Filed to story: The Perfect Luna by Marissa Gilbert
“I will hate Gideon forever if you stop me now because of him,” she lied. She would never hate the lycan king. It was simply impossible. However, she knew that this was the right button to push on the Beta. Nevertheless she decided to sweeten it a bit, “Reid, I can’t lose her. I almost lost her once and it was the worst thing ever. For me, she is my Beta…”
Something changed in his eyes at her words. Something clicked. Because after that, he opened the door for her himself, saying, “I will drive.”
She decided not to argue with that. A lycan by her side could prove useful.
The drive to the Silver River pack seemed terribly long and they barely spoke to each other the whole time.
“This friend of yours,” Reid decided to break the silence, “Is she at least hot?”
“Hotter than fire,” Riannon scoffed, “But way out of your league.”
“Excuse me?!” the Beta pretended to be offended although his eyes gleamed as if he has accepted the challenge, “Any girl will be happy to land a lycan Beta like me!”
“Not Maya though,” Ria chuckled, “She is different. She doesn’t care about title and she is not your typical she-wolf.” story about Maya, relieving years of their friendship.
The guards let them into the pack territory with ease, greeting their Luna. “Wait for me here,” Ria told the lycan when he parked in front of her house and she jumped out of the car.
The door of the mansion opened at once and a very troubled Ash walked out of
He looked her up and down as if he was checking for something and then took
her hand, pulling her behind him.
“Where is she?” Riannon asked him, not even trying to struggle. “In the barn,” he replied dryly, “Everyone is there! I have to tell you that it doesn’t look good,
Riannon.”
“Ash, stop for a second! Explain to me what is going on! What happened to
Maya?” she begged him.
He stopped, inhaling deeply and then turned to face her.
“Goddess knows what is happening, Riannon,” he said, “It started yesterday but it escalated rather quickly into something completely else!”
“Details, Ash, I need details!” she urged him.
“Yesterday, out of the blue Roxanne announced at the pack dinner that she saw
Maya stealing from your jewellery box while you were missing,” he started explaining.
“What nonsense!” Ria rolled her eyes, “Maya would never! And anyway, she can take whatever she likes from my jewellery box if she needs it.”
“That’s what we all thought,” the Beta nodded, “Only that it did not end there. All of a sudden Brayden got very angry and ordered to search Maya’s room.”
“Of course, he did,” the woman gritted her teeth.
“But that was when they found Maya hiding a secret phone in her room,” Ash went on,“ The Alpha ordered her to unlock it and this was when the shit hit the fan. Because on that phone she was texting with foxes and werebears. And even lycans from the Eastern kingdom. And I mean texting about upcoming attacks on our pack. She was giving them information on when would be the best days to attack us…”
“That’s impossible!” Riannon splashed her hands, “Maya would never…”
“Again,” he interrupted her, “Everyone said so. But right now, this escalated even more… That’s why you need to go to the barn with me. You need to see this.”
repeating itself!
Yet when the doors of the barn were opened before her, she met Brayden’s gaze.
And Roxanne’s too. Maya was right next to them.
But Riannon was already staring in the pair of smoky grey eyes. She would never forget them…
Riannon knew that she would never forget that face and she recognised him at once. The man who accused Maya of being a traitor. The man she interrogated personally for many hours. The man even Ash interrogated and he was by far one of the cruelest interrogators she knew. And yet that man never cracked.
She remembered his perfect face being broken in many places and yet he kept saying the same story over and over again. He was the one to blame for what happened to Maya back in the past. Because he helped to set her up.
Riannon always knew that this man was connected to Roxy somehow. She knew
She just had this gut feeling inside telling her that she was right about that.
He watched her walking inside of the barn with Ash by her side and she could swear that she saw a vague smile in the corner of his lips. His hands were chained and lifted up and he was shirtless, revealing his perfect muscles.
A warrior. This was what he claimed to be. His long brown hair was reaching his shoulders and was not bloody yet, meaning that no one tried to beat the truth out of him. Yet.
“Ri,” Brayden stormed her way but stopped when she gave him a death stare.
“What is going on here?” she walked past him and stood in front of the man.
Maya was in the room too and they exchanged knowing glances. No words were needed. But Riannon tried her best to signal her friend that everything would be fine. Whatever it took now, she would make sure that nothing happened to her in this lifetime. She wasn’t going to lose her again.
She noticed a few warriors and their Gamma in the room as well. All of them looked concerned. Maya was everyone’s favourite and some of the men were even after her in hopes to get her as their chosen mate.
At least, she could hope for their support if it came to this.
“Nice to see you, Ri,” Brayden stood next to her right in front of the man with the grey eyes who was watching her with some kind of amusement in him, “I missed…”
“I asked what is going on here!” she demanded not even bothering to look at him.
“Unfortunately, our Maya is compromised,” her husband sighed as if he was sad.
He wasn’t. She knew that he wasn’t. He did not care. She wasn’t his friend. If anything, they were NOT each other’s biggest fans although there was never an open confrontation.
“Nonsense,” she interrupted him.
“Luna,” Roxy dared to speak, “We found out that Maya…” “Shut up!” Riannon said calmly but loud enough for everyone to hear, “You may be my higher-ranked wolves should deal with and as far as I remember you are still an omega.
Unless something changed in the few days that I’ve been absent.”
Everyone looked at her. And she only lifted her chin up higher.
“I understand that you are upset, Riannon,” Brayden said, finally not using her nickname anymore, “But Roxy… Roxanne here was vital for the investigation.”
“I have no doubt!” she let out a laugh that was stone cold. “Helpful little omega, isn’t she? How did all this start again?”
“I…” Roxy started to form tears in her eyes the way she always did, trembling.
“There, there,” Ria came to her and patted her shoulder, “You were so brave and full of yourself just three seconds ago. I am sure you can handle an adult conversation without bursting into tears for once if you try really hard.”
Again, no one spoke a word. They all just looked at her, stunned.
“Maybe you need emotional support?” Riannon went on, “We can do that too!
Luckily your mate is right here! Come on, Bray, give her a hug. The girl needs some strength! For the sake of her wolf and all.”
Her husband clenched his lips tight. But before he was to reply something, Roxy spoke.
“All I did was notice she had your bracelet under her shirt when you left. I didn’t think much of it, but later I followed her and saw her walking into your room. She went straight to your jewellery box and took something else from it.”
“Right,” Riannon nodded a few times, “And to that, I have a very important question.”
She made a pause and walked back to the chained man because she needed to see his reaction as well as everyone else’s.
“Which bracelet?” she asked and noticed how the man’s eyebrows twitched slightly. Just a second of movement. Nothing more. Not enough for anyone else to notice. But she knew that he was surprised.
“Excuse me?” Roxy seemed startled as well. But that did not come as a shock.
“Which bracelet did you see on Maya?” she repeated the question slowly as if she was talking to a stupid child.
“Erm… A diamond one,” Roxy stuttered.
“There are many diamond bracelets in the world,” Ria scoffed, “Yet you were sure that Maya had mine on. You must remember the details well then. It must be one of my memorable
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