Come Back To Me, My Luna

ARTHUR DRACO “I love you so much, my alpha. Please take care of yourself and come back to me alive.” My one and only mate pressed a soft trembling kiss on my lips before putting the coat around my shoulder. It’s made out of the fur of the wolves that I have slain in my five years as the alpha of the Black Light, a pack made up of loyal members that have decided to follow me. Those who perished are the wolves who tried to m******e us, to take away our land and property that only belongs to me, but they failed miserably at the cost of their own lives. There is a vivid fear in her ethereal face but she tries too hard to swallow it all down and pretend that everything is going to be alright. “I’ll put Orion in his place and show him who the alpha is,” I said softly to reassure her. I kissed her long and hard, never wanting to pull away before drawing her in for a hug, inhaling her peach and vanilla scent. Maria Victoria is my light in this dark world. She’s mo bheatha. She’s my life. She is all for me. From the moment I branded her as mine and claimed her as my mate, I knew that we will be with each other for the rest of our lives. No one can separate us. As the leader of the pack, I envisioned peace for all the pack members to live as much as freely as they want to while abiding with the rules I set in place. That peace is now being threatened by my former beta who is now leading a coup against me. I’ve taken in orphans and rogues into my small but powerful pack but I never for once thought that my kindness would be met by a betrayal. A stinging betrayal at that. Now, he is nearing my territory challenging my leadership. The growls of my soldier wolves roared outside my humble castle waiting for their alpha to lead them to victory. “You are the strongest wolf in the entire plains of Arezzo. You got this. You will beat them all and come home to me…” her hand went down to a small swell on her belly, “to us. Safe, sound, and alive.” I knelt and brush my lips over her baby bump where our twin pups are proudly growing inside. They are our heirs, the fruits of our undying love for each other. I lifted my gaze at her face, cursing deep inside when I saw the unshed tears in her blue eyes that captured my heart and soul in an instant when I saw her dancing at the ball during the feast of the moon. I promised her a lifetime of happiness and yet I am breaking it now. “I promise you that this is the last battle that I am going to. I’ve already talked with the high priestess of the moon goddess,” I said in the perfectly low tone reserved only for her while wiping the tears off her face. “She has our blessing. After this, there will be no more enemies. We will live in peace again.” “Of course, I believe you.” She touched my cheeks with her dainty fingers. “I will wait here for you, Arthur.” “And I will always come back to you, Maria. Wait for me, my love.” I left our small castle to join my pack eagerly snarling for a taste of blood tonight. We are going to hunt for the traitors. We will spare no one this time. I paused to take a look back at Maria on the front of our house. She will not be alone. I made sure I leave some of my finest enforcers to protect her. “Alpha, Orion has crossed our borders. We have to hurry now,” Emman, my gamma who has now risen to the rank of beta, spoke beside me. I kept my eyes glued at Maria and without saying anything, I ran back to her to pull her for another passionate kiss. I just felt that I had to do that. “I will come back, my love. Make sure to wait for me,” I planted another kiss on her forehead while softly caressing her cheeks. Her eyes sparked hope as she smiled faintly. “I will be waiting for you. Always.” She stood there in her regal glory, her beautiful eyes shining with tears waving at me goodbye. “Let’s go!” I commanded the pack. We ran barefooted into the forests in our human forms before their bones snapped and popped and out came their beasts growling into the night. I hopped on the back of my beta until we reached the valley where Orion is waiting cockily with his hoard of newborn wolves behind him. My eyes darkened. As an alpha, I have a cardinal rule to never bite or scratch humans to turn them into wolves. We are not cold blooded cunning creatures like vampires. We just want to live without harming anyone. “Orion!” I growled. “You bastard! You dare to challenge me in my own land!” Orion spat on the ground. They warned me about this ambitious murderous wolf and yet I still gave him a chance to redeem himself. But now that chance has expired and so will his life too. “This will be my land not long from now, Arthur, together with your pack and your beloved luna! I will take her every night and make sure she screams my name more than she did with you!” My beast roared, huffing out smoke more than ready to brutally kill the traitor. It would not just sit down while our luna is being insulted. “Kill them all! Now!” I ordered before shifting into a jet black beast and directly lunging at the enemies. I bit into their necks, tore their veins out, and ripped their heads from their bodies. Under the moonlight, the entire forest became a b****y battleground for supremacy. Several severed wolf heads after, I transformed back into my wolf to heal my wounds while stalking Orion and his remaining army down a drain. “Alpha Arthur! There’s a message from one of the enforcers. Our remaining pack members and Luna are under siege!” one of my omegas informed me through the alpha link. My wolf growled, smelling danger in the air. “Take all of the soldiers back into the pack and make sure Luna Maria Victoria is protected!” I growled. “But alpha, we cannot do that to you,” Emman interjected. “We cannot leave you alone to face the rest of the enemies!” Because that means leaving me without any reinforcement to face Orion and his army who has spawned back to life. I put a hand on his shoulder and pressed my nose to his while gritting my teeth. “My luna is pregnant with my twins! I am ordering you to leave and go back and save your luna. That is an order!” He cursed under his breath still hesitating. “Do it now!” “You heard the alpha! Return to the pack!” They had no choice but to obey me and left running back into our territory. “You are a very arrogant man, Arthur. Do you think you can take us all alone?” Orion laughed, his injuries all healed from shifting into his wolf and back. “I tricked you. I made another pack just to kill your beloved luna and pups. They are already too late by now so why don’t you just let me tear your head apart so you can meet them in advance to hell!” I marched towards him but my mind was on my wife back home. “Let’s see!” “You can’t take me down, Arthur! You are the weakest when you are alone!” I can only grin at him. “That’s what you thought!” He was wrong. I am the alpha of my pack. I am not capable of being weak. There was no weakness. Except her. My luna. My precious Maria Victoria who is waiting for me to come home into her loving delicate arms. I shifted back into my wolf easily overpowering his wolves. I did not spare anyone. I killed them all as quickly as possible. Alone and on my own, I waded my way against the hundred newborn wolves snapping their necks out of their bodies while enduring their bites and scratches on my body. Now, there was only me and Orion on top of a pile of dead wolf bodies. “No… Please spare me, Alpha Arthur!” He knelt on my feet begging me but it was already too late for him. “Please, Al-” His litany was cut off instantly when I shifted into my wolf, sank my teeth at his jugular vein bleeding him dry until his death. I did not stop biting at his neck until I made sure that the last drop of his traitorous blood was drained out to the ground. When I’m done, I threw his limp body out and headed back home. But the second I stepped into the gate, I knew something was dreadfully wrong. “Alpha Arthur…” Emman’s hands are clenched to his sides and his head lowered in shame. My wolf perched up and cried out in agony. I don’t have to hear the rest of his sentence because I already felt it. My luna has been cut off from the alpha link. I can no longer reach her. I can no longer feel her lifeline. My whole world stood still as I flew over the dead wolves on my floor into our bedroom. I stopped breathing, the whole world on a standstill as I sniffed the stench of Maria's cold blood in the air. My hands trembled at the sight of her. Everything in me is rejecting the horrible picture before me. “f**k no!” I released a heart wrenching wail that even a devil would be alarmed upon seeing her condition. My luna… my kind and fragile luna is on our ceremonial bed soaked with her own blood, n***d from waist down with all signs of being violated, her hand on her slashed belly to protect our pups for the last time. I took her hand and melded it against my cheek hoping she would caress me just like what she always does but it just slid back on the floor and settled on a c***k where our wedding ring has fallen drenched with blood. “N-No… No!”