The Luna In-between the Twins

Chapter 4 Seeing Double

It felt like old times as we got ready. There were clothes thrown everywhere. It looked like a tornado tore through Madie and Max's room. We were singing Picture to Burn by Taylor Swift and dancing around. "As far as I'm concerned, you're just another picture to burn." we both sang together. We were definitely off key but we didn't care, we were having fun together. Sam was just laughing away at us. I don't remember the last time I had this much fun before. Till Madie screams in excitement "Aaaahaa. I found it." I couldn't see what she found till she turned around. She had this black Romper with a deep V-neck that was laced up from the mid section all the way to the neckline. "Madie, I can't wear that. It's too revealing. If my parents saw me in that they would..." I started to say before she began to laugh. "Girl, you are a woman and your parents aren't here. We got to show the boys what they are working with. Now take this and at least try it on" she says as she throws it at me.

I took the dress and gave her a smirk. "I guess",then I started to undress. I slipped into the romper and looked into the mirror. "Wow" I whispered to myself. It was hugging my curvaceous body. I ran my hands up the sides of my body, admiring my curves. The deep neckline that allows my well rounded breast to almost spill out, since the lace is the only thing keeping them in the romper. The bottom of the romper looks like I'm wearing cheekster underwear, barely covering my plump bubble butt. As I admired myself in the mirror, Madie was amazed. "Wow... see I told you it would look great on you." she said to me. Before I could say anything, she pulled me down onto a chair and told me to close my eyes and keep them closed till she was done. I sighed in annoyance as I rolled my eyes at her before I closed them.

Before I know it, she's tickling my face with make-up brushes and moving my hair around and twirling it. For what seemed like forever, I heard the sound of a brush being placed down on the table. "Damn, I'm good. Take a look at my masterpiece". I hesitate to open my eyes since I never really wore make-up before. I was scared if I didn't look good with it on. But then I remember that she has been doing her own make-up since we were kids; she's always looked so perfect with that crud on. A short amount of time passes till I finally get the guts to open my eyes. I slowly opened my eyes to reveal a much different me in the mirror. My mouth dropped in shock at this prettier version of myself looking back at me. "Just wow... I would never have imagined I could look like this." I said to Madie with my hands cupping my face. "Girl, I'm like Picasso when it comes to make-up. Now I will finish getting myself ready and by that time Max's mom should be here to watch Sam."

She zips through to finish getting dressed while I'm still looking at myself in the mirror admiring what I see in front of me. Maybe I can be pretty enough to find my second chance mate and to be loved, cherished and adored by them. As I get lost in my thoughts, something soft strikes me in the head; it was a pillow. "Earth to Roni. Can you go and let Max's mom in, please? We will be leaving here shortly." I shook my head at her in agreement and ran downstairs to be met by Max's mom and two other familiar faces; Oliva and Bradshaw. Oliva was wearing this black scandalous dress that stopped mid-thigh on her with a slit up to her waist with a sloped neckline. While Bradshaw was wearing his usual suit, "What are you two doing here?" I said "You didn't think you would be going out without us, did you? Bradshaw said with a chuckle "I will be near to watch over you but Oliva.." Bradshaw slowly stopped talking when he glanced back at her. Oliva realized Bradsaw was gawking over her. She gave him a swift blow to his side with her elbow.

"Oliva will be at arm's length of you two." Bradshaw said with a hesitation like he was resisting himself. They have always been close together but never like they were dating. I've always wondered about them; Bradshaw is so protective of Oliva, but we all know she can handle herself. I wouldn't be shocked if they actually were together but they are doing really good at hiding it from everyone. Madie came down the stairs with Sam in her arms. "Wow Oliva, you look stunning. I can't wait to go let loose and get some drinks for us." As she hands over Sam to his grandmother, he starts giggling. Bradshaw opens the door for us "Ladies", gesturing his hand towards the door. When we walked through the door, we met a stretched blacked out Hummer in Madie's driveway. "Bradshaw, you didn't have to do this, it's just a girls night out" I said to him. "It wasn't me, it was a gift from Alpha Alex, he said for you girls to have fun. He feels bad about the attack on his borders." He opens the door for us and helps us in to the Hummer; he's such a gentleman towards us. Once inside, we are met with lights flashing, music bumping and an ice chest of champagne and liquor for us to drink. I'm handed a bottle and told to open it; I pop the top off of the bottle and the girls are screaming in excitement. "Let's get this party started, shall we girls?" I said to them.

After about forty-five minutes, twelve shots and two bottles of champagne later. We must be on the outskirts of the pack territory where it meets human civilization, based on the time it took us to get here. Soon after, the car came to a stop and I looked out the window to see 'Club Skin' in a bright neon purple color. You could feel the music vibrating off the windows from the club. The door opened up with Bradshaw on the other side helping us one by one out of the car. I see a line that is basically wrapping around the building just to get in. "Madie, look at that line. We will never get in." I said with doubt. "Trust me, Roni, we will get in, '' Madie said with the biggest grin on her face. She walked up to the bouncer and said something to him; he lifted the rope up. "You ladies have a great night", he said to us. As we walked in, I pulled Madie aside. "How?" "I know the owner. He's Max's friend from college. He is human but he knows what we are. He and his wife come over once a month for dinner and wine," she says, and gives me a recurring smile. We walked past the door that led us to a huge area with a smelly mixture of human and werewolves. Lights are strobing as people are dancing and taking shots one after the other.

Madie led Oliva and I to a secluded VIP table in the club where Bradshaw was waiting for us. A server came to introduce himself, saying his name was Tommy and that he would be serving us tonight per the owners' request. We give him our drink orders; Oliva gets a gin and tonic, Madie gets a Tequila sunrise, and I get a drink Madie recommends for me; 's**t Wrecked'. It has rum, pineapple and cranberry juice with simple syrup topped with coconut rum infused whipped cream. Tommy leaves for a couple of minutes and then comes back with a tray with three drinks on it. He started to hand us our drink, but Bradshaw stopped him and took one of the small straws out of the waiters' apron. He tries each drink and nods his head. "Okay, you can hand them their drinks now. I had to make sure there wasn't anything in them." Tommy's hand started to shake when he handed us our drinks. "The owner has a list of drinks and shots for you ladies tonight." He looked back at Bradshaw with fear "If you would like you can try the drinks at the bar before they come out to them. If you would like." Bradshaw shook his head in an approving way, and followed Tommy back to the bar.

"Cheers, to a great night" we said all together, sipping on our drinks we ordered. As the night got longer, more drinks kept getting filled and shots were taken. Madie and I were on the bar dancing when I got a scent of pine cones and salt water. The smell was mesmerizing to me. I couldn't pin exactly where the smell was coming from but just the scent alone gave me butterflies. I started to look around the club to see where the scent came from. It was as if it was all around me. I was very confused about it. I finally decided to look up at the ceiling and there was a window to some sort of office; as if it was the owner's office. In that window I saw a figure that resembled Dylan and my body was filled with anger. He really followed us here, after I told him specifically to leave me the hell alone. Can he not take the word no to as my final decision? I grabbed Madies and showed him that Dylan followed me. When we looked back, he was gone. I couldn't wrap my mind around the fact that I saw him but no one else did. "Roni, what am I looking at?" Madie said. "Dylan is here, he was just up in the window looking down on us." "He's not here Roni, I promise. He doesn't even know where we are. He's probably back at the pack house with one of his whores. You know that. Don't you?" she said to me. "Let's get some shots in you. The bond you had with him is still there till he accepts your rejection." she gestured her hand towards Tommy for some shot.

Once he brought us some shots, I realized that Oliva wasn't sitting with us anymore. I looked around to find her and right as I was about to give up. I spotted her in the corner of the room with Bradshaw talking. "I got to go to the ladies' room". I told Madie as I walked off toward their direction. As I got closer to them, I saw Bradshaw take Oliva's hand and kiss it. I knew these two were together. I was finally getting close to them and I could overhear them talking. "I don't know how he found her. But she said he was in the window looking down on us, Brad." she said to him, looking into his eyes. "I know, but we need to make sure he gets nowhere near her. Because if one of them was her mate, then so is the other..." Bradshaw started to say till he spotted me and let go of Oliva's hand. "What are you two talking about? Who was that man in the window?" I said ambivalently. They looked at each other to figure how to come up with their next response when Oliva blurted out "Dylan, somehow he has followed you. Even after you rejected him. We are still trying to figure it out ourselves. No one told him where we were going tonight. But we haven't spotted him since the window." "Do we need to leave then?" I asked. "No Brad.... Bradshaw will find him and tell him to leave, but till then we are not changing any drinks, until he finds him." Olivia said.

She takes my hand to lead me back to the dance floor but I stop her. "I have to go to the ladies' room.." I start to say before Oliva cuts me off. "I'll go with you." "I think I should be fine. He can't get into the girls' bathroom anyway", I said to her as I smiled at her. I walked off to the restroom. I walk into the bathroom to find it packed with girls either fixing their hair, make-up, or trying to pee. I decided to just stand outside the door and wait for some of the girls to leave. Some time went by while waiting. There has to be more than one restroom in this building. I thought to myself before I started to walk off to go find another bathroom. As I was walking, I was grabbed from behind into what smelled like a cleaning closet. It was so dark in here, I couldn't even see my own hand. Before I could scream, a big hand was placed over my mouth, preventing me from screaming for help. Then I smelled that scent again from before. Pinecones and salt water? Who is this person and why do they smell like this? I thought to myself before this scruffy, warm face was next to mine, taking a deep breath, inhaling what I smelt like, as if it was a weird fetish. "One day soon, my love, you will be all mine. I couldn't take it anymore watching you in this slutty outfit from afar. You're lucky I don't take you right here right now, bend you over and tear up your little virgin p***y and ass up with my huge cock." a deep-toned manly voice said to me in my ear. I tried to say something but he gripped my mouth harder. "Tell my brother that I will be coming to get what is mine, that he must accept your rejection so I can claim you as my own." He licked my face. "I can't wait to show you that I'm not as sadistic as everyone says I am. You will grow to love me whether you like it or not." He kissed me on the cheek and pushed me to the ground and took off and threw the door.

I tried to get up fast to follow after him but I ran into Madie, panicking when she found me. "Where were you? We have been looking for you for thirty minutes. Bradshaw went out the backdoor chasing someone." Before I could say anything, Oliva took Madie and I by the forearm. "We have to go, it's no longer safe here." She pulled us through the crowd towards the door. "What's going on it was just some creep... that thinks I know his brother. I couldn't even see who it was, it was so dark in there." "There is no time for questions Roni, we have to get you back to the pack house. Samuel and Ben are waiting outside to escort you two back," Oliva said to us. Madie and I looked at each other more confused than we already were. "You're not coming with us, Oliva?" Madie said. "No, I have to help Brad. Now you two get out of here" she said to us as she shoved Madie and I into a car and slammed the door behind us.

The man in the driver's seat had salt and pepper-colored hair. I couldn't see his face, but I could see his neck and arms. They had so many scars. A kid that is not much older than us turns around fast in his seat. "Sorry we had to cut your night short, girls. Hope you had some fun. Madie, Max asked me to tell you to call him as soon as you can. Before you freak out, Sam is fine, but something happened." Madie as Madie took out her phone, "Thank you Ben, I'll call him right now," and dialed his number. "Ben, you need to turn around and keep a look out. We have a long drive with no back-up son." Ben nodded at his father and turned around. The car grew quiet with Madie whispering on her phone. "How is that possible? Roni said she saw him here tonight. There's no way he can be in two places at one time." She said as I looked at her. "Okay. We will be there as soon as we can." Madie hung up the phone as Samual started to drive. "What's going on?" I said eagerly. She just looked at me and said nothing. "Madie..." I started to say when she cut me off. "It's better if I don't say anything till we arrive. Alpha has asked to speak with you before anything."

Samuel was driving pretty fast and efficient because he turned a forty-five minute drive into a twenty-minute drive. As we pull up to the pack house we revert towards the pack hospital. Where Alpha Alex and Luna Rose are waiting for us. Ben opened the door for us and helped us out. "Alpha Alex, what is going on?" I spoke to him with respect. "Roni, did you say you saw Dylan tonight?" he said to me uneasily. "Yes sir, but what does that have to do with anything?" "Well Rose and I... This is kinda hard for us to say but... When we found Dylan a long time ago. His pack was slaughtered by the rogue lord. We don't know much about his family. Their pack migrated here from the north. We were traveling to them to meet the Alpha's sons, who were born weeks previously. Your father asked us to encourage them to be a part of the pack nation. By the time we got there, everyone was dead. We looked for survivors but we couldn't find them. Till we heard a noise coming from a great oak tree, a baby crying. And a wolf trying to get into the great oak tree. Samuel and I shifted and charged towards the wolf. Once we got closer, we saw that it was the rogue lord. He had something in his mouth but we couldn't tell what it was. We chased off the rogue lord out of the nation's territory and Rose went to inspect the tree and found Dylan." Alex pulled his wife in and kissed her on the forehead. "On that day we took Dylan in as our own son. We never knew who his parents were. We always had our suspicions of Dylan being an alpha's son due to his wolf, but that would have meant that he had a twin brother..." "No offense alpha, but what does that have to do with tonight?" I said incredulously.

" Twins never happen in our species , and if Dylan has a living twin brother, the prophecy is true. We have so much to worry about, especially if his brother was raised by the rogue lord." Alex emphasized to us. "There is only one record of twins and that was the moon goddess and sun god's children. Hades the moon goddess brother was frustrated that she loved humans, rather than immortals." They went on about how Hades stole one of the boys and designed him for evil, that the twins shared one mate and that when the twins and their mate are together, that the mate chooses to be with one twin or the other. But the choice would kill the other and a great war between good and evil would emerge from the cracks of the earth to destroy life as we know it. "If this is true, then the rumors of the rogue lord preparing an army are true." Madie and I stand there in complete terror. "Did you reject Dylan Roni?" Luna Rose asked me. "Yes ma'am only because he has a family already and he would have done it to me sooner than later." Rose looked at me with disappointment. "I didn't have much of a choice Luna. I was just looking out for myself. I'm not willing to go through the pain that he will cause me with his new little family. He doesn't care much about me at all. That's why the night he found me he was with another woman afterwards." I started to ramble off when Luna Rose lifted her hand to me to stop.

"I understand my child, but your rejection can not and will not be finalized if you care about life as we know it. You will take back your rejection. You don't have to love him nor care about him. My baby boy is lying in a hospital bed hanging on for dear life because of you. He may not be my blood, but he is my son and you will do as you are told. You may not like it, but that's the cards we have been dealt." she said to me maliciously. I opened my mouth and lifted her hand up once more to stop me from saying anything more. "You will do as I say, I out rank you. Now you need to go in there and sit next to my son and help heal him with your bond." She said to me as she pointed to the hospital. I looked at Alpha Alex as he gave me an ambivalent nod after he saw how frustrated his wife was with me. Madie and I started to walk up the stairs to the hospital.

As we walked through the doors, I stopped and turned to her. "Why should I do what she says? She's not my Luna after all. This is my life and I will live it how I want. Dylan wants nothing to do with me, so why should I care about him being in pain?" "Roni, I know you don't like it right now, but maybe just do what she says till you can speak with your mother. She will know what to do for sure." Madie said to me reassuringly, holding my arm. A nurse takes us to where Dylan is being held; Max is sitting in a chair outside the door. He looks up to see us and basically jumps out of his chair to pull Madie in his arms. "I'm so glad you guys are okay". He looks at me "Roni, it's not looking so good for him. You can go in there if you like, no one is in there with him." "I don't have much of a choice right now. Rose said I had to." I said callously towards him and Madie as I walked into the room. Tiff is howling and going crazy in my head when I see Dylan.

Dylan's hooked up to so many monitors and wires. I get this feeling in my chest. It hurts and it's filled with sorrow. I'm honestly really hurting to see what's supposed to be my mate laying down in a hospital bed in so much pain. He was lying there so lifeless and his skin was so pale, it was unlike his dark tan skin. There was a chair next to the side of his bed; I walked over to him. My hand brushes against his hand with some kind of hope that he will wake up to my touch. "I don't know what to really do, Dylan. I remember waking up to you holding my hand, waiting by my side. I felt so much love... or what I thought was love. You cared so much about me. Now you're lying here sleeping and it's all my fault. But when I overheard you were having a baby I became broken. I was afraid you were going to leave me for her since she's the mother of your child." I felt a tear come down my face and I sighed in disbelief. "Now I'm sitting here talking to you even though you're not able to say anything back. I will take back my rejection and I will sit on the side lines till you realize I am the one for you. You're my mate and nobody else. I Roni Ann Moon of the Silver Moon pack, take back my rejection to you Dylan of the Dark moon pack."

Moments later, someone comes up behind me and smacks my shoulder. "What are you doing holding my boyfriend's? Oh, it's just you." It was a girl who is about my age with huge buzzumes, a short skirt with a blouse that is barely holding in her boobs, grinning back at me. This must be the girl who Dlyan got knocked up. She definitely gets around the pack house. "I'm sorry, Luna Rose asked me..." I struggled to say. "I don't care what she asked you to do. Dylan will choose me as his chosen mate because I'm the mother of his child. Only family can be here so you need to leave now!" She said to me demandly. I knew this was a mistake to think I would be welcomed here. I quickly got out of my chair and darted for the door when I'm met with Alpha and Luna. "No Amanda, you will not be chosen for anything. Even if your child is Dylan's he will not choose you. Roni is his mate so she will not be going anywhere." Alpha said in his Alpha voice. Amanda quickly backed down, but it had no affect on me. I went to sit down back in my chair to take Dylan's hand in mine.

We sat there for what seemed like forever waiting for him to wake up from his deep sleep. After the first couple of day's Alex and Rose left to tend to things with the pack. Yesterday Amanda said she was leaving because the smell of me made her morning sickness worse. I thought it was funny because when I would go shower I made sure to use a lot of scented body wash and perfume. Madie came by and brought me food every so often to check in on me and if there was any update on his health. My answer was always no. "It's been a week and there's still no change. What if I really hurt him to the point he doesn't wake up? Madie I'm scared." I said frantically towards her. She pulled me into a deep huge and told me everything will be alright. I gave her a doubtful smile and sat back in my chair. "Thank you for the food. I'll let you know of any changes." I take Dylan's hand and squeeze it "Please wake up, I can't do this without you." Suddenly I feel a weak squeeze to my hand that's interlocked with Dylan's. I gasp as my eyes grow in shock when Madie comes running up to see what's going on. "Go get Alpha. Tell him that he's awake.." Before I could say anything else to Madie she ran out the door as fast as she could.

"Roni..." a soft voice came from Dylan as he slowly opened his eyes. He gave me a small compassionate smile. "I'm here Dylan...save your energy. Alpha and Luna are on the way here for you. I'm so glad you're awake." I give him a soft kiss on the forehead. "No...Roni there's something I need to tell you. It's about Amanda.." He coughed. "I don't care I don't want to hear about her. It's just you and I here right now. I was so worried about you." I started to say before he cut me off. "It's not mine... I promise you. Please believe me... I'll prove it..." He was cut off by Alpha and Rose bargained in running to his side.