Chapter 122 – The Moon Wolf

“Down, girl”, I teased her and felt her rolling her eyes. Adrian gave me a kiss on my forehead before he stepped out of the room.

I went into the bathroom to clean up. While doing so, I tried to see what Adrian was going through our mindlink but I couldn’t see anything.

At some point, I felt agitation, pain and sadness that wasn’t mine. I hurriedly finished up with what I was doing and threw on the closest piece of clothing that my eyes landed on.

The nearest clothes happened to be one of Adrian’s T-shirts. I grabbed one of my shorts and threw it on, rubbed my hair with a towel and left it down to dry.

I quietly left the room and tried to eavesdrop on their conversation but it stopped almost immediately. I moved slowly and hoped to get anything from what was being said but I couldn’t hear anything. I wanted to know what triggered Adrian but I couldn’t hear anything.

“You know it is rude to eavesdrop, don’t you?”, Adrian’s voice came through our mindlink and I froze where I was. Of course he caught me, that’s why everything suddenly became silent.

 “I was just wondering what make you agitated and sad”,

I said, revealing just a part of my reason. Truth was that I wanted to know what he was discussing with Rosa so that I could know how to approach her also.

I stopped at the entrance to the kitchen and I could almost cut through the tension in the air with a knife. Adrian’s body was rigid and Rose had puffy eyes and looked like she didn’t sleep a wink all night.

“Hi, baby”, Adrian said and I waved at him shyly. “Hi, Rose”, I said and almost bit my tongue with how lame that sounded. She nodded her head at me in acknowledgement and I sighed deeply.

“I want to go and take a shower. I’ll be back in a minute “, Adrian said to nobody in particular and left the room before I could say a word.

I cleared my throat and moved closer to where Rose was stirring something on the fire. “Do you need help with anything?” I asked but she shook her head.

It felt like I had been slapped across the face and I tried not to cry again. I can’t keep crying at every little inconvenience.

“I think I like it better when you lash out at me”, I started, “this silent treatment is killing me, Rose. I’m sorry that we did what we did but we had to do it”, I finished.

She turned to me so fast with a fire blazing in her eyes that I took a step back.

“You had to do that? There was no other thing to do apart from that? You guys knew the consequence and still went ahead with it”, she said and tears rolled down her eyes.

Looking at her swollen eyes, knowing that she’s going to lose both of us after a while, my tears cascaded down my cheeks and I went to pull her in for a hug.

“I’m sorry. I’m so sorry. It was something I had to do, that we had to do. I’m so sorry, Rose. You wouldn’t have agreed if we told you but it is a necessary evil”, I whispered in her ears as I kept hugging her over and over.

“We could have found a way. I’m sure there would have been another way if we had searched deeper”, she said defeatedly.

She knew we had to do it too. She just didn’t want to admit that. She hugged me tightly and sobbed into my shirt as I rubbed her back and tried to keep my own tears in.

“The food on fire is going to burn”, I said after a while and she hurriedly put off the fire. I looked around properly and realized that she was cooking up a feast.

“Are we expecting visitors? Let me guess, the gang wants to come over?” I asked and she nodded with a smile.

“Lyla has been constantly claiming that her baby wants to see her godmother and you also refused to pick her calls. She threatened to bring down the house if she doesn’t get fed when she comes visiting”, she said and we both laughed.

“You should have called me to help you then”, I said, “this is a lot to prepare by yourself”. “I was angry at you and besides, this is therapeutic for me”, she replied to me.

I was about to counter her when the doorbell rang. “I’ll get it”, I told her and skipped to the door. I was expecting to see a grumpy Lyla, smiling Avianca and laid-back Nathan but I was met with a completely different person.

Lola’s POV

“Serena?”

I looked at the woman in front of me with surprise. She looked radiant unlike what she looked like this morning when I saw her.

“What a surprise! Did you forget something when you came around in the morning?” I asked her and she just smiled at me. “I’ve decided that I’m going to punish Alysia myself and since the war will be upon us soon, I’ll like to stay back in the pack and help you with whatever I can”, she said with a straight face.

I felt something was wrong with her but I just couldn’t place my fingers on it. She almost seemed fake. The radiance, the way she asked to stay to help with the war ahead, everything seemed fake but I didn’t want to doubt it.

Alysia would never dare to set her foot into Crescent moon pack, she seemed smart enough to not take that kind of risk and besides, the person in front of me smelled exactly like Serena. I remembered Alysia having this kind of scent that made my nose burn but Serena’s scent was soothing to the nose.

“Lola, pumpkin “, Rose shouted from the kitchen, “I need your help setting the table”, she called out. “I’ll be right there”, I shouted back and ushered Serena into the house.

“Please, make yourself comfortable. You’re just in time for dinner”, I gave her a tight smile and went into the kitchen where Rose was already setting up the table.

“I don’t hear Lyla’s voice”, she said as she looked towards the door like she was expecting her to burst through them at any moment.

“It wasn’t Lyla and the gang, Rose”, I told her and she looked at me questioningly. “It’s Serena”.

“Serena?” She asked and I nodded my head. “She told me she would be out of town for the whole weekend. What is she doing here again?” She asked, confusion clearly written all over her face.

“Finish up here, will you?” She said before going to the living room. “Serena. It’s so nice to see you again”, she greeted her warmly but I could hear the underlying question and confusion in her voice.

“I thought you were leaving for a couple of days. Why are you here again?” She asked. “I figured that I might as well stay back in the pack and help with whatever I can help with”, she said but it seemed fake.

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