Page 58 of Rising Luna
Lupe's control ran deep within Cole and his crew. They thought Lupe was the best thing to happen to our kind and walked under the radar. Silas did, too. I didn't even know Lupe had gotten to him since there was no mark to indicate her attempts.
So she must have made a breakthrough.
Double fuck.
I should have listened to Sera and my mates. They thought Lupe had gotten to him from the start.
Stop thinking about that. We will figure everything out.
Hunter's words came through the bond, and I tried so hard to believe him. Things weren't looking like it would break our way, especially with me losing Silas to her. Even if it was just for thatmatch, she knew how to control Silas. I still wasn't even sure how that was possible.
Lupe outranks him in power.
My wolf was right. Lupe, being the councilperson and mated to a powerful wolf like Teowulf, could be why she could influence him. It made sense to me, but I knew I didn't have to bow down to Lupe when she gave me a command.
Why can't she influence us then?
We are mated. The severed bond is a weakness. Those who want control can if someone is weakened.
Great. Another reason for me to hate myself for rejecting Silas. It weakened him and made him susceptible to being influenced by Lupe. What else can go wrong?
It's not your fault. Why are you blaming yourself for something you knew was the right thing for yourself at the time?Hunter asked me, but it didn't make anything better.
I did it out of being vindictive. That's not how I should have handled it. I could have accepted the bond and still worked on things with him.
That's not you talking, Dylan. You are letting everything around you and what Lupe is doing to us to convince yourself you are the bad person. You aren't.
We walked into the infirmary, and nurses immediately ushered Hunter to lay Silas out on a bed. They looked him over and asked what had happened. Hunter explained everything but kept Silas being under someone else's command out of it. He weaved it in a way to make it look like Silas lost control of his wolf out of grief of me being mated and him still having to work on things. They went to work and hooked him to an IV that had a healing solution in it to help with the wounds from Hunter's fists and to soothe his wolf.
They told us we could wait in the room until he woke up since we were his bonded pack, regardless of the bond not beingcompleted. I sat in the chair next to Silas and stared at his face. I didn't understand how things went so wrong. What if we would have asked Jackson or Hunter to go alert Noah to come to the dorm instead? Would it be one of them on this bed instead? Or even Sera. We could have gotten her to do this, but I didn't want to put her at risk, either. Hell, we could have paid someone to go tell Noah, and not used any of us.
If I hadn’t been petty and kept Silas at a distance, maybe he wouldn’t have been taken.
"Stop blaming yourself, love. We couldn't have predicted this to happen."
"Lupe knows I care about him now. We should have expected her to keep tabs on me enough to use anyone I cared about against me. We know her secret. Maybe this is all over our heads, and we should get the teachers involved."
He sighed as he crossed his arms over his chest. Hunter stood by the door as a guard and leaned against the wall. The nurses couldn't even explain why Silas hadn't come to yetbecause being knocked out by a punch shouldn't have caused this much damage. It made me think Lupe did more than just command him to attack me. Maybe his wolf was melding right now and taking over his body. If that were the case, would I need to kill my mate?
Was there even a way for him to come back from this? I wasn't sure. Cole and his friends didn't seem to want to come back from having their wolves take over, but then again I was talking to their wolves. Of course, they wouldn't want to go back to normal where they had to share everything with their human side.
They didn't want that because they were bitter about being only a soul to begin with.
What do you mean?
We are spirits and are chosen by the Great Moon to pair with a human. We have a choice in who we pair with, but sometimes she nudges certain ones to choose certain people, knowing what we could do to help their destiny along.
You chose me?
I did.
I never knew this about our kind.
Most don't. We are the ones who hold that knowledge. If the people who know this don't write it down in history books, then the rest aren't aware of it.
So... Cole and everyone's wolves bonded with them so they could eventually overrule their humans?
We have evil amongst us, too. It's not just humans.
