Filed to story: Rylee the Orphan Luna Novel
***Rylee’s P.O.V.***
I ran out of the conference room like a bat out of hell and immediately went to go find William. He didn’t tell us the entire truth, and I knew it from the beginning. The shock of finding out the origin of Kendrick’s mother temporarily distracted me, but not right now. Considering William’s identity and the fact that he himself was immortal, something told me that he wasn’t just the first of our kind, the Primordials, but also the god of our kind. I found him with Olivia outside walking around the mazes, and I ran straight up to them fuming. “Rylee, what’s the matter?” Olivia asked, seeing my angry expression.
“You have three seconds to tell me everything you know about the Lunar Kingdom, or I swear we are going to have problems,” I said directly to him. My attitude was one thing he could never tolerate, and his eyes immediately flashed black in anger at my disrespect. “Rylee, you better have a good reason for threatening me.”
“The kingdom’s stolen treasure, what do you know about it?” His eyes flashed back and I sensed he was shocked at my question. “Answer me!” I pressed again.
“Rylee… How?…”
“Lizzy, she used to tell everyone stories when they were kids about the kingdom. In one of her stories, she talked about the kingdom being overrun by pirates and that someone from the kingdom gave away the location of it. But the attack was a decoy and that someone stole the treasure of the wolves, but no one was willing to go after them.”
“They couldn’t. If anyone left without being released they would …”
“Never get their memories of the kingdom back because they would be considered rogues. Yeah, we got that already. What we don’t get is why Jason seems to think that the “them” Lizzy mentions in her story is about the treasure and not the thieves. Lizzy said, no one would go after ‘them,” I replied and again used my fingers as quotations. I watched as he looked at Olivia and her eyes were closed, her face stoic. She knew as well, but she too wasn’t saying a thing. “Rylee, I don’t think Jason …” I raised my hand to stop him.
“Do not even think about trying to convince me that Jason doesn’t know what he’s talking about. As of right now, I know for a fact that you are lying and withholding vital information. Either you tell me the truth, or I will beat it out of you.” “Rylee,” he growled at me, and I growled right back.
“This is my pack, and two girls that I have sworn to protect may be in grave danger because of something you’re not telling us!” I yelled in his face. “I WANT THE TRUTH! AND I WANT IT NOW!” I roared at him in my Luna voice, making him jump. I rarely ever used my Luna voice on anyone, but the information he was withholding from us was important. I watched as he fought his anger at the blatant disrespect I was showing, but he knew that even though he was an Alpha by blood, he gave up that right long ago. “Olivia, put a shield around us,” he told her, and so she did. The second we were behind the shield, William looked at me and glared.
“Don’t give me that look. Ever since you came into my life, all you’ve done is hide things from me, only for me to find out later. Both of you have! That s**t is what almost cost me my mate and my son’s father, and I told you that if I ever had to find out another secret the long way again, I would not be happy about it. Now, tell me the f*****g truth for once in your life, William!” He grumbled under his breath as he fought to suppress his rage. I could honestly care less that I pissed him off because I was beyond pissed off myself. He was going to feel the wrath of Rylee.
“Fine,” he finally said, looking me dead in the eyes. “It is true, the treasure stolen from the kingdom was in fact a set of twins. At least, that is what I was told after I saw what happened.”
“What do you mean by what you saw?” I asked him.
“Like Lizzy, I too will receive visions of the Lunar Kingdom, both good and bad; however, it is not because of the same reason that Lizzy got them. She got them because she was born there, and after she was given back her memories when she became of age, it was a way she could keep in touch with her previous life when she lived there.”
“What about you?”
“I get the visions because I am a guardian of the kingdom.”
“What!?” I exclaimed. “What the f**k do you mean that you’re a guardian?”
“I’m not a god, not like the moon goddess or the higher powers that reside in the kingdom. I was created by them, as you were. Their lives have no recorded beginnings, and they will have no end unless they were to be released to live amongst us; however, because I was the first of our kind, and have the power of immortality, they turned to me to guard the kingdom from the outside.”
“If you were meant to guard the kingdom, then how did someone get in and kidnap a set of twins?”
“Because at the time of the attack, I was not at my post. I was called away by one of the gods, and to this day, I believe that he is the reason why the kingdom was attacked. The timing was too conspicuous, and as soon as I was called away, s**t hit the fan, as you young ones say.”
“Lorenzo,” Olivia touched his arm when she could see that he seemed upset. “Do not blame yourself. If you were played by someone, it is not your fault.”
“But it is,” he replied as he closed his eyes. “With my powers, I should have been able to see that I was being played, but I didn’t. I was too blinded by trust, and I left my post.”
“Wait, I thought you were off on some island around this time,” I said to him.
“This happened before. After the attack and the kidnapping, I resigned as the kingdom’s guardian and went to Vanuatu. A few years later is when I got the premonition of your pack, and well, you know everything else from that point.”
“You said that the treasure was a set of twins that belonged to the wolves?”
“Yes.”
“Lexie and Lanie.”
“What?”
“Lexie and Lanie! They’re the treasure!” I shouted at him. He was taken aback and furrowed his brows.
“What are you talking about, Rylee?” Olivia asked.
“Lexie and Lanie’s blood comes from Alpha blood, and further tests found that they are descendants of the moon goddess,” I explained to them and Olivia gasped. William squinted his eyes in disbelief. “William, who is the god that called you away from your post?” “It doesn’t matter.”
“What!? What do you mean it doesn’t…”
“Rylee! It doesn’t matter because he’s dead!”
“What? But… How can a god…”
“He was banished from the kingdom, and I was tasked with killing him. Afterward, I left the kingdom.”
“Do you know who kidnapped the twins?”
“No, but now I’m determined to find out.”
“How would the girls live after they were taken?” I asked.
“Normally, they would have to be reborn, and they more than likely were.”
“I don’t understand.”
“Even though they were infants when they were taken, whoever took them may have already had a place for them to be reborn.”
“Wait, you’re not saying that an Alpha and Luna willingly participated in this reincarnation, are you?”
