Luna of the North のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 41 - チャプター 50

Gabriela"Okay, so I got you these." A few sets of clothes are tossed onto my bed, followed by a pair of practically new shoes. "And these. Oh, and I didn't know what kind of scents you liked, so I just got you the variety pack."Rose tosses a large gift-sized pack of body oils onto the bed on top of the clothes and then digs around in her bag to produce more stuff. Honestly, when she offered to give me some of her things, I'd been expecting some ratty clothes she no longer had use for.But even just looking at that fabric without touching it, I can tell that this is all high quality and expensive."You didn't have to do all of this," I tell her, rubbing one of the t-shirts between my fingers to marvel at the softness of it."Oh please. What are you going to wear? That curtain they sent you in?" She scoffs. "No offense, but we can't have you walking around the pack like that."That curtain...honestly, it's not that far from what it is. I wouldn't be surprised if Storm had ordered one

AaronGabriela's entire body grows stiff at my question, the stench of her fear bitter on my tongue when I breathe it in.How odd, to be so nervous when an alpha is asking her to explain herself. Just what exactly was done to her in her previous pack, that such a simple thing would lead her to this kind of reaction? A submission through intimidation is strange for a breeder.Her pack alpha contacting me hadn't been that much of a surprise, as I'd been in the market for a breeder for a while. A very specific kind of breeder, at that.Picking her up had given me the impression that her pack's tradition of taking care of their breeders either wasn't being followed or they simply had no clue how to.Which had struck me, and Wren, as odd. Why in the world would they raise a breeder they had no intention of caring for? A cash grab? Something else?It seems like too much of a long ploy to risk raising a breeder in the hope that another pack will eventually be in the market for one. Our ferti

GabrielaThe rest of my night is spent tossing and turning while Aaron's words replay over and over in my head.Him both answering my questions and giving me more has had my head spinning ever since he brought me back to the mansion and sent me to bed. The soft inhales of Rose sleeping across the room are the only thing that's keeping me sane at this point.I have so many questions, even more than I started with. Why in the world Aaron isn't interested in having a biological child is beyond me. And more than that—why doesn't he want a biological heir?Sure, I'm confident that Elijah will never come to claim our baby, seeing as how he believed Storm's lies over my truth. And even if by some miracle Elijah were to actually come to his senses, he would have no way of proving the child was his, with the timeline of conception and Aaron taking me as a breeder being so close together. Aaron and I could easily pass the child off as our own, so long as Elijah's features aren't that pronounced

GabrielaApprehension causes my wolf to rumble softly inside of my chest while we start our walk to the other side of town, me following closely in Aaron's shadow.Elders.While Eris has been kind to me thus far, what's to say the others will be too? Aaron's confidence in his pack accepting our current situation is one thing, but having it actually come to fruition is another. What's to say that he's wrong about their acceptance of my pregnancy?It's not like he's brought another pregnant breeder to them before this."Aaron."He turns slightly to look over his shoulder at me."Have you done this before? Brought a breeder to your pack?"The corner of his eye crinkles. "Why, jealous?"I hold back a snort. Leave it to him to turn this back around on me. Though, now that I think about it, I do feel kind of weird about the idea of me not being the first one. Kind of like I have an unspoken claim over this that hasn't been challenged thus far.To me, it seems like I am the first and only br

Elijah"We're actually staying here?" Camden mumbles at me the second we're out of Storm's mansion."For the time being," I say.He follows behind me as Constance takes up on my right, her arm brushing against mine while we follow two of Storm's enforcers through town. Her voice is quiet when she speaks."I thought you didn't want to leave the packlands, Your Grace.""Things changed." Glancing around, I don't spot Raya at all, so hopefully that means she's keeping herself hidden. The last thing I want is for Storm to get his hands on her, on the off-chance that he knows she left Redwood in the first place."Such as?"I shake my head at her subtly instead of answering. We'll need more privacy than this for me to tell them about Raya. Especially if what she's been telling me is true and that my fated mate has been sold off to some pack in the South.No matter what, at the end of the day, Gabriela should've never been sold to any pack outside of my jurisdiction. We cut off all relations