The Lunas Second Chance Mate – Chapter 57

Alyson’s POV

I received a note from Ryan: The Elders shared important news with me today. I need to see you and tell you everything. If I’ve learned anything from our history, it’s that secrets create walls between us, and I want nothing between us.

I clutched the letter to my heart as I paced around my apartment. I wished we could write to each other with love, but we always kept anything written short and to the point without any obvious romantic inclinations.

t stop thinking about Diana, feeling sure that the Elders had called Ryan to tell hi

d been with Ryan, I felt

it suited me that he be an Alpha candidate while we take down Jacob. There was something really bothering me about the whole pact between Clan Clark and Clan Alexander. Maybe it was the best way to live peac

ed me.

d be generally sickly and have the quality blood Elder Fritz boasted about.

to me, so I headed out, telling Michelle I wouldn’t be gone long if he came. One area of Crowalt Pack territory that I’d avoided completely was the neighborhood I’d grown up in.

e the other day when I’d met Jacob on the private road, I’d taken less walks around the town, and I’d kept to more public spaces where such encounters would be less likely.

aw a mother she-wolf with three little she-wolves playing out front. making me ache with wonder at what had happened to my mother and the rest of my immediate family, and Jennifer’s cold words that she “did” have purple eyes.

fting to their wolves and wrestling. I wondered what fate these sisters might have, and how they would do at the games to test their blood. Would there be jealousy? Competitiveness between them?

Playing out with our mother like this, having no idea that someday we’d be enemies. It seemed that on some level, the competition for Jacob had started that young, and look where it led us.

n especially mean to me after I tried to keep my toy for myself. She had eventually stolen it away, and called me names when I tried to pry it from her iron grip. I was crying, and mother pulled me on to her lap with a big hug, saying, “Y

Reflecting back, I hated that mother always painted Jennife

ooking for someone?”

ouse. Have you always lived here?”

efore?” I asked, hoping that this was not too obvious.

ine? The Luna herself grew up here.”

to?”

ughtfully as one of her young pups in her wolf form pulled at her dress.

k?” I asked.

the Luna,” The lady narrowed her eyes at me. “She’s my second cousin in fact.”

in good health?”

Why are you asking these questions?”

r a few days ago,” I said. “She seemed kind of sick.”

he just has a cold.”

confirmed at least that

ou.”

wolf called after me. Her little ones were howling fo

I had already shifted to Ariana, and we trotted fast away from there. I suspected that she would not try to follow me because of her children. No need for her to know who was prying around. I worried that my curiosity could seem suspicious if Jennif

that Ryan had not called on me yet. She was in the midst of cle

I answered. Ryan had come. He entered without a word.