Page 210 of His Blue Moon Princess

“Hey, hey, easy, big boy!” Says Liam, holding him back. “Don’t knock her out!”

Bobo stops right on my bed’s side, and grabs my free hand gently, holding it tight.

“Seriously, Nora... I can’t believe it...”

“Hey, Bobo... I missed you, too.” I say. “How are you? That scar...”

He shakes his head. “It’s nothing. Danny says it makes me look cooler.”

“Hey, we got cool scars, too, okay?” Says Liam.

“What are you talking about? You barely had any scratches...”

I turn my head. Sylviana just entered the room behind Bobo, and she gives me a soft smile, sitting at the end of my bed. She’s the only one that hasn’t changed a bit, surprisingly, even looking a bit younger than I remember.

“Hi, Nora. We all missed you a lot...”

“Hi, Sylviana. Looks like I made it, after all.”

“Yes, with a lot of luck. Moon Goddess obviously loves you too much to let you go...”

I can only agree to that, though I feel the weight of those two years. I turn to the guys as Bobo is pushing a button that puts my bed in a sitting position.

“You’re going to have to fill me in.”

“What do you remember?”

“Not everything. Until a few days before the fight, and after that... It’s a blur. I vaguely remember us taking the car to the meeting, I think. And the Alphas came... And we started talking... I remember bombs exploded, and there was a huge fight.”

Damian nods, and Bobo starts talking.

“We lost you in the confusion. I think The Gold Moon was targeting you from the start to weaken the Boss. Some wolves jumped at me right after the first explosions, and you were taken away.”

“They isolated Damian and me too,” adds Liam. “So, Damian was badly injured, as you know, but Nate and I made it through the first attack thanks to Sylviana. We had to participate in the fight, but we were worried about Damian and couldn’t reach out to you. We realized something was wrong when the fight stopped with the Gold Moon wiped out and the Rising Moon surrendering. But you were nowhere to be found, and William told us the people he had sent to protect you had died. None of us could reach you.”

“I… I was taken…”

Boyan nods.

“We realized that soon. Witnesses said they had seen a man taking you out, but they thought you were being evacuated, not kidnapped.”

“Someone gave a description that was exactly that of… Marcus Sickels,” says Liam. “We soon understood what must have happened, and we looked around for clues. But Damian was taken here in critical condition meanwhile. We didn’t have many people to send to look for you that were not already helping evacuate the Stadium…”

“William helped,” explained Damian. “The Jade Moon, too, looked everywhere for you…”

“Believe I or not, it was Alec that found you.”

I turn to Liam, shocked.

“A-Alec?”

“Yes,” he nods. “It turns out your brother was in the hospital, and when he saw all the werewolves coming in, he had somehow heard everything about you being missing. He knew about Sickels having a secret hide-out somewhere in theJade Moon forest, so he went first to look for you. The Jade Moon Clan spotted him, so Sylviana and I ran there as fast as we could right after that.”

Sylviana nods.

“You were in a critical state,” she says. “Alec was arrested, and we took you to the hospital. You went several hours under surgery to stop your internal bleeding and save your leg.”

The more she talks, the more it all comes back to me. Marcus’ voice, his kicks in my stomach, stomping on my painful leg. Just the memory feels so painful… And Alec’s hands taking me out of there. He carried me to safety. So, it wasn’t some faraway dream. My brother was really there, he took me out of there.

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