Lana POV
I had just walked up the stairs and was walking into check on Ashley when Elias’ voice flitted through the mind link.
“Is Tate awake still?” He asks.
“No why?”
“Nothing I can’t handle,” he replies but I could hear his concern in his voice.
“Do you need me to come?” I ask him.
“No Tate doesn’t want to worry you,”
“Well saying that makes me worry where are you?”
“Eastern border but it’s fine I can deal with it” he cuts off the mind link and I refocus on my surroundings. Going in the room. I get dressed, chucking on some jeans and a shirt before chucking my joggers on. Walking downstairs Tate was still asleep and would be dead on his feet if he went so stepping in the kitchen I found Drake.
” Do you think you would be right with the kids for awhile, Tate is asleep and I need to go see Elias”
“Yes of course but can you show me how much formula to put in”
I quickly show him before darting out the door intending to go find out what Tate has been hiding.
I run through the Forest before picking up Elias scent and the lingering scent of blood. Coming to a small clearing I find around 12 humans dead and some rogues, wait humans?
Seeing Elias I call out to him, his head whipping in my direction before he does a double take rushing toward me.
“Luna you can’t be here, Tate will lose his shit” he says but I shove past him going to see what everyone is standing around.
Four pack members were standing around something and I could hear a weird beeping noise. As I approach two of our pack warriors turn toward me and I feel Elias grab my arm jerking me back.
“Luna you need to leave now”
“No what the fuck is going on why are there dead humans and rogues lying all over this field, and what are you staring at” I demand pushing past them only to stop dead in my tracks.
It was a bomb, the black box had a digital display ticking down the minutes. Spinning around I glare at Elias.
“You better start speaking and tell me what’s been going on” I demand looking at the black box watching the seconds tick by. It still had 20minutes on it.
“Red River pack and our pack have been getting threats, this is only one of around thirty that we have stopped, usually Tate disarms them. Rogues have been helping the humans they have been targeting us for weeks”
“Rogues and humans working together?”
“Yes Tate didn’t want you to worry with your”- he didn’t finish but I knew he was talking about my mental health issues although I have been fine.
“How do you turn it off?” I ask, looking at the black box.
“Chase is on his way, he should be here soon,” Elias says, looking toward the other side of the clearing.
“Chase knows about this?” Elias nods and I suddenly see Chase walk out of the trees he looked exhausted like Tate. He glares at Elias as he approaches and spots me. My father also stepped out of the treeline behind him.
“What the fuck is she doing here Elias” chase bellows before my father rips me away.
“Go home Lana this is no place for you” My father yells at me.
“No place? it is on my packs territory”
“You don’t need to get involved, go home now we will handle this”
Chase walks over kneeling beside the box, everyone stepping back and my father shoves me away.
“Go home Lana” he growls.
“No tell me what’s going on, why are they attacking us?”
“Because of Ryker now go home. Tate is going to pitch a fit when he finds this out”
“Is this why you left home, is this going on back home too?”
“Lana we haven’t got time for this just go” My father yells at me pointing back the way I came. I turned my back on him walking home pissed off that this was hidden from me. Does Arial know? And what does Ryker have to do with this? I had so many questions and no one was willing to answer them and I doubt Tate will tell me anything unless I demand him too and even then he can fight it.
When I get home Drake looks up alarmed and Tate rushes down the stairs in panic before stopping when he sees me walking toward him. He lets out a breath of relief.
Then suddenly glares at me. “Elias told you he would deal with it, why the fuck did you go?” Tate asks.
Tate POV
I was woken by Elias’ voice yelling in my head telling me Lana was with him. I sit bolt upright in bed before scrambling off the bed in my bleary eyed state. Grabbing some pants I rush out the door only to find Lana walking back into the house. I breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing her yet I could feel her rage through the bond and feel Drake’s worry. Lana’s anger made mine worse.
“Elias told you he would deal with it, why the fuck did you go?” I snapped at her.
“Don’t yell at me Tate, I am not the one hiding shit, what you think I wouldn’t find out. Is this the reason you’re out at night? How could you keep this from me?”
“We have it under control love, you don’t don’t need to worry about”
“Under control? They are trying to kill everyone” she snaps back, her fangs protruding with her anger.
“Fuck!” She screamed she hated this part of her anger, and found it embarrassing.
Since Drake left, her mental health declined massively but she has been good since having the twins so when the attacks started happening we didn’t want to burden her with it. Same as Chase having been shot with so much wolfsbane over the last few months it has made him infertile, I keep telling him to tell Arial, what’s been going on and why they can’t conceive and keep it. But he refuses, deluded in thinking his wolf was magically going to heal him.
Though if he admitted to what’s going on maybe drinking Ariel’s blood might heal him but after causing her so much heartache before we figured it, he couldn’t bring himself to tell her it was his fuck up.