office about everything, I excused myself to speak with the King and the guys to give them privacy. The King had explained all we learnt from Alexander regarding Alpha Aidan, so imagine how tense the air felt in that office when I entered. Emmett was of course angry, we had been led down the river by Aidan, someone posing as a friend who wanted to offer his assistance, was really the man who was posing us the danger! Whilst I could see Hadwin felt the same as I did, we had grown up with this man thinking he was one of the purest around. He took us in when our father was too much to bear, we even addressed him as Uncle Aidan on so many occasions. But now to know he was the opposite of all we thought he could be and if we boiled it down, was one of the main factors which led to our mother's death, it was a hard pill to swallow. After having a chat surrounding Aidan, we began
The silence of the area took hold of each person that stood to witness it, not one of us knowing what was about to happen next with the notorious angry Alpha which stood right beside me with his arm around my waist. This was something I know Archer had always wanted to happen, to have his father finally, take the blame for what had happened and make everyone see that he’d been telling the truth from the start. But due to everything, it was something he thought would never happen. But now to have his father fully clear his name, I don’t know if he understood what to do next. After a long pause of tense silence, Archer takes a step forward standing in his Alpha stance looking over as our pack members who looked back at little worried and some even sympathetic, now they knew what I’d been trying to tell them since I arrived here was true, they felt bad. “Pack members, I also want to thank you at how swift you all listened to your Luna’s order and gathered here without a second tho
After explaining to the two men with me what my plan was, both seemed more than doubtful that it was going to work but when I looked into Alexander’s eyes as the guards returned and I’d given them my new instruction, I could see the hope but also such gratitude as he looked back at me. “Why are you helping me, it would be much easier for you to walk out of here and pretend we never spoke?” He asked as the guards stood him up and wrapped the suitable chains around his arms and legs. “As I said, this is not only going to help you but will also help Archer and with all he’s done for me, it’s only right I repay the favour.” I say with a smile placing my hands behind my back before a chuckle escape my lips. “And my father used to always say, taking the easy way out may seem simple but it only brings you more trouble down the line.” I joked thinking back to all the times my father had me take the difficult path on jobs he’d send me, at the time I thought he was doing it to pick on me bu
Alexander looked down at the table with a look of sorrow as the King, knowing I wasn’t planning on going anywhere until I heard what Alexander had to say, took his seat beside me and got comfortable to hear what else we needed to know. “I know many will refuse to believe me when I say, I truly did not have any other choice but to kill my family. That is such an outlandish claim, but it is the truth.” Alexander said looking up at me with tears in his eyes, where the vulnerability of this former heartless Alpha broke my heart in a such profound way. “As like you did when we spoke about the flesh eaters and how you helped my mother, start from the beginning.” I say hoping to guide him through telling us the truth, I know this is something he’d been forced to keep to himself for so many years, so actually saying the words is probably so incredibly hard for him. “It all started with your mother's death, as like most of all the awful things that have transpired. I know you may find me
As his words marinated in my mind, the more hurt and confused I became, how could Aidan do such a thing? When Hadwin and I were growing up after our mother died, he was our only source of happiness and peace, he was the brightest beacon of light when our lives were anything but happy. He truly was like a father figure to us, which why even thinking that he could have told those creatures to do that to my own father, it hurt deeply. “H-how do you know that for sure?” I ask after a moment silence to better my thoughts, I know he had already explained why he thought it was Aidan, but he had to be certain. “It can’t be anybody but Aidan, each time one of those flesh eaters attacked, it suspiciously benefited Aidan in some way. The first attack for instance, Aidan’s pack and another called The Full Moon Pack were having a dispute of some sort, Aidan was claiming the Alpha at the time had stolen some of his land, but the Alpha was insistent that no such incident had occurred.” Alexander
When that sentence left Alexander’s lips, I sat silently for a moment not really having an understanding of what he meant. I had always been under the impression that these flesh eaters were like any other wild animal, just a whole lot eviler. Once I turned my head to look at the King who still sat beside me, I spotted the confusion on his face too. “You are under the impression that there is a person who controls the flesh eaters?” The King asked seeming to have the same questions as me, where Alexander only nods his head. “I have been dealing with these creatures for many years and have had the most trained investigators looking into this and never once did we suspect these creatures were being controlled.” The King said explaining what he believed to be true, where Alexander shakes his head with a sigh. “That is the assumption that Beatrice and I made when we first looked into this, I mean who in their right mind would want to control such evil creatures and do such heinous act
Once Alexander had agreed to speak to me, he sat back in his seat silently, by the look on his face, I could see he was attempting to organise his thoughts before he spoke to us, so I watched patiently. “I’m not quite sure how much you know about this situation, so to help us all get a better understanding and for myself to remember correctly, I will start from the beginning.” Alexander said with a sigh sitting forward in his chair after taking a moment to himself. “You were only a small baby when your mother approached me, I had visited your pack to offer my congratulations to your family for your birth as how many Alphas do when an ally gains another family member.” Alexander began to explain looking down at the table to remember, but what he said shocked me for a moment. “The Dark Warrior Pack and The Blood Moon Pack used to be allies?” I ask in a shocked manner, I had no idea before the death of my mother, my father and Alexander got along, I always assumed The Dark Warrior