Chapter Eight
Liana stiffened above me, and suddenly I felt weighed down, as if someone was crushing my soul. I still mustered my energy and kept running, but I had no idea why I had suddenly lost the will to fight.
It took me some moments to realize that Liana's emotions were affecting me. I was running by instinct, but my mind was distracted, feeling the intense pain and heartbreak she was feeling. I collapsed onto my knees right then, gasping for air as her overwhelming emotions suffocated me.
I was panting, and Liana was still on my back, not even realizing that we had stopped. She looked still and lifeless, her eyes fixed at a distance. She no longer radiated any emotion, just blankness and numbness. The comforting air around her was long gone and I had no idea what to do.
I somehow stood up, with her still on my back. I had managed to reach the place where we had left out breakfast. I worried for a moment if the wolves could follow our scent—
*No, they cannot. As I told you before, a Luna is born with the survival skills. When you panic and prepare to run away from something or someone, adrenaline courses through your body, along with another hormone that manages to hide your scent. There is no way anyone can trace you or Liana...yet.
That was a relief to hear, honestly. I would have ripped off my hair rather then coming anywhere near Adrian Wolfe, right now. I still had no idea how I could get Liana back to normal, and all I could do right now was comfort her.
"Hey. Liana." I whispered, sitting down next to where I had put her down. She lied down, facing the cloudless sky for a while, our ears still alert for howls.
"Come on, let's eat something. Then we'll talk, okay?"
She nodded slowly, looking back to me. She wasn't crying, and her eyes were blank. The numbness she was emitting was making me uncomfortable, and I did my best in radiating my own comforting waves.
Are the emotions of a Luna that strong?
The emotions of every female wolf are strong. For common she-wolves, only their mates and their children can feel it. But for the Lunas, the entire jurisdiction under their mate can feel it. For you and Liana, the whole kingdom would have felt it, but since you are too far from your mates and the core of Were Kingdom, the wolves cannot feel your emotions, yet.
And this is one of the reasons Lunas are pampered and kept happy and satisfied. Or else it can affect the entire kingdom, mated or not. My wolf told me.
Liana did a good thing staying with humans, then, didn't she?
Yes.
I laid out our breakfast and we ate in silence. Liana was hurting so much inside, I was too, but we had different reasons.
I was hurting because I had realized that Adrian was not going to make any move to find me, nor was he missing me. I wished, my wolf too, that he felt at least something for me, something that would compel him to find me.
"Luna!" I heard a voice and stiffened, the unfamiliar voice and scent making me alert. Soon, I didn't feel my wolf as well as my pure blood and was left human.
I felt so empty all of a sudden.
We both turned around, Liana's face etched with confusion. She looked at the guard, whom I had seen in the morning, and he was now running towards where we were sitting down peacefully and eating.
"Luna Liana, are you alright?" He asked when he reached us. His eyes that were full of concern, fell on me for a moment and he gave me a scrutinizing look. I just smiled at him and he looked away.
Liana looked up and nodded.
"I heard, Luna. I must tell you, Alpha Prime is going berserk, and has doubled up the amount of guards at the territory borders. We cannot hide you or let you out of the kingdom now, because the other guards don't know that we are sheltering and hiding you. Alpha Prime ordered a tight curfew in the entire kingdom, and will personally check inside every household. What will we do now, Luna?
Oh fuck, there was nowhere to go. I looked at Liana who was deep in thought. She then looked up at the guard and gave him a small smile.
"It's fine, Hans, it's your duty and you must follow the Alpha's orders. Inform him where I live in about an hour."
I gaped at her. Did she really want to confront him?
"Liana, are you finally going to confront him?" I asked the question that rang in the guard's mind too.
She shook her head.
"No, Moon. I'm going to tell you what we are going to do. I don't think I'm sure if I'm ready to even look at him yet." Liana said, her voice set in a determined tone.
"Then shoot, Liana, shoot."
I fidgeted nervously, my wolf being the most difficult right now. She wanted her mate, but she too, just like Ana, Liana's wolf, wasn't sure if she could handle her mate being anywhere near her. I didn't get a full feeling yet of how it felt, to be near Adrian, here, in the Werewolf Kingdom. All I could remember was the day we met and if it felt anything like that, I knew that I stood no chance in front of him.
The thing was, we weren't sure if Adrian would be tagging alone with the Alpha Prime or not. That was the only loophole in Liana's plan, and then even I would have to flee with her.
The house was as normal as it had been, reeking of Liana and only Liana, along with my scent, but there were hardly any traces of my presence. Liana was down in the basement, where no one could sniff and sense her scent. I myself had no idea how she was feeling right now.
Liana seemed to have planned this moment since decades, or maybe she had hidden herself in the basement before too, perhaps hiding from someone else.
I was sitting on the couch, waiting anxiously for Alpha Jaxon to barge in and demand for his mate. I was supposed to behave like an ignorant and naive human, who knew nothing about Weres and vampires and PureBloods.
I smelt it then, the scent that had made me and Liana flee like our asses were on fire. Adrian's scent wasn't there and I sighed in relief, though I felt something inside me hurt.
It was clear, he didn't want me.
I switched on the television, a part of me wondering how it was working here, and changed it to a cartoon channel so that it could perhaps amuse me and calm me down. I watched it, my heart pacing as I felt the scent grow stronger and come nearer. My pure blood and wolf withdrew, making me feel like an empty shell once again.
I was supposed to be and act human.
I tried to concentrate on the animated characters in front of me when the wooden door exploded, leaving just splinters and the broken door. I was so fucking scared and startled that just a blow from the Alpha Prime reduced the door to pieces.
It was a strong and thick wooden door, I couldn't even imagine a human doing it.
The wood dust faded, revealing two figures, Alpha Jaxon, and the guard who had no idea about our plan.
Alpha Jaxon was attractive, very, very attractive. He had a toned, muscled body, was tall, as tall as the door was, perhaps just touching seven feet. I probably looked like a tiny, measly ant in front of that hunk, with clear blue eyes, shaggy brown hair and tanned skin. He was hot, seriously, the kind of hot that could make anyone's panties drop.
But not mine. I didn't feel attracted to him, not at all. It was just like he was another man for me, irrelevant and insignificant.
Gah! Being a wolf was so boring. The one I wanted didn't want me, and I didn't feel interested in other specimens too.
He closed his eyes for a moment and inhaled deeply, smelling all that screamed Liana in the room. There was a small smile on his face as he closed his eyes, and he looked contented, peaceful. His brows furrowed slowly, maybe when he smelled my absolute human scent and he opened his eyes to look at me.
"Who are you?" He asked, his voice deep and husky, with a dangerous undertone. A part of me wanted to shake Liana to bring her brain back to its place so that she could be with this hot hunk of an Alpha again.
Although, the thing that shocked me the most was that he didn't care to ask what a human woman was doing in the kingdom.
I narrowed my eyes at him, even though I was so scared that I could pee in my pants, "Who are you? How could you just barge in my friend's house like that? Do you know how expensive that wooden door was?"
His eyes narrowed at me, his stance threatening and his eyes darkening at my straightforward disrespect and disobedience. Then he realized that I was just a human.
The fact was, that even if I was a wolf, I still would have had the liberty to disobey him, being the Luna Queen and bla bla. But he didn't need to know that.
"Who are you?" He asked again when he had calmed down. His eyes assessed me, and then the entire room, searching for Liana's presence.
"Excuse me," I haughtily said, flipping my hair over my shoulder. "Who are you? I'm not interested in divulging private information to anyone. What do you want here?"
"For someone who is a pesky little human like you, you surely do have a sharp tongue. I'm your friend's boyfriend, and I need to talk to her." He said, slowing his temper down.
Even though I was a human then, I could still feel the power he emanated, and I could almost taste his authority. He was trying to use his power on me, and I knew humans did cave in.
But I was the Luna Queen. His power was useless to me, especially when my mate was more powerful than him.
"My friend has no boyfriends. I'm not stupid. If she had one, she would've told me earlier, much, much earlier. Also, who do you think you are, calling me a pesky little human? Do you think you are a mighty Wolfie Alpha?" I faked a growl, "Or a vampire with fangs, shining in the sunlight like an LED?"
This was fun. His whole body was trembling, literally. His face had turned red and the guard behind him cleared his throat, making it clear that I'd gone too far.
"Where is she?" Jaxon asked exasperatedly, gritting his teeth.
"Who?"
He sighed, "Your friend."
"Which friend? I have two with me here."
The guard frowned. Of course, he hadn't seen the non existent third one.
"Liana." He said, his teeth grinding.
"You are not Liana's boyfriend." I said.
He scowled at me, "What do you mean? I thought you said that she doesn't have a boyfriend."
This was the scariest and the most daring part. I was probably handing my life to him on a silver platter, "I thought you were talking about Moon. I know Liana's boyfriend. It's not you."