"So that's your real purpose?" I asked while looking right at the man with an incredulous look.
"After all the terrible and horrible things you did to my entire family... you just want to take the The Crescent Moon Pack's heirloom?"
I shook my head and raised my right palm and rubbed my tear-filled face roughly. I no longer cared about the pain and sting I was feeling. Especially with the man in front of me right now. When I finished saying that, he immediately lowered his right palm that was stretched out right towards me earlier. The man looked at me with both his sharp and cold eyes, but I wasn't as weak as he thought.
"You could say that. I sent a message to your dad, the Alpha of the Crescent Moon Pack about a month ago, to ask for this pack's heirloom in kind. In return, I won't take you as my mate, the only daughter they have, and you can stay in your pack, without the need to live with me. You do know about the matting stuff, right? And yes, a little girl like you would know about all that stuff for sure. But, the answer I got was very disappointing." The man stepped his feet closer to me.
"And do you know the answer your dad gave me back then? Your dad wrote the answer for me, go to hell." The man had that mocking smile again on his face that looked so horrible.
"But it seems, he himself should go to hell. Oh, wrong. I mean, he along with all his pack members went to hell."
And my body trembled with pain, sadness, and anger as I looked at his face. I wanted to punch that annoying face of his again. However, my right fist that had dealt the first blow to the man was starting to bleed. "Therefore, now give the heirloom to me. And perhaps, I can grant you forgiveness as well as life. Or in short, I'll let you live, and not suffer the same fate as the rest of your family. How about it? Can you give me the heirloom now? Because I don't want to stay in this disgusting pack for too long." Slowly, the man straightened up and raised his hand towards me.
"Even if I wanted to, I swear that I will never let you touch and take that heirloom from me. And even if I die, I will never hand over The Crescent Moon Pack's heirloom to you. Never!"
I replied to his words while looking intently right at the man now. "Even if you force me, I will never give that heirloom to you. And yes, you won't even be able to find it here. Because I have already eliminated the heirloom. This Crescent Moon Pack no longer has the heirloom now. Ever since you and all your warriors killed all the members of this pack, at that moment, it disappeared without a trace. You don't even have one more chance to get the heirloom now. Everything you've done to all the members of my pack has been in vain!"
I smiled wryly back at the mocking smile she had been showing me. Even so, I really hoped that neither he nor his warrior would be able to find and seize the Crescent Moon Pack's heirloom now.
Plak
"Aarrgghh!!!"
Bruk
I instantly felt the heat on the side of my face from the slap the man gave me, and also the pain of falling quite hard on the floor. "Damn it! Let go of me!" I yelled loudly as the man grabbed me by the scruff of the neck and pulled me to my feet.
"You think that threatening me like that is going to scare me away?"
The man muttered as he pointed my body right at him, to be able to look right at him now. I could clearly see how terrifying the man's facial expression was as he looked right at me now. That man was angry. And I continued to pray to the Moon Goddess, even though I now felt doubtful myself. After all the prayers I had made to the Moon Goddess, I had gotten very bad and terrible results as well. After all the devotion I had done, I had only gotten pain, loss, and destruction in a single night now.
"I am not afraid. Even if it is death. I wish that I didn't have a cruel mate like you! I hate you! I wish that you would never live in peace after all the evil you have done!"
I violently punched and bit his arm as well, but he was hardening his grip on my nape now. And I felt overwhelmed by the force that I had already expended quite a lot from earlier until now.
"Prepare the fireplace right now!!!"
The man immediately turned to the warrior who was still far behind him now, and directly gave orders to the two of them. Fireplace? I thought of that word directly in my mind right now. Is it possible that this man intends to burn this Crescent Moon Pack? Is this man going to burn all the bodies that are here right now? I looked up in panic instantly.
They quickly walked away and set up a fireplace inside the hall of The Crescent Moon Pack now. I tried to rebel once again from the man's grip. But what happened was that the man tightened his grip even more, until I started to feel breathless now. "What?! W-what are you going to do now?!" I asked with difficulty.
"I'm going to silence the lips of an asshole girl like you. So that this girl like you also knows about who I really am. And what kind of things I can do to a girl like you now."
The man immediately released his grip from the back of my neck, while slightly pushing my body down again on the floor. The two warriors had managed to light the fireplace that the man had requested by now. The man looked back at me with a lopsided smile again.
"Well... I, Harrison Hux, Alpha of The Silver Moon Pack, hereby reject you, Luciana Edith as my mate. Therefore, all ties that the two of us had to each other have been severed, and all destiny that united us from the Moon Goddess has also been erased."
It all happened so fast for me now. The man who had rejected me as his mate, Harrison Hux, quickly walked over to the fireplace and stretched out the axe he was carrying, then heated the iron tip right into the hearth there. My body trembled.
"Hold her." The man muttered to his two warriors who quickly ran over to me to be able to hold both my hands very tightly now.
"Even if you don't want to give me the heirloom, I will definitely manage to find the heirloom and take it. And yes, you are also no longer valuable now."
"Let go! Let go of me!!!"
My tears flowed again when Harrison started walking again to get closer to me, carrying the axe that he had put into the iron fire earlier. I shook my head several times to be able to rebel even more in the two warriors' grasp right now. But their grip felt even harder, and I myself could feel my skin tearing, and the pain that almost made me lose sensitivity to taste. The two warriors' grip was making me numb now. And Harrison's footsteps were getting closer right towards me. It all happened very quickly. Harrison pressed the iron on the tip of the axe right into part of my face.
"Arrgghhh!!!! No!!! No!!!"
I screamed as loudly as I could. But it felt almost the same as the heat that was now burning this part of my face. I could feel my skin starting to blister. And a thunderous laugh came out instantly from inside Harrison's mouth. I don't know what I can feel other than the pain of everything that happened today. Now, all I can feel is emptiness. Even my ears can't hear any sound anymore, except for a loud, long, and deafening hum.
With what was left of my strength, I could feel the hot axe iron begin to slip off my face, and I faintly began to look right at the axe iron that was covered in blood and something charred. I fell silent and was no longer able to cry. Until the grip that the two warriors had been exerting on my hand slowly began to loosen, and I thought, this is the only chance I have right now. And right then and there with the remaining strength I still had, I started to get up and run from there.
"Shit! Chase her!"
Harrison shouted, which I could hear. But I didn't care about his voice at all anymore. I kept running and running deeper and deeper into the deepest part of the forest. I didn't know where my footsteps were taking me now. But I want to survive. I still want to live. Even though I myself also have no idea where this life will take me now. But I still want to live. With every running step I take now, I continue to pray. My breath is starting to catch, and my legs are getting tired from running so fast. I no longer want to hear any sound right now.
"Oh no... what can I do now?" I whispered when my footsteps finally stopped, as right in front of me now was a deep ravine.
"Arg."
I let out a stifled cry as I felt something sharp pierce my abdomen. I lowered my head, and found a sword already embedded in my stomach from behind my body. It pierced through my body. Just then, the sword pulled back and slipped out of my body.
Bruk
I instantly fell to the ground, enduring the pain of my own death. "It would be best if we push this girl into the abyss." I closed my eyes as my breathing began to falter.
"No, it's not. Alpha just wants us to kill him. After all, if he's dead, he'll also fall into the abyss himself. Let's go."
After that, the two warriors immediately left and left me who was already in a dying state. Slowly, I changed my position to lying on my back now, looking at the cloud-covered moon in the sky.
"Moon Goddess, if you still hear me. Can you grant my last wish, please? Can you give me a second chance to live? Let me take revenge for everything that happened to me today. Let me live again..."
"Hhh..." I opened my eyelids very quickly as I felt my entire body being slammed by something very hard. The impact caused a very tight feeling inside my chest. I inhaled and exhaled very quickly, and hoped that the tightness and pain in my chest would disappear. I blinked both of my eyelids in a very quick motion, as I realized that the very bright light before me and also around me was really disturbing the sight of both of my eyes right now. But when my eyes began to see very clearly, I realized that I was now in a room that was very strange to myself. A room that I had never recognized before. Even more so with the surrounding scent in this room. All of this feels very foreign to me right now. I tried to turn my head, but all parts of my body felt very stiff. I couldn't move the fingers on my hands and feet now. I closed my eyelids for a moment, and tried to catch my breath again. I hope this isn't a dream. I'm not really dead. I was back to life. I kept saying all the positive
Third POV "Isn't that the girl's voice?" Elijah asked directly to Emrys, the female witch who was concocting medicinal potions inside her room there. Emrys looked straight at Elijah who was frowning frantically. "I think it's true. That seems to be the girl's voice." Emrys replied mutteringly while putting back the herbal ingredients that were in the palm of his hands there. "I'll check it out." Elijah muttered, then ran very quickly to the room where Luciana was right now. Elijah ran up the stairs, and opened the door to the room with a swift motion. Elijah looked at the bed, and immediately widened his eyes, unable to find Luciana there. Elijah walked into the room, casting his eyes in every direction in the room. And not long after that, Elijah heard the sound of sobbing on the other side of the bed there. "Oh my... hey..." Elijah muttered with relief when he found Luciana still sitting on the floor with her body bent over crying now. Elijah quickly, walked over to Luciana,
"Wait a minute..." I muttered and tried to prevent the man who had helped me from moving. Slowly, he turned around and looked at me in confusion. "My name is Luciana, Luciana Edith. It would be much worse if I myself didn't even know the name of someone who had helped me. So, what's your name?" I asked slowly. Remembering that I hadn't even asked about names or even the house I'd been living in for the past year. The man instantly broke into a small smile there. "My name is Elijah, Elijah Gray. I am a Lycan King. And this is my pack, my kingdom. The Blodlust Moon Pack." I nodded my head in slow motion. Trying to keep remembering the man's name and also the name of his pack. Elijah Gray and The Blodlust Moon Pack. Both names that felt very unfamiliar to me. Because I had never even met the Lycan King in person before. "Alright. Thanks..." "I'll be right back together with Emrys. Get some rest first then." Elijah quickly walked back out of the room. And I fell silent again. I fe
"Hahahaha!!!"I laughed quite loudly after listening to all the words said by Elijah, Emrys and Josiah over there. I felt both funny and amused as I tried to understand each of their words about my own identity now. Even more so when I looked right at the faces of Elijah, Emrys, and also Josiah who began to show a confused expression while looking at me who was still laughing now. I tried to stop my laughter even though it was very difficult. That instantly made Elijah's hand grip on my shoulder become loose, and he began to frown quite deeply there."Gosh... hahaha... gosh, I can't stop laughing. Ehem... pfftt... that's so funny. I mean, you guys are saying that I'm a hybrid now? Half werewolf and half witch?"I looked back at Elijah, Emrys, and Josiah with a curl of my lips to contain my laughter now. I also blinked my eyelids a few times."Yes, Luciana. We're trying to say that you're no longer an ordinary werewolf. But a hybrid. Half werewolf and half witch."Elijah muttered as he
Third POVElijah walked together with Luciana through the forest to The Crescent Moon Pack's location now. Even with her feet limping slowly, Luciana kept walking with all the strength she had now. Luciana continued to pray and also hoped that the heirloom belonging to The Crescent Moon Pack that she had hidden inside the secret basement wall was still safely hidden there.It had been one year since the events of the most terrifying night of her life. Luciana thought it was about time she should steel her heart and straighten her whole body.After all, her own heart had turned to stone and hardened ever since Harrison Hux, her ex-mate decided to kill all the family and members of The Crescent Moon Pack, reject her as his mate, and make the night of Luciana's eighteenth birthday so devastating. Luciana herself did not want to remember that night. But she was now nineteen years old. One year had passed in vain in her life now. But no matter, Luciana thought to herself over and over agai
Third POVElijah looked at Luciana who was still lying unconscious on the bed in the room with a very hard expression on his face, it was almost impossible to understand what Elijah was currently feeling and thinking about now. There was a deep frown on Elijah's forehead. Elijah who crossed his arms in front of his chest, and waited."How is she now?" Elijah asked in a low tone of voice. He tried not to disturb the concentration of Emrys and Josiah who were examining Luciana's current condition.Emrys sighed softly, as he lowered his open palms towards Luciana there. He finished checking Luciana's condition. "She's in shock, of course. Especially after everything that happened in her life, a year ago. And now, with her family heirloom gone. I think it would be best if she rested a little longer." Emrys muttered."That's right. She's still not in fully recovered. Adding all that baggage to her mind won't make it any easier for her to get better now." Josiah muttered and agreed with wha
I walked slowly alongside the rushing river, making my way towards the location of The Silver Moon Pack, Harrison Hux's pack. I have and continue to stabilize every footstep I take to be able to continue walking forward and forward to where I am now. I'm not going to dwell too much on my doubts anymore. I'm no longer even concerned with the pain and weakness that I can still feel all over my body right now. All I wanted now was certainty. Carrying a long, dark red cloth that I found in Elijah's closet could help me cover my entire body from head to toe. In the hope that no one else would be able to recognize me now.I stopped walking for a moment when I reached the gate of The Silver Moon Pack. I frowned as I realized that there were all sorts of luxurious decorations adorning all parts of the gate. On top of that, there were many immortals who had come and entered the pack's gate. With slow steps, I tried to sneak in among the many guests who were walking in their fancy clothes.Even
"Oh, my gosh. Where have you been, Luciana? You left without saying anything to us. Are you okay? You're not hurt in the slightest, are you?" Emrys immediately grasped both my arms quite tightly as I stepped into Elijah's pack slowly there. Emrys looked very worried, and even started looking me up and down. Turning my body around to look for something that was on her mind right now. I grimaced unpleasantly at how worried this middle-aged woman was about me. I myself didn't realize that my leaving earlier to see The Silver Moon Pack would affect them at all."Yes, Luciana. Are you okay? Where did you go? Why didn't you say anything to us? Especially to Elijah." Josiah spoke up after Emrys stopped checking the condition of my body, which was already fine there."I... I'm fine. I'm not hurt in the slightest." I mumbled and tried to answer their same question. But my attention was immediately distracted by Elijah who was walking with his long, quick footsteps towards his room. The room I