Filed to story: Rylee the Orphan Luna Novel
“What’s the last thing you remember?” my father asked.
“Uhhhh…”
“f**k what he remembers last,” Kendrick said. “Do you remember who Rylee is?”
“I remember you guys telling me that she’s my mate,”
“f**k,” Kendrick grunted. “You still don’t remember anything about her?” I shook my head.
“Did she really leave?” I asked carefully.
“Yes, fucker! She really left!” Kendrick shouted.
“KENDRICK!” my mom yelled.
“What Aunt Grace?! Our Luna is gone because of this a*****e!” Kendrick shouted pointing at me when he said ‘a*****e. My parents and Kendrick started to argue, then I remembered something, “She rejected me,” they were still arguing and then paused.
“What!?” they all exclaimed.
“Rylee, when she left, she rejected me,”
“Hmmm… Now I understand why the Alpha was in pain and was coughing up blood,” Dr. Andrews said. We all looked at him. “You see, even if the Alpha cannot remember the Luna, and his mark is in fact now gone, it doesn’t change the fact that they had accepted each other, mated, and marked each other,”
“Sebastian, what are you saying?” my father asked him.
“Ronan, when mates complete the mating process, they are bound together, but just like if one were to have an affair, if one were to reject their mate after completing the mating process, the breaking of the bond could be enough to kill the other,” “Are you saying that Rylee rejecting Wyatt caused enough pain as if she were to have cheated on him?” my mother asked. “That’s exactly what I am saying, Grace,”
“And the Alpha wouldn’t be the only one in pain, the Luna would have felt just as much pain, perhaps more because she was still marked,” Doctor Andrews explained. Rylee was marked?
“Then why isn’t she here in the hospital?” my father asked.
“Wait, what do you mean Rylee was marked?” I asked and everyone looked at me like I grew three heads.
“Son, Rylee is still marked,”
“What mark? I didn’t see a mark on her,”
“Hold up, are you saying that every time you looked at Rylee, you didn’t see your mark on her neck?!” Kendrick asked and I just shook my head. “f**k, whatever black magic was used to f**k with his memories must have made her mark invisible to him, or something,” “That’s something we will deal with later. Why isn’t she here in the hospital with Wyatt if she went through the same amount of pain he did?” My dad asked again.
“Uncle Ronan, it’s because of Rylee’s ability to rapidly heal,” Kendrick answered.
“What ability?” I asked him. Kendrick looked at me confused.
“Dude, you really don’t remember s**t about her do you?” I just shook my head. “Wyatt, Rylee is a Primordial,”
“What?”
“That’s why Lorenzo was here, he was here to train her. That’s why we went to Italy, to find answers for Rylee and what she is. That’s why you were researching about the vampire, it’s all about Rylee!” I just stared at him blinking rapidly.
“Ronan, whatever happened to the Alpha in the week that he was missing, something or someone either erased or suppressed his memories of the Luna, and only the Luna. Anything and everything that had to do with her was stripped from him, even the visibility of her mark,” Dr. Andrews said.
“I was right, it had to have been some kind of dark magic,” Kendrick replied. “Wyatt, what do you remember the night of the accident, the night you went missing?”
“Ummm…” I thought back to that night. “I remember sending everyone home from the office early because of the blizzard coming into the city. I left an hour later than I should have and got caught in the blizzard. I knew I wanted to get home as fast as possible, I was excited to go home, but I can’t remember why. But then, I remember hitting something, and my car spun out of control. The last thing I remember is the car over going the guard rail into the gorge,” “Anything after that?” I shook my head.
“The only thing I remember is waking up and wandering the streets. I didn’t know where I was until I saw a newspaper that had the date, and said that I was in Cleveland. Then, I was picked up U.S. Marshalls and brought back to Detroit,”
“So, you’re not only missing memories of Rylee but that entire week you went missing,” Kendrick said to me and I just nodded. At this point, it’s the only thing that was making sense. No one said anything else, and there was an uncomfortable silence in the room. I used what little strength I had to prop myself up to sit straight, then broke the silence,
“Where’s Rylee?”
“Gone,” Kendrick answered,
“I get that, but where?”
“We have no idea!” he snapped at me. “I told you to quit treating her like s**t, but you didn’t!”
“I didn’t talk to her since the day you broke my door, Ken!”
“MY POINT EXACTLY!! You ignored her and pretended she didn’t exist! Even if you believed that she wasn’t your mate, it didn’t give you the right to treat her as if she weren’t a living person!” Kendrick’s words really hit me hard because he was right. I treated Rylee like she was invisible, and in the end, that must have been the last straw for her. “You may not remember this Wyatt, but Rylee was a child slave,” I looked at him and my eyes were as wide as they could be.
“What?”
“Yeah, she was a child slave Wyatt. Don’t you remember going to Halfmoon for the Alpha’s meeting and Ash’s Alpha ceremony?” “Yeah, I do,”
“Well, that’s where you and I found Rylee. She was their house slave and had been there for eight years,” “But I don’t remember her being there,”
“Son,” I looked at my dad who got my attention. “Do you remember this?” he handed me a photo.
“Yeah, that’s when you and I went to Silver Lake to talk to Uncle Mitch,” I answered looking at the photo.
“So, you remember Mitch and Megan?” I nodded my head. “Wyatt, the child in the photo, do you remember her?” I looked at the photo and I was holding a young girl. She was kissing my cheek, and I was smiling, and big. I just looked at my dad and shook my head. “I don’t remember taking the photo though. I don’t remember the girl, or why she’s kissing my cheek, or why I look so happy about it,”
