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Second Chance for Revenge: The Reborn Luna. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
ORLAThe half moon sat in the sky. It looked down on us as we moved through the night.I didn’t know where Ryker was taking me, but I knew that he wouldn’t try to kill me so soon.Saint Terrir was bordered by a thickness of large trees and green plants on one side, and a sparkling clear river on the other. I knew this because my dad made it his duty to take Ophelia and I outside of our house at any chance he could get. We’d go on these long trips where he’d tell us the history of different places in Saint Terrir.From the directions that I observed, I still couldn’t get a good read on where we were headed. So I let the wind whip about my face and blow my hair in different directions.More out of fear of falling off and dying, I gripped Ryker’s torso with all the strength I had. I still couldn't understand why he insisted on using a death trap of a motorcycle for his movement. Perhaps it was to keep up with his ‘hot boy’ image. Or maybe he liked living on the edge.When I had the menta
Second Chance for Revenge: The Reborn Luna. CHAPTER NINETEEN
ORLAThe waitress eventually passed out. Before she did, we managed to get a little bit of extra information. One, the ‘beast’ she had seen hadn’t killed anyone. Two, it had been a person, initially. She had seen someone hiding out in the parking lot, but when she got closer, the person’s flesh burst apart, leaving only a hulking, giant thing in its place.I didn’t want to believe it at first, because it sounded too gruesome, but there was a myth that werewolves were told as children. Something meant to keep them grounded and disciplined.If a werewolf were to eat the flesh of his own kind, he would slowly run mad, and lose control over his wolf. As if that wasn’t enough, he would also experience a terrible form of shifting, where his flesh would burst apart, instead of simply expanding or contracting to suit the form of the inner wolf.As we grew older, we learned that some myths were simply just that, and would never be proven true.Until today.Ryker’s face as he listened to the wo
Second Chance for Revenge: The Reborn Luna. CHAPTER TWENTY
MAVERICKI shot out of my bed, shaking and searching for air I didn’t know I had lost. I’d been trapped in something like a nightmare, and forced to see things that tore me into pieces.My parents, slain. My pregnant mother was begging and crying so hard that her skin turned red. My father fought until he couldn’t anymore, before succumbing to his wounds.The same images that I saw almost every night. The demons that I had been forced to make peace with. The truth that I’d been given no choice but to accept even though it left a bitter taste in my mouth and made me dizzy with rage and fear.My chest felt like something was crushing it, like a boulder sat on it. Every breath I took hurt. I couldn’t focus my eyes on anything. Sweat rolled off my skin, and dropped silently on the carpeted floor. The tips of my fingers throbbed as I fought to keep my wolf within me. My nails lengthened into claws and growls bubbled deep within my throat.The silver light of the moon descended upon me thro
Second Chance for Revenge: The Reborn Luna. CHAPTER TWENTY ONE
ORLAI didn’t know the wolf standing on all fours right in front of me, but it was truly a magnificent beast. Eva’s curiosity blended into me as well, and I felt an urge to get even closer.Its rippling muscles indicated that it was surely a male. I felt his presence from the moment I went out to start my run, but I didn’t know that he could sense me as well.His russet fur was unlike anything I’d ever seen before. While most of his body was covered in it, the fur on his belly was a soft silver that shone brilliantly in the moonlight. Certainly, this wasn’t an ordinary wolf. I could taste his strength and power.Deep in my mind, I asked Eva, “Who is he?”Before she could offer a response, the wolf got off all fours, while still looking at me with undisguised interest. As he rested on his strong hind legs, we nearly moved back because we saw just how big he really was. Most werewolves were bigger than humans in their hybrid form, mostly reaching heights of at least six feet. But this w
Second Chance for Revenge: The Reborn Luna. CHAPTER TWENTY TWO
MAVERICKI couldn’t protect her.I couldn’t protect her!I screamed and threw a flower pot to the ground of my study. It crashed to the ground and shattered into numerous pieces. It wasn’t enough. I needed to break more things. I needed to—“Come on! I really loved that vase.” Everett slinked into the study like he didn’t notice my rage. He kneeled beside the shards and shook his head as though truly saddened. “It’ll take a while to find a new replica.”Breathing had become difficult again, and the back of my head pounded. My body shook with anger, fear, and guilt. I wasn’t able to sleep after I’d returned back home, and now, in the wee hours of the morning, the weight of all that had transpired during the night had started to suffocate me.What if she had died? What if I had lost my mate because of my poor judgment? If not for that other strange smelling woman that somehow knew how to restrain that witch, what would have happened to Orla?I pressed both hands to my eyes, trying to st
Second Chance for Revenge: The Reborn Luna. CHAPTER TWENTY THREE
ORLAFire. Ash. Burning flesh.My whole body was on fire again. It was eating me up little by little. Taking all I had until I was no more.I couldn’t speak because my throat had been burnt apart by the flames. My screams had been reduced to nothingness.It was over for me . . .‘ ‘ ‘Sharp pain burst behind my eyelids, and they flew apart. I sat up immediately, feeling nauseous. I got off my bed and dragged myself to my bathroom, where I proceeded to empty the meager contents of my stomach.After that, I pulled myself into the shower and doused myself in ice cold water. My skin still felt like it was burning. My throat itched, and my head hurt.As I sat in the shower, memories of what had transpired in the night flowed into my mind. The run. Maverick. The mysterious woman that had almost killed me by simply raising her hands.I put off the shower and stepped out of it. Was Maverick alright? I couldn’t remember what had happened after he’d carried me.He’d carried me. He took me into
Second Chance for Revenge: The Reborn Luna. CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR
ORLAI really couldn’t believe what my eyes were seeing. Svetlana had lost an arm to something or someone.“Svetlana, is this really you?” I looked at her from head to toe. “What happened to you?”Her mom frowned, looking at us as though we had dug up something that should have remained buried.As we all sat in the living room of her home, I started to realise that things weren’t as they seemed. This wasn’t an ordinary occurence that had befallen Svetlana.I couldn’t stop looking at the place where she used to have an arm. The last time I’d seen her, she was whole. Of course, it was wonderful that she still had her life, but I wondered what had happened to her tomake her this way.Another thing that worried me was the blankness in her eyes as she regarded me. Like she didn’t remember who I was.I looked to her mother, who seemed to be the only one who even remotely uderstood what was goining on. “Was this why she no longer came to our house?”Her mother looked like there were a lot of
Second Chance for Revenge: The Reborn Luna. CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE
MAVERICKA nagging feeling stayed with me all through the day to the night when Everett’s little party had begun to pick up.Music had already started ringing in my ears by the time I woke up from my impromptu sleep that apparently had lasted for 5 hours. It was just getting deep into the night, and the crickets were already chirping outside.I went over to the bathroom to freshen up, and afterwards, checked my wet nakeed self in the mirror. One look in it almost made me decide to stay absent from the party. Everett would probably not speak to me for a week if I didn’t attend.I had actual eyebags. The line of my jaw seemed sharper than usual, as though it was simply waiting to burst out of my flesh. It wasn’t related to my eating habits, but because my near constant state of panic had riled Conri up as well. The slightest escalation would send us into a transformation if things continued this way.My insomnia had been really bad these days, particularly since the disappearance of tho
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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
