The Last Luna Queen And The Lycan King

The Smell Of Blood

Maya looked at me with knowing eyes "Bloodlust?” She asked. I nodded, “Is it getting bad?" She asked. I could see the fear and worry in her eyes. I took a deep breath shifting from the tips of my toes to the balls of my heels looking down at her. Closing my eyes. I nodded again, opening my eyes, my anger evident. “the dumb ass had me shot, making Lucian able to take complete control. We lost our temper for afew minutes despite my best efforts to push him back. It was almost like back then " I said wearily.

"Sorry about that Mark," Lucian said softly. "I know it's not your fault" I said back to him. I returned my attention to Maya. Her eyes had widened as she processed the information I had just told her. Maya looked down and then back up to meet my eyes. Sighing she said “Do it. Go and find her, don't worry I will tidy things up here then head to the mainland and ensure they stand down. If they don't I will handle it my way.” she said with a Wicked smile gracing her face her eyes turned electric blue as she showed us Sparks coming from her fingertips. “You worry about finding Raina." She said holding her hand out as if trying to touch me. I placed my hand on her hand's reflection. Try not to kill anyone Maya. I said firmly. " Se Agapo Aderfe" (I love you sister) I said gently, touching the water. " S' Agapo Aderfe, Na Eisai Dynatos" (I love you brother stay strong) She said as her reflection started disappearing.

I stood up and faced Jermaine, "We need to get moving, the sun has already started to set" I said walking along the river. "Aren't you in the least bit curious about the scent?" Lucian asked. "What scent?" I questioned knowing exactly what he was talking about. "The scent on the boy" He said gruffly. "What about it?" I asked. "It was odd, I don’t know yet" He said, irritation lining his voice. "We need to find the boy and see what it is," He demanded. "No Lucian we need to find Raina and get ourselves under control " I said curtly. "We can not be the dominating Killer we once were. You know it and I know it.

We are losing control again if we don't find her before we lose total control. People.." " we love will die." he said, cutting me off "I know mark but that scent. It's.. We have to find the source." He said angrily. "And we will but we need to find Raina first" Lucian and I both knew it. He did not want to lose control of himself any more than I wanted to lose control. Losing control meant losing our humanity again. We lost our humanity once it took almost 3000 years to get it back. We had been working together for years trying to beat back the bloodlust to suppress it to keep our humanity. But we are having a harder and harder time in recent years. A few months ago we killed 3 guards and 2 maids in our sleep before Maya and Jermaine could wake us up.

"We will find the boy after we see Raina" I repeated. Lucian grumbled again before retreating to the debts of my mind. I refocused my thoughts on the war issue at hand. These two bastards had a damn treaty. Why did they break it now? When they sent the paperwork to me for me to sign off on it, it said that they had a mutual agreement. That the deal would be sealed with a holy oath which in our culture means marriage. A marriage blessed by the moon goddess herself, the maker of every being, is not one that can be broken easily. Rowan's daughter I thought was married to Alan. That woman with Alan on the front lines did not smell like an alpha's daughter; she smelled like a weak omega with no wolf present.

If that is not Alan's wife then who was she? And where is the alpha's daughter. If that was indeed Not the alpha's daughter then there was a bigger problem here. Adultery is punishable by demotion from alpha status to omega, it’s important for alphas to be respected and lead by example. To honor their oaths. This is why when an alpha chooses a wife he is to stay devoted to her and she to him for the rest of their lives or until one dies. if it’s found that he steps out of the marriage it is punished with a minimum of 10 years imprisonment and the demotion. But if the mate bond between the alpha's daughter and Alpha Alan was solidified by marking and mating the punishment for breaking such a bond fated or chosen without proper rejection and acceptance would be death for the one that committed the crime.

f he marked and mated her and then he continued to intentionally inflict harm to his Luna by taking and sleeping with another woman. Unlike humans werewolves take the marking and mating seriously the goddess blesses them with the mate bond. Which if he is unfaithful would cause the other party of the mate bond intense pain. It is like the soul is being torn from the body and the heart being crushed that poor woman would be in is insurmountable pain. That punishment for adultery with an active mate bond is death as no wolf can survive that pain repeatedly. It’s the equivalent of unsanctioned torturing of a person and that is not tolerated not in veiled vallis and especially not here in the mainland where wolves live near humans.

Jermaine sensed I was heavily in thought "What is on your mind Mark?" He asked, looking at me as we walked along the river. "Nothing." I said my voice low. Jermaine is my closest friend, a brother who could always tell if I were upset. “Jermaine, Correct me if I am wrong but did these two alpha's not have a peace treaty? and was not the seal to the treaty a holy oath?" I asked racking my brain for the name of the daughter that was on the papers. Jermaine went silent for a moment "Actually, I believe they did and I believe marriage to the alpha's daughter was the seal to the deal" He said, stroking his beardless chin as he was racking his brain too. "Did that woman that he came out of the tint clinging to that bastard smell or look like an alpha's daughter to you?" I questioned. Before Jermaine could answer me I had stopped walking when a metallic scent hit my nose. I stopped and scented the air. My ears perked up. I scented the air again "Jermaine" I said quietly "I smell it too" He said his ears perked up as well listening for anything nearby. "Let's find out where it is coming from. We are far away enough from the front lines to not smell that blood." I said now walking away from the river following the scent of blood. Jermaine and I followed the scent of blood to a bluff.