The Lunas Second Chance Mate – Chapter 129
Ryan
I fight through the winds, the rain cascading over my warriors and me. It wasn’t the best idea coming out during this type of storm but we lacked one natural ingredient that grows just south of the waterfall trail and then the cure would be complete for the last facility of rogues. I have healed slowly in my weeks of developing the cure, but I could use a dose myself.
Thankfully it hasn’t affected my poorly mate, spending most of her days passed out in bed until I force her to get up and move around a bit. It’s been exhausting for her, but she is the patriarchy of a new family, the strongest she-wolf I know who is capable of carrying these pups.
e you?!”
his hands up in a small fit of rage. It’s almost amusing if he didn’t also sport a petrified look of angst as well.
,” I call out
e and suddenly, I fill with dread.
d teeth, so only I can hear him. “You have to get back to the palace, now.”
e to break out just from panic alone. “Why? What’s going on? I
d.
tell my warriors, returning my focus to Olivera. “Let’s go. Now.”
second longer if she’s hurt and needs me.
tting back to my mate.”
my luck just a little more, so I can be there for her when she needs me.
olt of electricity flowing out of the soppy sky above and striking a tree up ahead, the massive trunk splitting down the middle and landing just before my
by my side and begging for me to hold her. I’ve spent too much time not holding her, I can’t allow it to go on any longer.
only to be brought back up as the river rages in the storm.
ng parallel to the rapids, careful of his step as he passes me and my wolf up, stopping on a rock that overhangs over the water slightly. I push off the slick river rocks underwater and launch myself in that direction, the river bringing me closer and closer to Olivera’s waiti
le.
able looks to one another.
ck ledge has other ideas, sweeping us both back int
ly looking for the rogue Alpha. It’s only me, though, my wolf tired from the paddling and cold rain. Ahead there is a break in the ditch the river has carved, a low spot I can latch onto that would bring me back to the solid ground. I launch sideways, clinging to the embankment and finally pulling free.
ew yards away.
heltered cave. At least for the most part, we are out of the rain now.
ut from the head wound.
ste in my mind to reach out to her. It’s going to be okay, Alyson. I get to you soon enough. H
mate wounding me further.
ees, the clouds hovering over in darkness like it’s nighttime, and I’m too f
his forehead.
he mutters.
d have left you in the river if I knew that’s how you would thank me
to the palace. Now.”
rd way.”
t I can’t pinpoint why.
e, I can’t be senseless and try navigating the storm right now; it would only get me killed. “Is it Alyson.”
ng yet. “She wasn’t looking to good this morning. I got the healer to the room and she was in pain—I
into my stomach.
it’s too soon!”
think the timeline ma
h it will take Alyson to have those pups without me there will be undeniably difficult, but I can’t deny that she is powerful enough
mily.