The Lunas Second Chance Mate – Chapter 109

Alyson

Ryan holds me at last.

It feels just like I had recalled, just as I had dreamed about for so long, and I groan when he shifts, praying he isn’t intending on getting up. His arms pull me back up into his lap, curled up on the couch in our suite, laid out under a heavy, furry blanket that feels more like a shield than anything else right now. The fire burns nearby in the fireplace and the smell of burnt cedar swarms the room.

w days back.

gently, his mind heavy on my thoughts. I have missed him in my mind-link. It feels comfortable having him

f—” I cough slightly, choking on my inhale. “—Olivera?”

’s in the barracks

Olivera ran into Ryan in the woods by chance, the two of them ready to kill each other over me thinking I was under either of their care in that moment. They were both wrong. When they heard me scream, they dropped focus on each other and came scrambling for me.

after they arrived in the woods.

om memory.

mean to startle the Luna.”

the gentle waves of my long hair. “What bring you here?”

, Alpha,” he says, his voice wilted. “He is at the foyer doors, requesting to be seen.”

bling against his chest and then against my head where I lay on his abdomen. “Dismiss him.”

, he asked to speak wit

d looking for shelter, for direction, for any semblance of safety. If Ryan were to release me from his grasp now, I may break for good, my wolf so ready to give up everything we

ing, what is your decision?” Ryan

only reply is to cling to

d to speak. I wish I could have faced the elders, and before the incident, I may have been able to, but not after what Maddox did.

nfirmed.

ieve Olivera, but he was right. The elders have taken rogues in for experiments. I wasn’t sure at first but to hear Mars

his head.

found me. That morning, Marshal tried to reason for my release. He said he wouldn’t be able to let the rogues go, though, just the opens that escape

about the escap

Why would they ever do something like that? I thought they were better than that.”

t stand to know why people do bad things, darling,” he hums, brushing my hair off

shock. “You know who did it?”

I did, darling.”

u helped them escape? How? Did the elders try to fight you?”

ter. I just want you to rest. None of this concerns us anymore.”

n it doesn’t concern us?”

na. Our lives can finally return back to normal and none of this will ever haunt us again.”

.”

save them all.”

eft me behind because she already saved a few others? Then I would be dead, Ryan. I would be stuck whe

akes his head, something sad glinting in the corne

“I don’t care about the mess,” I breathe, my heart aching. “I care about what is