The Eclipsed Life of Luna Mischa

CH 12

Then there were the ones that were injected by heat pheromones. Again, natural or synthetic worked, but injecting one caused a heat to bloom in that she-wolf, that their Mate could sense and would last for many days, just like a natural heat.

Though the type of pheromones used also created two different types of heat, synthetic or another’s natural pheromones created a normal heat with normal bouts. This was used predominantly in their world to help create heirs in pack where the Lunas or their Luna Units had low fertility.

But injecting one’s own pheromones into oneself. That was where the problems lay. It wasn’t recommended at all. But it was also used on the black market for this very reason. Doing this tricked the she-wolfs body into thinking it was completely natural, but then her own body produced its own set of heat pheromones, to go with the injected ones.

There was then an excessive amount of their own heat pheromones and this caused and overly aggressive heat to happen. It came with twice as many bouts of heat, sometimes more, and with little to no rest between them and was what happened on the black market when she-wolves were slaved out.

That heat lasted twice as long as well if her heat was naturally four days, then it would last for eight. This was not considered safe to do to any she-wolf, let alone oneself. It would see the she-wolf not only exhausted but, in many reported cases, unable to cope with the excessive mating and even if it was their Mate, they could be injured by them and their need to mate them constantly due to the scent of heat they were putting off.

There were reported cases of severe damage and harm coming from heats like that. She-wolves were rendered unconscious and yet her body would still produce bouts and the Mate would still mate them. A she-wolf could wind up in a pack hospital or worse.

She wondered if Christy had done this to herself, and if she’d done? Had she done all the proper research on it, or had she skimmed through it all, just to find a way to get Anthony to sense her heat and bring him to her when she wanted to?

Would she risk using her own pheromones so it couldn’t be proved she’d induced her own heat? Synthetic and another’s pheromones could be detected by blood tests for up to a week in the body after it stopped. Only using one's own prevented that.

She walked into her bedroom and sank down on her bed and wondered if Christy would risk herself to those side effects just to pull Anthony away from her, and also be able to claim it was a natural heat that she’d not done it on purpose just to tear him away from Mischa’s heat, because she didn’t want Mischa to give Anthony an heir.

Mischa still had to go through today and two more days of heat herself. She was barely in her second day and she’d only had one bout. Something Christy would also know, which meant that she would have to inject the pheromones, to outlast Mischa’s heat.

Because being doused in them wouldn’t draw Anthony to her, not even if she called him and told him she was in heat, because he wouldn’t feel it or sense it in anyway. So, if her aim was to pull her away from Mischa completely and see him not come back, then the best way to do it, was in fact to inject herself with her own pheromones, which was not advised.

Due to all the possible ramifications at the time and the follow-on consequences. Mischa sighed, there was nothing she could do about it, but sit back and wait and see. Her accusing that she-wolf of something like that, without solid proof would only see herself look like a jealous and spiteful Mate who wanted Anthony all to herself.

It would see her as wanting Christy to suffer her heat alone, which, despite not liking that she-wolf, she wouldn’t wish on anyone, it was painful and if it continued for bout after bout, it was reported to become agonizing and unbearable and drugs were advised to dull it down to something manageable.

Her next bout arrived just after lunchtime, and she suffered through it alone, because Anthony did not come. She’d mind-linked to him about her bout of heat was here, and he’d been mating Christy in a bout of her heat. She could actually tell he was mating Christy through that mind-link.

He’d told her he couldn’t be in two places at once, but that he would come to her as soon as he could, only he didn’t come to her room, and she’d had to suffer through it on her own.

She’d wanted to know who he would choose, now she had the answer, because he could have come the moment Christy’s bout was over, but he didn’t. She just sat there on the floor of her suite hugging her knees to herself because this was it. She knew he wasn’t going to come for any of her bouts.

She’d not been wrong either, there wasn’t even a mind-link from him to apologize, nothing at all. He was where he wanted to be. She’d mind-linked to Paul and told him to prep her drugs to get through her heat. Anthony wasn’t going to be tending to her, only to Christy.

He’d not wanted to believe it, but he could feel her pain down the mind-link, he was her Gamma, and it could not escape him, he couldn’t even come and comfort her in any way. This was hers to deal with, all alone in that suite for each and every bout she would have over the rest of her heat.

She’d felt the pack doctor connect with her and explain to her what he was prepping, and who he was going to have send it to her. A female nurse with preloaded syringes of pain relief. It wasn’t going to stop the pain altogether but should help her manage through it.

Paul had told her he’d cleared the Alpha floor of all staff and that the nurse was going to come in. There was no risk to himself. He’d made sure there were no males close enough to rush the door. A part of her wanted to tell him to come and help her himself. If she had to suffer, then Anthony could suffer as well. But she didn’t. He had a Mate, Carol, and she liked her.

Those three days passed, and each bout was more painful than the next, and she had no choice but to inject the pain relief but it became ineffective very quickly, and so she had to just bear with it. Every time she mind-linked to Anthony, he was mating Christy. By the final day, she stopped calling to him, he was never coming to her. Christy was all that mattered and she was his choice.

It finally ended, and she knew a part of her heart was completely cold to Anthony, and she hated him right this minute. He had two Mates but only cared to tend to one of them. She now knew the utter ugly truth of it all, just like she’d told him she would.

She could understand him leaving to tend to Christy, but he should have split his time. It wasn’t that hard to do. Hell, he only had to come here to her three times a day for 30 to 60 minutes. So, one and a half to three hours out of a 24 day, and he could be with his precious Christy the other 21 to 22 and a half.

She didn’t ask for much, and she would no longer ask for anything at all. She was his Mate by the will of the Goddess, and right now she just wanted to sink her claws into him and tear him apart for his lack of love. Lack of care, lack of attending to his Alpha Duties where his first Luna was concerned.

He didn’t have a single ounce of care, not once in three days did he even so much as mind-link to her to apologize. So, no longer would she show him she cared either.

She stepped out of her suite and found Paul out there pacing around out in the corridor. He looked right at her as the door opened and hurried over to her. “I’m sorry… I couldn’t come in and help you.”

Mischa nodded. “I’m aware and I understand Paul.” Was all she said, it wasn't his fault, “Though I’ve had a lot of time to think about everything, and I think Christy’s heat is suspicious. She only ever goes into heat once a year, and never does it cross over mine, it is months apart.”

“You look like s**t Mischa, pack hospital now. Brent has told me you need to go right to him. He’s prepped the Luna’s Medical Suite for a recovery day for you and Laud.”

She nodded and walked with him. “Christy’s heat, Paul. I don’t doubt she’s in heat, but it suddenly started after she accused me of lying about being in heat. One day after, and Anthony never once left her. Every time I tried to connect with him, he was mating her. I could feel it down the link, Laud stated they were mating her a dozen times a day from her connection to Shade sometimes more.”

Paul turned wide eyes on her now. “That’s not natural.”

“I know, too much even for a Mate to handle.” She nodded.

He was frowning at her. “You’re thinking what exactly?” he murmured.

“It’s not fake, I know that,” she sighed and mind-linked to him, ‘I think she induced it with her own pheromones, that would see her body go into a heat that’s two or three times more aggressive than a normal heat. See Anthony and his beast mate her dozens of times a day.’

‘I know you two don’t get along but…’

‘Stop right there,’ she sighed. ‘I was accepting, I am accepting. I have never once tried to get between them. You know this yourself, it’s Christy that always stepped between Anthony and I. She’s insecure, remember. I’m not, so don’t go there. Have I done anything right now to stop them, yelled and scream about him not tending to me at all? No, so don’t you accuse me of thinking up such a plot, or I’ll punish you myself,’ she stated flatly.

She saw him sigh and nod slowly. ‘We’ll see if she did something to herself soon enough,’ Mischa stated, and they would ‘if she did do this just to pull him from me to make me suffer a heat alone, it’ll have ramifications, especially if she used her own pheromones. You can look it up. I did that had three days between bouts and pain to stew and think about it all.

‘Read everything there is about unnatural heats happening… You can go and check on her heats if you wish. But from my memory, she isn’t due to go into heat for months.’

‘I checked on that myself. You are right three months and 8 days actually, it falls at the same time each year, give or take one day. Has never been near yours ever. Is as regular as clockwork like your two are.’

‘I know I did research on that before now, will of the goddess to make sure what just happened to me, never actually happens at all. Rarely, if ever, does it happen between two mates that aren’t mated to each other but have one connecting mate, do they go into heat at the same time.’