Beatha (completed #7 of the blood moon saga)

13

“It’s ok, we will figure out what else they are keeping from me later”

He sighs and takes a breath, relaxing. He sunk to the ground and pulled on my socks as I looked back at Mary who’s watching us with a smile.

“Did he just read your thoughts?”

She looked to me completely invested in us both.

“Yes he did”

“Can Arthur do that too?”

Just his name pissed me off, not because I don’t love him because I do. But because I love him so much that it hurts to be lied to for who knows how long, I shake the thoughts from my head and smile at her.

“No he can’t. He can feel my emotions, well a little unless I block him out because he wears my mark on his neck but the bond isn’t complete so I can’t feel him”

She frowns and tucks some hair behind her ears and pulls out a smoke and lights it, making me smile.

“Because he’s dying, if I wore his mark and he died it could kill me, it already gave me a heart attack so—“

“——wow wow wow when did you have a heart attack?”

She was so into my story it was comical and it was clear luca thought so to.

“2 days ago but my gran healed me so I’m ok but it would probably kill me if the bond was completed so we never did it”

She nods, taking it all in, flicking the end of her smoke in an ashtray.

“I’m sorry about all the questions but it’s all very—- interesting”

She said trying to find the best suited word for her statement. I just smile.

“I don’t mind, humans fascinate me plus fay was human when she met Arden my brother and now she’s the new queen taking my mums place and she’s just like us”

“Fay my boss Fay is the queen of shifters? I’m honestly mind blown”

She points to her head and makes a shooting noise making me giggle. She’s like a child taking it all in. Luca stands up and takes my good arm

“We better go and get that hand stitched”

He says kissing my temple, obviously there was something on his mind and I just hoped he would tell me and not keep it from me like everyone else seemed to do.

Mary got up and smiled

“Yes, just drive to the other side of the lake, my sister has a small practice there just knock the door and she will let you in, it says GP Surgery on a sign”

We say our goodbyes and we get into the car, Luca takes my normal hand and kisses it

“I won’t ever keep anything from you, I promise you that. It feels so wrong. Just the thought gives me a bad taste in my mouth and honestly I’m really angry at Arthur for doing it, if he didn’t lie you wouldn’t have hurt yourself and that pisses me of”

He drops my hand and starts the car, I sigh pushing Hair behind my ear and I look up to the balcony. Arthur is smoking on the deck watching us. I say nothing more until we are further away from the house

“We can’t blame Arthur for my reaction”

I say looking at him, he shakes his head.

“What about my reaction? Because if it wasn’t for your reaction mine would have been similar, only your pain stopped me. If I had found him like that then found out he’s been lying id have done the same thing so that’s why I know I can blame him. I don’t care if it was pride, or shame that stopped him from opening his mouth but it was wrong. Damnit aspen we are the ones helping to dress him, to wash him, to choose food that’s not too fragrant incase it makes him nauseous. We don’t drive too fast or talk too loud or laugh too hard. We have been by his side worrying sick over everything then he turns around and lies to our face for weeks! It’s not ok and I’m pissed and it’s ok to be pissed at him especially over this”

I blink back the tears, he feels just how I feel and that makes me so mad at Arthur but the same thing keeps popping into my head over and over again stopping me from blowing up at him.

Wasted time.

Why ruin the last bit of time we have left because of fighting?

Luca sighs and rubs his hand down his face.

“I know. I know it’s a waste but are we just meant to bury these feelings?”

Jez he has got to stop doing that! My thoughts are getting awfully exposed right now and I’m feeling the pressure.

Luca laughs a big throaty happy laugh.

“I’m sorry but your head and thoughts are addictive and pure and I just can’t get enough especially when I feel like I’m on the edge of the world and everything is falling apart around me so your thoughts distract me from mine”

My heart does a little flip and I find more tears run down my cheek. I grab his hand and squeeze

It, not trusting myself to talk in case I sob again. I hated that he was hurting like me. The pain is unimaginable and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone, never mind luca. My Luca.

“If it helps, I'm not hurting as much as you are baby. I don’t think I could cope if I had the turmoil that you have wrapped up in your head over this.”

I look at him, he looks at me sadly then he kisses my fingers again and sucks one into his mouth. He runs his tongue over it and looks at me from the side of his eye. He moans, making me clench my legs together. I use it as a distraction from my pain and it works until the car stops and he pulls it from his mouth. I huff and he chuckles

“Don’t worry I’ll sort that burn out after we sort out that hand”

He pulls me in for a slow breathless kiss then pulls back and winks and gives me his best toothy grin. He gets out and opens my door then helps me out. He walks us to the door of the clinic and knocks on it.

A woman around Mary’s age walks out and you could instantly tell they were related, she smiled but then caught sight of my hand and she gasped.

“Oh heavens what have you done, come, come in and let me see that”

She even sounds like Mary.

“Sorry about this, I lost my temper at a tree”

She chuckles, pushing glasses up her nose and waving for us to follow her into a room with a bed and some equipment.

“Well if that’s your hand I’d like to see that tree, come I better wash it down then I’ll give you something got the pain”

I shook my head and poked the wound and shrugged

“I can’t feel it”

She looks worried

“I hope shifters have the ability to grow back nerves because there isn’t much I can do to help you with that”

“We do, or kind of as long as it’s stitched back together the feeling usually come back, for me it does anyway”

Luca says smiling at her and me I shrug.

“Iv never actually had a wound before, my body always protects me from them but I think I needed a redirection of the pain in my head so I used my fist and my body let me do it”

They both scoff at me and she pulls her glasses off and puts on a smaller pair looking me over.

“How’s that possible?”

She asks, I lift my good hand and light it on fire and she jumps and nearly falls off her seat making me and Luca chuckle. I roll my hand and catch the ball of fire then make it do a little swirl in the air and disappear

“What are you”

She takes her seat again pulling equipment from a trolly and placing it beside my hand on the table.

“I’m what you would probably call a tribred? A wolf..”

I pull my claws out on my good hand to show her

“A banshee”

I roll a bubble in my hand and cover my head with it and scream into it then roll it into a ball of screams in my hand and I hold it to her ear letting just a little scream out, she squints so I pull the bubble down

“And a hellhound”

I light my hand on fire again then make it dissolve, Lucas watching me with a grin, he elbows me

“Show off”

I chuckle and grin back, she shakes her head with wide eyes then pulls more stuff out.

“That’s possibly the coolest thing i've ever seen, how did you become all that?”

She said, flapping her hands in my face, I welcome the distraction and she goes to work cleaning my wound and sewing it up.

“Well you can’t become a banshee or a hellhound unless you are fated to one or your born as one and even with hellhounds they don’t actively become hellhound when they are born, in order to activate that gene you need to be burned alive like my dad was when he was 13, I have access to all my powers because I’m a tribred, same as my cousins who are the same, my aunt and uncle ended up activating there genes when my mother died and my dad cured her with hellfire, a lot of weird s**t started happening after that. We are all different, what I just showed you only I can do, except my younger cousin, she could put a play on with her fire. It takes practice and I had lots of it but my little cousin is a pure hellhound. When she was born she used to just burst into flames, we did to but we were more controllable but my little cousin is honestly one of the best people I know but she’s crazy”

I pull Lucas head around to his bald patches that spells d**k, she snorts and laughs as Luca glares at me making me giggle

“She did that the other day when I told her to wake him”

“Little bastards have it coming, I swear”

I cackle at his response, I’ll look forward to watching that prank war play out although when Ailm and isla are involved I will steer clear and watch from the sidelines.

It took around 20 minutes to get all sewed up by the doctor, she was nice and a good distraction from our problems.

When we get back in the car we head into town, I look at him confused

“Where are we going?”

“I seen a shop in town I want to take you to”

He says with a cheeky grin on his face, my interest was officially peeked. I smile at him lighting a smoke and watching the beautiful scenery as we drive by in comfortable silence.

I groan when we pull up to a lingerie shop then I shoot Luca a glare, he throws his head back and he laughs but I don’t see how that’s funny.

“Not there, there”

He holds his stomach laughing and pointing at another shop ‘Leo’s custom leathers’ my eyes widen and I grin at it.

“Cool!”

“Yep! It’s about time I get you a jacket of your own. I've been driving to this place for years, his work is amazing”

I clap my hand but cringe when I can feel my hand again and it doesn’t feel good. He winces and grabs his own hand and I can’t help but laugh

“s**t I forgot you would feel it to”

I snort and giggle and he looks at me like I’m crazy

“How is that a good thing? Damn that stings”

I pout and take his hand and kiss it, then I pull his finger into my mouth and I suck it groaning. He moans and closes his eyes resting his head against the seat again. I use my other hand to rub up his thigh then I grab his d**k with my hands through his shorts. His eyes widen and he hisses. He looks me over like I’m the only woman left in the world, making me instantly wet.

His other hand reaches over and he runs his thumb down the side of my face I groan at the contact

“That’s because to me you are the only woman left in the world, all MINE”

He pulls his finger from his mouth and he kisses me, raking his fingers through my messy bed head. He bite on my bottom lip and I open it letting him take control of the kiss. I pull on his d**k through his trousers and he growls into my mouth. He kisses me one last time and pulls back

“Great now iv a hard on going into the shop”

He closes his eyes and I decide to poke the bear

“Think of an old fat man rubbing his wrinkly balls in your face then he lets out a fart just to sweeten the deal”

“Eweeeeeee aspen”

I choke on my laugher banging the dash of the car cackling away.

“Did it at least work?”

I ask him trying to calm my breathing down, he looks down and then back up grinning

“It actually did, come on before you give me any other images that will be seared in my Brain forever”

He jumps out of the car and rushes to my side and opens it up giving me his hand, I take it and smile. He wants to be a gentleman so I let him. We went into the store and the place smelled amazing, so many different jackets hung from The railing, some just simple, others had intricate designs on them and were so beautiful.

“Ahh Luca it’s nice to see you, and look you brought a girl! It’s about time”

A round bald man, around 5ft walks out from the back. He shakes my hand and grins at me, I smile back and I get a sense of peace flowing from him.

“I did, this is my wife aspen”

The man's eyes widen and a large grin spreads across his face.

“Are you telling me that Luca the man who said he would never have a woman or settle down has not only caught this goddess but you were smart enough to put a ring on her finger and marry the girl?”

I smile up at Luca, he goes a little red faced but he runs a finger down my cheek and looks at me adoringly.

“Well let’s just call it fate or maybe I’m just smarter than I look but I Couldn’t let her slip away”

He wraps his arms around my waist and pulls me to him kissing my cheek and settling his head in the crook of my neck.

This Luca I love, infact I adore this Luca. Yea he’s the same Luca but he looks like he has very little in the world to worry about. He looks happy and content and so relaxed

“Well good for you man! Now what can I do for you?”

“A jacket, one for her”

I grin and look around at all of the jackets around me.

“Ok what are we thinking? What do you want on it”

Luca looks at me and I tap my chin thinking about it.

If you can hear me I wanted to talk to you about the name of our pack when we merge. Because we are surrounded by pine trees I wanted to call it pine ridge pack. If you like the name I would like that on the back of the jacket in big writing and a wolf howling into a moon. Then the rest is up to you

Luca raises an eyebrow at me and winks, he tells the man exactly what I said and I’m giddy in excitement about the name. I had been thinking about it for ages and I’m so happy he likes it too. Then he tell the man to put on the breastplate ‘the Luna’ I was excited because his pack bought him a jacket that said ‘the alpha’