Filed to story: Rylee the Orphan Luna Novel
“Of course he is. He paid us a nice little chunk of change to get this job done. Now, come with me before I lose all of my patience with you.”
“Only if you promise to leave my mate out of this.”
“Sure. My contract only orders me to kill him if you don’t cooperate. I may be a werewolf hunter, but I keep up my end of the bargain,” he said leisurely with a shrug of his shoulders.
“Tell your partner to get out of the tree, and then I’ll go with you,” my mother instructed him. Why was she going so easily without resisting? Dad wouldn’t have wanted her to spare his life over hers.
“Fine.” He gestured his head and his partner jumped from the tree and jogged his way over. I stayed low in the bush to make sure no one saw me. Was this how she was taken? No struggle, no fighting, no yelling or screaming, or crying? She just went as long they promised not to hurt dad. “Well? Come on then,” he told her and made a path for her.
Mom went willingly and followed after them. She stopped just before the border of the pack lands and looked back towards the packhouse. I followed her line of sight and saw that she was looking at my father’s office. But then, her focus shifted, and I saw that she was looking at the corner of their room-where I would be sleeping.
I turned back to face them and saw that she was getting ready to step over the boundary of the territory. This would alert everyone in the pack that someone left the pack lands without permission. I had to stop her. I had to stop her from leaving. I couldn’t let Eric have his way. I jumped out from the bush and used my super-speed to reach her.
“STOP!” I screamed. “MOM! DON’T GO WITH THEM!!” I screamed even louder and ran as fast as I could but realized that I wasn’t running at full speed. I was running like … a normal human? I kept pushing myself to get to her and screaming for her not to go, but it was as if she couldn’t hear me. Why couldn’t she hear me? When I got to the border to follow after her, I literally ran into a wall. I fell backward on my a*s and got up to try again, but was met with an invisible barrier. I banged on it, “MOM! MOM! COME BACK!” I screamed and kept hitting the wall with my fist. I tried to tap into my super strength, but even that was useless. I felt so weak. My strength was that of a mere mortal. “What is happening with my abilities!?” I shouted and kept hitting whatever this wall was, only to see my mother disappear from my line of sight. “NOO!!!” I screamed and cried. “MOM!!!” I couldn’t stop her. I couldn’t save her. Why couldn’t I save her? I was furious. Why would I be sent to the past to be shown all of this if I weren’t meant to stop it?
“UGH!!!” I grunted in pure anger. I wanted to let Kaleigh out to see if she could break down the wall, but then I realized that I couldn’t sense her. I was shocked and confused. Why hadn’t I noticed that my wolf was no longer with me? “What the hell? What is going on?” “This isn’t your time.”
“AH!” I screamed when I heard an unfamiliar voice behind me. I turned around to see a woman with white hair and silver eyes wearing a gown that shimmered like diamonds. “Who the fu-“
“Finish that sentence and I’ll wash that mouth out with soap!” she stated harshly, causing me to hold my tongue.
“Who are you?” I asked again, only without the profanity.
“Who do you think?” she asked back and smiled. My eyes widened in horror and dismay.
“You… You’re… Y-You’re …”
“Call me Selene, Rylee.”
***Rylee’s P.O.V***
I couldn’t shake the sense of impending doom that now consumed me; at this point, I had more questions than answers. I couldn’t believe this was happening to me, and I sure as hell didn’t understand why either. What were the odds that Lexie and that weird, white light would transport me back in time, only for me to witness my mother hand herself over to Eric just to protect my dad, and me? And to top it all off, the moon goddess was standing here before me. “Why are you here?” I asked her respectfully.
“I should be asking you the same thing, Ryan,” she responded vaguely.
“Gah, please, don’t call me that. I hate the name, Ryan!” I exclaimed, covering my ears dramatically. She giggled at me and shook her head.
“Fine, Rylee,” she corrected. “Why are you here?”
“I have no earthly idea! This is all Lexie’s doing!”
“Ah, I see. It appears that my daughter has tapped into her powers of time travel.” I must have misheard her because there was no way she said what I thought she did.
“Wait, did you just say time travel!?”
“Yes, and it appears that she has sent you back in time to the moment that seems to be haunting you the most. Though, I’m wondering why it’s not the day when your parents were killed.” While that was a fair question to ask, the answer was simple-that day didn’t haunt me. I already came to terms with the fact that Eric killed my parents and used an Alpha’s challenge to conceal premeditated murder. I remember that day clearly, at least, what I was able to witness. This day in question was what haunted me, and it was because I had so many unanswered questions.
“This night haunts me, moon god-“
“Selene, please,” she cut me off.
“Selene, this night haunts me the most because I literally have no idea how it happened. All I know is what I’ve been told by Ronan and Grace, and what Marvin told me before I killed him. How could my mother, a Luna of a strong pack like Silver Lake, just get kidnapped? I guess I know now, she went willingly.”
“Why do you think that is, Rylee?” Selene asked.
“To protect my father. And me, from what I can tell.”
“Exactly. Your mother sacrificed herself to keep those she loved the most protected at all costs. And that didn’t just include you and Mitchell. It included all of the pack members.” “What?”
“It’s as you said, child, your mother is a powerful Luna, and an Alpha wolf by blood. It’s in her nature to be protective of those who rely on her, and that doesn’t only extend to her mate and child. All of Silver Lake would have been attacked had she not gone with them.”
“THEY WERE ATTACKED ANYWAY!” I screamed. “ERIC CAME BACK AND FINISHED THE JOB! HE USED AN OFFICIAL CHALLENGE TO CONCEAL MURDER! THE MURDER OF MY FAMILY AND MY PACK!” I continued with tears welling in my eyes.
“I know, sweet girl. I’m sorry that I couldn’t stop it.”
“Couldn’t or wouldn’t!?” I seethed.
“Do not talk to me that way, Rylee. I couldn’t. As the goddess of all werewolves, I cannot intervene in such personal matters. I cannot take sides.”
“Take sides!? Is that what you think this is!? Taking sides?! My parents were murdered. My entire pack was slaughtered. My home, destroyed. On top of that, Eric took me in and ruined my life! I’d probably be a rogue right about now, instead of the Luna I am, had Wyatt not found me that night.”
“I know, and I’m so incredibly sorry for what happened to you, Rylee. But everything in life happens for a reason. You survived that night because your parents knew that you would go on to do great things. Your parents had the foresight to know that Eric was going to eventually retaliate because of his obsession for your mother, and hid you away in the one place where you wouldn’t be discovered. Not until you were supposed to be.”
“What are you saying? What do you mean by ‘supposed to be’?” I asked her. Apparently, there was more to this than she let on.
“Rylee, Eric did not find you by accident.”
“What?” I replied in disbelief. She simply gave me a knowing look. “Oh my goddess, you led him to me? You showed him where I was!?”
“I had to, Rylee,” she said gently, her voice so soft it sounded like a whisper.
“WHY!? Do you have even the slightest clue as to what he did to me!? What he turned my life into!?”
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