***”We’re here. You have a full circle. Nathaniel has eyes on the car Kaley came in. Some of your guys were able to flatten the tires. She isn’t going anywhere unless she wants to get dirty.”*** Lil gives me the basics, she knows I need to focus, but knowing we aren’t alone helps calm my nerves.
Kevin lifts his head up. “I did everything you said to do. It took years to make that spell work.” He wheezes out. She changed the ingredients or incantation and it didn’t hold the way you said it would. You were never going to give us this pack anyway were you?” He asks and I can see his brain working. They made a deal to help get me and secure the twins for Kaley, but Mike had no intention of leaving my pack unharmed, more than likely including them. It was probably easy for him or one of his people to convince them to do the hard work of setting up the spell with the promise of power and the form of the future Alphas, knowing he was going to kill everyone anyway. It was a deal easily made.
“Of course I changed the ingredients and the spell! I needed them to be mine, but one of you f*cked the whole thing up!” When is she going to ever learn to take responsibility? Who am I kidding, that has never been her thing and it never will be.
“Who gave you a different spell?” I find myself asking. If there is another player, I want to know, but I am also genuinely curious.
“Adrielle said if I added a couple lines to the spell at each of the plant thingies, then it would be stronger for me.” I think this is the first time she has addressed me and not insulted me. “But the guys I had do it must have done something wrong. You weren’t supposed to be here anyway.”
***”If it really was Adrielle that gave her the things to change the pentagram, something else is going on. She didn’t want KAley to have the twins. Or something else.”***
***”Maybe she thought you wouldn’t survive the things you went through breaking the spells.”*** Cam muses.
***”It might not have been Adrielle, but someone like Gentry and I that wanted to stop her.”***
***”Elena! Are you close? Is the fire breaking the spell on these rogues?”***
***”Of course you are cornered by the enemy and thinking about people who were attacking you not two hours ago.”***
“Enough of this bullsh*t. I want my Luna, hand her over.” Mike demands, like Dakota would do anything of the sort.
At that moment Oliver and Cam walk up. I can’t see them, but I can smell them both. Cam wraps an arm around my waist standing on my other side and Oliver next to him. I can’t help but feel like Oliver is too far away though.
“Don’t worry Bitty, there’s plenty of time to get close.”
“Stop reading my thoughts, Oliver.” I try for snark, but I can’t help smiling.
“Not your thoughts, but your emotions. I would definitely like to have you closer, but we have business to attend to first.” He turns his attention to Mike. “Unlike you, she craves our presence and our touch.” He’s goading Mike too. But Mike’s patience is better than I thought.
Kaley walks over to Cam. She has always sought him out over Dakota. “Cameron, honey, please see reason. Mike is going to destroy your pack all for this skank. Just hand her over and everyone will be safe and sound. We can go back to our happy lives.”
For a brief second, I have a flash of him saying something placating to her, just so she stops causing problems, like he always has when it comes to her or the way his dad dealt with Kevin. She doesn’t get two steps from Mike though when he reaches out to stop her.
“Stay right where you are. If your Alphas want you they can have you, your usefulness has run its course for me. But they must give me Skylar in exchange.” She winces and he must have given her wrist an unpleasant squeeze.
“That’s easy enough. Boys, hand her over and we can get back to normal.” She goes to move again, but he doesn’t let her go.
Kevin whimpers to my right. He knows what’s coming as much as I do. They won’t let me go and he will die.
“Skylar, do as you’re told, by your future Luna. Get over here!” She squeals this time.
“No.” I say dryly and I really want her to understand before she is actually dealt with. “First you are not and have never been my future Luna. I’m really tired of saying that. Second, have you thought this through? Mike wants me as his Luna, so he can be the next Alpha King.” Mike’s eyes light up at the sound. “So if this exchange were to happen the way you want it to, I would be your Luna. You would have even less authority over me than you think you do now. As I see it though, I’m good here. You can’t have them. Not now, not ever. Keep Mike if he will take you, but I doubt you would be good enough.” She growls and moves to lunge at me, Quick as lightning, I am shoved back into a hard chest, Cam and Kota in front of me. But the sight of Mike with his fist around Kaley’s neck is what surprises me.
“You would attack my Luna?! How dare you? You got what you asked for. You got your spells and control of your pack. If you were not capable of handling the kind of magic you were given, that fault lands on you.” Her eyes are popping out of her head. I can just barely see past their massive shoulders.
“Kaley please. Just let it go. We will find you a new mate. A better one.” Kevin is pleading from somewhere on the ground near us.
“Never! I want my Alphas. I will be a Luna!” She wheezes, holding on to Mike’s hand at her throat. He must have her lifted off the ground. She’s so delusional. Even with her life being threatened, she can only think about being a Luna, about the title.
“I told your father you weren’t fit to be anyone’s Luna, but he didn’t listen. You have worn out your usefulness. Neither of you can be trusted to follow orders correctly. You are both so blind and selfish, you made stupid mistakes to your own detriment.” Her eyes go wide and she starts to flail, making the pressure on her neck worse.
Then I feel the snap of the connection from Kevin. He’s gone, just like that. He should have suffered more for his crimes, but he is no longer anyones’ problem.
“Are you sure you don’t want to try and save her? She is a pack member after all. What kind of Alphas would you be letting an innocent member die at the hands of your enemy?” Mike tries to goad the twin’s
I can see Kaley looking at us, hoping, depending, that at least one of the twins will jump in to save her. But no one moves. No one says anything. She sealed her fate when she put the whole pack in danger, just to gain a title.
