Surrender To Us, Our Luna (One Luna, Four Alphas) novel Chapter 100

Chapter 100: 100-Found A Girl In The Woods

Troy:

The moment her head came off, the monster stepped back so it could roll it around. At the same time, I saw her body collapse, and the hold she’d had on the baby was gone. I lunged toward her lifeless body and scooped up the baby girl. My heartbeat must have been deafening, along with my panting and footsteps, because the monster dropped the head and turned its attention to me.

It charged, but with one arm holding the baby and the other reaching for the back of the building, I started climbing. Halfway up, something yanked at my leg. I groaned in pain, kicking at the damn creature as I tried to pull free from its beak. It clamped onto my shoe with brutal force.

"Did you not have enough?" I shouted at it. Suddenly, it released me and began searching for the head again. I hated it at that moment. It was like it could understand me.

Once I reached the top, I cradled the crying baby. The other monsters heard her wails and began gathering around the house, some even leaping toward us. But they couldn’t climb this high. It didn’t matter, they had already done their damage.

Holding her close, I gazed at the full moon, tears welling in my eyes as I rocked her gently. For an hour, she cried while the monsters screeched below. Then, silence. But inside me, a storm was building.

"There was nothing you could have done," my wolf murmured, trying to comfort me. "We were just a little too late."

"We could have saved that woman," I replied, my body trembling with a strange sense of loss.

"Hey, Troy, you saved the baby. And from what I’m seeing here, I don’t think we were meant to save the mothers. They were supposed to stay behind. Remember what the squadmates said? No matter how many times they sent warriors or lurkers, they never found any adults to rescue." My wolf’s words felt like lies. If a newborn could survive and make it back to the mainland, why couldn’t an adult? How was it possible that none of the crusaders had ever come across a civilian here? I had just found one. I was simply too late.

"You might want to move to the house next to this one. There’s a rooftop there. You’d be much safer."

I guess my wolf noticed I was nodding off. It happens often, whenever I’m too upset or grieving, I get drowsy. It’s my body’s way of forcing me to rest, because if I stay awake, I just keep stressing. I listened to my wolf and climbed onto the rooftop of the next house. The high walls made it safer, much safer.

Even then, I couldn’t fully sleep. Screams and shouts broke the night every so often. Once, I thought I heard Clementine talking to someone, but maybe it was just part of a dream. I was still pretty out of it. When the moon began to rise, I woke up. The child with me was hungry, so I knew I had to get back to the station to feed her.

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