Page 199 of His Sunshine Baby

“Elena.”

I turn my head to Clark’s mind-linking. Shouldn’t he be at the gathering by now?

“You were right. The Gold Moon expects the Opal Moon to follow them and betray us. Do whatever you need to, but make sure those traitors don’t come here.”

I glance in Chris’ direction, but judging by his dark expression, my cousin got the info too. He growls even louder at his sister. Iris looks scared for the first time, stepping back. Did she not expect Chris to take my side and interfere? She looks around, but the Opal Moon people don’t really look willing to follow her anymore.

I twirl the silver bar in my hand, reminding her about the additional threat.

“I can do this all day, Iris. Stay here or I’ll really get mean and mad, cousin.”

“Out of my way!”

Her anger isn’t that hard to handle. She keeps struggling, trying to fight me off, but it’s useless. I dodge every one of her attempts to kick or hit me back, except when I retaliate, I don't miss my target. I am a fucking fighter, no kidding. She may be smart and manipulative, but she is no match for me. I keep fighting her off, and Chris doesn’t intervene. He knows his sister can use a good lesson.

“Elena, what about our money!” suddenly yells the guy from earlier. “We will never get it back from the Gold Moon clan!”

“Trust the new Luna. She won’t agree to their terms, and the Blood Moon clan and the King will end all this.”

I believe in Nora. Her idea will work.

Suddenly, we hear a huge explosion from afar. Everyone turns their heads toward… There’s smoke where the gathering is happening! What the heck is going on? I turn to Chris, but he looks just as worried and clueless as me. Holy crap!

“Clark! Clark, are you okay!”

“Elena, stay where you are! The Gold Moon is attacking the Blood Moon! Make sure to– Shit!”

I lose him, and I’m freaking out. What the heck is going on over there? I don’t dare to mind-link anyone else, what if they are distracted and take a hit because of me? I’m so powerless and furious! I turn to Iris, grabbing her collar.

“What do you know? Iris, what do you know about this!”

But she just laughs at me, despite her mouth covered in blood from my punches.

“How is it, Elena? Frustrating? Annoying? Well, you should get a taste too!”

I slap her, too pissed to control myself. Chris gets between us and grabs his sister by the throat.

“Iris, enough! Someone lock her away!”

Two of our men grab Iris and drag her away to Moon-Goddess-knows-where.

“Chris! Chris, you can’t do this to me! I’m your older sister! I did this for us! I–”

“And have her shut the fuck up,” he growls while turning his back on her to walk up to me.

I’m too worried to care about his sister anymore. I keep looking at the horizon in the direction of the Silver Stadium, scared. Chris puts a hand on my shoulder.

“He said to stay here.”

“Yeah, but...”

Damn, fifty people from our pack are there, Nora is there, Nate is there! Reagan stands next to me, frowning.

“The Gold Moon had a trap prepared. Losing the Opal Moon will probably not help. Don’t worry, kid, the clans are better than that.”

That’s the problem: What if they didn’t manage to get everyone to ally? What if every pack is on its own? I take a deep breath and try to feel them. I can feel Clark’s wolf, fighting. I check on our pack, but they are all fighting or fleeing the scene.

Then, Nora. She is panicked, but she is fine. For now. Moon Goddess, please protect her… I already lost my father today, I can’t lose her too!

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