Chapter 97 – The Moon Wolf

“I shouldn’t have pushed her to reach her full potential”, she started. “I should have protected her with everything in me. So what if she’s the moon wolf, she’s just a child and only the moon knows what that bastard might do to her”, she was sobbing at this point.

I wanted to comfort her but I had no words. I was so broken and all I wanted was to hold her in my arms again. “You need to find her”, Mom raised her her head from my chest and looked up at me. “you need to find her and bring her back to the safety of our pack”, she said as tears rolled down her eyes and it hurts me to look at her puffy eyes and red face.

“I promise you Mom, I promise that I’m going to bring her back safe. She’ll be back before you know it but I’m sure she wouldn’t want to meet you in this kind of condition, she’ll be heartbroken”, I said, trying to convince her to actually sleep and take care of herself.

She nodded and went back to putting her head on my chest. “Avianca. where are you?” I asked her through the mindlink and she replied me almost immediately. “Why is Mom walking around when you’re supposed to be taking care of her ? I hid to keepony strom because she was doing me a fat oo and I didnd sound to be pude to buy “Thank goddess she’s with you I’ve been soudung all around for bag. her panicked voice came through the mundlink “I went baget ha something to cat and she wasn’t in her room dulum bork 1 mes just about to mindlink you when your voice breathed marchel “

“Thank you. Avianca I’ll take her to her room”. I told her bedors cutting off the mindlink “Let’s get you into bed Mom”, I told her bod be she shook her head, “Lola will soon be back and she wouldn’t meet you in this kind of situation”, I said, hoping to the men grze that she’d actually be back to us After a bit of hesitation, she agreed that I should take her to her rom to he down. After she ate and used her drug she fell asleep and that was when I finally left her room followed by Avianca “I’ll take my leave now, Adrian”, she said. Yes, we’ve potten closer since Dad passed but losing Lola made us get closer. What a terrible way to get really close to people. I nodded my head and waited till she left the house before taking a seat on a couch in the living room I felt someone trying to talk to me through my mindlink and let down my wall. “Hey, man”, Nathan’s voice came through and I sighed. “Is there any development yet?” I asked him but he remained silent and I just knew what the answer to that was. I put up my wall again and placed my head in my hands.

Was I going to just lose my mate like that?

I stood up to get alcohol to drink again when the door of the house suddenly slammed open. Before I could turn, I already knew who it was. I turned around and I saw my mate at the door looking d*rty and tattered Her white hair was brown and her b*dy looked like it hasn’t been washed in days. She looked completely different but I know my mate no matter what she looked like. I didn’t realize that I wasn’t moving towards her till she called my name.

“Adrian”.

I broke out of my trance and ran towards her, hugging her tightly in my arms. “Baby”, I said in a broken voice and she smiled at me weakly.

“Hey, it’s okay. I’m here now”, she said and her b*dy went limp in my embrace.

Lola’s POV

When I came to, I was expecting to see Adrian’s face first but instead I was met with Rose’s. Her eyes looked so sunken and she looked like. she had lost a lot of weight in the amount of time I had left the pack.

She looked so happy, yet so sad when our eyes met. She couldn’t say a word, she just cupped my face before gently rubbing her thumbs over my checks. I was about to open my mouth when she spoke.

“Ro….”. I started but she cut me off. “I thought…”, she took a deep breath before she spoke again. “I thought you have finally been taken away from me”, she said, her voice breaking at the end. “I thought I was never going to see you again”, she started crying at this point and I pulled her to me, hugging her tightly.

“Have a little belief in me, will you?” I said to her, “I wasn’t going to leave you like that without at least fighting for my life, am I a joke to you?” I teased her and she laughed through her tears.

“You scared me”, she whispered and I nodded. “I’m sorry for worrying you like that”, I whispered back before I hugged her tightly and we silently cried while holding on to each other. I realized how she must have felt, it must have been like she was reliving how she lost Ariana to the rogues eight years ago.

“You don’t have to be our savior”, she said after a while. I thought I heard her wrong so I asked her what she said again. “You don’t have to save us all”, she repeated loudly. “You don’t have to carry the burden of it all. Everyone should be able to fight against these rogues if we plan it well. I don’t want to see you get into another problem, all in the name of trying to save us all”, she said, tearing up again.

I didn’t want to drag the matter with her so I nodded. I know she had gone into depression before when I was unconscious for days, I could imagine what my total disappearance did to her.

“You’re still going to put yourself in harm’s way, aren’t you?” She asked and I was at a loss for words. I didn’t want to worry her and I didn’t want to lie to her either. She looked at me expectantly, waiting for an answer and I sighed before I spoke up.

“I can’t just sit back while these motherfuckers make us their slaves and treat us like trash”, I said angrily, my voice rising with every word. “I know the sacrifices that were made for me to leave that goddamn, psycho place without any serious damage”, I told her.

I remembered Fay and knew that she was either dead or in a worse condition than death and tear da threatened to burst for the nth time that day. I didn’t want to break down in Rose’s presence so I looked away from her to take deep breaths before turning to her again.

“Can you at least promise to stay safe?” She asked but before I could answer that, the door opened and my amazing mate came through the door, looking slightly better than when I saw him before I passed out.

“She just regained consciousness, Mom. Can you allow her to breathe and relax before bombarding her with questions?” He chastised Rose and the latter pouted at him. “It’s been a long time since I saw her, can’t I have the whole of today with her?” She said and I chuckled a bit. I didn’t realize how much I had missed watching them bicker until now. I kept mute and just watched the interaction between them. It felt good to be back even though it might not last for long with what is about to come upon us but at least, I’ll enjoy the moment while it lasts.

“You need to rest, Mom. She’s not going anywhere. I’m sure she’ll be glued to you at the hood once the doctor confirms that she’s healthy enough to move around”, Adrian said. “But I’m healthy enough to…….”. I started to speak but Adrian glared at me and I piped down immediately. I forgot he was going to be very protective of me now.

Just as I stopped speaking, Lyla and Avianca came in. At the sight of them. I broke down in tears. I didn’t know why I started crying at the sight of them but they also seemed to have the same feeling. Adrian led Rose out of the room, leaving us alone in the room and I sent a silent thanks to him.

“Thank you”. I said through our mindlink. “You guys need it. Let me know if you need anything else”, he said before closing the mindlink.

“Are you guys just going to stand there?” I managed to get out when they refused to move from their spot. I held out my hands and they both came to hug me tightly. Well, Lyla waddled but you get my drift.

We hugged for a long period of time, just relishing the feeling of being together again. Lyla held my face in her hands when we separated from each other.

“I swear I’m going to kill Lotana by myself when I finally get my hands on her”, she seethed, her b*dy vibrating. “Woah, woah, calm down. missy. You can’t get angry in your situation. the pack doctor told you that”, Avianca said, holding her gently by her shoulder. “Let’s take deep breaths now, shall we?” She said to Lyla and the latter nodded. “Breathe in, breathe outttttt”, they continued the cycle for a while before Lyla finally stopped vibrating with anger.

“What was that about the pack doctor? Is something wrong with Lyla or baby?” I asked, panic slowly rising in me. “Nuh-uh, she’s fine. She just has to be relaxed since she’s already getting heavy”, Avianca said and I breathed a sigh of relief.

Silence descended upon us after that which is very unusual for us. We all knew we had to address the elephant in the room but no one wanted to talk about it first.

“I’m going to be the one to talk about it if no one is going to”, Lyla said. “Did you at least see her when you got there?” She asked me and I nodded my head. We all knew who she was talking about, only one person was missing in this room after all “What did she say the reason for her actions was? Did you pet an explanation?” Avianca asked me with glossy eyes She must be having it harder since they were best friends before I even entered the equation. I nodded and they looked at me expectantly.

“Well, what happened was…….”.

Lola’s POV

Their mouths were practically hanging open when I finished narrating what happened with Lotana. I was waiting for them to speak but they didn’t say anything for a long time. Avianca had a lost and hurt look in her eyes while Lyla just looked like she wanted to go on a murdering spree.

“I’m still finding it hard to believe that Lotana would do that kind of thing because of a rogue”, Avianca said in a hurt voice. “She didn’t tell me, I did not notice anything out of the ordinary”, she lamented, “how did I get fooled by her?”, she said shakily but took deep breaths to stop herself from crying.

All these while, Lyla was just fuming where she was seated. She looked so red and I could almost see smoke coming out from her cars. “How did you escape such vile people?” was her response when she finally spoke. “I think we might want to invite Adrian for that”, I said and they looked at me weirdly./

“Where are you?” I asked Adrian through our mindlink. “I’m on my way already”, he replied. I should have known that he was listening to the whole conversation, what was I thinking?.

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