Filed to story: Rylee the Orphan Luna Novel
“What else did he say? Did he tell her or you all where everyone is being held?” Maddox questioned.
“When we had asked him again, he told us he didn’t know. Naturally, we thought he was lying, but he said that before he escaped, or rather, was released to come back here, he was given a potion by the dark witch working with the Pattersons.”
“A mind-wiping potion, no doubt,” Svetlana chimed in and came forward.
“That’s what we’re thinking,” Brent replied.
“It’s obvious that’s what it was. Patterson made him take it so that he wouldn’t be able to tell anyone where they were hiding on the off chance he was figured out. You were right, Wyatt; Patterson is not stupid.”
“If his memory has been wiped, then how are we supposed to find everyone?!” Keaton shouted.
“Calm yourself, young Beta. Morgan’s potions are no match for mine. The potion she gave him can actually be countered with another potion. Think of it as an antidote. It will counteract the herbs that cause the resulting short-term amnesia, and he will soon be, how do you say, singing like a cardinal!”
“It’s canary-singing like a canary,” I corrected her.
“Chto by ni,” she said and waved me off.
“What?”
“She said whatever,” Richard answered. We all looked at him in shock.
“You speak Russian?” Svetlana asked and lifted her brows, looking impressed and what appeared to be turned on.
“My grandmother immigrated from Ukraine. I used to speak to her in Russian. I remember the small things, krasivaya zhenshchina.” We had no idea what Richard had just said, but Svetlana literally turned beet red, and the smell of her arousal was palpable. “Are they flirting?” Jason asked in a whisper only I could hear. “I thought he had a mate?”
“Who died over 20 years ago,” I whispered back.
“You don’t think … Could she be his second chance?” I looked at him like he was insane. “What? William is mated to a witch.”
“Olivia is a light witch. Svetlana isn’t.”
“Chosen mate then?”
“Is an Elder allowed to choose a dark witch as a mate?”
“How the f**k am I supposed to know? You’re the Alpha!” I just gave him a look of condemnation and then turned my attention back to the room.
“Svetlana, how long does it take to make the potion?”
“Oh, not long at all, Wyatt. An hour, two at most.” She stole a glance at Richard again before leaving the hospital room.
“I wonder what Hailey would think if she found you making eyes at a dark witch, Richard!” Jackson shouted from the hospital room. “You want to judge me for betraying the pack! At least I would never betray my mate the way you are! Dead or not! To replace her with a dark witch! That’s low even for you!” Without hesitation, Richard threw open the door and snarled at Jackson.
“I wouldn’t be talking if I were you, you backstabbing son of a b***h! Betraying this pack means you automatically betrayed Nina! And don’t you ever speak Hailey’s name ever again! You don’t have the right to speak her name. You say that she would feel betrayed by me; no, she wouldn’t. Before Hailey died, she made me promise that I would not die alone. That if I found the chance at love again, whether it was with a second chance or a chosen mate, then I would go for it. Hailey would be happy for me. But I can’t say the same for you. How are you going to explain to her what you’ve done!?”
“You never should have been Alpha of this pack! You’re not even from this pack!” Jackson shouted.
“What?!” we all exclaimed. Richard stood up straight and faced all of us. “Richard, what is he talking about?” Chad asked.
“Tell them, Richard. Tell them how you only became Alpha because of Hailey!”
“It’s true. As I mentioned, my grandmother is from Ukraine, and she immigrated here. But she didn’t just come to the United States. She was in an arranged marriage to an Alpha. I do have Alpha blood in me, but not of this pack. I had three older brothers. So, naturally, my eldest brother became Alpha, and he chose his Beta and Gamma. My other brothers found their own mates, and they all happened to be Alpha females. None of which were purebloods. Regardless, they all became Alphas of their own packs that way, and that’s how I too became Alpha.”
“Your mate was the daughter of the Alpha here?” I asked him. He nodded his head.
“That’s how I obtained the Alpha title.”
“A title that should have gone to the oldest blood-related male to the Alpha!” Jackson shouted.
“Blood-related?” Keaton questioned.
“Jackson is Hailey’s first cousin from her father’s side,” Richard answered.
“Hold up, Jackson is an Alpha by blood as well!?” Jason exclaimed.
“Yes, but his father was the Beta before him. Which was why when Hailey and I found out we were mates, and since I too have Alpha blood, her father gave the Alpha title to Hailey. That was the only stipulation he had for her. Her mate had to be an Alpha to be given the Alpha title from him. But since females aren’t actually given the title Alpha, it was handed to me, and she became the Luna.”
“Wait, wait, wait,” Lanie said, waving her hands while trying to get an understanding. “You’re telling us that you betrayed this entire pack, all because you were passed over as Alpha, thirty-plus years after the fact?” “Talk about holding a grudge,” Lexie muttered.
“Hailey was never meant to lead this pack! You were never meant to lead this pack! I trained my entire life to take over after my uncle, but then you just had to come along and ruin everything!” Jackson wailed.
“You’re a contradictive piece of s**t, Jackson!” Brent shouted at him. “You told me that being the Beta of this pack was the biggest honor you ever had, that you don’t regret a day of it! But, now, all of a sudden, you hate Richard because he became Alpha instead of you!? Did you ever consider the fact that you were never meant to be Alpha!? That even if it weren’t Richard, some other Alpha wolf would have been mated to Luna Hailey!?”
“It shouldn’t have mattered. Werewolf law does not permit women to be Alphas of packs!”
“Where the hell did you read that?” I asked while stepping over to him. “I don’t know who the f**k told you that cockamamie bullshit, Jackson, but there is no law stating that females can’t be Alphas. If you haven’t noticed, Rylee, my mate, she’s also an Alpha by blood. Pureblood, to be exact. If she and I weren’t mated and Silver Moon hadn’t been destroyed, she would have been the next Alpha in line because Mitch and Megan didn’t have a son. A werewolf pack cannot continue to exist without an Alpha to lead it, even if it means a female becomes the Alpha. Not only have you lost the respect of every person in this room, but I’m pretty sure you’ve lost the respect of everyone in your pack. You betrayed them and put their loved ones in danger. You want to know what it’s like to be an Alpha,” I growled while getting in his face. “Being an Alpha means putting your pack above yourself. Now, I may not be a perfect Alpha, and I may have made some stupid choices along the way, but I would never, EVER, betray my pack or my mate the way you have.” “You better pray that Svetlana’s potion can counteract the s**t that Morgan gave you,” Chad said and got into his face. “Because if anyone from any of the packs dies due to your betrayal, I’m going to expose to you all of the other Alphas in the region. I’m sure they’ll want a piece of the action when it comes to your punishment.”
“You can’t do that,” Jackson gritted his teeth.
“Actually, he can. You would know that if you legitimately knew werewolf law. Your actions have put members of other packs in danger. The type of danger that easily could cost them their life. If Eric or anyone in his family or the dark witch kills any of them, not only will you be punished by our pack, but you will also be punished by theirs,” Richard told him. Before he could reply, I grabbed the front of his hospital gown and pulled him to my face as I snarled.
“And if one of those happens to my mate, not only will you be punished for her life, but also the life of our unborn pup.” .
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