Emily really enjoyed the rest of her afternoon that she got to spend shopping with Breanna. She was glad that Gabriel had left though. The fourth store that they went to had been a lingerie store. While she did need to pick up underwear and bras, Emily could only imagine what Gabriel would have thought or started picking up while they were in there. She was used to more simple and functional underwear. The lingerie store that they went to did not have much, well anything, along the lines of just simple and functional. They ended up leaving that shore with four bags alone. Most of the items in the bags Breanna had picked out saying that they were necessities and carried up to the counter before Emily could even see them. Shrugging, she figured that she would end up seeing what all Breanna had put in the bags when they got back to the castle. After their stop at the second, fourth, and sixth store each, Breanna had apparated to the castle and back to drop off their bags. Emily could on

Emily! Gabriel roared through their link. Emily barely heard as she felt her blood rushing and saw the hunter pull out the knife and bring his arm back to plunge it in again. In less than two seconds Rica had tossed the injured cub so that he was out of the way over her right shoulder and she swung her left arm with claws extended. She knocked the knife from the hunter’s hands and left long bleeding claw marks like the ones left on the cub across the hunter’s chest. Rica went to pull out his throat when Emily cried out, Wait! Rica had her hand wrapped around the hunter’s throat and Emily could see the fear in his eyes. He should be afraid. He wasn’t afraid a minute ago when he was plunging that knife into her side. Why? Rica snarled. Maybe we can take him in for questioning. Maybe he will tell us why the hunters attacked now. How many there are and any other plans, Emily said. Emily, are you okay? Gabriel yelled through their link again. Looking up she saw him running in her di

“Are you ready Luna,” Marcus asked, stopping outside of a very heavy looking metal door. “I think so. I’m as ready as I’ll ever be,” Emily said, a little nervous. It was really worrying her that Gabriel did not come to see her after Sebastian told him in person that she was waking up. Sebastian has said that Gabriel refused to believe what he was saying. She heard him telling Sarah that Gabriel’s eyes had looked empty when he was trying to talk to him. Marcus put Emily down till she was standing beside him. He kept an arm around her waist to steady her, but she was starting to feel a little stronger. Marcus reached over to a keypad and entered a twelve digit code faster than Emily could keep up with it. After entering the code, he placed his thumb on a scanner. Once the scanner confirmed his thumb print everything turned green and then the door unlocked and opened a little. Marcus kept his arm around Emily as he pulled the door open for them to walk in. When they walked in they wer

It took closer to thirty minutes, but eventually they got everyone in the conference room. Abraham was one of the last to make it, due to visiting pack members that had been injured and seeing which ones to bring based on what they had seen and experienced during the battle. As soon as he walked in the conference room he approached Emily and said, “Luna, I am so sorry to hear that you were injured once we left. If I had known that there was still any danger present we would not have left your side.” “I”m okay, and it is not your fault,” Emily said quickly. “I should have been paying more attention, but I let my guard down.” “Thank you, Luna,” Abraham said. “Alpha, Luna,” he said, including Gabriel this time. “I would like to introduce you to my son Thomas. He is also one of the wolves that you helped Luna.” “It is nice to meet you, Thomas,” Gabriel said. “I hate that we are having to meet this way though.” “Thank you, Alpha,” Thomas said. “I wish that we could have met under be

Not fifteen minutes later the additions that the hunter had requested had joined everyone else in the conference room. Breanna had been the first to arrive and she had brought Emily’s grandmother with her. Agatha was the last to arrive. When she arrived she looked flustered for a moment before composing herself. Emily worried that she and Breanna had been stretching themselves too thin over the last few days. She tried closing her eyes to see if she could see their golden threads and was surprised that she could still see them. Rica was right. There were two parts of her that were not connected. Once everyone was situated, Gabriel turned the screen with the hunter back on. Emily was surprised when she saw the hunter again that he now had several wires attached to him. Not looking even a bit surprised, Gabriel said, “Everyone is here hunter. Now, tell us what you know.” The hunter looked at everyone assembled for a moment and then cleared his throat to begin. “First, I would like t