The Lunas Second Chance Mate – Chapter 90

Alyson

I thrash myself away from the Alpha, my tongue buzzing nonstop with nothing but anxiety boiling in the depths of my stomach. I meet his wide, calm eyes, my entire body shivering in place, in this bed, seeing this Alpha loom so close it’s as if he will intend to kiss me again. I can’t let that happen, nor can I understand why he’s done it in the first place.

I cover my lips with my fingertips, still rattling with a buzz.

eyes shift to the floor, so

did you do it?”

ets nearby, his frustration obvious. “I just—I don’t know, I felt like I saw—like you were—”

volumes.

do this anymore.

once, then twice, feeling Olivera hike me over his shoulder like a sack of dirty laundry. I

ture him leaning in again, colliding our lips together in a strange, unexpected manner. It aches me to think of what Ryan would say, or do, if he heard of such atrocity. If he knew what the healer was going to do to me, that would only m

become replaced with the woods I had been led through when I was first taken.

nd I can tell by the large size it belongs to him. He pulls for my hand and I cringe, watching him pluck a small twig off a root nearby and press the thorn-like tip to my palm. “Easy, sweetheart,” he groans.

blood pools slowly

.

nstead turning to face me with glowing cyan eyes.

help. Ryan can help. Just—”

he woods nearby. My breath hitches, seeing Ryan’s wolf topple Olivera’s, both of them grappling for the upper ground on top of each other

at the sounds of their growls, seeing my palm and the wind mix into the perfect storm. Ryan must have caught the hint of my scent, even muted with the poison still in my veins, and once he saw Olivera standing over me with his large wolf, it was perfect timing for him to see an opportunity to attack.

y he backs away.

the case. He would have killed me and left it alone at that. He wanted Ryan to find me, to take me home, and that proves this Alpha isn’t as bad as I initially thought.

I beg.

ks to my mate, both of them unwilling to

tare at me, his brown lashes flickering upward to Olivera who’s wolf is still growling in a low, throaty noise.

talk to him,” I plead.

ck, I don’t understand it, Alyson.”

”

ffs a frustr

I can tell. He holds an arm over my stomach, something about that notion unsettling, I don’t know why, though. I grum

ppy, sweetheart?” Olivera sneers.

bit.

ink, here goes not

,” I sigh heavily. Ryan shows his teeth, his wolf threatening to break out any second now. “Please, Ryan, listen to me.”

sh my h

y it up, I can’t hold back forever,” Ryan grumbles u

e is after the elders.

Crowalt palace,” Olivera says, his eyes tamed on his mission.

along with a lot of other rogues, Ryan. He says they were tortured, tested with wolfsbane and then killed needlessly,” I hum, trying to tal

vera sighs, narrowing a look onto me.

ll, to start a war—not a deal.”

I haven’t heard any reports of a war starting so why did you let Alyson go as your f*****g ransom?”

ises between the two of them.

e.

ble.

n I wanted to do so much more to her when she was tied up. That’s why I kissed her.”

war may be on afte