Page 117 of Forever My Siren Luna

He stumbled the entire hundred feet or so, the thin branch still lodged in his shoulder, to where I had dropped the collar. I watched him drop to his knees and pick it up, then wait for my next command.

A snarl ripped from Val as we stood over him. He cowered at her malice. I bent and yanked the branch from his shoulder, tossing it away. He screamed, calling me every name imaginable, many he reserved for my mom when I was young, but he is now gracing me with.

I snarled, then kicked the collar still gripped in his hands.

“Put it on,” I commanded him, “and do not take it off until I say.”

He growled, the strain again on his face fighting the command, but the collar was around his neck moments later and the growling was cut off. I crouched down, flicking my fingers to use the magic again, only this time to seal the collar shut. He watched my magic with confusion but never asked why I had it. He was probably too scared to now. He was stranded without his beast. He could only hope for my mercy.

He would never get it.

As I was walking him to wait by the felled tree, I saw something glittering on the ground. I picked it up to find it was my necklace. It must have fallen off when Val shifted so quickly. After examining it and seeing it no longer had any magic left, I didn’t put it on. I was planning to leave it, along with a message for the warriors when they arrived. My uncle was forced to watch as I used the limbs of his warriors to write my message on a cropping of large rocks and boulders.

‘FOUND NILO + BERETTA. SAVING THEM. DO NOT FOLLOW. GO TO BORDER. NO SURRENDER’

I was running out of surface space, so I dragged a few torsos over to use. Using severed fingers, I write:

‘TRUST ME. I WILL BE OKAY. SAVE OUR PACK AND NO SURRENDER NO MATTER WHAT’

On another torso I write:

‘TELL LACHLAN I LOVE HIM’

It may seem silly, but I wanted to leave something behind for him. Some message to let him know that even though I am leaving him again of my own free will, this time I will be back, because he holds my heart.

I wiped my hands on the ground, but accidentally cut my palm on a jagged and sharp broken stick hidden in the grass. I hissed, watching my blood drip on the torso and the ground around me until Val healed me and it closed up. I got a bit of blood on the necklace, but it will be okay. At least they will know that it was really me who wrote those messages.

I kissed the necklace and then set it beside my writing. Cherum will make sure he gets it. I know he will. It has protected me at the worst of times. I pray that it protects him now, or at least offers him a bit of comfort, since I am now choosing to go into enemy territory to save our friends.

Just then, Percy’s voice resounded through my head. The warriors must be close. It was a pack mind link, but I was now fully their Luna and could listen in.

“Percy,”I cut him off as he was growling something about making sure a scout was dead. I guess that scout didn’t escape his death either.

Percy and everyone else’s voices stopped at the sound of mine, and then Percy yelled, “Luna? Are you hurt? What…what happened? Where are-”

“I’m fine. I dealt with the…the issue.”

“You saved yourself?”

I laughed at Percy’s skeptical question. It’s a bit misogynistic of him, but I let it slide.

“I saved myself."I confirmed, "But listen,”I breathed, bracing myself for their reaction after what I was about to say. “I am now going to save the others. I left something here for you to find. Make sure you pass along the message.”

As I suspected they would, Percy and the other warriors started to demand I explain myself and not leave until they got there. They were desperate and frightened by what I could mean, so before they could cause me to change my mind, I closed the mind link, blocking them out, then strode over to my uncle, who had been watching me with a look of disgust.

“Filthy disgusting bitch,” he spat.

“Yeah, well, this bitch just killed all your men and kicked your pathetic ass, so I would watch my mouth if I was you.” To emphasize my statement, Val snarled through me. “Get up and let’s go, before I decide to find this Lord Tenebris by myself.”

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Wayne

This fucking whore. I should have killed this stupid fucking bitch while I had the chance. She's as defiant as her mother once was. I should have forced her to watch those two boys die before just killing her.

She’s sick. Just as sick as that miserable Alpha I forced her on. It seems she has learned a few tricks from him during the time of their marriage.

This bitch. She thinks she is marching me to my demise, all to save those two pathetic saps. That Beta and that woman are both probably dead by now. If they are not, they are probably wishing they were. I saw the vile way the demons were eying the woman, and I know how they treat their prisoners.