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THE MISJUDGED LUNA 77
The rain came without warning, sending the pack running back inside for shelter. They gathered by the fireplace. No one knew quite what to say, but the questions in their eyes was clear. “What happened?”No one could answer their questions better than their Alpha, so they all waited, patiently, but the extent of their patience thinned by the second.That night, Asher stood in the middle of his pack members and told them everything; the rogue wolf from the morning Kihara was nearly attacked, and every bit of information he was able to gather from Daryl and the patrol guys.“We’ve contacted the police,” Asher said. “And we hope they will be able to conduct their own investigations and fill the gaps we don’t know. Like why Chase had not met Daryl after school closed, and who he had run into or talked to in the space of their last period and closing hours.” Then he took a deep breadth that he let fall put of him in a deflated sigh. “I am sorry. I have failed to protect you, as your Alpha.
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Kihara woke up to an empty bed. This was becoming a normal since she’d been sharing her bed with Asher. He woke up earlier than she did so that he could join morning patrol. The mornings where always so important, Asher had said. If anything had happened in the woods in the cover of night, morning would uncover him. His Alpha nose could pick up the slowest of Scents, and his Alpha eyes could pick up even the tiniest of prints.The first time the rogue had been sighted, it was in the morning. And the second time he had acted, it had also been daylight. Most supernatural predators liked to hunt under the cover of darkness, but this one loved to do it in broad daylight. Kihara had been confused by this and so she’d asked.It was Lady Walter that answered on the table where they had breakfast. She said. “The sun rules the day and the moon rules the night. The Rogue is cursed by the moon, so it must fear the night.”Everybody around the table turned to Lady Walter with their wide gazes and
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Kihara and Leila walked back to the pack house near evening. In Leila’s hands, three rabbits were held up by their scruff, dripping of blood were her knives had pierced them, very much dead. Kihara had tried once or twice to shoot a rabbit, but her gun hand still needed much training, and her heart like Leila had pointed out, needed toughening. Kihara’s stomach had held out for most of it, but she could not help feeling queasy. She’d eaten deer meat but she could not bare the thoughts of the rabbits flayed and cooked into rabbit stew.Leila passed the rabbits to the cook like She’d promised then went up to the room she shared with Brody to clean up. Kihara retired to her own room too.She was in the shower when Asher came in. He quickly shed his clothes and joined her, hugging Kihara from behind, his mouth in her ear, he whispered. “Wanna save water?”She giggled and let him take the soap from her hand. His hands on her were meticulous and attentive and she returned the favour when he
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So what do we do now?”“Now that we know who he is, we fish him out.” Asher said. “He’s got to be close by, somewhere in this town, there’s a man called Sebastian Thornton.”Asher gave Victor a look who promptly nodded. “I'm on it.” He said. He grabbed a toast bread from the table, took huge bites until the loaf had disappeared down his throat. “See you later folks. Time to do some hunting.” Then he walked out.The table cleared out briefly after that. Everyone seemed to have something to do, except Kihara. Even Leila had her training with her knives.The training sand wasn’t so occupied, most pack members had started to resume back to their daily works and the kids resumed school. Asher made sure they all took extra precaution and were especially safe. The kids were told to stick together in groups. Now that they knew the enemy was active in broad daylight, the hours of morning to afternoon were the most dangerous.Kihara watched Leila. Her knife movements were fast and smooth and p
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The wolf dashed straight into the house unimpeded by the half opened doors. Only a few wolves had stayed behind, some to protect the pack house in their absence, some because they were unable to, too sick in the heart, or too old to join. Some of them expressed mild surprise at the Alpha pair coming back so early, but they questioned nothing, only bowing their heads slightly as both wolf and woman dashed up the stairs to the newly decorated Alpha and Luna bedroom. Kihara’s luggage and possessions had been brought up here and arranged meticulously to suit her preference.Asher lowered himself so that Kihara could slide down easily and land softly on the ground. Kihara stood, her muscles and tendons stiff and yet shaky with shock. She heard the sound of bones contorting as they snapped into place and knew that the wolf was shifting. Her back was to Asher when he called out to her.“Kihara.” His voice in her ears was her only telling that if she looked back at him, he would no longer sta
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Kihara’s honeymoon lasted three nights. Three good nights of no worries, three nights of forgetting that there was even anything to be worried about. It ended too quickly for her liking, but they needed to get back to their duties, and Kihara needed to start hers. The bodies they found in the woods had been buried properly. In the days Kihara and Asher remained completely indoors, the only time they opened their doors was to receive food, and in their absence, Victor had taken charge. He’d put off alerting human authorities about the bodies in the woods and for good reason. No human police would not believe that the work had been done by a pack of werewolves. It’d be like putting handcuffs on their own wrists and walking to the police station to be locked behind bars, not that any police bar or handcuff could hold a werewolf. Apart from burying the bodies, there were many other issues. The pack had grown hesitant of stepping outside pack house boundaries. Members who had human jobs
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Kihara had never been to the pack dungeon. She was not even aware that a place like such existed, but as it turned out, the underground bunker was not the only thing underground. The dungeon was built a bit off ways from the pack, the only thing that lead to it was well like construction with stairs. The dungeon wasn’t well kept, unlike many areas of the pack, because it was hardly used. Asher told kihara the last time it had been opened, it was used by his father, and now him, to lock up Justin.Kihara climbed down the narrow stairs that led down to the dungeon with her heart feeling heavy and in her throat, Asher right behind her. At the bottom of the stairs, the dungeon opened up to9 a big musty space. The air was hot and drier around here. Directly in the middle of the room, two iron cages sat beside each other, and Justin sat in one, on a stool, his hands and knees bound. The cages looked ordinary to Kihara, there was no reason why they should be able to hold a werewolf, Kihara w
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Sebastian listened quietly the messenger, a drink in his hand illuminating the colorful swirl of candlelight it captured. The messengers words echoed softly through his ear drums. After the man was done, Sebastian nodded. “You’re dismissed.”The man backed out of the room, his legs were about to cross the threshold when Sebastian called. “Don’t go back to the woods Jerry. I doubt that our boy will be anymore useful after today.”***Everything was set for their journey to Ever-moon. Transportation and envoy and the gifts Kihara had prepared for ever-moon waited downstairs while the Alpha couples exchanged swift words with each other.“You know why I worry Kihara, it is dangerous.” Asher was saying, the veins in his temples bulging as he emphasized on the word dangerous. Kihara was having none of it as she stood glaring at him with her hands crossed above her chest. ‘I don’t see how that is an issue.” They had had this conversation last night, and the night before, still, Asher was in
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