The Luna's Love (Book 2)

Chapter Six

“Do you want to talk about it?” I looked straight ahead at the water while I tried talking to Emily.

Everyone left soon after I sent the witches away, Ally was hesitant to leave her girlfriend but she knew that she needed space to think. I wanted to have Emily’s sister stay so we could get to know her but neither of them seemed interested in that.

“She’s a witch?” Her meek voice came out in a whisper.

“Yes. She is probably one of the most rebellious ones that was recently initiated into the coven.” 

I heard Emily chuckled at my words.

“She was always like that.” She let out a sigh. “Growing up she was always the trouble maker, getting into things she knew she wasn’t supposed to. She always secluded herself from everyone else and it made me so angry because she was, and still is, my mom's favorite and she didn’t even want to be. I would give anything for my mom to love me the way she loves her.”

I stayed silent, resting an arm around her shoulders. I didn’t know what to say to help at the moment because I knew her mother was hard on her and I couldn’t say she would get better because I didn’t know if she would. 

“She left a year ago, when she was my age. She just ran away one day and we never saw her again. My mom made all of these excuses about how she was already so mature that she was ready to live on her own but that was just my mothers excuse for not trying to find her. She loves her so much and yet she still didn’t try to find her. Makes me wonder what she would do if I did the same.” 

“How come you never mentioned your sister before? Ally told me that the only family you had was your mom.”

“Ally knows that Elena isn’t someone that I like to advertise.” 

We sat in silence for a bit longer, watching the gentle waves play through the water as the moon illuminated the fish beneath it. Listening to the sounds of nocturnal creatures running through forest after waking up from their sleep. It was peaceful to me but I could tell that Emily couldn’t find any peace.

“Has Ally ever tried to explain to you what I am?”

“She told me you’re a wolf.” She glanced at me as she spoke, her statement making me smile.

“I’m much more than that. I am a healer, a healer is a special type of wolf that can heal any supernatural being but not humans and most healers have a special type of power. I am also an Elder empath witch, which is what I was talking about earlier. An Elder is basically the one in charge of their species. There are two Elder witches alive right now, myself and my good friend Maggie. Being an empath and a healer, that gives me extremely rare and special abilities, one of those abilities is to take away pain. Even if only for a second.” I paused, letting her absorb all of the information I just gave her.

She chewed her bottom lip while trying to comprehend everything I just said before she gave me a look telling me she understood what I was saying.

“I can give you peace if you’d like. I can take it away for 60 seconds, or for the rest of the night, the time is up to you. But if you want, I can give you peace.” 

I watched Emily’s eyes well in overwhelming exhaustion, she was so tired. I didn’t know how strong the shy girl had been until she let her strength fall. 

“Just for a moment. I don’t want to lose the feeling because that's how I know it’s real, but just for a moment I would like to feel peace.” The tears began to stream down her cheeks and my heart ached in my chest. 

“Okay, I need you to trust me.” I held out my hand.

She hesitated but quickly put her hand in mine with a nod. I closed my eyes, placing my left hand above her to capture it in my grasp. I let myself open up to her soul and I flinched when I felt her emotions soar through my veins. I wasn’t prepared for as much pain and power to enter my body as she held in her hands. I had to open my eyes as I continued to hold her fear and anger in my body only to see her with her eyes closed and a small smile on her lips. A single tear fell down her right cheek as she smiled without hesitation.

    After a moment I had finally taken every ounce of negativity from her body before letting it slowly flow back into her. I watched her face, my eyes fixated on her skin as it began to glow. I knew her sister was a powerful witch but sometimes the gene can lie dormant in one sibling while taking hold of another. Taking away her pain woke her genes up.

Her smile began to falter and the light began to dim before she opened her eyes and met mine.

“Thank you.” 

I smiled in response before pulling myself up and holding down a hand for her to take.

“We should be getting back now. It’s late, do you need me to take you home?” 

“No, tonight is poker night so my mom will be out until five in the morning and come back so hammered that she doesn’t know who I am let alone if I’m not there. Would it be okay if I stayed here tonight?”

Her large blue eyes that were still brimmed with tears silently begged me. 

“You can stay here any night.” I smiled softly before getting into the Jeep that was left for us.

The drive home was silent as I contemplated how I would go about telling her she was a witch, or if I should tell her at all. I wanted to talk to Dylan and Maggie before telling her anything because the girl has gone through so much, I don’t know if she could handle this. Once we pulled into the driveway we both got out to see Ally sitting on the steps laying on Dylan’s shoulder, eyes half lidded until she noticed our presence. 

“Are you okay?” Ally ran to her girlfriend with worry.

“I’m okay.” Emily’s voice held the same fearful tone that I had come to recognize.

The girls both ran up the porch stairs and into the house so I took Allysa’s previous position and sat next to my mate before laying my head on his shoulder.

“The babies are asleep, Austin is in the basement with Wynter, and I’m assuming by the fact that Emily is still here that she will be staying the night.” Dylan spoke softly.

“Yes.” I rubbed my hands fiercely over my face. “Dylan, she is a witch.”

I heard him sigh.

“I assumed that by her sister but I was hoping the gene somehow missed her.”

“When we were at the lake she was so broken and in pain that I told her I could take it away, so for a few minutes I took it away. I wasn’t expecting to have a power trip rush through my body when I borrowed hers, it was dormant but having me do a supernatural act on her soul woke it up. She is powerful. Not a normal fourteen year old witch powerful, a descendant from an Elder powerful. And she doesn’t even know. All she has is an abusive mother and a sister who didn’t care enough to stay and now I have to tell her that her entire world is going to change because she holds power that most witches can only dream of.” 

I felt the exhaustion from the day creep into my body as I spoke exasperated. Emily had been dealt a bad deck and I had to make it worse.

“Don’t talk to her until you talk to Maggie, it is better to explain things to her with answers than with questions you can’t fulfill. Find out more about her sister and who she is related to so you can tell her the power she holds instead of it being unknown. As of now you are her Elder, you can handle this.”

I felt my mate’s hand rub the small of my back as he spoke comforting words.

“I think I am going to go for a run, are you okay with the kids if they wake up?” I lifted my head to look him in the eyes.

“I’m okay with them but it’s nearly midnight, are you sure you want to? You won’t get any sleep tonight.” 

“Yeah, if I lay down like this I won’t get any sleep either so at least this way I feel productive.” 

He leaned down and placed a kiss on my forehead before standing up and pulling me up with him. I walked to the front of the steps before jumping off and shifting mid air, I didn’t shift nearly as much as I used to and I could tell by the annoying sting that filled my body with the change. I turned around to see him smiling down at me with tired eyes before walking inside to go to bed. I let out a loud howl before darting off into the unknown darkness ahead of me. 

    A part of me hoped that finding out she was a witch would give her some answers to help her heal and grow but I knew that it was wishful thinking. I had only met this girl twice but I had already learned so much about her that my heart ached at the thought of changing her world once again. I wanted to get her out of her abusive mothers home but in the human world you can’t just take a child who is being neglected. I thought back to her sister, Elena. How could she leave when she saw the way her mother was treating her younger sister? It made me think of the way Allysa’s parents left her. I guess the two girls had more in common than I realized.

Finding out that Emily is a witch could explain why Ally felt so comfortable telling her about herself. I knew Dylan disagreed with me but I trusted the way Allysa felt. She knew in her heart that it was okay and it turned out to be. 

I ran through the forest floor, dodging fallen trees and smaller animals. I ran for so long that I didn’t realize where I ran until I found the small waterfall that made my heart smile with memories. Such an insignificant scene in the grand scheme of the world meant more than most things to me because it reminded me who I was. It was my place to think when my thoughts were too loud, I wanted Emily to have a place like that. I laid on the ground near the water to rest my legs, nearly falling asleep before I realized how tired I was.

    I made the journey home a lot slower than earlier because I was tired but I also wasn’t in a rush to go back home. When I reached the house I shifted back at the bottom of the steps, putting on the robe that Dylan must have set on the porch after I left. I planned to go inside and go straight to bed but when I walked through the living room I could see the figure of a young girl sitting on the couch, illuminated by the tv lights in the darkness. 

“Emily?” I spoke out, waiting for a response but it took a moment.

“Hey.”

“What are you doing in here?” I glanced at the clock. “It’s nearly four in the morning.” 

I slowly made my way to sit next to her because although sleep was calling for me, I couldn’t let her sit alone. 

“I have insomnia so this is kind of my nightly routine at home.” She let out a dry chuckle to herself. “Ally always stayed with me so when my mom got angry at me for staying up late, I wasn’t alone. She never hit me if Ally was there.”

I cringed at her words with pain. I knew her mother was neglectful and verbally abusive to the young girl but I would have never thought she would hit her.

“She had to be the perfect mother in front of guests, even at midnight and drunk. She would never do more than chastise me if I wasn’t alone, it's when she got me alone after that that she would get mean.”

I couldn’t respond, I had no words to make it better so I just wrapped my arms around her and prayed that my compassion would pour from my soul and into her. 

“Sometimes I forget that the way she treats me isn’t normal, like I will be talking about my mom and someone will look at me horrified and I get confused for a second until I remember that not everyone’s mom is like mine. For my sixteenth birthday, all I wanted was to spend time with Ally and my mom and be happy. My mom disappeared for a week and when she showed up she screamed at me for days because she thought the house was a mess. She forgot my birthday, but Ally didn’t.”

“She loves you, you know.” I whispered above the noise.

“My mother isn’t capable of love.” Emily's voice held venom, her statement causing me to make eye contact.

“Not your mom, I don’t know her well enough to know how she feels about anyone. I’m talking about Allysa. She loves you, and she protects the people she loves.” 

    Emily leaned into my arms that were still wrapped around her and let out a gentle sigh. She was so much stronger than anyone else knew, but she didn’t want to be. She shouldn’t have to be. I felt myself slowly drifting off into a perplexed state as my head rested against the back of the couch but I didn’t fight it. The noise of the tv acting like my lullaby and before I knew it I slipped into the blissful unconscious.