The Lunas Second Chance Mate – Chapter 84

Alyson

I wait until he thinks I’ve fallen asleep, watching his insurmountable pacing finally cease before he returns to the suite off of his bedroom. I hear the water fill the tub. I work at my wrists, bloody with blisters so that my wrists slide out freely, only at the mercy of a hiss. I look up, hearing the water part at the Alpha settling into his bath, and eye the bedroom door.

Whatever I had to drink at dinner wasn’t just wine. I know by the feeling in my gut now that it was the same poison as I had before, the muting potion that lingers in my blood making it hard for me to sense my wolf, if at all, and I can’t tell if there’s another outside the door or down the hall. In my woozy state, I must try.

this packhouse. My senses are stunned, my body weary, but I push myself to continue, finding a door slightly ajar with a darkened room.

t upright, feeling the weight of the last couple of days finally pressing into my chest.

out with the mark he made to prove to the world that I am a taken woman, a proudly presented Luna, and that the mark he made was the last significant step to our lives together.

ough the mind link, I

ard, my body slowly shutting down.

a taking a break when I should have been finding a way free of this damned place.

in my head for a few seconds. I grumble. This is not going to work very well. I regret the wine, allowing him to poison me again, and I regret not attending the dinner with my mate the night I was taken. I knew I sho

IND HER NOW!”

d upright, I manage to shut myself into the darkness, my breathing even more ragged in this cramped spot. Tilting my head back, my vision settles on the sight o

me, smiling wide. What are you doing here, Alpha? We aren’t safe here.

e replies with a cheerful edge to hi

shamelessly. Olivera isn’t nice to me. He blames me for the death of rogues I’ve never met, Alpha. He hates us and he hates the elders on the board. Are they truly terrible people, Ryan? W

judgment until you know for sure. You are good at conviction, darling, you will know what is right.

or is ripped open, almost off the hinges, and the vision of my empathetic mate is torn from my sight. I flinch backwards, scooting my back flush against the

my level, still capable of towering over me in his vicious height. His red eyes are fuming, his fists clenched at his side. “Do you dare defy me so blatantly, Luna?”

droops to my shoulder, my world st

lpha.”

nk?”

dropper to the base.”

ole glass of wine without anything to eat the day before. Are you trying to kill my captive?!”

n.

, all of you!”

d curl into a ball at his feet.

made it from the bedroom but I don’t think I’ll have to worry about the trek getting back to it.

speration, his arms twisted over and under my body, waltzing down the hall where I am met with the soft cloud of his bed under my back.

each for the chains.

d, away from me, and it makes my heart patter to an end.

like he intends to watch me throughout the night. I could fake it again, run when he falls asleep, but I’m far too exhausted to further fight the urge to pass out.

is in front of me no matter the truth.