Alpha’s Pregnant Luna - Chapter 13: Chapter 13

Paula
I could taste the fresh air and I could almost smell the freedom as I jumped but I found my body being pulled back.
I screamed and clawed at the person but I soon snapped out of my craze when I heard Frankie’s soothing voice.
I broke down in tears as I thought that he would probably take such a problematic mate to Xayden.
‘No!’ I thought as I figured I could beg him again
“I know that I am a burden but can you please take me back to the forest? I am grateful to you but please don’t take me back. Just take me back to the forest and let me finish the job I started” I cried desperately, hoping that my tears would move him and he wouldn’t return me to that monster.
“Who are you talking about? Who are you running from? Why will I return you and let you kill yourself and what were you trying to do just now?” He asked his voice frantic as he held on to my shoulders. I could see a lot of emotions on his face, pain included but the most prominent one was confusion.
“Please! You know who! Please,” I said as my tears streamed down my face now.
“Tell me who has a bounty on your head, for fuck’s sake!” He said in a much more increased and frantic.
I don’t know if it was the authority his deep voice commanded or the fact that he said someone had a bounty on my head, but I answered immediately.
“Alpha Xayden! My mate!”
ALPHA Frankie
“Alpha Xayden! My mate!”
Silence. Pin drop silence that was sliced through by the beautiful redhead’s tears. It was then that I knew the silence wasn’t from the room we were in; the room was very well pregnant with sounds ranging from beeping hospital machines, water dripping from somewhere, and air vents of air conditioners in the room.
I couldn’t process what was happening as I thought from when she tried to kill herself from jumping out the window to this moment when she dropped this news.
I immediately shook out the thoughts from my mind as I concluded that it might be another Xayden but when she confirmed that it was my brother, my mind shattered.
My brain. My mind. Fuck! Even my heart was silent. Black, my wolf, also said nothing as if the shock rocked us both out of the world we built for ourselves.
The news I heard overwhelmed me and rage soon took over.
The motherfucker turned out to be my greedy half-brother, Alpha of the green pack, and my number one threat to the throne, Xayden. I screamed inwardly while maintaining a poker face.
My blood boiled. Black wanted to come out so bad, go out and search for the bastard who did this to my mate.
“Let me have him! Let me have him.”
Black was craving blood and revenge and Fuck, so was I!
I wanted to kill the bastard, slice him up, and feed him to the pack Cubs for dinner but I knew better than to scare the woman in front of me any more than she is terrified currently.
And so I mind-linked with my angry wolf, telling him he has to calm down for both our good and my mate’s good. I don’t want to see those big Bambi eyes go round in fear, especially in fear of me. And so, pushing all murderous thought down to the most bottomless pits my mind could dig, I looked back at the kneeling and crying woman in front of me.
“Hey… listen. I’m not taking you to anyone. I promise you that. You don’t have to be afraid. You’re not going to him, not on my watch, okay? Stop crying. The b…”. God, I almost choked on my own words,
“The baby, it might not help the baby. And your health. Stop crying, okay? You’re safe”.
I saw the uncertainty in her eyes, and I hope mine was able to convince her that I really wouldn’t hurt her. God! What did that bastard do to her? I need to know everything. Every single detail, or I’ll go crazy.
“I want to know everything; tell me everything,” I said. My tone left no room for argument. It was final, and she knew it.
Then like an automated machine, she narrated it all to me how her father sold her to Alpha Xayden because of their debt, how she was maltreated daily by Xayden after he forcefully mated her. How he hit her, lashed at her, hurt her with harsh words, and gruesomely took her by force. How she managed to escape, got caught, ran again with the plan of killing herself before I found her in the forest.
My mate told her abusive story with tears in her eyes. Black could barely keep his cool inside of me, but he felt for her. Though I was raging with anger inside me, my heart still broke to hear all that happened to her. Damnit! I almost blamed myself for not finding her before that monster did. I always knew Xayden to be violent, greedy, and ruthless, but I didn’t think he would do that to his mate! His Luna! How could one hurt such a beautiful and straightforward soul to the point where she tried to hang herself to death?
She finally stopped talking, and I just couldn’t help myself; I got on the bed with her and held her to myself, cleaning her tears from her cheeks. Surprisingly, she didn’t scoot away from me or jerk away like she always does out of fear; instead, she snuggled closer into my warmth as if she would wake up in her abuser’s house if I let her go. But I can’t deny the fact that she felt so good in my hands, like she belonged there. The feeling was surreal, and I’ve never felt anything like it. I didn’t know holding someone could be this good. Soon, her eyes grew heavy with sleep, and slowly her eyes fluttered close as she slipped into a peaceful slumber in my arms.
I stared straight ahead as I pondered on all that was happening.
A war was coming and I would be the one to start it.