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Second Chance for Revenge: The Reborn Luna. CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED THIRTEEN
ORLAThe letter came out of nowhere. The four edged square bought with it an air of cold and foreboding—like a warning that we all had to heed forcefully or watch as it unfurled and destroyed everything that we knew.A guard had brought it inside, panting and gasping for air—an oddity for a wolf. He had this unruly kind of brown hair that was so characteristic of a boy just transitioning into a man.I wondered what could have motivated him to take up such a dangerous role in the pack.He held it out to us with a shaking hand. "This . . . Is for you."Maverick had taken the letter out of his hand immediately, looking about as calm as everyone else in the room—if calm could be described as wide eyes and stiffened bodies."You may go," he dismissed the boy, not watching him shuffle out of the front door in a terrible haste.Even Maverick's hand shook a little as he held the letter in his hand, checking it as though it was a ticking time bomb.Although he had to put up a brave front for t
Second Chance for Revenge: The Reborn Luna. CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN
ORLADays passed, and we spent each and every one of it in deep-rooted tension and anticipation. We all knew that Daniel would strike soon, and despite countless efforts done to even catch a glimpse of his elusive presence, we always returned with nothing but dust in our palms.He didn't want to be found, and he had made sure of that.Maverick came up with an idea. As crazy as it sounded, we couldn't help but agree that it was an offer that even Daniel himself wouldn't be able to resist.We had to paint the illusion that we were no longer focused on his impending attack, that we had cast the worries away and had turned to facing our own lives.A wedding. Our wedding.Werewolf weddings were in some ways, similar to that of humans. A priest wasn't needed to bless the union, because two wolves coming together in marriage was one orchestrated by the moon goddess above. We only needed her blessing.While it made me feel a little bit uneasy that a day that was supposed to be special to the
Second Chance for Revenge: The Reborn Luna. CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN
ORLAThe beginning of the end. All the alarm bells went off in my head.The first howl had been a call. The second had been a response. And so was the third, fourth, and fifth.All around us, howls of equal levels of raw rage ascended. Bodies locked in response, and eyes became sharper, scanning the bushes and trees for the moment the monsters would appear.When wolves called to one another, we knew it, even if the call wasn't from a member of our pack. Because we were all one big family regardless of location or blood.In the case of rogues, there was no emotion that the howl created in normal wolves. We didn't feel the need to answer the call. We couldn't even decipher the reason for the howl. That was how we knew when it was a rogue that was howling. Although sometimes, rogues that had become skilled in the art of imitation could mimic familiar calls, only pups or young inexperienced wolves were at risk of falling prey to them.But these ones weren't here to pretend. They were h
Second Chance for Revenge: The Reborn Luna. CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN
ORLAWe'd barely made it to the other end of the forest when a figure clad in black from head to toe emerged.Her eyes were a startling green. She pulled down her hood and unleashed her dark locks, letting them billow in the wind behind her.I knew her! She was the same witch that had attacked me back then in the forest months ago. The same one that I thought Makila had saved me from.So it was true that she still lived.As soon as the realisation sunk in, she held out both hands towards us, and pain exploded from deep within my head.I screamed, falling to my knees immediately. It was like a bomb had gone off in my head. A loud ringing sound started in my ears, blocking out the sound of everything and anything else.I needed it to stop.As though like an answer to my prayers, the pain started to let go of me, and I dropped on my arms, gasping for air as my vision cleared. When I raised my head, I saw that all her focus had shifted to Maverick, but unlike me, he was still on his feet
Second Chance for Revenge: The Reborn Luna. CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTEEN
ORLAWe watched in frozen horror as Everett continued to act out of control, clawing at Makila’s fading magic shield. Soon, if we didn't stop him, he would successfully break through and hurt her.There was also the issue of the rogue also approaching her.All the things she had done flashed through my mind. This was karma, wasn't it? For all that she had done. For that young girl that she had watched Daniel mercilessly kill, for killing Maverick's parents, and for pretending to be someone I could trust, just to stab me in the back.I wanted to watch and see what happened. I really wanted to.My conscience didn't let me. It gripped me by the throat and forced me into action. It wrestled with the venom that I wanted to allow to wash over me, and won. My limbs shook with the hidden battle going on inside of me.I bounded forward to her aid, launching myself at the rogue and clamping my jaws locked around its throat with all the strength I could muster.It released a loud cry of pain and
Second Chance for Revenge: The Reborn Luna. CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTEEN
ORLAMy jaw nearly dropped to the floor. How could she have known about that? "What are you talking about?" I asked, just in case I was missing anything. Grasping at the hopes that maybe I was the one that misheard her words. "I'm talking about you being here once again. Your . . . Condition."I shook my head. No. She couldn't have known about it. I didn’t tell anyone! Not after what had happened with Ella. I'd learned the hard way what happens when one tries to defy the laws that governed such peculiarities. I didn’t have the strength to try it again. So how did she know?"You're wondering how I know, right? Well, let's just say that as witches, we're not so far removed from your Moon Goddess. Our mother, Hecate, from which all witches descended from, was also a lover of that big silver rock up in the sky."Being a witch goes far beyond being able to read fortunes and cast spells. It also means we can see things that are . . . different. Like let's say, people that carry a certain
Second Chance for Revenge: The Reborn Luna. CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND NINETEEN
ORLAThe wind kicked up around us as Daniel started to transform into a very large wolf. Fur sputed out from his skin, claws burst out from his hands, and his normal breathing was replaced by howls and growls. Bones snapped, flesh broke apart and then fused together in equal measure.With his transformation complete, he let out a roar as loud as a dozen trumpets.He didn't come for us immediately, but hung behind as the two rogues behind him leaped into action, howling and barking very much like their lupine subordinates.Makila cursed under her breath. "He's trying to distract us—wear us down for when he's ready to actually strike," she said, and slashed her arm through the air with a powerful swing.This created an outward, larger and stronger representation of the act, that came down like a guillotine upon the rogue closest to her. The ground shook from the impact of magic hitting flesh and I had to hold fast to keep my balance.I was about to attack the other rogue, hoping to quic
Second Chance for Revenge: The Reborn Luna. CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY
MAVERICKI howled from the bone shattering blow to my side. The pain moved like lightning from the point of contact, into my spine, and then into my brain. I'd never felt such a degree of pain in my life, and I had to admit that it made me stagger. To gain the upper hand in this fight, I had to be strategic. Daniel's wild fighting style had earned me a sick bite to the shoulder and now a giant wound by my side. Refusing to be rattled, I took in a deep breath and shifted out of the way assessing the wound to see how great it was. Red blood trailed down my side, wetting my fur and pressing the hairs flat against my body.I retreated, looking for one quick moment to catch my breath, but Daniel was having none of it. It was as though he wanted to keep hurling attacks at me until I was too bombarded to even fight back. He probably didn't think that I would catch on to his game so quickly.At least, Everett had shifted back to human form, and seemed to no longer be acting feral, but it di
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Second Chance for Revenge: The Reborn Luna. EPILOGUE
AUTHOR'S POVA YEAR LATERThe usual belief about life is that a person only lives once. For Orla, though, that wasn't the case. From being mistreated, abused, and ultimately killed in her previous life, she awakened to find herself given another chance to make things right. A chance to fix the wrongs that led to her unfortunate demise. A chance to build that which she should have lost.Another chance . . . to find love.+_+_+Orla bent down, crouching as far as she could go to pat the last heap of rich brown earth into place. She'd always wanted to try gardening since she was a child, and now she had finally made that dream come true.She sighed contentedly, and sat back on her haunches, looking up at the sky whilst wiping off her sweaty forehead with the back of her hand. Although it was still quite chilly, and the ice hadn't completely thawed, strenuous physical activity could still make a person feel like they were stuck inside a furnace.The advice Alec had given her was to plant
Second Chance for Revenge: The Reborn Luna. CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY
ORLAIt felt like an eternity. The darkness. It had neither a beginning or an end. It took me—grabbed me in a suffocating hug and refused to let me go.At some point—I didn't know how long it took, but it came to my understanding that the darkness was of my own making, and only I could free myself from its clutches.So, I opened my eyes, and welcomed the light back in.The first thing I saw was a face. One too familiar, and at the same time, dreadfully disturbing.Blood seeped out of his nose, ears and mouth and dripped on my shirt. His eyes had gone blank, with its usual icy colour sucked into the cold emptiness of death.Ryker was dead.I pulled my hand out of his neck, unable to ignore the feeling of gore and slippery blood. His weight had become suffocating since life no longer flowed through his veins.I pushed his corpse off me, and sat up with a groan. The wound in my chest was still struggling to knit itself back together, but with the bullet still lodged inside of me, it wou
Second Chance for Revenge: The Reborn Luna. CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY NINE
ORLAA gun. That was what he had been holding. I'd failed to recognise the hidden shape in his hand on time. I had been too occupied with other things to think about the fact that he'd probably had a plan B.He fired three rounds without pausing.I only had milliseconds to respond, but I wasn't fast enough. He'd surprised me, and I had to deal with the consequences.Cold descended on me as I realised that I had indeed acted too irrationally. Searing pain bloomed in the left side of my chest, and another in my thigh. The last one grazed my cheekbone, and that was only because I pushed my head to the side just before the bully made impact with my flesh.Blood rapidly started to pool in my mouth, filling up my throat until air couldn't pass through and I had to spit it out before it choked me.I fell on my good leg, clutching my bleeding chest.I hadn't foreseen this. I'd been so eager to get him that I had forgotten how cunning he could be. There was no way he would have just been here
Second Chance for Revenge: The Reborn Luna. CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY EIGHT
ORLA'Don't think. Don't feel. Just act.'Those were the words ringing in my head as I swung the wooden log into the side of Sonja's head with every power that my body could muster, bursting it open like a balloon. Blood splattered all over my clothes, but I didn't matter. I had killed her. She was dead, and she would never, ever hurt my family again.I had made a promise to go as low as killing just to save my child, and I was glad that I hadn't hesitated when it mattered the most. Although it was a flimsy defence, I had no other option. She had raised her knife to stab Amaranthine, and Maverick was too far away to get anything done.Makila had spotted her and her counterpart from a distance, and was able to perform a spell that teleported us right behind them. We'd also seen the vampires that seemed to also be trying to help her, and decided that it was best to stay out of their line of sight.Sonja's body went limp, and her remaining eye remained wide in horror and shock. She mus
Second Chance for Revenge: The Reborn Luna. CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY SEVEN
MAVERICKWe followed the trail judiciously, paying attention to the location the trackers had presented us with. We'd gone by car to eat up the most of the distance, but since the trail eventually led into a dense, seemingly unused path, we had to turn to out feet for transport.Under the guidance of the moon, we pressed on, too determined to even stop for a moment to speak to each other. I took mental note of the people with me, and found myself grateful for having such wonderful packmates that were willing to do this with me. Of course, the years had strengthened our bond, but I still was baffled sometimes by their immense loyalty and dedication to me. Amaranthine's kidnapping had been a huge blow to the pack, but it didn't change the fact that she was my daughter, and most of the pressure to find her fell on Orla and I, but they all took the issue and placed it on their shoulders as well, making the weight a little bit easier for me to hear.We kept walking, keeping caution close
Second Chance for Revenge: The Reborn Luna. CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY SIX
ORLANight came, and all our hearts were ready and prepared for what was to come.I stood in the bathroom, staring at my reflection for the second time in six four hours. The time was already a couple of minutes past seven, and as Maverick had told us, it was go time.Everyone else had gotten ready, and those that were at the first part of the plan had left a little while ago. Tim, Everett, Blair, and Avery had gone with Maverick, following the coordinates given on Everett's tracker. From what we'd seen, Ryker and his witch friends hadn't left their positions since the time we had deliberated on the plan. The plan was quite straightforward. Maverick would go with his people to scout the area and then proceed to lure the witches and Ryker out. Again, I had been thinking that I had been sidelined from the plan itself, until Maverick told me that I would go in with Makila to get Amaranthine. Makila's presence couldn't be downplayed simply because she was the only one with prior knowled
Second Chance for Revenge: The Reborn Luna. CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY FIVE
ORLAI was sick and tired of waiting for things to happen. The day after my last discussion with Maverick, I'd been unable to rest my jittery nerves. Every second, minute or hour physically disturbed me. I wanted my child. I needed her back in my arms.The fact that I had no idea what they could have been doing to her made me panic even more. What if they were abusing her? Or casting marks on her smooth skin just to cause her pain? What if they were starving her, and watching as life slowly seeped out of her little body?I had to hold on to the hope that she still lived. I couldn't think about anything else.Maverick had called for a compulsory meeting, and as much as I wanted to keep avoiding him, I couldn't turn away when my child came into the picture.The noon was blazing hot, so I already dressed in a black tank top and some denim shorts, baring the skin of my arms and legs. In this, the mark Maverick had branded me with was on full display—an oddly symmetrical line of five dots
Second Chance for Revenge: The Reborn Luna. CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY FOUR
ORLA"She's waking up," someone whispered. My eyes couldn't fathom anything but darkness. My mouth felt like something was keeping it from opening, and pain spread at different points of my body, like I'd been run over by something.I opened my mouth to speak, and only a groan could find freedom."Shhh, don't talk. You might hurt yourself."'I already feel hurt,' I wanted to say, but speaking still seemed like a hassle to me. I reached out blindly, and warmth came to my hand. A familiar touch. "It's okay now, you're safe."With a painful flash, the memories of what I'd gone through previously ran through my mind. Makila yelled at me to go.Getting attacked by a woman.Ryker threatening Amaranthine's life.Just like that, my eyes flew open, and a scream finally came out of my throat, wrapped in somebody's name. "Ryker! He has Amaranthine!" I shouted despite my sore throat. Maverick came to my side, rubbing my back and softly whispering, "We know."I looked up at him, recalling my
Second Chance for Revenge: The Reborn Luna. CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY THREE
ORLAIt couldn't be though, that witch was dead. Even if she had escaped death before, it couldn't be possible that she happened to resurrect again . . . Right?The woman before me laughed softly. "Why are you looking at me like that? Does my face ring a bell in your head?""Where is my daughter?" I asked, deciding to go straight to the point. There was nothing worth more than her safety right now. Not even my own curiosity.She frowned playfully. "Your daughter? Hmm." She lazily patted a finger against her chin. "Probably dead by now."Another thing that I found different about her was her behaviour. Sonia had been incredibly loyal to Daniel, and hardly spoke unless it was so say something that showed that. This one had a lighter disposition.The woman didn't even seem bothered at the sound of those approaching. If anything, she seemed to get even bolder. "And what's that I hear? You brought backup?"I looked down at Makila, who still sat behind the shrub, pressing the bottom of her
