Chapter 85 – The Moon Wolf

I had never seen her face do it came as a shock to me that someone could look so magical. “She’s not human, dummy”, Jasmine said in my head making me roll my eyes at her. “Oh, shut up”, I retorted.

I remembered what I was doing before I got pulled into the darkness. “Rose. How’s she? How’s Rose? Was I able to take the venom away from her b*dy completely? Is she okay?” I asked her strings of questions rapidly and she gently put her hands on my shoulder.

“She’s fine, Lola. You did well, you saved her”, she said and I breathed a sigh of relief. She’s saved. She’s okay. I was so relieved I could cry but strangely, I did not feel the need to cry.

“Why am I here?” I asked her after a while. “You have to take a rest from the land of living. You already did too much, the wolfsbane was very strong and it could have killed you if you had held on much longer”, she explained and I nodded.

That explains why I felt like I was burning from inside out. I made to stand up but Selena held my shoulder and made me lie down. “You still need to recover, that’s why you’re in this garden”, she said.

That was when I realized that I wasn’t in the garden. I was in a room that was pure white, it was almost blinding to look at. I was on a bed that felt like heaven and I didn’t feel like standing up. I looked at my hands and it had black veins on it, identical to the ones on Rose’s b*dy.

I remembered that whenever I leave the human world, I spend a whole lot of time. “How many days is it in the human world? Adrian must be worried sick. I have to go back to him, he just lost Jayden, I don’t want him to worry over me again”, I stood up abruptly.

Selene sighed before speaking. “Yes, he’s worried sick because 3 days. already passed but you still have to make sure your b*dy is healed perfectly before you go back to the realm of te living”, she paused after saying that like she wanted the words she just spoke to sink into my head. I looked at her without saying anything and she continued what she was saying.

“You still have a whole lot of work before you, Lola. You can’t afford to be weak or unprepared when the time comes”, she said. I felt anger riding within me as she spoke. I agreed that I wasn’t prepared for the war but she has no right to tell me that I wasn’t strong enough.

“Weak?” I asked in surprise and looked at her like she’d grown another head. ‘I did not ask to be out through any of this, Selene. It’s always been placed in my hands, every f ucking thing has aleays been placed in my hands”, I raised my voice slightly at her.

“Surviving on my own after my parents died, finding my way out of the pack after being bullied and abused fot years, growing on my own after my mate almost rejected me, finding my own powers on my own and now you say I’m weak?” I wanted to scream and cry but the most It could do was slightly raise my voice at her.

“Lola”, she tried to speak but I wasn’t having any of it. “Selene, please. I just want to go back to my mate that must be worried sick. I don’t want to leave him alone in this period. I’m sure I can rest perfectly well beside my mate, let me go back to my mate Selene”, I pleaded with her.

“I promise you that I never forsaked you in any of these moments, it was all a process to build you”, she said softly. I wasn’t going to argue. with her, I just wanted to be with Adrian so I just nodded.

“Can I go now?” I asked when I looked down at my hands and the black veins had almost cleared out. She noticed too because see nodded. “I promise that I’m with you every step of the way”, she said. before snapping her hands at me. “Be strong, child”, I heard as I kept falling into some kind of hole.

I suddenly opened my eyes and closed it almost immediately, a groan escaping my l*ps. I slowly opened my eyes again and saw a head full of dark coloured head placed beside me on the bed, holding tightly onto my hands.

The sensation running through me indicated that it was my loving mate. The position looked uncomfortable for him since he had to bend his tall frame. I slowly carried my other hand that had IV in it and gently rubbed it over his head, ignoring the pain that ran through me.

His even breathing changed and I knew he was awake. He stiffened for a while before shooting up into a sitting position. The sudden movement made my hand that was on his head suddenly fall onto the bed without warning.

I closed my eyes and hissed in pain. I slowly lifted the hand with my free hands, trying to hold in the pain but it was hard for me. He stood up, making the chair fall back and came towards me. “Thank goddess you’re awake”, he said as he hugged me tightly while avoiding my hurt hand.

He pulled back and I could barely feel the physical pain from how much my heart hurt. Adrian’s face looked sunken and his frame looked lean. He had unkempt beards and let me tell you, I’ve never seen any form of hair on that man’s face. He looked tired and worn out.

I did not realize that I was crying until he wiped my cheeks. “Please, don’t cry. I’m fine, I promise”, he said, softly rubbing my chin. Ignoring the pain in my right hand, I pulled him into another hug while crying profusely.

It’s time to put an end to all of these once and for all.

Lola’s POV

I pulled back and carefully held his handsome face in my hands, scrutinizing carefully while he cleaned my tears that ceased to stop flowing.

“I’m sorry I wasn’t there for you when you needed me most. It must have been so hard”, I hiccuped before I continued talking. “You must have been so sad yet you stood by my side, I’m such a bad mate. I’m sorry for worrying you, baby, I’m so sorry”, I kept repeating while my tears fell.

“Hey, hey, it’s fine. I’m fine, you’re fine, Mom is fine”, he said, looking into my eyes with love and adoration. “Mom is fine because you risked your life for hers. No one, I repeat, no one is as lucky as I am to have you as their other half”, he kept rubbing my chin while rubbinh my arm too.

“You’re the most amazing person I know. What would I have done if I had lost both of them on the same day to the same incident. You saved. my sanity, baby, and I’ll forever be grateful for that”, he dropped a k*ss. on my forehead before he pulled back and sat on the chair he fell initially.

He refused to let go of my hands and kept looking at me like he couldn’t believe I was seated in front of him. “Why are you looking at me like that?” I asked him, feeling shy under his gaze. “Like what?” He asked, still looking at me the same way. “Like that”, I mumbled out and he chuckled. I became slightly red and looked away from him.

“Where’s Rose?”, I asked him. Just then, the door swung opened and the woman in question ran into the room. “There she is, Adrian replied <

just before she got to the other side of the bed and hugged me tightly, almost cutting off my air supply.

“Rose, can’t breatheeecee”, I wheezed out when she refused to let go of me. She quickly pulled back and sat down on the bed with tears in her eyes. “You’re fine. Thank goddess you’re alive”, she rushed out. “I was scared. I was so scared that I’d lose you because you decided to save me”, her tears were flowing down her cheeks at this point.

She hit me and glared at me. “Ouch, why did you do that?” I asked, rubbing the place where she hit me. “Why did you risk your life for me like that? Why would you do that? You should have allowed me to go with Jayden. Now, I can’t leave you guys until I see that his death has been avenged”, she said, calling her fists.

Honestly, I wasn’t expecting that reaction. I was expecting her to be in tears and be heartbroken but she was the total opposite of that. She was calm and doesn’t look to be grieving. If it wasn’t for the bags under her eyes and her swollen eyes, I’d have said she wasn’t grieving over her mate.

“You’re the closest person I have to a mother, Rose. If I had not done it for you, if have lived with the guilt forever. I’m so glad I was able to go that for you”, I held her hands and she nodded in gratitude.

The doctor came in and Rose stood up to make space for him while Adrian refused to let go of my hands through all of it. He said I was ready to go home and within 5 minutes, Lyla, Lotana and Avianca all arrived at the hospital. Lyla was carrying an overnight bag and I figured that it was my change of clothes that was inside it.

She looked at me and burst into tears. I removed my hand from Adrian’s and walked towards him. “Hey, it’s fine girl. I’m fine now, look at me”, I twirled in front of her. She dropped the bag she was holding and pulled me into a hug.

“I was so scared when I saw your veins turning black. I was so scared, I thought I was going to lose you”, she cried into my n*eck while I gently rubbed her back, reassuring her that I wasn’t going anywhere. “I promised to be the godmother to the baby in your belly, you think I’m going to break that promise? Have some faith in my girl”, I said and she burst out laughing.

She stepped away from me and Avianca and Lolana hugged me next. “Don’t ever do that again”, Avianca said, sniffling her nose and I gave her a smile. “Is that for me?” I asked, pointing to the bag that was on the floor and they all nodded. Lotana picked it up and handed it over to me, “yeah, we’re here to take you home”.

I got out after getting changed and met everyone except Adrian sitting there expectantly. “Where did he go?” I asked. “I asked him to go and freshen up now that you’re awake. We’ll meet him at the house”, Rose answered.

We left the clinic and the atmosphere was sad. It was obvious that there was sadness in the pack. I could feel it radiating off of Rose too but she tried to be bubbly and cheery like before, although I couldn’t see the light in her eyes anymore.

Lotana was not her normal self but I chalked it up to the atmosphere in the pack. She was the most silent in the group but she was extra quict. Jayden’s death really took a toll on the pack members, he was a good Alpha after all. Lotana followed us to the house but excused herself at the door and said she had some things to attend to, so she couldn’t be a part of us.

Adrian was in the sitting room when we entered and he looked much better than he did when he was at the hospital. He had sha ved off his beards and he looked really handsome, Jasmine might have whined in my head.

She was basically purring like a kitten.

I was bought out of my day dreaming when Rose spoke. “How about I get us something to cat, there’s a lot to be discussed”, she said and went into the kitchen. Lyla and Avianca followed behind her while I sighed. It’s time to step up and make some decisions.

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