Surrender To Us, Our Luna (One Luna, Four Alphas) novel Chapter 125

Chapter 125: 125-She Knows Haiden

Clementine:

We gave each other a hand gesture, almost as if to say that just because they were calling for us didn’t mean we had to come out.

"Come on! It’s not like we can’t find you ourselves," the man called. Ian gestured toward the rooftop of the house next to ours. That’s when I noticed something else, the four brown houses each had matching ones across the road, like mirrored reflections. I wondered if the color actually meant something, now that we had seen inside them.

"Come on, let’s go." Haiden tugged my arm but still led me on tiptoe toward the other rooftop. We were going to jump, which meant whoever was already down there would find out.

"Clementine, you go first," Troy urged.

"Why me?" I asked, my hands gripping the small wall of the house we stood on.

"Because when you land, you’ll make noise. They’ll be alerted and start coming up at the same time as we are moving toward the rooftop. That’ll give you enough time to jump to the next one while we head for the old one where they’re already gathered," Yorick explained, trying to make it as simple as possible.

"You guys don’t have to watch my back all the time. You’re crusaders too. Save yourselves." I told them that making me their priority was starting to make me feel strange, even selfish. None of us had asked to feel a mate bond, so why did they always act like they had to? Maybe I was just never anyone’s first, so it felt odd now.

"Come on, stop talking. We don’t have time," Ian said, motioning for me to follow their rules. We could have stood there arguing, but I knew these alphas wouldn’t listen. They would only waste more time, so I jumped first.

The next thing I knew, footsteps and screams rose from below. I rushed toward the next house as fast as I could. All I heard was my breath, my heartbeat pounding in my temples, my footsteps, and the wind slamming against my face. One after another, I jumped until I landed on the first greenhouse rooftop. Suddenly, everything was quiet.

I turned and saw my squad mates racing over to join me. At the same time, people began appearing on the rooftops of the other brown houses. On the first one, though, they couldn’t get the door open. Once we were all together on the greenhouse’s rooftop, we turned and watched them. Seeing the faces of the ones performing the ritual was unsettling. They looked terrifying, and giving them faces made it all the more eerie.

There were women, kids, old people, and men, and then we looked down the road. A man with the longest hair, reaching his back, stood there staring at us.

"Just because you’re away from the brown houses, you think you’re safe?" the man yelled with a chuckle. He was tough but not very tall. My squad mates would tower over him. I had never seen anyone taller than them, unless it was an ogre or a giant.

"What are you doing to these people?" I shouted, asking about the bones I had found. He looked like he had no clue what I meant.

"We’re doing nothing. We find dead bodies, we bring them home, and we give them a proper burial. I mean, a proper goodbye, in a ritual’s way," he tried to explain.

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