Page 77 of Rising Luna
“Oh yay. Another protective and possessive person bonded to me. Here I thought having three of them was the perfect amount.” I rolled my eyes but still gave her a smile.
“Pretty sure I can say the same.” She looked back at her mates, and I could see the same look I give my mates.
I wish I could go back in time and tell myself having mates wasn’t something to fear. Sure, they got on my nerves more times than I could count, but they were my rocks that anchoredme in this world. They were there for me more times than I could count now and haven’t kept me from growing. If anything, they were the reason for my growth, and I had a lot to be thankful about in having them.
I heard that,they said in unison.
Oh goodie... all three of them can hear me and can play off each other. Just what I needed. I thought it was bad when Jackson and Hunter did this, and now I had to worry about Silas joining in.
Arabella took off along with her mates, Talia, and Talia’s mate into the sky. Part of me wanted to watch them to see where exactly they flew to, but I had something much more important on my hands. I turned and ran toward my pack house and felt everyone on my tail. My mates allowed for Sera to be directly behind me, but the rest of them flanked us until the clearing before the house.
I could never get sick of seeing this place, perfectly centered in the middle of hundreds of acres, and a few dozen of the acres on all sides of the house were free of trees. It allowed us to have killer barbecues and what not with the entire pack, and the pack runs were absolutely magical since we didn’t have to worry about a human for miles.
When my feet hit the porch, my mother’s face appeared in the doorway with her eyebrows furrowed before a growl emitted from her. The bombshell of a Luna always made people do a double take, but this time I did it because I didn’t expect for her to be in the doorway. The silver hair and powerful presence that was my mother wasn’t what I was expecting to walk into when we got here. Where was Lupe? But before I could ask, my mother’s concern showed as she stared at the people behind me. I could see what made her uneasy. Two young girls with four large and powerful wolves behind us, looking like they werechasing us, wasn’t a good sign, but I flung myself into her arms as the relief washed over me.
“Thank the goddess you are okay.”
She hugged me tightly back, but I could feel her head on my shoulder to give her the ability to see everything behind me. “Of course I am okay. What are you doing here? You should be at school.”
I stepped back and frowned at her, peering behind her to see where my father was or who else was in the pack house. We needed everyone front and center before Lupe got here. We didn’t know how many people Lupe even had at her disposal. She had been abducting people right and left, and I knew most of them had to survive the procedure for her to feel confident enough to attack my pack.
“Something happened, Mom. We need to get everyone here at the pack house ready for a fight.”
“What? Wait. Back up. Who did you bring home with you, and what do you mean we need to be ready for a fight?”
She stepped back and ushered everyone inside, which was typical for her because she was always a hostess first. The Luna traits inside her always made her like this, even if she didn’t know who I’d brought along with me.
I quickly went through introductions before launching into my time at school when my father walked in. I broke the conversation enough to give him a hug and went through the introductions again just to finish the story. I don’t know when Lupe would show up here, but we needed to be prepared for a war. When I finished, my parents rejected the idea of a teacher wanting to harm our people, but I noticed my mother eyeing my friends more than she was considering a plan.
“You have three mates,” she told me as she pulled me aside.
Valko, my father, immediately went to my mates and started discussing strategy. I should’ve known my mother would pullme away to talk about this, but it was because she was rarely part of battle strategy talks. My father liked to keep her safe in the pack house instead of with him in a fight. The alpha in him couldn’t let his mate fight because of his worry of her getting hurt. Meanwhile, my father prevented anyone from challenging my mother for the title of Luna and mating with him throughout their relationship.
She was a whirlwind of brutal force, leaving a path of destruction in her wake.
“Yeah. I don’t know why I had to be given so many, but I hope there isn’t a fourth out there. I don’t want another one.”
Sera came up to my side and smiled at my mother. “I’m pretty sure Dylan would kill him just so she wouldn’t have to bond to another alpha.”
Mom’s eyebrows raised to her hairline at the statement. “They are all alphas?”
I shrugged. “Technically two are betas, but they are both powerful enough to run their own packs; they just don’t.”
She hugged me and sighed in my embrace. “I’m so proud of you.”
It felt great to hear that, but now wasn’t the time for this. Though, I did have something to yell at her for. “Why the hell didn’t you answer the phone? I thought Lupe was already here because you didn’t pick up! You NEVER miss a phone call!”
She made a face before looking back at my father. “We were... out running. It was a pack run to get some energy out. We couldn’t explain why, but everyone felt kind of off tonight.”
Sera and I exchanged a glance, and I knew she had to be thinking the same thing I was.
Maybe Lupe worked more magic than just controlling Silas.
This was bad. If she could cast more magic than that, it would turn the tides in her favor before the fight even began. Howcould we possibly fight magically enhanced people, or even worse, people whose magic was suppressed?
“Who is on patrol tonight? Has any alarm gone off yet?”
“Our defenses are up, and we haven’t been alerted to anything abnormal. It feels like a quiet night, Dylan. Are you sure she is coming here?”
