I Am The Luna

Chapter 73

A Memory

NEW YEARS DAY OVER FOUR YEARS AGO

VALERIE. “It’s so late.” I massage the back of my neck as I step into my apartment. We had left the Whispering Mountain Pack after midnight and the journey wasn’t too short.

I yawn, pausing as I stretch when I hear the faint creak of a floorboard, making me freeze. It’s not a violent stormy night that the wind would cause the apartment to creak.

I tilt my head, but there’s nothing more and I almost smile. Why am I being so paranoid? I walk to the fridge, grabbing myself a bottle of water; gulp it down and look through some papers. I have work in the morning.

I sit down at the counter, skimming through one of the reports of a big operation we have tomorrow when I think I hear something again.

Tilting my head, I pause, I really am imagining things. I shake my head. Well, I should shower and get to bed. I need to get out of this dress too.

I get up and walk to the bedroom. Sighing, I mull over everything with Zaia. I hate how life has done her dirty. I wish there was more I could do for her.

I’ll keep sending her the antidote, and I’ll keep checking her bloods but it’s just not enough. Fucking stupid alpha!

That stupid bitch Annalise!

Karma. Karma will bite their ass.

I walk to my bedroom, pausing when I see it standing ajar. Strange, I’m sure I shut the door when I left. I specifically remember trapping my dress in it and then opening it, pulling out the dress and then closing it…

the light switch. Darkness. I groan in annoyance. “Do

the room when I see a slight movement from the corner of my eye. On reflex, I turn sharply, my heart dropping when I see the tall, masked man who stands in the corner behind the door. He’s in baggy clothing with his hood up,

at the same time, and I instantly grab the small vanity table that stands beside the door, lifting it up and swinging it at him with all my might. He ducks, and

match for him! I

two steps out of the bedroom when he grabs my dress, yanking me back into the room and kicking the door shut. He grabs my hair and

floor. Fuck, he’s strong! I’m about to shout for help, but his gloved hand covers my

A what?

away. “I don’t know what that is! You got the wrong person!” I say as he grabs me by the

“Don’t fight me and let me see if there’s a mark or not. You might just live,” he snarls.

‘re looking for, will you let me go?” I ask, my

He’s pure muscle and in a battle of strength, I will lose. His hand wraps around my throat squeezing tightly. He pauses slightly, and

fills me. He was asleep in the car ten minutes ago. “If you really aren’t, then,

might just kill me… even if he’s

anger rising as he yanks and pulls my hair –

he found on my head? “Ah… there it is…” he yanks my

as he lifts it, and I manage to throw him back.

rare for a werewolf to be able to do this, but I guess my emotions

long as he grabs my arm, yanking me to the ground. I grab the bed sheets trying to pull myself up but it’s futile and I only manage

raising his hammer and then intense pain ricochets through my head. I let out a

head, bludgeoning it with the hammer. My ears are ringing and then… I can’t

me into the darkness and that

I

split open and the pain- it’s…

and then the most

(PRESENT)

safe. I’m safe. I clutch

ghostly pain in my

thought much of the symbol at

had, there’s a possibility it was just

am left shaken. Zaia wraps her arms around me. “It’s

ones who apparently found me… but at the same time, it’s obvious they could cook up a story to feed

I ask, wondering what they’ll say. “Someone peeped through the eyehole, but no one answered the door so Seb broke

we might have come just in time,” Sebastian says. Zion’s watching us curiously. For a three-year-old, my gorgeous nephew

say quietly. “It wasn’t Seb, Val, trust me.” Jai’s eyes are soft and full of concern as he watches me. “He told me to get you to the hospital fast

Sebastian says quietly. “I initially thought he had jumped but he had locked himself in your bathroom, I chased him from there, but he got

an Alpha,” Zaia says, frowning. Does she trust Sebastian? I look at her, but I

a twin,” I say quietly. “You aren’t the first to say that,” Sebastian

attacked me, killing countless people and several of my guards. I managed to get his visor up

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