Page 62 of Rising Luna
Why are you defending him? I thought you wanted to punch the asshole?
Hunter pulled off his shirt, showing off his incredibly perfect physique, and gave me a toothy grin. "I already knocked him out and put him in the infirmary. I think I'm good."
My laugh echoed through the bond, and his smile grew. What was it with my mates and their smiles? The sight left me so weak I could barely stand.
Another minute or so passed, and Hunter was in his gorgeous wolf form. Last time I saw it, it had been at night and I didn't get the full glory of it. Similar to my wolf, his coat was a deep black, looking like the midnight sky without the stars or moon to illuminate it. The difference between our wolves was thesize. Hunter was massive. My wolf was bigger than average for a female, and somehow hiswas bigger than average for males. With him coming from the Monarch's pack, and then trained as an Enforcer, it allowed his wolf to grow more. The power the pack held created monster level wolves.
He shook off his fur and waited for me to lead. Wagging my tail to show my appreciation and following up with a yip had him lolling his tongue with a wolfish grin. I pushed off as hard as I could to throw as much speed as I could muster. It felt too good to have the wind blowing through my fur. The fresh dirt and the mustiness of the fallen leaves made me feel at home.
It felt good to allow my wolf to take over and run off all the emotional turmoil I felt inside me, reveling in the way I could just turn off my brain on a run. It was nothing but the cool air blowing against my fur and dirt kicking up from my paws. With Hunter keeping himself behind me, I knew nothing and no one could harm me, too. I was free to do what I wanted, and the only thing I wanted was to forget about today.
The sun started to set as I grew tired enough to tell Hunter through the bond I wanted to go back to the dorm, realizing we didn't tell Jackson and Sera where we went. Hunter chuckled through the bond.
Did you think I wouldn't tell him the plan? Am I an amateur to you?
I laughed. I should've known Hunter would be on top of this.He didn't join us, though.
He's keeping an eye on Sera. She didn't feel like going for a run, and we agreed that one of us would stay with her.
Stepping out of the tree line where we left our clothes, I noticed dark figures stalking around the dorm. I mentally groaned as I remembered about the curfews, though we at least had an excuse as to why we weren't inside yet. Anyone could lose track of time when running in wolf form. I shifted back butkept the night vision to assess how many guards we had to wade through. That's when I noticed it wasn't a guard.
No.
She couldn't be that stupid.
It was Lupe.
Red stained my vision as I stomped over there, fully ready to go toe-to-toe with this piece of shit wolf. She really had some lady balls to be stalking outside the dorm. Did she think I wouldn't have smelled her dirty ass? As I rounded on her, Lupe smiled sweetly at me. If it weren't for Hunter catching my arm, I would've swung on her just for being in my presence and outside of my building.
"What the fuck do you think you are doing here, Lupe? Staking out the dorm to take more innocents in the night?"
Lupe’s exaggerated gasp and hand-to-chest gesture were a transparent act. There wasn't anyone around to see this conversation go down, so this act was purely for me. I struggled against my mate to let me go, but he kept his grip on me tight.
"Miss Pierce, what on earth do you take me for?"
"An egomaniacal bitch, for one."
That seemed to wipe the smile off her face. It was like the mask had finally come off from the haunting stare she gave me. It didn't do a damn thing to stop me from trying to get loose from Hunter's grip to get at her.
"Why are you outside of the dorm during curfew hours, Miss.= Pierce?"
This bitch seriously asked me that? "What's it to you? We went for a run and lost track of time. Considering I just went through hell and back, I think I deserve a break from everything."
"It is past curfew hours. You need to be in the dorm for your safety." The smile returned.
The yearning to rip this bitch's head off her shoulders was strong. My wolf agreed, adding to my bloodlust because I was just tired of looking at this pathetic excuse of a person. Why did she get to live, but Cole and his friends had to die? If she never created this weird ass way to bring the destruction of our kind out, they wouldn't have died.
We fell into this stare off, and I looked for traces of her wolf being in charge. If she wanted this for the rest of us, did that mean her wolf was the one in the driver's seat?If so, that would explain so damn much. The wolf wanting all of this would be easier to digest. But she looked the same way she always looked.
There was nothing.
Not a single trace of her wolf calling the shots right now. That made it worse. What if she has figured it out, and she's completely merged with her wolf? There was a reason for the Great Moon to keep our halves separate.
"Why don't you go to your room now, Dylan? Our guards will do a scan around here in a bit, so it would be best for you not to be out here...in the open."
I growled at her, but she didn't seem to register it. "Are you going to make me?"
Yeah, it was idiotic to be talking to the person who most likely wanted me dead, but I couldn't care less. Hunter was trying to send me soothing energy through the bond, but I didn't care about that either. I blocked him out and focused on the enemy standing in front of me. If I wanted this bitch out of all of our lives to save my people, then this needed to end now.
