The Lunas Second Chance Mate – Chapter 91
Alyson
I have to duck, Ryan’s massive wolf shifting right over top of me, cradling me between his four, large paws. My heart races and I plead to find my wolf but the wolfsbane is still in my system. I can’t touch her now, and I can’t intervene, seeing Olivera’s wolf force itself out and the two Alpha’s stare each other down with snarling, sharp teeth bore at the ready to strike.
Even if I know better, I still try, crawling out between the two of them, hoping I can mediate this a little bit better but it’s an utter failure. If anything, I make it worse, reaching for Olivera’s wolf and hearing Ryan bark menacingly, as though I have left his side for Olivera’s when in reality, I just want to this interaction to end.
he two of them pounce inward. The sounds of their wolves fighting makes my heart break. I don’t want Ryan to hurt Olivera because even the moon goddess told me this rogue Alpha is wounded and the thought of losing my mate would be the worst pain in my life; and Olivera is suffering through that.
would do the same thing for Ryan.
into the brawl.
crimson run down the length of my forearm. Olivera shifts to my side, pale and out of breath as he holds the scratch in his massive palm to stop the bleeding. I groan a noise, my head spinning, seeing his hands drenched in my blood in a matter of seconds.
SE MY MATE!” Ryan roars, standing over me with
se, relax—listen to him—”
he gets his damn hands of
e trying to help her out here!”
f is still too far for me to reach out to so I could heal. “Ry—”
second, near the spot he marked me at. It tingles with his touch. “Shallow breathing, slow pulse—I can’t smell her wolf at all, what happened?”
sbane,” Olivera grumbles. “She put up a few fights. Had to settle her down.”
e, you go, Alyson, you’re back in my arms. Let’s get you to the palace.”
itz is still at the palace so I will take you to the healer outside of the palace village, just so we don’t spark a war inside the gates.”
need him now more than ever to verify that I’m doing the right thing. I need him to agree. He is a kind man, an understanding mate, and he will trust that I only want to help Olivera avenge what was taken from him; I would do the same if it were me.
, my pulse dangerously slow.
tside as the world grows gray overhead. “Here we go,” he murmurs, setting me on a lowly couch, curling me up under a thin quilt while barking for the healer. “Gustavo! Gustavo, it’s me!”
“Al
my head spinning.
going—be—sick—t
inch, recalling the pain of wolfsbane being forced down my throat and burning my skin. I fight back slightly, spiting the liquid out as it greets my tongue, now overwhelmed with a minty taste. “Dammit, she’s refusing it, Alpha, and it’s vital to slow her pulse so she doesn’t lose blood so fast.”
wall, the small hut rattling in the rain. “Say it again,” Ryan growls, my head tipping sideways to see him pinning the rogue Alpha against the wall. “Call her that one more time and I’ll kill you.”
era chuckles sideways at my mate; a threat if I’ve ever seen one. “I’d love to see you try. But let’s save that for l
roat. I gasp, convulsing slightly and almost spitting it up, but his hand covers my mouth and presses the back of my head down into the couch cushion. I claw at his fore
trying to help you.”
ws me to take a sharp breath, the minty flavor lingering in the back of my throat like I’ve swallowed
and in support, unwilling to release. “Stay, please. Don’t fight him.”
never leave you
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