Filed to story: The Perfect Luna by Marissa Gilbert
“It was the one with an emerald in it,” the omega said quietly, hugging herself and lowering her head as if the pressure was too much for her.
“Oh, really?” Riannon sneered, “And how would you recognise it if I never wore it in the few days that you stayed here?!”
This time she got a few gasps from the people around them. “I…” Roxy was lost for words. But just for a second. Then she looked straight into the
Luna’s eyes and said, “I looked at your pictures in the magazines and saw that one.”
“Did you see others?” Ria did not want to lose the momentum and kept going,
“Can you describe them? You seem to have quite an eye for jewellery if you remembered it that well from just one pic.”
“I…” the omega looked at her mate and Brayden stepped in at once.
“Riannon, enough! That’s not about the bracelet anymore!” he practically growled at her.
“On the contrary,” she turned to look at him, “The bracelet is the most important part here! It was enough for you to suddenly search my best friend’s room! Like I couldn’t have given her the damn thing! And you know that I would let Maya have anything she wants from my jewellery box! Not that she would want anything! So, why did you order that search?!”
“Because I wanted to get to the bottom of this!” he snapped, “And I am happy that I did! Because that phone is the main issue now, Ri! Not the bracelet!”
“How convenient!” she narrowed her eyes at him.
“The phone unlocked with her fingerprint!” he snarled.
“Big deal!” she scoffed, “Like those are hard to get nowadays! All you need is a glass that the person used!”
“You haven’t seen what’s inside!” Brayden was breathing heavily now. He did not like to be contradicted.
“Were there her pictures with our enemies?” she rolled her eyes, “Videos maybe?
Texts are no proof, Bray!”
“They are if they lead us into capturing the intruder!” her husband spat the words,
“It’s too much of a coincidence!”
“This part I agree with!” she folded her hands on her chest and came up closer to the man with grey eyes, “It is a bit too much of a coincidence that everything got solved so easily. And Maya, who is not an i***t, by the way, was stealing my jewellery and wearing it in front of messages that describe all her betrayals and future plans plainly.I mean, come on! I know Maya since we were children. She is not that dumb! She would at least use a code!”
“And yet she didn’t!” now Brayden was properly angry, “You should listen to what this man says before you continue to embarrass yourself protecting a traitor.”
“She is not guilty unless proven otherwise,” Riannon snapped, “And I am not convinced at all. But you are right. Let’s listen to that very important witness who you got at the most convenient time.”
She already did this in the past. She interrogated that man and knew what did not work. Because she didn’t break him and neither did anyone else. He was good. Very good. Which meant that he was dangerous.
So, she had to try something else. Something that he wouldn’t expect.
She came much closer to him, regretting that he was much taller than her. It did not give her the desired effect. But she had to work with what she had.
Slowly, she traced her fingers over his face and all the way to his chin, cupping it gently as he did not tear his eyes off her.
“You are very beautiful,” she said, and his lips parted slightly. “Th-thank you,
Luna,” he said in a hoarse voice, “I…”
“Don’t thank me,” she took her hand off him, happy to throw him off his course even a little bit, “It’s just a fact. Not a compliment.”
“Riannon, what is the point of this?” Brayden was losing his patience. “No point, really,” she shrugged her shoulders, “Just stating the obvious. He is very handsome. That’s all.”
She could hear the sound of her husband’s teeth-gritting.
“All right, handsome, tell us everything. Who are you? Why are you here? And what is your connection to Maya?” she looked straight into his eyes, not even flinching.
He impressed her in her past life but right now he was even more impressive. His game was on point.
“What pack are you from?” she asked and immediately answered in unison with him. “Crimson Moon.”
He looked at her with a newfound surprise. “They caught you on the border.
What were you doing there?” she gave him a soft smile
“I was…”
“Waiting for Maya,” she said together with him again. She remembered every line of his. She never forgot a single one since he didn’t give anything new no matter how many times she asked. And just a few days later he escaped to never be seen again.
“Continue,” she waved for him to go on.
“She was supposed to meet me under the willow tree and give me the information… stopped talking when again she pronounced all the words at the same time as him.
“Couldn’t she just text it to you?” Riannon scoffed, “You didn’t seem to have any problem communicating through texts, right? Why meet up?”
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“She said that it wasn’t a phone conversation,”
they said in unison again and now Maya snorted loudly.
“Riannon, what is going on?” Brayden stepped closer to her, mixed emotions evident on his face.
“Just an interrogation,” she angled her head to look at him, “Why? Don’t you think that his replies are so natural and flow nicely?”
“How do you know what he is going to say?” her husband asked.
“Because I have my sources, Brayden,” she chose to lie this time because she couldn’t possibly explain to him how she knew all that. But she knew that he would buy that. “And they told me that this would happen.”
She turned to the man with grey eyes and asked, “What is your name?”
“Axel,” he said, and she was glad that she didn’t try to answer together with him this time.
The name that he introduced himself with in her past life was Everett. He caught up with her game very quickly. She knew that she would hardly get anything out of him anymore. Not even through torture.
But she couldn’t help and did one thing. Riannon leaned lower and whispered into his ear.
“Nice try, Everett.”
His face was void of emotions, just his lips twitched a bit as if he had a momentarily need to smirk.
“Anyway,” she now was facing her husband, “I don’t see any good evidence here to accuse Maya. Just a bunch of badly thrown together clues and two very unreliable witnesses. I have more questions for them, to be honest.”
victim again.
“Fine, you are right,” the Alpha agreed, “Maya is almost family. I wouldn’t punish her severely anyway. We will send her to the border since her loyalty has been compromised. It will be just for a year or two.”
“No,” Riannon said firmly. She knew that she couldn’t lose that argument.
“Ri,” he took her arm above her elbow and pulled her closer, “Be reasonable now.
This is the best decision. She’ll be fine.”
“I said no!” the Luna furrowed her brows, “Maya will stay by my side at all times!
She is the only one I trust and this will never change!”
“Ri!” this time he shook her roughly and she almost fell down from the impact, but
Maya and Ash were next to her side to catch her just in time.
“Are you out of your mind?!” Maya growled angrily. She was surprisingly calm prior to this but now even her nerves gave in.
She pushed her Alpha and in less than a second he was back grabbing her throat tightly. “Brayden!” Riannon screamed, “Let her go!”
“I will f*****g snap her neck for this!” he snarled and Ria was ready to attack him herself. No matter what it cost her.
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