Page 119 of Forever My Siren Luna

“I’m sorry,” Alpha Wayne muttered brokenly. What the hell happened to the man to make him sound so…. pitiful? “I-I-I.”

“Hush,” Lord Tenebris wrapped his hand in front of him, sending a gust of magic downward. I heard a deep groan and the sounds of a man struggling to endure something painful. The army was snickering, muttering again under their breaths. The different sections of different dark races were all amused by whatever was going on with Alpha Wayne. Very amused in a vile way.

“I would like to hear from her,” Lord Tenebris grinned evilly. He looked down at Angelina, his smile widening at her woeful expression, then back towards the gap in the crowd. “Or maybe you have something to say first? You two do not look similar, my dear. Well,” he forcefully lifts Angelina’s face by her chin, angling it side to side roughly while Angelina struggles, looking frightened. “Maybe you do. How is it, my dear, to see yourcousinafter all this time?”

Cousin?

My heart dropped. I stood at my feet, eager to see who it was, wanting that confirmation, but scared of learning the truth at the same time.

She wouldn’t be here. There was no way Alpha Lachlan would let her out of her sight. No way that he would ever allow harm to come to her.

Angelina fell to her knees, her legs giving out from her fright. Lord Tenebris chuckled darkly, then turned his attention to the gap in the crowd again.

“How about you? This must be quite the family reunion for you, after so many months in the grasp of that vicious Alpha to the south. I welcome you!” He raised his hands boastfully. The crowd erupted along with him, cackling and roaring loudly, stomping their feet in a thunderous percussion and raising their weapons towards the sky. “With your arrival, the surrender of the south is finally in our grasp!”

No. Please, goddess, don’t let it be her.

I’m still holding on to the thin string of hope that it’s someone else and not her.

But then she speaks.

“I’m afraid your rejoicing is premature,” Ela sneered. “I didn’t come here to help you.”

Lord Tenebris’s smile falters slightly, but he quickly places that sinister grin back on his face.

“Oh, really? Then what, pray tell, have you come here for?”

Nilo is standing with me, both of us ready to run out there to our deaths to protect her. Why is Ela here? How did she get here?

Her next words almost brought me to my knees.

Thirty-Six

Lachlan

When we got to the place where Percy and the rest of the hunting party were waiting to receive further instructions, I was mortified to see the damage my mate had done. Mortified and impressed.

I knew she was strong, stronger than most, but she alone took out a dozen experienced and bulking warriors. All on her own. The carnage was unimaginable. Killian was oddly proud, but still a bit disturbed that she could handle this level of fighting without any help. Cherum's Lycan looked sick, coughing and gagging as we passed the worst of it.

“She saved herself,” Percy said as Cherum, King Brennus, Cedric and I came to a cropping of large rocks. "She told us not to follow her and that she saved herself."

The other warriors that traveled with us spread out to join the search for all the severed body parts and to see if there were any more traces of her scent. The gore was littered everywhere and Cherum ordered her guard to be sure that she wasn’t missing a limb or so much as a toe among the massacred warriors. The evidence of her bloodshed was getting to him. He was in Delta mode, ready to save her, but unsure how given this scene. We still haven't gotten close enough to her to get our connections fully restored. Neither of us can feel her, through the delta or the mate bond. We have no idea how she is faring right now. We don't know yet if she is wounded in any way.

Killian sniffed the bloody lettering on the rocks, confirming none of the blood was our mate’s even though her scent was everywhere. She was a savage. She ran out of room to write on the rocks, so she dragged the broken and torn body chunks of her victims to finish the job.

As Killian was sniffing the last body, a low growl ripped out of him. Her blood was sprinkled along the ground and on the body, and then there was her necklace. It had blood caked on it too and was lying there over a message just for me.

‘TELL LACHLAN I LOVE HIM’

She loves me. She brought a whole body chunk over to say it, and even left the necklace for me to find. I wish she had just stayed here instead.

“She just left,”Killian groaned, his tone a mix of a whimper and a snarl. “Why would she just leave without waiting for help? Where did she go?”

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

“She is going to try and save your Beta and the pirate wench on her own?” Cedric frowned at the writing.

“She won’t be on her own,”I mind linked him. “We’re going after her.”