The Unexpected Luna

CHAPTER SEVEN

When I got back to my room, I collapsed, face first, onto my bed. I couldn’t be sure how long I was laying there until Bella and Lily burst into my bedroom; despite the commotion, I still didn’t move.

“What the actual f*ck happened last night?!” Bella asked rather forcefully.

“Did you find your mate? Are they fit? Which pack are they from?” Lily asked at a hundred miles per hour.

I lifted my head off the bed, flipped myself onto my back and sighed. Closing my eyes, I replied each question in turn.

“I met my mate and stayed at his, yes I found him, yes he’s fit and he’s the Alpha of the Lester pack.”

Bella and Lily said nothing more. Caught off guard by the silence, I open my eyes and looked at them. They were both in shock at the news.

Lily was the first to mumble out the words “He’s an Alpha?,,,that means you’ll be,,,a Luna. Holy sh*t, you’re gonna be a Luna!”

Bella still stood, shocked, in silence.

I threw my head back in the bed and threw my hands to my face. “Thanks for the update Lil’. I figured that out”

“But what does that mean? You know, for you? Because well, you’re you!” Bella asked.

“If you figure out the answer, please let me know” I said, putting a thumbs up in their direction.

We going to be his mate and therefore a Luna! Aria grumbled at me.

She was just p*ssed that I hadn’t just accepted this information and rushed back into Tristan’s arms. I’m not saying I don’t want to be in his arms, but it’s not that simple. I push her to the back of mind for now.

“Seriously Skye,” Bella started, while sitting on my bed next to me “what are you going to do?”

I sat up, crossed legged and I could feel tears building already. “I don’t know.” I said, as honestly as I could. “He is my mate, I know that for sure. But I don’t get the simplicity of just choosing him.” Lily looked at me puzzled but I could see Bella already understood. As Lil took a seat on my bed as well, I continued, “I’m finding out who I am. We know I have gifts. The heightened senses, healing ability and agility and I think there’s still more that haven’t revealed themselves yet.”

“I’ve always wanted to be a fighter, I’ve always wanted to be there, with my parents, protecting our pack. I wasn’t expecting Tristan. But now that I’ve found him I don’t want to let him go.”

“So why should you?” Lily asked. I wasn’t p*ssed that she didn’t see what we all did, it felt good to say what I had been thinking aloud.

“You know a Luna cannot be part of the pack fighters. The Alpha and Luna run the pack and are normally the ones being protected. I’m pretty sure I was never meant to be a Luna, not with who everyone thinks I should be.” I say, as tears start to pour down my face. I get off my bed and slump onto the floor, my back resting against the wall.

“But,” I look up to see Lily about to ask yet another question. And the one she asks catches me off guard “who do you want to be Skye?”

And there it was. The question I thought I knew the answer to for so long. But now? I had no f*cking idea.

So, I just sat there. All three of us a did for a while, not really saying anything.

“Do you want to go to the mess hall and grab some food with us hun?” Bells asked. I just shook my head. She picked me up off the floor and into a cuddle, with Lily next in line. Once they had left, I glanced at my phone to see a message from Mum.

Mum: “Is everything okay?! Luke had decided to leave for home early but we decided to stay. But we can come home! Please text me back when you see this. Let me or you Dad know you are okay! Xxx”

Me: “I’m okay. Nothing bad has happened, just a misunderstanding. Enjoy some time with Dad and I promise I’ll explain it all when you’re home xxx”

That should calm her down for a bit.

You’ve forgotten to do something Ari said, bluntly.

Yeah? Like what?

Well, I’m pretty sure our mate is gonna be losing his mind round about now!

Oh f*ck! I never messaged Tristan back. Looking at the time I see it’s 19:29. I bet he’s worried sick.

I frantically start texting the number he put into my phone, thinking of ways to explain the conversation with Alpha Luke and the girls, when a familiar voice was mind linking me.

Can I come in? I’m currently outside yours

Tristan?

I rush downstairs, throw the front door open to find a huge, sleek haired, golden brown haired wolf waiting for me.

“Colt?” I asked. The wolf looked so relieved to see me standing there. He gently came closer, close enough so I could reach out my hand and pet his muzzle. The electricity jolts flowed once again between us once again, but the bouncing, excited wolf that was Aria, pushed through and forced me to shift. She needed out.

She immediately put her head into his neck and they nestled into one another. This was my realisation that this was the first time Aria and Colt had touched one another properly. It felt weird. Sure, I had felt through Ari what other wolves felt like, but this was different. It felt like, we were whole.

Ari and Colt started to get playful with each other; bounding around like two very excitable, very overgrown, pups. They spent a little while chasing each other around the fields that surrounded my house, along with play fighting with each other. Before long though, Aria wanted more. That’s where I drew the line.

Ari, enough.

I had to sit back while you and Tristan mated, now it’s my turn! The sassy little b*tch.

Nope. Not now, you’ll get your chance I promise but not now.

And with that, I took control and shift us back to me. Colt looks a bit disappointed, I’m sure I can guess why, but within a moment, it’s Tristan staring back at me. “Hey babe”

It’s a moment before I run over to him jumping into his arms. We share such a passionate kiss, like the one that lead to more last night.

But as I was considering tearing our clothes off and having him, right here, in the middle of the field, Tristan broke the kiss.

“Not here sweetheart, not now. Let’s get inside, I’m sure there’s things to talk about.”

My stomach dropped. What if I’d f*cked this up? What if he felt what everyone else seemingly did about this sitch? What if he was going to reject me?! I felt like sobbing right there in his arms but held it together. I was helped by Aria huffing at me in disbelief that I could think such a thing.

“Yeah, okay. Let’s head back to mine and we can, um talk about,,,about whatever” I stammered.

Tristan must have seen the worry all over my face, as he cupped my face and pulled me into a gentle, loving kiss. “I told you last night, nothing or no one is gonna make me change my mind about you, about us” he smiled. A small wave of relief went through me. I gave out a little chuckle and smiled at him.

We wander back home, not really speaking. I know I’m just trying to figure out what to say. I guess he was doing the same thing.

However, as we reach the homestead, I’m greeted by Beta Oliver.

“Skye, Alpha Tristan. We were not informed of your visit. And I would like to add you have not been invited to be within our immediate compound-“

“I invited him” I interrupted, before Oliver could continue.

The Beta looked at me surprised, but said nothing more than, “Alpha Luke has requested both of you in his office. Now.”

I nodded, and glanced at Tristan. He looked annoyed that he was being spoken to in such fashion, being an Alpha himself, but he knew this was not the time or place to argue or fight. He took my hand and we followed Oliver up to the main compound building.

“Tristan, I understand she is your mate, but you cannot be showing up, in wolf form, on my territory without formal request- and do not tell my you invited him Skye, you cannot pull that one on me” Alpha Luke said as I opened my mouth to speak. I closed it again and waited, bowing my head again.

“Alpha Luke. I will ask that you address me respectfully and properly. You may be upset with my actions but do not insult my rank like that” Tristan said, harshly. Luke, nodded to acknowledge this, but did not speak. Tristan continued, “Skye is my mate, I have every right to see her and seeing as she is not yet living with me-“ my stomach fell at these words “-I came to see her.”

“Trist, apologies, Alpha Tristan,” Alpha Luke started again, “I understand what you are saying but please understand this. I am not happy with this situation. You know who this girl is. I will not allow her to become your Luna! She belongs here!”

I lifted my head to see Tristan’s eyes turn black, he was shaking and becoming incredibly warm. He was doing everything he could not to shift.

“YOU,,,CANNOT,,,DECIDE THAT” Tristan spoke with gritted fangs. It seemed like he was losing control of Colt coming to the surface.

I could see what was happening here. Alpha Luke was also about to shift, so I did what I probably shouldn’t have done and shifted first.

Aria snapped through me and we landed between the Alpha wolves. Their shifts had also taken place. They were staring each other out, fangs bared and growling, menacingly, towards each other. I didn’t know what to do. Defend my mate? Or my father figure like Alpha?

Aria also seems torn. As we hadn’t fully or officially accepted being Tristan’s mate and Luna, we couldn’t not feel the ties to Luke. Instead, Aria howled. Very loudly. It near enough made Alpha’s office shake. Both Luke and Tristan dropped the offence and looked at Ari. And then instead of Ari, me.

“Please. This is a hard enough decision as it is. I love this pack, it is my family.” I tell Luke. But then I turn to my mate “But Tristan, I know you’re my future” Colt just looks at me.

Luke shifts back but Tristan hasn’t.

“Alpha Tristan, please, I will not attack you nor will any of my pack. Please, let me speak with you.” Colt looks at me and I nod. Tristan reappears where Colt was. I rush over to him and hug him, tightly.

“Alpha Luke, please forgive me. I was,,,,I became very angry at what you had said” Tristan said, while still holding me in his arms.

Alpha Luke nodded and also replied, “and my apologies to you. The news about you and Skye is most unexpected and I’m being very reactive. I’m trying to do best by my pack, but this whole situation is,,,difficult. Skye?”

“Yes Alpha?”

“Please do consider all that you can. But know, as your family, we will support you in what you choose. But I will ask that it is decided with your best interest at heart”

I bow my head and me and Tristan leave.