Dead Luna – Chapter 6

Derrick’s POV

I can’t believe Amelia is really dead. She looks so peaceful lying there, as if she is just quietly sleeping. But I doubt anyone could sleep thru the loud sobbing of Leo. We are all saddened that we couldn’t save her, but Leo is taking it especially hard. He feels that her death is completely his fault. In a way, I suppose it is, even if the true culprit was currently chained up in the dungeons below the Green Mountain pack house.

I actually feel sorry for Leo, even if I do still consider him to be one of the most selfish and immature pricks of my acquaintance. He must have hidden depths of conscience, though, if he feels this much sorrow over a woman he rejected several years ago, and appeared to everyone as if he despised her.

me.

entally say out loud.

onfused by my little outburst. Zachary, however, looks over at me as well, and gives a slight nod, so I know I’m not the only one imagining things. “It’s certainly something fruity. With a hint of coconut and marshmallow undertones.”

Mate?

eath Amelia, and I shove her body just enough to grab the phone from her back jeans pocket. Then I let her back down gently, not that it matters since I couldn’t possibly hurt her in any way at this point.

comprehend what my eyes might have just seen. It can’t be real, can’t it?

call you in the morning?” Pause. “Yeah, love you too! Bye.”

ht!” Amelia says as she tries to sit up. Her stomach must be giving her a lot of pain, as she couldn’t quite manage to sit up until she asked Leo to help (seeing as how he had been holding her left hand for the last 20 minutes at least). She managed to swing her legs off

don’t just come back from the dead, do they?

t count). Things were currently being prepared for her cremation in the morning. Because she was DEAD!

sitting up and talking to me as if it w

might have been about to keel over anyhow.

I probably sounded a lot like an i***t.

ddess just gave her to me to help people find their mates!”

”

system getting rid of bodily waste, and then a toilet flushing. A few seconds go by, and we can hear her humming as she washes her hands in the sink. Then the sounds of a hot air hand dryer. Then Amelia returns, and hops back on the bed. And she’s smiling at us!

ed into silence, so it’s not just

is this even possible?”

back where they belong, and then she needs to deal with the concussion I got from being slammed against a tree. I just need a hearty meal, followed by a good nights rest, and I’ll be right as rain! Then I’ll explain everything to everyone tomorrow morning at the alpha meeting, if that’s ok with you, Alpha Joshua?”

arranged,” Alpha Joshua responds. “But what could you possibly have to say that all of the alphas need to hear it?”

have special message for all of you from our very own moon goddess, Selen