Filed to story: Alpha’s Regret – My Luna Has A Son
“Everywhere!” Marcus and Valen said before the mind-link turned to chaos and I nearly ran into a pillar before I forced everyone out. We pull up and start ripping the kids from the cars, and my mother shoves them toward the elevators, finally coming back to her senses. “Is that?” she asks, looking at Ava, who nods to her.
Valarian hits the elevator button, but the doors don’t open. The emergency generators didn’t operate them, leaving the stairs. “F**k!” The roller shutters start dropping as we rush the kids to the fire exit. The bells sound as I rip the door open, and we usher the kids inside when snarling growls echo through the underground car park.
Tatum pivots just as a heap rush inside the parking garage. He rips his shirt off and growls and they pause observing their threat before he looks at me over his shoulder. “Get inside, Luna!” my heart raced as I stared at the forsaken stalking into the place.
Tatum!” I called out. Tatum’s eyes were on the forsaken, and he was too focused on them circling him.
“Inside, Luna! Now!” he roared before shifting as they ran at him. My eyes widened, and I rushed through the door, slamming it shut and locking it. Turning around, I see the kid’s frightened face peering back at me.
“Tatum?” Taylor says, her eyes on the door where vicious growls and banging came from
“He’s okay. He will be okay,” I tell Taylor while turning her and pushing her up the stairs. Ava stares at me. I nod to her, and her eyes turn glassy, but she nods once, pushing mum up the stairs. We were locked in the stairwell, all the doors locked as we climbed the levels.
“Valen, we can’t get inside!” I called through the link. I got no answer, meaning he was blocking me out of whatever was happening outside. We were halfway up the stairwell when we heard the banging on the door below.
“Tatum!” Taylor squeals, rushing back down, and I just grabbed her before she got past me when I heard the door burst open below. Ava looks over the side, and the blood drains from her face, and I glance over to see Forsaken rushing up the steps.
“Run!” I screamed. Ava grabs Valarian and Mum. She was struggling to climb the stairs. She was exhausted, as she always was after being given the vaccine.
“Get to the roof!” I screamed while grabbing Casey and Taylor.
Mum rips her hand from Ava. “I’m slowing you down. Get the kids up!” she growls at Ava, who looks at me. I place Taylor on the ground, and Ava’s hand locks around her wrist. I grab Valarian and Ava grabs Casey too.
“Valarian, like we practiced at training, “I tell him.
“Don’t look back. Don’t stop,”
“Mum.” Valarian stammers with tear filled eyes, and his lip quivers.
“Don’t look back. Don’t stop,” I repeat, and he nods. Seeing the fear on his face made me want to hug him, but he listened and took off running up the steps while Ava ripped the girls up them.
“Three more flights, mum,” I tell her. She kent trying to pull my hand from
She kept trying to pull my hand from hers, but I snarled at her before commanding her.
“Move faster! Now!” I ordered. I heard them get onto the roof while vicious snarls came from below, but the command worked as she was forced to move quicker. Only they were gaining ground fast, and we were one set of steps from the roof when I heard a snarl behind me.
Mum freezes, and so do I. Turning slowly, I find two forsaken on the steps prowling and stalking up the steps toward us when my mother’s hand grips the back of my shirt.
“You’re gonna run for me now, baby girl, “she murmurs as we both walk backward up the stairs as they stalked us. Their fur was falling out and what was left was matted, blood dripping from their muzzles as they snapped their teeth and snarled while creeping closer up the steps.
My hands hit the door, jarring them with the force as I burst onto the roof. Ava screamed and ripped the kids behind her body, using herself as a shield, and I twisted, slamming it shut.
The racket coming from the stairwell was deafening as I stared at the door where I had just abandoned my mother pulling my gaze from the door. Ava rushed over, jamming a piece of a broken pipe she ripped off from somewhere through the handle and line that ran to the vents on the roof above the door.
Yet all I could think was, I left her in there. I ran and left her behind. Ava whimpers as she secures the bar; I didn’t have to tell her. She knew because mum didn’t come out behind me. Yet as she turned to look at me, I could see her heartbreak.
My entire body shook with adrenaline and shock. I left her. I thought when a tiny hand slipped into mine. Looking down, I find Valarian looking at me.
“Grandma will be okay,” he says, only I knew she wouldn’t be. I swallowed and blinked back tears before turning to him and picking him up. “Yep. She found another open door,” I tell him while walking over to the girls. I placed him beside the girls, where they were huddled on the ground by the air conditioner vent.
Ava moves to the ledge of the building, and I follow her, checking over my shoulder to make sure the kids don’t follow. She looks over, and so do I, and the City was in utter chaos and ruins. Buildings in the distance were on fire, screams rang out loudly, and a frenzied battle could be seen from here on the main street. Warriors were trying to hold the forsaken back from the borders. Valen was right. There were hundreds of them. They just kept coming.
The street directly below us was a scene from a horror movie as our men tried to keep them back. Two forsaken were dragging another wolf off, and I didn’t want to think what they were doing to him as they yelped loudly.
“Her tether?” Ava asked me, and I swallowed.
“Not broken yet. She is fighting,” I whispered, staring out blankly. I noticed from up here that not one of those forsaken were trying to get into Nixon’s pack directly across from us.
They were targeting ours the Slasher pack.
“How was the city outnumbered?” Ava gasps when an explosion goes off down by the cafe on the main street.
There was no other way to describe it, and the Pack warriors were outnumbered.
Slashers Packs men were trying to stop them from getting in, but a few slipped through, and just like our men, they couldn’t hold them back, they just kept coming It should be impossible that so many could go unnoticed, but when one of the sky-rise apartments across from us caught on fire, more screams rang out from the apartment building as Forsaken got inside, and I just hoped the roller shutters and the locked stairway door held.
The mind-link opens up, and I hear Zoe.
” Is Casey alright?”
“We are on the roof,” I answered while peering over my shoulder to look at the children, and she sighed before she sobbed through the link.
“And Marcus? Is he there yet? I am being blocked out. I can’t get a hold of anyone,” she asked, but I couldn’t lie to her either.
“Not yet, but …. Zoe, the city,” I don’t finish. The place looked like a battlefield. “As long as Casey is safe,” she says. “Are you safe?” I ask her.
“I’m in the basement with some of the younger workers. But Macey, she….”
“Macey, what? Zoe?” I asked, panicked.
“She heard the sirens when I opened the doors and bolted out. We tried to stop her, “Zoe says.
“She has no phone.We have no service in here, and ….”
“She has no pack link,” I finish for her. My heart was beating faster at her words. “We think she went to warn the rogues at the reserves and homeless shelter.
This side hasn’t been hit yet,” Zoe tells me. Yes, because they were all over here trying to access our pack and Slashers, while Nixon’s remained untouched. That wasn’t a coincidence.
The mind-link is stretched when I feel Valen force it open, and Zoe is shoved out.
“We are trying to get to you. You just need to hold tight a little longer,” he said, though pain radiated through the bond, and I knew he was hurt.
“What about Marcus? Zoe is trying to get a hold of him.”
“No idea. Everyone is blocking the pack link so we don’t become distracted. We… the mind-link cuts off abruptly only for Zoe to reopen it, having felt the connection from Valen override hers.
“Marcus?”
“They lost sight of each other. Marcus is fine, Zoe. Valen would have felt the tether break,” I tell her, though I had no idea if that would remain true.
I felt helpless as I watched our pack getting slaughtered on the streets below while I was holed up on a roof, unable to help them.
Tatum POV
Teeth, claws, blood, and fur. Everything was a blur as I tried to hold them back. I was screaming through the link for Valen to get here when a few slipped past me. Men called through the link that they were on the way. Yet as one fell, another replaced it.
They seemed to just keep coming, and I was taking a beating. The venom in my system was starting to make my muscles ache and lock. The only thing keeping me on my feet was adrenaline and knowing that Taylor, Valarian, and Casey were in that stairwell. I just hoped they got inside the building and weren’t sitting ducks. My back leg is ripped into simultaneously as two attacked snarling.
I pivot and twist, nearly ripping my leg off in the process.
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