Alpha Damon (Sienna) novel Chapter 279

Sienna:

The moment Damon told us to go inside, I ran. I ran as fast as my legs could carry me. I never thought that I could be so fast, nor that I could be as strong.

Delilah was already ahead of me, her legs faster than I’d seen them move in weeks. She didn’t even breathe. I could hear her holding her breath. She was scared, just as scared as I was. We didn’t need to speak. We knew where we were going. We both knew our path and right now we were not going to stop until we got there, no matter what was to come.

Isla. My daughter.

Lysandra. Her sister.

And everyone else who couldn’t fight. The people that depended on us, the people that looked up to us, waiting for what we were going to do.

The walls trembled around us. I heard glass shatter somewhere upstairs, screams echoing down the halls. The quake had rattled more than the floors, it rattled every nerve in the house. Children were around, they were scared. Some were crying, others were clutching to their mothers. The humans within the pack were trying to comfort them. But I knew that they were scared too.

“Isla!” I called, voice slicing through the chaos. “Where’s my daughter?”

The two nurses in the room looked at me as I barged through the door, holding knives up, protecting her. They put the knives down the second they saw me. I found her in the nursery, crying, her tiny hands grasping at the air.

I swept her into my arms and pressed a kiss to her temple. “I’ve got you, baby. Mama’s here. Everything’s going to be alright.”

I looked at the nurses and they nodded at me. “Did anything happen? Anyone tried to approach here?”

“No Luna, but we are scared that it might happen. We’ve been keeping her safe, but everything around just seems to be jumbled up and it’s only a matter of time before chaos started to erupt.”

Delilah burst into the infirmary next door. I gulped before looking at the door, processing the nurse’s words as I waited for what Delilah was going to say.

“She’s okay,” she called out. “Lysandra’s okay, she’s awake.”

Lysandra sat up in her bed, pale and dazed, her hair sticking to her forehead. But her eyes locked onto me with full awareness. “There’s mist inside, I saw it.” she whispered. “It’s here too.”

I didn’t ask how she knew. I knew that there was something different about her, and whatever this was, she could sense it too.

I looked around and they felt the ground shaking once again, holding my daughter tightly.

I turned sharply to the pack members huddled in the common room, elders, young wolves, the ones too injured or inexperienced to join the battle outside. The ground shook and they looked around, fearing what was to come. They looked at me. Waiting for my command. And I knew at that moment the responsibility that a Luna had to carry. Delilah looked at me and nodded, an assurance she held Lysandra in her arms, the two of them walking, following me as I walked down the stairs.

I slowly gave my daughter to one of the nurses, knowing that I was going to need to fight. They could protect her, but I was going to need to do my part too.

“Everyone move!” I commanded. “Get to the safe room. Warriors, flank them, keep eyes on every door and window. If it moves and it’s not one of us, don’t hesitate. I don’t care what you need to do, everything has to be in order. The pack members have to be safe.”

Some looked at me like I was their last hope.

Some looked at me as if I was the only thing that could hold them down, that could stop everything that was going on.

Others looked afraid.

But none of them disobeyed.

I reached for his shoulder and gave it a squeeze. “Then let them come.”

The mist curled along the ceiling now.

It pulsed with dark energy.

And even though I was terrified, I didn’t step back.

I stood tall. Luna. Mother. Mate. Warrior.

I would not fall today.

Not when the war had reached our doorstep.

And not when we still had something worth saving.

“Because right now, we are more than just ready for whatever it is to come…”