Alle Kapitel von Return of the Rejected Luna: Kapitel 31 – Kapitel 40

When I come out of the tunnel, the sky is already showing signs of the earth awakening and some early birds have begun to start singing. Everything in the pack points to another peaceful day, just like Liana had said but I knew better. The people weren’t even aware of the attacks on the elders and the death of the cook had been kept really quiet all in the name of maintaining the ‘fake’ peace Liana had promised the people. I had to shake her, she just couldn’t be left alone. I don’t walk home, I run home with an urgency that pushes me on. I had to get home before the sky became brighter and day broke but I also had to get home to find a way to deal with the so-called Luna. When I finally get to my room, I place my hands on my knees and try to catch my breath but I realize I don’t even have that time when an image of Dorothea sitting on that dirty floor in a dark underground cell flashes through my mind. I look through my desk till I find the notepad I was looking for, then stop sudd

Twenty four hours. Twenty four hours had passed and there was no sign of any gathering of the pack members, not even an announcement was made for a potential gathering. “Let’s be patient Ida and give her another day to tell the truth.” Forty eight hours had now passed and yet Liana was not calling for a gathering of the pack members to tell the truth about the prophecies and the danger the pack was in. Seventy two hours later, Liana looked comfortable, too comfortable, like she had not received a blackmail letter three days ago. Liana was ignoring me, probably calling my bluff. She wasn’t going to make things easy for me, was she? “There’s a meeting with the alpha, the beta and the elders. Ally, you come with me. Alexa, stay here till we come back.” “Yes, Luna.” Is she trying to keep me out? “Let’s get going Ally.” When they leave the room, I smile to myself. “Trying to leave me out, Liana? I don’t think so.” I slip the map of the underground tunnels out from my pocket and look for t

“Alexa? Are you okay? You look kind of pale. Do you want to sit down?” Hope grabs my hand and I am grateful for the contact. My throat feels like its closing and my breaths come in short pants. I suddenly feel lightheaded. “Alexa!” Hope’s voice sounds like she’s screaming my name from underwater. “Hope, I can’t breathe!” I’m not sure if I get those words out but I know for a fact that I look at her with desperation and panic in my eyes. From the fog around me, I can feel Ida’s panic rising as she growls and growls, trying to reach me, but everything sounds like it is coming from far away and I am alone where I am, not even my wolf is with me. I close my eyes and count to ten in my head but when I open them, I find myself in a dark forest. All I can see are trees all around me. I catch a glimpse of red eyes in the dark but when I look again, they are gone. “Ida? Ida, can you hear me?” I call to my wolf but all I hear is silence. “Ida, please.” I am crying now, the tears flow freely fr

The next day, Liana looks like a new person and not the ill-behaved cat she was yesterday. Her face has a rosy glow to it and she has the look of a woman well satisfied (or at least I think she is satisfied. I don’t know how a satisfied woman looks like.) “Luna, you look well rested today.” Ally says with heart signs in her eyes. “Oh, I certainly feel much better today, thank you Ally.” Liana looks at me, like she’s expecting me to comment on the glow around her. “Luna.” I say with a half-hearted nod. Her smile falters a little bit but comes back, even brighter and wider than before. “You seem to be in a foul mood, Alexa. I hope your day gets better.” Oh, I know it will, I say to myself. Liana opens her door and falters when she sees the white envelope on her office floor, like it had been slipped in from the small slit under the door. Her smile dims a little bit, and it disappears completely when she sees that the ‘addressed to’ part of the envelope has ‘Oracle of the moon goddess?

Liana’s hands ball the letter into her fists, she grabs the coffee mug on her desk and hurls it across the room then lets out a scream of pure rage. The door opens and Ally with some guard-wolves rush into the room. “What’s wrong, Luna?” Ally asks. Everything, I say to myself. Liana throwing her mug across the room, has put me in the war zone of her rage. Glass shards pierce my arm and hot coffee splashes on my leg. I left Ally to calm the angry Luna down and went to treat my injuries. At least I knew I hadn’t misunderstood what I had seen, Liana was cheating on Derek. How long had it been going on? From the way they talked, it looked like they had known each other for a while, probably before she got mated to Derek and married him. Many parts of their conversation also didn’t make any sense to me. What had her lover meant by, they will be together soon? Weren’t they already together? The whole thing was confusing to me but I could think about that later. By the time noon had roll