Filed to story: Rylee the Orphan Luna Novel
“Lanie!” I whispered.
“What? It’s a legitimate question?”
“It’s none of your business, though!” I gritted my teeth.
“No, Lexie, it’s okay. I don’t mind,” I said. “We haven’t really talked about it. We haven’t kissed yet. Well, I mean, I’ve kissed him on the cheek and vice versa. But full lip-lock? Not yet.” “What are you waiting for?” I asked her. “You like him, he likes you, and you two are mates.”
“Yeah, what’s the holdup?” Lanie pressed.
“I’m just afraid of what he will think when he finds out what I had to do to survive,” she answered. Lanie and I looked at each other confused.
“J, what are you talking about?” Lanie asked.
“Yeah, he already knows. He was there when you were rescued,” I added.
“He… What?” She came to a stop as she tried to absorb what we said.
“J, Maverick knows everything already. He was there when Marvin had taken over your family’s pack, remember? He told Maverick about everything that you had endured,” I told her. Even though Lanie and I weren’t there, we were told what happened. “I don’t remember him being there,” she replied.
“J, he kept you safe the entire time from what everyone told us. You came back with him, and he’s been by your side ever since,” Lanie explained to her. J looked so confused.
“Honestly, things have been hazy about that day. I remember going back to my parents’ pack and hearing that Marvin had killed them. I even remember the entire fight, but I can’t remember the small details. I guess Maverick keeping me safe is one of them. After the initial attack, everything is a blur.”
“It’s not surprising.” We turned and saw the guys staring at us. “J, baby, you were traumatized more than once in your life. Going home to find out that it’s no longer your home and that your parents were no longer part of this world can do a lot of damage to someone. It could be that Zahara is blocking out those memories to keep you from feeling sad all the time. To keep you from reliving that nightmare over and over,” Maverick said while taking her hands in his.
“Our wolves can do that?” Lanie asked.
“Yes, they can,” Chad answered. “We share a mind with our wolves. They know everything we know, and we know everything they know. They feel what we feel, and we feel what they feel-whether it be sadness, anger, happiness, joy, even love. When we feel it, they feel it, and when they feel it, we do too. But our wolves are also there to protect us should the need arise. That includes physical pain or an emotional one. For J, it would have been the entire time she was held in captivity. And with her being a Jade wolf, it’s possible that Zahara is not only capable of blocking out the memories, but maybe even erasing them altogether.”
“But why wouldn’t Atlanta and Brooklyn do the same for us?” Lanie asked.
“Not to discredit what you guys went through or make comparisons, Lanie, but what J had to do to stay alive was brutal. You two were lucky enough to escape before you were basically sold in s*x slavery for breeding purposes. J, unfortunately, wasn’t that lucky,” Mav replied. “So, you’re not disgusted by me?” I asked him.
“What? Of course not. J, we’re mates, and I’ve been waiting on you for a long time. When I found you and saw how broken you were, I knew that I couldn’t leave you. I didn’t just need to heal you for you, but I needed to heal you for me too. Because at one point in all of this, Zahara told Arkhos that you wanted to take your own life.”
“I what!?”
“I’m guessing by your reaction, Zahara blocked out that memory too.”
“But, I don’t want to die. Not anymore, I don’t think. I want to be with you, and Lanie, and Lexie, and everyone else. I want to help to find Thomas and everyone else that is missing from the other packs.”
“You what?!” we all exclaimed.
“I want to help. I can help. I’m a Jade Wolf, remember? I have the ability to track other werewolves by their powers and the power they emit.”
“You can!?” Lanie and I shouted. J nodded. Lanie and I looked at each other, and we knew exactly what the other was thinking.
“Oh my god, there’s two ways we can find everyone,” Lanie said.
“Svetlana can find the dark witch Morgan, but if I can harness enough of her powers, then …” I continued.
“Then she can track Rylee!” we both said at the same time.
“I think it’s a twin thing,” I heard Brent say.
“Yup,” Chad replied. “And that just gave me an idea.”
“So, you’re telling me that you want to use J to track Rylee?” Wyatt asked. After J had inspired us to use her powers to track down Rylee, we immediately called Wyatt and had him come back with everyone he was bringing into the fight. From what we could see, it was pretty much everyone in his pack. Svetlana had to use a massive spell to transport everyone at once since she couldn’t bring everyone attached to her.
“They’re not the ones who suggested it, Alpha Wyatt. I did,” J told him.
“Please, J, it’s just Wyatt.”
“Wyatt. I’ve met Rylee enough times to have gotten a sense of how powerful she is. If she were to use her powers even once, for a second, Zahara and I can pick up on it and take you directly to her.” “Jackson already told us where they are, though,” Wyatt insisted.
“No, Jackson told us where they were hiding all of the captives from the other packs. We never specifically asked him where he was hiding the young Luna,” Richard corrected.
“We really should have been more specific with our interrogation, and that’s my oversight as Alpha of Golden Moon. I was so worked up over his betrayal that I didn’t think he would use our questions against us.”
“How do we know that they’re not all being held together?” Wyatt countered.
“Something Rylee told us a while back,” I answered. “She told us that Ash and Eric never saw eye to eye and that Ash would always press Eric’s buttons until he got his way or what he wanted. The same thing with Emma.” “Right. Our thought is Ash and Eric planned the attack together but had different agendas or motives,” Lanie continued.
“Eric wants to get back at all of the Alphas and the Elders,” I started to say.
“And Ash wanted Rylee,” we both finished.
“You two think that Eric and Ash split up. To throw us off?” Jason asked us.
“It would make sense. Attack one location if found, then they could warn the other,” Maddox responded.
“Kind of like what Marvin tried to do,” Brent said.
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