Lahat ng Kabanata ng Hiding the Alpha’s Twins: His Wolfless Luna: Kabanata 281 - Kabanata 290

~Samantha~Black Moon's old residence looked like death had set up a vacation home and decided to stay permanently.Three stories of rotting wood and crumbling stone, windows like empty eye sockets staring at nothing, the whole structure tilted sideways like gravity had given up halfway through. Vines crawled over everything, black, twisted things that didn't look like any plant I'd ever seen.And the smell. God, the smell was like copper mixed with decay."So this is where they lived." I kept my distance from the entrance. "Cheerful place.""Matches the personality." Killian was already moving around the perimeter, checking angles. "But something's not right here. You picking up on it?"Oh, I was picking up on it alright. The air pressed down on my lungs like invisible hands squeezing. Every breath tasted metallic. Wrong."Maybe we should check the perimeter before we just walk in." Killian started.A sharp whistle sliced through the air.Dominic hit me like a linebacker, sending us

~Samantha~Killian's cough started small, just a little clearing of his throat on the drive back from Black Moon's residence.By the time we pulled into the manor, it sounded like his lungs were trying to escape through his mouth.I watched him stumble out of the car, one hand pressed to his ribs. "That's not a normal cough."

~Samantha~"Still hate this place," I muttered, staring at the massive stone entrance covered in carvings of wolves mid-hunt at the Wolf Tomb. "Just putting that out there."Dominic squeezed my hand. "Noted. We'll make this quick."Quick. Right. Because nothing involving ancient tombs and magical circles ever went quickly.

~Samantha~My hand was literally burning and Dominic wasn't letting go."Keep pressing!" Silas yelled over the sound of the entire basement shaking. "The circle's almost open!""Almost open?" I could barely see through the blinding light shooting out of the parchment. "What does that even mean?"

~Samantha~Moonlight poured through the collapsed section of the tomb roof and it looked so wrong. "Is it supposed to look like that?" I grabbed Dominic's hand without thinking, squeezing hard enough that he probably lost circulation."No." His eyes tracked the beam as it crept across the floor toward where we stood. "That's not normal moonlight."