Chapter Hundred and Thirty-One – Using fear.
Rihanna’s POV
This Logan was making me lose my mind.
Lounging at Beatrice, I hit her down. I stretched my hand to get her up. She leapt up.
This training was helping me vent my anger.
I kicked Beatrice again and she fell, but rolled before my heel squashed her down there.
And I was venting out on Beatrice, poor girl.
My eyes shone red and Lana took over, about to initiate a barrier to counter Beatrice’s incoming kick, but I stopped my wolf. Let it come.
My Beta expected me to dodge it but I received it, staggering back.
“Oh my goodness, sorry. You should have… I’m so sorry.” She apologized, checking on me.
I smiled, amidst the pain. “It’s cool. I wanted it. The pain is a distraction from my thoughts.”
She kept her hands on her waist, and I knew she was about to go mother mode. “And the training, right? You rather vent on me than the warriors.”
“Come on, you know it’s better I do. They won’t understand me like you do.” I plopped down on a seat, sighing. “Logan is draining me.”
“Yeah, draining your willpower like he hoped to drain your energy. Don’t let him win.” She sat down besides me.
Why did it feel like he had already won? Who was there to challenge him?
Stupidly, I had made Chris fight all the rogues, leaving him weak.
Jaden wasn’t his target and I can’t be close to Logan for risk of being kidnapped.
If he attacked any smaller pack, there was no one but Jaden to defend it.
What did this Lycan hope to do when every living wolf on Earth is destroyed?
That was impossible but having immortality by your side changes some narratives. That’s if he’d ever get it.
“I need to get on this fight. I can’t be sitting back scared of Logan getting me, things aren’t done that way.” I mumbled audibly to Beatrice.
“I actually agree. I can’t help but think that he uses fear to intimidate people.” Beatrice agreed.
I sat up straight, something she said getting to me. Logan could really be lying, or at least, he wasn’t as truthful as he should.
There’s a way to take my energy from me but it surely wasn’t as easy as just kidnapping me and taking it through some charms.
He had to lose something or else they should be lots of immortal wolfs amongst us by now.
“This could really just be his strategy of fear.” Beatrice repeated, trying to convince herself.
I nodded at her. “Yeah, I know wolfs that can make other wolfs feel some emotions.”
Jaden was anger, Logan was fear and Chris’s could be hate. Or my hate for him was natural.
Logan telling Chris those things that day could be a way of talking us into stalling and being scared.
Like how he scared Hunter to Black Rose and used him to distract Jaden, we can’t let him use that same fear on us.
“You know what, I will have a meeting with able Alphas, we should show Logan we aren’t scared of him by attacking first!” I declared.
Beatrice was hesitant before shaking her head. “I don’t think that’s right. He’d be protected.”
I asserted quickly. “I made Chris kill all his henchmen rogues, he had no one but himself now.” Perhaps that was a good idea after all.
Beatrice still looked hesitant but she shrugged, I smirked, then it turned to laughter as I ran off out of the courtroom.
I’d have a surprise for Logan when we’d meet. He dared threaten me? Then I’d give him a piece of his own medicine, charmed trouble.
He wasn’t the only one who knew how to make good use of charms, and with Red Moon, we all can conjure something against him.
“Hey, Dara! Where are you off to?” I frowned, seeing her sneaking out of the pack.
She sent something behind her. “Nothing serious. I’m just strolling.” she chuckled nervously.
“Did you kidnap another Luna and hide somewhere?” I joked, though somewhat serious.
I pulled her arm from her back and found a flask of food. Was she sending it to someone?
My eyes widened. “You have a mate already?” My shoulder rose in excitement. Finally one of them got a mate!
I always thought because they had once been rogues, they’d never be getting mates. But the Moon goddess had finally been merciful.
She pulled her arm from my hand. “What! Eww!”
My shoulders slumped. I had waited long. Why had none of them gotten mates? “And what’s ‘eww’ about having a mate?”
She frowned. “Your mate will want you to be his slave, that’s what!”
“Then hope the moon goddess gives you one that would make you his equal in some things. So where’s the food going?” I folded my arms.
She sighed. “Don’t tell Beatrice.”
My ears perked up immediately. What was she hiding from the all knowing mom? “Okay…”
“It’s Hunter. He told me earlier that his wolf moved to somewhere he didn’t know. He’s been doing it since. I hadn’t believe him before.”
My eyebrows raised. Hunter was sleepwalking? That should be normal though. “Is he troubled about it?”
“Yeah, right now, he’s hiding somewhere cos he’s scared he’d hurt his mom as his wolf keeps moving around.” Dara snickered.
“Wait, like his wolf moves around and shuts him out?” I asked, noticing how she keeps on saying his wolf and not Hunter.
Dara nodded. “It’s hard to believe since he should be in control but I saw his wolf and it was aggressive to me, till Hunter took over.”
That was new. I don’t think I’ve heard of it.
“Jaden helped him discover that the places his wolf went to weren’t dreams but real. One time, he found himself at Red Moon.” Dara tsked.
As far as Red Moon? But how’d his wolf know the place when his human hadn’t been there before?
And Jaden helped him? I noticed them being close but I didn’t think it was because of this. Why didn’t Jaden tell me, at least?
Dara began leaving. “I don’t know how to help, so till Jaden comes around. I’d just feed him till he feels like returning to the pack.”
I nodded, giving her space to leave. Beatrice could freak if she hears this and as there’s no solution yet, it’d bother her.
“Well, one problem at a time.” I exhaled, heading towards the Boots and Rivers market.
After getting a charm to punish Logan, I could ask Hunter about his issue. I’d be fighting these demons one at a time.