Ethan
This whole scenario didn’t make sense. I shook my head. My Queen wasn’t making any sense. It wasn’t just rejecting me because she didn’t love me. It had to be because she was sparing me. She has no reason to do that unless…
My mind was racing and I sat up straight in the corvette. Had she tried to reject me and break our bond in hopes of saving me from her death? That was ludicrous. She was too young to die.
Had she set out on this, with the thought of it being a suicide mission? Had my mate decided to die? Was she being that stupid? There’s no way she would. No, wait. I needed to look at the facts before going to her defense.
Was she being that stupid? No, there’s no way she would. We had agreed on the plan we had set into motion. I wanted to deny deny deny but the more I thought about it, the more it made sense.
Not only had she left her warm bed, but also left the security of her back, and journeyed alone without her bodyguards to enemy lines. She walked straight across enemy lines for the sake of being reunited with him.
Normally, I don’t question her or what she does. Goddess knows I try to encourage her in everything that she strives to do but this doesn’t make sense. I had to admit that she wasn’t in her right mind and could very possibly consider this.
It only made me fear for her even more now that I knew she was already here. Was there anything I could do to save her? Was it too late? Would she even come back with me? I wasn’t going to give her a choice. She was coming home.
If anyone was capable of thinking dying was better than trying to fight it out together, it would be my mate. The more people I didn’t like the uncomfortable feeling in my chest or the way my stomach churned at the thought of her ending her life.
My chest was tight and uncomfortable to the point of it hurting. She couldn’t do that, she couldn’t do this. I wouldn’t let her. Now that I knew she was here, I wasn’t leaving and I wasn’t going to stop until I had her.
I kept a decent distance away, so as not to alert the guards at the border. They did a poor job at guarding. They just stood around looking like they were working but in actuality, they weren’t doing shit.
I hated every moment of the day as I waited and watched. It passed slower than the last month but it was well spent. I did runs around the pack territory and scouted the area in search of weak points or easy access points into Half Moon.
Every time I made a full circle around the pack territory, I counted the guards at the border. There were sixty of them. The sun was starting to set and my thoughts drifted back to Adea, always to her.
My Luna had left in the middle of the night and I don’t think she knew how weak that made us. Not just me and her but our pack. We needed to be together, we needed to be a united front against our enemies.
I didn’t care about how we looked. I only cared about her safety. My worst fear was that she was scared and hurt. I couldn’t help but imagine that asshole with his hands on her. He was a piece of shit and I regret not putting him in the ground at the trial. Biggest regret of my life.
He wasn’t an official enemy of Desert Moon but in my mind, he was and always would be. Having an enemy pack’s Luna was a very large bargaining chip. He could twist my arm and I’d give him anything he wanted. Luckily for me, I had the element of surprise on my side.
The only thing that ate at me was the fact that she was here. She was at his mercy and he could do whatever he wanted with her. While I was outside and wouldn’t be able to do anything about it.
I just needed her to hold on for a little longer. I wouldn’t let anything happen to her. I texted Odis and made sure he let Alpha Shawn know of our missing Luna. He was also informed about Odis gathering our warriors.
I did not go into this blindly. I left abruptly because I couldn’t stay back. I couldn’t sit on my ass while she was out here alone and unprotected. I had to find her but I made sure my second in command gathered our forces.
I didn’t have to ask Alpha Shawn about his thoughts about this. My Luna was on another pack’s soil without my permission, without my agreement. With their history, she has no reason to be there.
I hadn’t tried to figure out why I shifted the way I did. I hadn’t even had the time to think about it. I didn’t have time to worry about myself. I just wanted her to be safe, I wanted to bring her home.
I hated lying to her but I needed her to think I was listening to her. I don’t want to think what she would do if she thought I was coming after her. It killed me to not be able to talk to her or reach out to her now that I was close enough but I couldn’t let her know I was here.
We’d had a plan and she decided to say fuck it and make one of her own up. That’s not what we do. I understand she’s been going through shit but fuck it pissed me off. We talk things through and we work it out. How else can we work through things if we don’t?
Running off and going AWOL was a fucked plan. I loved the woman to death but she was infuriating. I told her I would wait for her and I meant it but I was not going to let her do this.
I could feel Elijah’s thoughts without him saying anything. We didn’t know Shane well but we knew what he was like and how he did things. If he did something to her, we both agreed we were going to kill him.
I wouldn’t even hesitate. I’d rip him limb from limb and fucking enjoy it. The thought going through Elijah’s mind caught me off guard. It was one I didn’t want to think about. It didn’t matter how hard I tried to ignore it the thought floated through my mind as if it paid rent.
What do we do if she wants to leave us?