Filed to story: Rylee the Orphan Luna Novel
Regardless of the state of affairs prior to the recon mission, I was naive to think I would feel a sense of relief knowing we finally had a lead on the whereabouts of that s**t stain and his family. I sat at my desk in my home office with Rylee by my side as Jason reported his findings to me. Despite hearing everything he said, I still caught myself zoning out as I stared up at him while he spewed the information he and the others found out. The fact that Andrea’s father was a spy for Eric Patterson made my skin crawl. I had released him and his mate under the premise that they would go find Andrea after her banishment. But instead of reuniting with her and moving on with their lives, he went about teaming up with the Pattersons and had been spying on us. “Wait, so if he’s been spying on us for Eric, what happened to his mate and Andrea?” Rylee asked Jason.
“He said that after they found Andrea, she received the medical help she needed from human doctors, but she’s badly scarred.”
“So instead of being grateful that I let her live, they’ve been plotting against me?” I asked in annoyance.
“Not them, just him. Apparently, his mate and Andrea have no idea what he’s been up to. He covered it up by lying to them and saying he’s been going to work. He even fabricated this elaborate lie that he found a job with humans to sustain their living arrangements.”
“How is Eric even paying him?” Rylee asked.
“Something about some hidden wealth,” Jason answered.
“I was right, though. They’re hiding out at my old pack.”
“It appears so. Though, West did give us something we could use,” Jason responded.
“What’s that?” I asked.
“The fact that Ash and his father are constantly at each other’s throats.”
“That’s nothing new, though. They were always fighting when I was living under their roof. Ash always hated how Eric dictated his life. Ash was always trying to please him, but it never seemed to be enough. The only time I ever saw Eric even remotely proud of Ash was when he gave him the Alpha title, and even then, I don’t think it was genuine,” Rylee said.
“Dearest, were you even at the ceremony? If my memory serves me right, you were inside getting beat up by Emma and Nicole,” I reminded her as I dug through the layers of my memories from when I first saw her.
“I saw the handover, went inside, and then got beat up,” she retorted while smacking my shoulder before she turned her attention back to Jason. “Does he know who the mole is at Golden Moon?”
“No, he doesn’t. I asked him, and he said that he has no idea who else Eric has under his thumb. He only knows as much as Eric tells him, which is next to nothing. Which I don’t get, honestly. Why hire spies but keep them in the dark about everything?” “Because of situations like this. If any of his spies are ever caught, they could never tell their captors Eric’s plans, because they don’t know. If they die, they die. Eric could give two-shits about them,” I answered, making Jason nod. “This just goes to show just how stupid Eric isn’t,” Rylee said while rubbing her temples.
“We have another problem,” Jason hesitantly brought up. Rylee stopped rubbing her temples to look at him. “West had a video recording of you two running in your wolf forms, but before that, the recording shows Rylee using her super speed. He showed it to Patterson.”
“So, they know I have super speed and that my wolf is a unique color?” Rylee verified and Jason nodded. “f**k it then. Let them know. It’ll piss Ash off even more that he rejected me.”
“He’s probably whining like the little b***h he is, thinking that I took his most prized possession from him. I can only imagine how he will react if he ever finds out what you really are,” I told her as I snaked my arms around her waist, pulling her down into my lap where I subsequently nuzzled her neck with my nose and kissed her flesh. She could only roll her eyes in response and shook her head while trying to stifle a giggle. “Jace, were you able to find out anything else?” I asked him as I noticed him smirking at us. “Not much that pertains to how we’re going to catch them. Which reminds me, what do we do with West? If we keep him locked up, Patterson will eventually figure out he’s missing, but if we let him go, he’ll probably just go back to Patterson to tell him that we’re onto him. If he gets wind that we know where his base of operations is, then that ruins our chance of getting rid of him once and for all.”
“I hear you, Jace, and I’ve been contemplating the same thing,” I responded, resting my forehead on Rylee’s shoulder as I thought about how to handle this delicate situation. On the one hand, I could just kill West for taking advantage of my kindness to release him, only for him to turn his back on me, but what’s not to say I can’t leverage him?
“Wyatt, you’re thinking too hard!” Rylee exclaimed. I looked at her and quirked an eyebrow at her for reading my thoughts. “Don’t give me that look. The easiest way for us to maintain the upper hand is to play dirty. No more Miss Nice Primordial,” she declared and pushed herself off my lap and stomped out of my office. Jason and I looked at one another before we quickly followed her. As we were pacing after her, we ran into Kendrick, but he didn’t have a chance to say anything as we rushed past him.
“Yo, where’s the fire?!” he called out after us. A few seconds later, I could hear his footsteps behind us.
“Rylee, where are you-” I was about to ask where she was going until I saw her making a beeline for the dungeon doors.
“Move, Maddox!” Rylee shouted at him. He didn’t even hesitate to move out of the way for her. I glared at him as I walked past.
“Sorry, Alpha, but I’m not getting in her way when she’s on a mission.” I honestly couldn’t say that I blamed him.
When we arrived at the bottom of the staircase that led to the cells, Rylee was already inside West’s cell. We got the tail end of her throwing him across the cell with her powers.
“f*****g hell, Rylee!” I shouted at her and ran inside to calm her down.
“You’re out of control!” West spurted out. “I should have known you would abuse your powers!”
“I’m not abusing anything. Well, except for maybe you!” She retorted and strung him up mid-air.
“You can’t do this to me!” he cried out like a little girl.
“Actually, I can. The laws that pertain to attacking another wolf only apply to innocent pack members, and the last I checked, you’re no longer a pack member. Also, I wouldn’t exactly call you innocent. After all, you’re working for a wanted fugitive. That makes you an accessory if I’m not mistaken.” I couldn’t stop the smile that formed across my face. Rylee really has come a long way in terms of werewolf law.
“This is ridicu-AHHH!!!” West screamed bloody murder which shook me from my proud thoughts. I looked up and saw that Rylee had his arm folded like a pretzel.
“Rylee!” I called out to her, but I saw that her eyes were fully clouded over.
“What the f**k is she doing?” Kendrick asked.
“She’s forcing herself into his mind. She’s going to get every piece of information out of him if it’s the last thing she does.” After a few minutes of just standing around, Rylee’s eyes turned back to normal, and she dropped West to the ground.
“Now that I know where your mate and Andrea are, you have two choices, West,” Ryle announced to him. He glanced upwards while cradling his arm, his eyes filled with terror. “You switch sides and work for us, and spy on Eric, or, I kill you and have our pack warriors go pick up your mate and daughter and have them brought here to die as well. Your choice.”
“Rylee, we don’t bargain with people’s lives like that!” I scolded her but she snarled at me in response.
“Are you telling me that their lives are more important than the life of your son!? Don’t forget, Wyatt, in my vision pups were killed without mercy, and that included ours! You died either trying to save him, or you were blindsided while mourning him,” she croaked out while tears brimmed her eyes. Her small hands were clenched into fists as her jaw ticked. “I will do whatever it takes to keep our son alive, and by any means necessary!” I let out a sigh and just nodded my head. Rylee had a point. She turned her attention back to West. “What’s it going to be?”
“You can’t be serious!? It’s a lose-lose situation for me and my family! I help you, and Eric kills my family. If I help him, you kill my family!”
“You should have thought of that before,” Rylee sneered. West’s eyes widened when he finally came to the realization that Rylee wasn’t going to falter on her choices. You could see the wheels turning in his head as his eyes darted back and forth, up, and around, and down to the floor before he finally ground his teeth and heaved out a sigh of defeat.
“Fine, you win, Luna.”
“That’s what I thought.”
We spent the next hour or so prepping him on what to say to Eric. Eric may not have been stupid enough to tell West anything about his plans, but he was stupid enough to use someone that used to be part of this pack. Even stupider to use someone from Chad’s pack, though, we still had yet to find out who it was. Rylee kept suggesting it was likely Chad’s stalker, Lorelai, but former Beta Jackson assured that she had not once left the packhouse after the girls had arrived there.
Brent thought it could be her brother, hellbent on revenge after getting his punishment for mistakenly attacking Rylee, but Richard assured that he wouldn’t be stupid enough to do something that would cost him his life. He was already scared of Rylee as it is after seeing what she could do. It wouldn’t make sense for him to piss her off even more than he already had. Rylee decided that it would be best for William and Olivia to go back to Golden Moon disguised as lone wolves and ask for membership into Richard’s pack. That way, William could use his powers to see if he could find the mole.
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