Semua Bab Forbidden Love: The Alpha Rejected Luna Second Chance : Bab 81 - Bab 90

Lily's POVI had never realized how extensive the cave system was, it seemed to penetrate deep into the mountainside, a gullet big enough to swallow us all if some giant beast had freakishly evolved to munch on humans. They had borne me through several apartments of a very modern aspect, placed me on a wooden bedstead somewhat of the Posture of our Field beds, and left me in a large room, where a few small Stones an Inch or two in length and breadth served as windows, within the space of ordinary panes, and by them I knew when it was day or night.They’d taken off my gag when we were deep enough that there’d be no one to hear my shouts, however the ropes that bound my ankles and wrists were tight enough to cut off circulation. I was sitting against the cold stone wall while they were getting ready for whatever they were going to do with me."The best site," the Girl said critically, surveying the cave. "Remote, difficult to get to, and the local fauna will dispose of any... specimens.

Darius's POV"Alpha, we've found something."The portal slammed up, and Captain Marcus's information-heavy steps shot him into the command center, alive with the same urgency that shot my wolf to attention. His uniform was disheveled, his face grim with news that would change everything.“Report,” I ordered, looking up from a set of maps I had been going over for the last hour.“Team Seven found the cave where she was kept.” he continued, and placed a bloody scrap of cloth on the table. “This matches the servant's clothing and there are signs of a vicious struggle in the main room.The first was the blue cotton fabric from the dress that Lily was wearing when she vanished. The tears and blood spoke to a torment I did not want to picture."Survivors?" I questioned, although the look on Marcus's face already answered the question.“One body down in the cave, crushed throat. Another at the foot of a ravine half a mile away, neck broken from fall. The third one is unconscious with a menta

Darius's POVThe trail was getting stronger the further I went, the lingering scent of Lily mixed in Lily’s natural aroma and that metallic stink of blood making my wolf pace restlessly beneath my flesh. Running through the Darkwood for three hours, after tracks no one but someone with superior senses would notice."Alpha, maybe we should wait until daylight," said one of the guards who had insisted on coming with me against my better judgement to find what was best to do alone. “The ground is dangerous at night and the fact that there are predators so close…”“She sure as hell doesn’t have until daylight,” I said grimly, going to my knees and investigating broken branches that someone had obviously walked over recently. “The bleeding will kill her by morning, if she doesn’t run into something worse tonight.”My wolf was growing too hard to contain, battling for his human form with all he was worth. He wanted to move, to track to escape, so we could find our mate before it was too lat

Darius's POVLily’s collapse made ice flow through my veins. The next second she was limp in my arms, her flaming anger replaced by a deathly pale face in the torchlight.“She’s going to shock,” announced Captain Morris grimly as he fell to one knee beside us to take her pulse. "She's losing blood worse than what we first believed, and tonight's events have put just a bit too much on her."I held her in my arms, noticing how much lighter she felt, how brittle her otherwise strong body felt. Even in the flickering torch light, the Luna mark on her arm was glowing softly through the bandages.“How close is the nearest place of safety?” I inquired, already knowing the response would amount to too damn far.“The old hunting lodge is a couple of miles to the south, but it’s sat empty for years. Nothing in the way of medical supplies, nothing in the way of proper facilities to treat someone in her state.""And back to pack territory?""Five miles, minimum. Through the land unforgiving, lugg

Lily's POVConsciousness ebbed and flowed like waves breaking on a far-off shore, one moment washing me toward the light, the next sucking me back into darkness. In the gaps between sleeping and waking I flickered around in memories that now seemed more substantial than the present, reliving moments in my life that I had spent years pretending never happened.I was eighteen and back in the great hall before the pack as Darius uttered the words that would shatter my world to nothingness. Only this time it was more vivid, more detailed than it had ever been before. And I could see things that I hadn’t seen, or allowed myself to see, in my shock and heartbreak — the tone of his voice, the way he seemed to grapple with the words, the unfinished quality of what should have been a last break.“I, Darius, Alpha of the Moonshade Pack, reject you.” I had looked at pain there, at reluctance, but I had been too young and heartbroken to understand what it meant.The recollection slid away beneath