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Just as the sound of victory bell was heard I was engulfed in pair of arms. Knowing from the sparks where he touched I knew it was Xander. His arms were tightly on my waist, my face buried in his chest and him placing small kisses on my head every now and then. I wrapped my arms around his waist. He smelled like petrichor and coffee surprisingly.

"You smell nice." I mumble due my face hidden in his chest and he freezes. He pulls back and holds my face in his hands. I look up to see moisture in his eyes and my eyes widen.

"Wha-" before I could finish his lips descended on mine for a gentle kiss. I move my lips against his my hands finding way towards his hair but he pulls away and again hugs me, his face in my hair.

"I was.. I was so scared for a moment. You.. you.." His body starts to shake and I put my arms around his head pulling him closer to me.

"Heyy, listen to me. I'm fine, honey. I'm okay. I'm here." Our moment was interrupted by Jackson.

"Alpha? Luna? You might wanna hear his." He says and we pull away to look at him. Xanders hand still tightly wrapped on my waist, he nodded at Jackson. I was in that moment that I looked around my self, taking in my surroundings. People were on their feet. Some having tears in their eyes. Some clutching their mates tightly to them. But they all looked at me, and instead of hate or resentment, there was worry, awe and respect in their eyes.

"Everyone! You all saw what happened here today. Our Queen, Luna, King's chosen mate, she fought a werewolf who in order to win the fight took help from a witch. Never in a hundred years had anyone done this. We all know how important a luna is to the pack. No one could ever think of harming a luna to extent of taking a witches help, hence there was nothing in rules about this. But, still your luna WON. I believe this changed many of yous opinion about Luna Cassandra. It is with pleasure that I would like to announce all the participants have withdrawn from challenging Cassandra. Be it fear or respect but everyone accepts Cassandra Primrose Blaze as The Lycan Pack's Luna."

Around me everyone erupts into cheers and chants of 'Luna' after a while everyone goes down to one knee and bow their heads at me. I feel a sudden surge of emotions from everyone. Loyalty, love and respect. I bow down my head as well and they all stand.

"Love, speech?" Xander whispers in my ear and I look at him grinning.

"Lycan Pack is my Pack. It means it's mine to protect. I will never let my pack down and will to utmost of my ability uphold my position." I say and everyone howls.

"Let's go, love." Xander takes my hand and I step forward to feel sharp pain in my stomach. I wince and look at Xander. His hold tightens and he frowns. In seconds he lifts me bridal style and we move towards the infirmary. All the way people coming up and saying 'Congratulations Luna' and I smiled at them. As we enter the infirmary, the nurses told Xander to take me to emergency room where he set me down on the bed. Alicia entered and smiled at me before looking my wounds.

"Well Luna, luckily your wolf was able to heal you quickly. I have bandaged all the wounds and here are some painkillers, take them when the pain gets too much to bear. I would recommend loads of rest and avoiding engaging in strenuous activities for at least 2 weeks. Change your bandage every day and drink loads of water."

"Thank you Alicia. Can I take her back to the castle then?" Xander asks and Alicia nods.

"Come on beautiful." Xander says making my heart speed up though I am sure I was looking anything but beautiful. He lifts me in his arms again.

"You realize I can walk, honey?" I say laying my head on his shoulder. Damn I'm so exhausted. I snuggle closer to Xander putting my arms around his neck.

"You want me to put you down,love?" He says smiling at me and I nod while closing my eyes and tightening my arms around him. His chest rumbles with laughter and before I realized I dozed off in my mates arms.

I wake up to sound of water running. I look around to see I was in Xander's room on the bed while he was preparing bath. I rub my eyes to see more clearly.

"Oh you're awake. I prepared bath for you love. The water is warm. It will relax your mucles after then you can go to sleep again." He comes closer while lifting me up for the hunderedth time today. We step into the bathroom and he set me down on my feet.

"You want me to help you?" He says meekly and I narrow my eyes at him.

"You want you to help me." I say and he grins. I shake my head at him and he pouts.

"Just help me with the bandage." I say taking off the black shirt I didn't realize I even had on. Xander steps closer to me looking only at my wound while taking my bandage off. His hands were shaking while doing so. Before I could say something he threw the bandage in the dustbin and left the bathroom closing the door on his way out. I sigh and take rest of my clothing off. My leftover armour Xander must've taken off. I step into the tub and lay down instantly feeling my muscles relax.

After taking the bath I washed my face and quickly threw on my nightwear. I stepped out of the bathroom, towel drying my hair, to see Xander sitting on the bed gripping the sides tightly. I step forward and again wince from the pain in my stomach. Xander looks up and helps me towards the bed.

"Here let me bandage it again." He says lifting my shirt and applying some gel on the wound before bandaging it. I looked at him. He was tired and stressed. As he was done I took his hands and made up look at me.

" I'm fine.'' I say and he nods caressing my face gently, then placed a kiss on my forehead.

"Sleep, love. I'll lay with you once I clean up." He says moving towards the bathroom.

I lay my head my head on the stop pillows and snuggle into the covers. I dozed off until I felt arms around my waist tightly pulling me towards a chest. I turned around tangling my legs between Xanders and snuggling close to his chest.

"I love you, mi amore."