Bound By Magic And Moonlight

Luke closed his eyes slowly, as if to relax because the night was very cold, but a vision appeared when he opened his eyes.

"Moon Goddess?" The light from the window made Luke squint.

"Alpha, a Luna has been chosen as your mate. Meet her in the human world."

Finally, Luke was able to open his eyes after the Moon Goddess left with his glare. It's unusual for a Moon Goddess to come to tell a mate this way.

What happened to the Moon Goddess?

Luke scoffed, as if he had underestimated the Moon Goddess' words in his heart. "The human world? Absolutely crazy. I don't want Luna to be a human. They're annoying and slow."

"Alpha!" A man came knocking on the door that had been open from the beginning. "I want to tell you something."

"What's that?" Luke saw the brown letter that Joen had been holding after he approached.

"Read it. It's a letter from a shewolf we've been looking for for a year."

Luke started to read the letter with a frown.

[We slept that night and I gave birth to your child. Now, if you won't give me what I want, I will also reveal the secret pack that I saw that night.]

Luke Luciano's jaw dropped when he saw the message and some pictures that a Beta named Joen brought to his office.

"Damn girl! If it's just a message like that, I don't believe it, but now she's trying to trick me with a big secret in the pack. She wants to reveal the secrets of our pack!" shouted Luke as he crumpled up the sheets and photos that an Omega had given to Joen.

"Sorry, Alpha. We'd better do what she wants before things get even more difficult."

"No! I don't want to bow to anyone! To anyone!" Luke clenched his fists in anger. "That damn woman thinks she can threaten me into submission?"

Luke glared at Beta in his pack. "Take a look at my schedule through next month. If the Chief can handle anything I want, I want to go to that Asian country."

"You should attend the meeting of the packs you worked with about the new division of the territory last year, Alpha."

"When?"

"Next week. They've asked to move the meeting up to next Sunday, Alpha."

"Just attending the meeting, right?" Luke got up from his swivel chair. "Just have Adrian come. Get my things ready for the plane ticket to leave tomorrow."

"Aren't you going to use a private jet, Alpha?"

"No, just a regular plane."

"Okay, Alpha. I will quickly prepare your things and give the Section Chief a message for the meeting."

Luke left the soundproof room. He had deliberately chosen such a room to dispel the suspicion that he was also a pack and the CEO of a manufacturing company.

Maybe only Joen and important parts of the pack know about this company, that's why Luke Lucasio and his family are very close to Joen.

The middle-aged man breathed out slowly. He knows and understands that Luke is under pressure from a shewolf that came several years ago, but suddenly wanting to go to an Asian country also takes a lot of energy and time.

"Gosh. Luke never changes." Joen saw a message from his king's mother, who was abroad. "Oh, in three days he will be thirty-five?" asked Joe to no one.

[I'll tell Luke later, ma'am.]

Joe typed in reply. He didn't know that Luke would want to delay his flight to an Asian country for a birthday party that would be so strange for a thirty-five-year-old man to agree to."

"I'm not sure Luke would," Joen said quietly. He knew that the little family relationship was a little off, maybe it had been almost ten years since Luke had visited his parents in France.

***

"Liana, please wipe the sauce plate and place it next to the steak," the chef said to Liana as her assistant.

"Alright Chef." Liana wiped the sauce off the side of the plate before serving it to the customer. She had been cooking in the kitchen like this for almost three years after graduating from high school.

"What time will you be coming home from school tomorrow?" Chef Onel asked Liana after finishing his task.

"Maybe noon, Chef. Do you have a lot of orders?"

"Not really, Liana. I'm just wondering, aren't you tired in the kitchen until midnight and you have class in the morning?"

"I've been used to it for three years, Chef. So no problem."

"Oh, I see."

Chef Onel was so kind to Liana, she was the one who asked the restaurant owner to hire an eighteen year old child as a kitchen helper three years ago.

"Now you are twenty-one years old. When you graduate from college, what are you going to do?"

"Actually, I really like cooking, Chef. Maybe I will practice my skills so that I can be officially accepted as an assistant chef in this French restaurant."

Chef Onel smiled before stepping into the pantry to get a glass. She poured herself and Liana a cup of wine.

"Your cooking skills are getting better. I hope you will no longer be an assistant chef, but a great chef who is good at preparing new menus every month."

"Of course, Chef. I have learned a lot from you," Liana replied after taking a glass of wine from Chef Onel.

This middle-aged woman is divorced from her husband and she looks happier than three years after Liana met her in this restaurant.

Liana doesn't know if she had children with her former husband, but many say that Chief Chef Onel's child was taken by force by her husband.

Many are still confused, so Liana has to keep her mouth shut about such personal matters.

"I've never seen the owner of this restaurant, Chef. Has the chef ever?"

Chef Onel just smiled again. It was as if she didn't want to answer Liana's question, which sounded very innocent to his ears.

They drank casually, but this woman, who was still young for her age, even looked drunk.

"What am I going to do next, huh, Liana? I already feel broken."

Liana frowned. "Has something happened, Chef?"

"My household was destroyed because my husband's extended family got too involved. I couldn't try my luck because my mother and father were in France. Then what about my life? I seemed to have no desire to live."

"You ever call them?" The woman, overcome by alcohol, shook her head quickly. "Just call and tell me that the cook misses her very much."

"I'm planning on going to France, Liana. Maybe stay there for a while."

Liana was silent for a few seconds. It wasn't usual for Chef Onel to confide in his assistant like that, maybe some kind of parting words.

"Chef, you won't be back?"

"I'll definitely be back, but I can't say when."

"Is that a farewell, boss?"

"Maybe."

Chef Onel is considered Liana's brother and parent. She also really respects her chef as a senior in this kitchen, but now that person is leaving soon and doesn't know when he will return.

"I will miss you, Chef."

"I'll miss you too, Liana."

They drank two full bottles of alcohol. Actually, Liana only drank a small glass of wine that Chef Onel offered for the first time.

The woman who works as an assistant chef calls the driver who always picks up Chef Onel. They were also close because they often met and talked a bit before the chef was picked up.

"Miss Onel is drunk?" the personal driver asks, "Are you having a farewell party?

"Yes, sort of."

"Okay, let's go first, Liana," said the driver, who was now supporting Onel's body from Liana's hands.

Liana nodded slowly to the driver before the car door closed and the car drove away until it was invisible at the end of the street.

A few days later, Liana found her kitchen very quiet. Chef Onel had gone to France and didn't know when she would return. The new chef is not very close to Liana because she is a young chef who is a bit rough when she talks.

Liana has heard rumors that the new chef asked the restaurant owner to fire the sous chef because she didn't need one, but this mysterious restaurant owner refused and instead made Liana the chef, not the sous chef.

The name tag was changed and Liana's clothes were changed from white to black with red stripes on the shoulders.

"Even though I've become a chef, I can't show it to Chef Onel." She saw unanswered messages from two days ago on her cell phone. "Why hasn't the chef answered yet? Is there a problem in France?"

***

Luke Lucasio has arrived in an Asian country. He has to meet a woman who dared to threaten him with the words child and Luke Lucasio's pack secrets.

"What's her name?" asked Luke, now wearing a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up. He walked faster than Joe to the car after leaving the inn.

"Liana Maladia, Alpha. We checked the point where she sent the message."

"Where is it now?"

"This point is at Liana Maladia's house, but according to my data, this woman works as a cook in one of Alpha's French restaurants."

"Let's go there."

As Luke's car pulled up, three cars followed. They were orders from Luke, just in case this woman was also from another pack syndicate.

"Want to see the girl's info, Alpha?" asked Joen, who was sitting next to Luke.

The handsome man with the set jaw refused to read the personal data of a woman he considered a whore.

"You got all the plans ready?"

"Looks like she's just an ordinary girl, Alpha. She's not a she-wolf or even has a pack."

"You believe that? A pack can change a person's identity to whatever it wants. You still believe that normal girl who writes black messages to threaten me? People like that usually have a pack or she's some kind of rogue."

Joen thought so too, but he could not immediately make the decision to hold or kill this woman named Liana Maladia.

"She looks innocent and has no record of having a pack. Maybe there is a mysterious person who sent the message through her apartment, Alpha."

Luke looked at Joe. They wanted to go to Liana's work, so they went to the girl's apartment to check something out.

The man also wanted to find out about the woman's child named Liana Maladia. It's possible that Luke's flesh and blood child was at home while a mother was at work. "That shewolf said my child was born, right?"

Joe frowned. Would Luke really consider the child the woman had produced to be his own?

"The house is here, Alpha," Joen said when their car arrived at a small, somewhat shabby apartment.

"Is this really where she lives?" asked Luke, who walked in a puddle because of the uneven cement. It was a little strange to see the view of the apartment from here.

"Let's go upstairs, Alpha."

Instead of feeling more sorry, Luke was even more angry, thinking about the fate of his child if the shewolf really raised his flesh and blood in a slum like this.

"Where is her room?"

"Room 27, Alpha. Here."

"Smashed."

An old man with white hair suddenly slowed down because of a group of large men in front of room 27.

"Excuse me, can I help you with something?"

"If you don't want your apartment door broken into, give me the double lock."

"I-I don't have double locks for all the apartments here, sir. Actually, where did you come from and why do you want to break down Liana's door?"

Luke raised his eyebrows as the middle-aged man remembered the name of the owner of apartment number 27.

"I don't want to hurt you because you're old, so don't try to get in my way."

"Just because you are like that, I have to stop you. It is very rude to enter a girl's room."

"Kill him."

Joen immediately arrests Luke for giving such a terrible order. "A-Alpha, don't be like that. We're in other people's land, this kind of behavior should be easier to detect if we're not careful. We'd better get out first and get in through the roof. I'll rent a helicopter so we can go up together." "Same," he said in a low, half-whisper.

"Where do you rent a helicopter this time of night? You're just killing him, Joen ... My Beta!"

"Alpha, have you forgotten that I came to this country with your father? I-"

Luke interrupted as he started to leave his position. "Do what you think is right, Joen. I'll wait in the car, if it takes long then it's this man I have to kill for trying to get in my way."

"Yes, Alpha."

Luke didn't sense a baby in the apartment. When a house has a baby, the whole room smells like baby gear.

At least that's what Luke remembers before entering a target house with a baby.

Luke was in the car while Joe was out looking for a helicopter to rent tonight. Actually, Luke can climb, it's just that Joen has a problem with his climbing skills, so Joen has to use a helicopter.

The man with the east face doesn't know why he can't hold back the throbbing in his head today. "Ah, my head hurts."

Luke lost consciousness after trying to hold back the throbbing in his head.

"Alpha, come on!" The man opened his eyes after feeling sleep for a long time. He got out of the car and the view here was just a wide field and not Liana Maladia's slum apartment.

"Get up here, Alpha!" shouted Joen, who was the first to climb into the helicopter, which was already a meter above the ground.

Luke scoffed, if he went with Joen, he would be like a coward who needed bodyguards and advisors, not like the pack in general.

For this reason, Luke would not take Joen with him when he was on duty. He was sure that if he wanted to kill someone, the man would stop him.

"Come on, Alpha."

Luke climbed up the ladder that had been extended down. Silently he watched Joen, who looked happy in the helicopter.

"Who's going to fly this chopper?"

Joe smiled at Luke. "You will reach your destination safely, Alpha."

They took the helicopter and got off under Liana Maladia's slum apartment.

Luke asked Joen not to come with him as he would surely feel sorry for the bitch.

"Be careful, Alpha. The walls are a little slippery from the rain that keeps coming."

"I'm an Alpha, Joen." Luke immediately climbed onto Liana's roof without any help.

While Joen, who had lost a bit of his ability, could only see under the apartment building, he knew that to get to Liana's room he needed a strong rope so that his body could break through the window.

The man skillfully bound his waist and hands. He also had to go down carefully because there was a lot of moss growing on the walls of this apartment building.

Once upstairs, Luke immediately pried open a weathered window door in the lock.

With a tug, Luke's loafers had entered Liana's room, he looked at the clock, which read two o'clock in the evening, and grinned at the woman who was fast asleep in her sleep.

"Is that what the bitch looked like that night?" Luke came closer to the side of the bed, staring intently at Liana as she closed her eyes. "I don't remember her face because I was a little drunk."

The man in the neatly pressed shirt immediately took out a gun from the side of his linen pants. He wanted to kill this woman without touching her and return to Italy immediately.

He was just about to point it at Liana's forehead when the woman woke up with a loud scream.

"Wh-who are you?! What are you doing in my room?" shouted Liana, who shuffled around, covering her body with a blanket out of fear. Her consciousness hadn't fully returned yet, but fear had already signaled his brain to stay away.

Luke didn't speak and was about to pull the trigger on Liana. He felt that Liana had to die because she had the potential to reveal the secret of his pack.

But before this woman died, Luke had to open his mouth to ask something.

"Tell me... Where is my child?"