The Lunas Second Chance Mate – Chapter 87
Alyson
My body is trembling, burns gashing over my face and down my neck, the feeling oddly familiar from the scar I once bore as Alissa Clark. I try to force the memories aside, the acid on my skin tingling like a million little pin pricks poking at me simultaneously. Alpha Olivera is running, pressing my body to his chest, forcing his way through onlooking rogues as he runs down lengthy, winding halls.
“Get out of my damn way!” He barks, forcing me to flinch, my throat catching a breath and causing a grating cough. “Easy, blood pet, just relax,” Olivera hums, as though trying to be snarky and yet, I hear the lap of concern in his voice.
p, seeing a bright white light shift overhead, hands working at my throat and my jaw, the fingertips soft and unfamiliar. Olivera is standing opposite of this
ifting in the bottom of the glass tube. He holds it to the light, as though showing Olivera, the Alpha’s fists tightening as his knuckles rest on the table. “This isn’t a lab rat, healer, I need you to fix her—NOT STUDY HER!”
we both shrivel at the Alpha’s burning rage. Obviously he is upset, seeing as
lood has healing qualities.”
pant.
the elders,” Olivera hums, his fingers dragging over my throat, any remanence of pain and burn scars somehow gone. “Very good, healer. Contin
finally mended back to it’s semi-perfect state, thanks to my overly perfect blood.
pper arm with a long, silver needle.
healer murmurs.
gone now. “Wolfsbane.”
ough it is awfully sore, and moves the loose strands of my hair off of my face. I am blushing, either in frustration, embarrassment, or pure sadness; I can’t decipher what I feel anymore. I miss my wolf, I miss my connection to Ryan, a
ke metal splinters are flowing through every blood vessel in my entire body.
ike me from here. “I say you kill her, make an example of what the elders do to us every day. It would get
o isn’t a rogue,” Olivera snarls. “I’m not doing this to form an example, I am doing it to ensure that we are s
t upright. It doesn’t help me for long, sending me back down to my side when my arms tremble too hard to keep me stable. I growl a noise, feeling hot tears fall down the spots that were burns just moments ago. He healed me with my own blood; they now know what my blood can really do, aside from powering their pushy Alpha.
breathe, pulling my
ast do something with her? Anything is better than watching this parade.”
shift, seeing him move before my path to the door,
“She is a Luna, after all. She’s attractive and she is stuck here awhile as the only female around this pack. I’m just suggesting we try her out and see—”
ance.
only with the deal being made that the slaughter of rogues by the elders is made clear.”
y, my chest convulsing and my cries coming in heavier waves.
nd he had one of ours held captive,” the healer snarls. “You just aren’t strong enough to make that kind of choice.”
n. It’s filled with wolfsbane, the clear toxins in the vial now murky with blood as it travels through his system and shuts it down in a mere matter of milliseconds.
with tired, warm eyes.