THE REBIRTH OF THE LUNA

CHAPTER FOUR

AERYS

“Is this a joke?!” was the first thing Alpha Jordan said to break the silence. “How can I be mated to the Luna of Moon Cove? Is this the Moon Goddess trying to toy with my fate just because she believes she can?”

I stood up from the chair I was sitting on with a frown. I knew he didn’t seem to be on good terms with my pack for his own reasons, but it couldn’t possibly be bad enough for him to say that with so much genuineness.

He was my mate.

“Alpha Jordan?” I called, just to make sure that I had the right person.

“What, you don’t even know who I am?” He scoffed, sitting opposite where I stood, stunned.

I stared at him for a moment as it took a long while for me to come to terms with the fact that I was truly mated with him.

“You forced your way through my pack. What do you want to talk about so badly that you had to threaten my guard to bring you all the way here? Please know that if it has anything to do with the trade route, I will not be addressing it. I have told you everything you need to know through the letter I sent.”

“It’s about the peace treaty both of our fathers signed before they died,” I finally said when I had found enough voice in me.

“And what about it?” He spoke coldly and fast, as if he wanted this meeting to be over with so that I could leave.

“Since they’re both dead, and we’re the new leaders of the packs, I was wondering if we could draft a new treaty and sign it to assure our pack members that we are still keeping the peace between us.”

It took him a while to ponder my words, if he was even pondering them at all and not just pretending to, before he turned to me and shrugged.

“I simply can’t sign a peace treaty with you, Luna Aerys.”

“What?” I frowned.

“Peace treaties are almost never called for between packs, unless there is a war that needs to be stopped. In the case of our fathers, there was a war, and your father called for a peace treaty. Now that there are two new rulers, I don’t see a reason for that, especially since there haven’t been any huge rifts between both packs so far. It’s unnecessary.”

“While I understand where you’re coming from with this, I want you to also know that we will not be signing the treaty because of a war, we will just renew what our fathers have agreed upon to maintain the peace between both packs and prevent wars in the future if possible.”

“I will not sign a peace treaty with you, Aerys,” he said coldly, dropping the title.

That was a direct challenge, if anything.

Melvin was right; Alpha Jordan was hungry for war, and the fact that he was sitting right opposite his mate without having the decency to keep his cynical ideas to himself was enough for me to know that this man would do anything to get what he wanted.

Refusing to let him mess with me or provoke me to anger, I sighed and walked towards the door.

“And, for good measure, I can’t accept you as my mate,” he added before I could open the door and make my way out of there. “I already have someone I am very much in love with. I do hope you understand.”

Before I could leave the room, he summoned his soldiers, who were standing guard at the door, to kick me out.

“Let me go!” I yelled. “I will leave by myself.”

My words fell on deaf ears as they kept dragging and pulling me down the stairs.

“Darius!” I yelled out to the leader of the soldiers, and he burst in through the doors with the rest of the soldiers.

Alpha Jordan’s soldiers didn’t care about how my soldiers had come in aggressively. They pushed their way through my soldiers and pushed me out of the house until I landed on the ground.

“Kill them off!” I commanded in rage, and all of my soldiers sprung to action almost immediately.

A fight sparked between my soldiers and those of Alpha Jordan, and I watched as my soldiers killed the four guards.

As I walked away with the soldiers, the hair on my body rose as goosebumps enveloped me. I turned around to face the balcony of Alpha Jordan’s house, where he stood and watched me with a crooked smile on his face that told me everything I needed to know.

He had watched me kill his guards on purpose because that meant that I had officially made the first move, and war was coming.

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“We’re being invaded!” I heard the familiar voice of Delta Melvin outside my house, causing me to run out of the house and see what he was talking about.

Some of my pack members were gathered outside, fighting off Alpha Jordan’s pack members, who had now started to intrude and fight.

“There she is!” One of them shouted, pointing towards me as soon as I got out of my house.

“Why did you kill our soldiers?!” They hurled questions I couldn’t answer and insults I could take at me, causing my anger to boil over.

“Alpha Jordan has unleashed his pack members on us. This is him openly declaring war,” Melvin said to me. “He wants you to kill more of his people so that he can strike and look like he is in the right, but they’re the ones attacking first. I suggest we fight back.”

I watched as the members of the Dead Moon Pack tried to push their way towards me, while my soldiers and some of my pack members pushed them back with their weapons, beating the ones who seemed too aggressive.

“Alpha Jordan is my mate, Melvin,” I announced, not knowing what that was supposed to do exactly.

“That doesn’t matter to him. He cares about pack politics – every leader does, and so should you. Are you going to take matters into your own hands or wait until his pack members get to you and lay their hands on you?” He instigated.

I looked over Jordan’s pack members once more, wondering what was going through his head when he let his people come to us, practically sacrificing their lives and begging for their blood to be shed all in the name of making me be the villain.

What kind of pack politics was that?

“You need to make a decision now, before things get out of hand, Luna Aerys.”

Just as he said that, the whole pack members of Dead Moon went quiet as they all turned and looked back.

I frowned, looking on to see who was walking in the midst of them, even though I could tell who was coming from a mile away just by the way my heart reacted to his presence.

Alpha Jordan.

He made it to the front lines of his people with a hardened look on his face.

“You have killed my soldiers in an unjust and unruly manner,” he said to me.

“You started all of this, Alpha Jordan. Remember that there is no peace treaty between both packs anymore,” I reminded him.

“Exactly.” He gave me the same smile he gave to me when I had seen him standing on the balcony, and he only said two words before all hell broke loose.

“Kill them.”