The Perfect Luna

The silver-plated spear cut the flesh with ease… Blood appeared on the already stained clothes, soaking them rapidly. Ruby-red drops were falling onto the flooded floor, dissolving in the water within seconds as if they were nothing.

As if his blood was nothing…

Brayden looked at Riannon with a sad smile on his lips.

“I told you I would always protect you,” he said and fell onto his knees, Ria tried to process what happened when she saw the one who threw that spear and an internal snarl left her chest.

Roxanne was glaring at her from the other side of the dungeon. Breathing heavily, the little hybrid gritted her teeth. She did not mind killing her fake mate. She did not care enough about him even though they did spend so much time together.

She had a bigger fish to fry. That spear was for Riannon. Because she cared about her death. She wanted her dead more than anything at that moment in time. That woman was the source of all her troubles. That woman could take what she wanted from her, and she wasn’t having any of it anymore.

“Haven’t you done enough?!” Ria screamed at the fox while catching Brayden before he fell face flat into the water. She slowly lowered him to the ground, noticing his ragged breathing.

“This one is on you!” Roxanne hissed, narrowing her eyes. “All of this is on you! He blew up the house not even caring that I was inside! Was it some kind of punishment for you? After all, he loves to train his girls! But with you he is so different! This madness will be over the moment you are dead! And everything will get back to normal!”

Ria scanned her face, realising that her enemy was talking about Castiel. Everything was even worse than she imagined. Roxy didn’t just love him. She was obsessed with him. It was an unhealthy sick addiction that was driving her crazy, making her break all the imaginable and unimaginable boundaries.

“Do you even realise that he has been experimenting on you?” she decided to ask, feeling how life was slowly leaving Brayden who now tucked his head in the column or his neck for support. “He used you! He used your siren abilities, used you as his Guinea pig! He was intoxicating you and all these other women with fake mate scents! And now that I think of it, I bet you were a frequent visitor to his laboratory. There’s no way someone like him wouldn’t try to copy the siren pheromones!”

“That was because I am special to him!” Roxy snarled, growing her claws. “He treated me better than anyone else!”

“Then it’s just sad,” Riannon admitted, “Because he was putting you under other men with ease. He never cared whether you stayed dead or alive in the process of his schemes. And he never even asked about you while he…”

“Shut up!” the fake omega screamed hysterically, “Who are you to judge me? You didn’t even fight for your man when he brought me to your home!”

“I did fight you the first time,” Ria heard herself saying and felt Brayden twitching in her arms. But she did not regret her words.

Her secret wasn’t important now. The reality changed so much that there was no point to hide it because she didn’t possess any essential knowledge about future events anymore. This life was going very differently from what she knew. So different that no events were the same with the exception of the   over. “I lived a ute wnere i was rigning for the man wno was clearly wrong for me! I lovea nim anai thought that I could fix things between us if I just try hard, be perfect, do something… I was wrong. And I paid the price. Because you killed me. And the man I practically sacrificed my love for probably didn’t even notice…”

“What kind of bull sh*t is this?!” Roxy stared at her in shock, her chest heaving.

“How do you think I knew everything you did before you even tried to act? How do you think I knew all the things I wasn’t supposed to know?”Ria gave her a sad smile, “The Moon Goddess brought me back in time. At first, I believed that it was only to change my course of life. But now I see that a lot of people needed things to be changed. Including you, Roxanne. Look at what you are doing! You are going to have a baby, for Goddess’ sake!”

“Shut up about my baby!” Roxy looked around in search of a weapon. Anger was filling her heart and soul; fury was burning in her veins.

This was why everything happened! She wanted to kill that woman once and for all! She could have won. Could have fulfilled Castiel’s task and expectations. But Riannon changed everything! It wasn’t fair! It seemed like some cruel joke of the gods!

Roxanne found a metal stick with a sharp end and decided that this was good enough. She wanted to wipe that Alpha-female from the face of the earth!

But as soon as she made a step, she felt a kick on the back of her knees.

“Not so fast!” Maya growled and knocked the stick out of her hands. Ash appeared nearby and helped her to subdue the girl. Regardless of the hatred they both felt towards her, they didn’t want to hurt a

pregnant woman. It wasn’t who they were.

Brayden sighed and Riannon was finally able to concentrate on him. She carefully turned him on his back and placed his head in her lap. Their eyes met at last and there was so much understanding in his.

“Ri,” Brayden breathed, “I am so sorry.”

“It’s okay,” she was assessing where the spear went through, and came to the conclusion that it probably got his heart as well. Which was a bad thing for a shifter. Hearts almost never regenerated… The blood was still gushing and she tried to apply pressure, knowing that now everything depended on whether

his wolf would be able to heal him or not. It did not help that the spear was silver.. It was a bad sign.

She remembered how Brayden purchased it at some auction for a ridiculous amount of money even though she protested against it. And how proud he was to display it in their house.

some blood instead. He probably knew what she was thinking and her lips curled into a

but she was glad to know that at least she had not made that man up. They weren’t meant to

of her was still angry at him. She used to think that this part of her

that spear for her, risking his own life without hesitation. Before Roxanne, she always felt safe with

sustain her but not hurt her too much. Their eyes met and something crazy gleamed in Roxy’s as she started cackling.  this! Soon you

is dead!” Maya interrupted her speech and the fox’s head snapped in her direction. They all became silent and only the sounds of water dripping and splashing from broken

disbelief,

doesn’t it?” the Beta said bitterly, watching her worst enemy suffer finally. But when Roxy fell to the ground helplessly and tears started rolling down her cheeks one by one, her chest shaking uncontrollably as if she wanted to sob but

Alpha who was holding her ex-husband and whispering something to him. “You stay and help

not struggle. She let her hands be cuffed in silver-plated cuffs and seemed lifeless when the Beta was leading her away. She just followed her. As if there was no point in her fighting anymore. As if there was no point in doing

knew that Brayden was not healing properly. He knew that as

some time and get you to the hospital,” she said, thinking of what was the best way to transport him there, when his

but she

might still help you. You are an Alpha, you can hold on

knew that it was

to wipe them away quickly, but

part of her life, her friend. Yes, he made many stupid mistakes but losing him

were now falling onto his face and he brushed one palm

smiled, his voice getting weaker and weaker. “I can say am sorry a thousand times but it would

seeing how pale he was getting. His body was not healing and he barely had a few minutes left. Sadly,

all right, Bray,” she repeated, her tears now uncontrollably falling onto

his face, “At least I will know that he will take good care of you. Better than I ever did.

didn’t understand what he was doing at first, but Brayden grabbed the spear and pulled it out

• his body in one swift and immensely painful move. Now they were sitting in a red puddle of his blood that couldn’t stop gushing out of him.

each other’s eyes. But at the very last moment, she bent and whispered into his ear what Onyx had just told her.   wiae, you ana your wou will be reborn in a new ure. Ana in that new ure, you will be given a mate. ine one that will be right for you

herself, to see that he was looking at the ceiling with glassy eyes.

sobs. He was her husband once. He was her friend first… He was her partner for a

dreaming of his true mate that he

your next life,” she kissed his forehead one last time and only now noticed Ash

him,” the Gamma lifted his best friend’s body in his hands without asking anything.” Everyone else in the house is either dead or out. Let’s

to gather her thoughts. This wasn’t the time

loss of Brayden, but

one who

fighting an army now. She couldn’t

“Call everyone who can fight. We are going to the lycans. Now. Leave just a few people for protection here and to help the wounded. We will deal with everything else

were in cars in just a few minutes and took the shortest way imaginable to the Western Kingdom overspeeding on their way. The closer they were getting,

that brought fear to her soul because she could go

out of the car and took the spear with her. Ever since Ash took Brayden’s body, she couldn’t let go

her return. And

were mixed here and it was hard to find the one that

right on the hill where she witnessed Gideon holding Reid in her dream. Everything was

well built as Gideon. Now that she looked at him, he looked more like a fox. And it brought a

to help her people, the Union

the fight and didn’t stay behind herself. She didn’t shift, using the spear as her weapon successfully

reason, but she knew that there was

him, she wanted to find

finally found the one she was looking

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forces earlier than they anticipated and attacked first. But the element of surprise was working only for so long… The bears and

all would be here, there was still a risk that Savvy didn’t get all the names right and

the epicentre of the battle, fearless, elegant, powerful. One of the