The Protected Luna

Family warfare

⚠️⚠️⚠️ Disclaimer: Like The Rejected Luna, The Protected Luna has been written by me and has not been copied, plagiarized or stolen from any other story or author. Similarities are purely coincidental all ideas are original their place of origin-my creative well established mind.

Artemis
"Your goody-two-shoes mentality and your over kindness will land us up in trouble one of these good days. How could you bring them here? After all they've done to us?" Caroline muttered as she paced up and down in my head, agitated at the turn of events.
"I told you before, I can't abandon them, otherwise I'll be no different than anyone at Emerald Guardians," I reasoned.

We were now seated in the packhouse meeting room with Dimitri, my father, Mr and Mrs Chekhov, Bria, Alessandro, Todd, Everice, Vincent and Lana. Daniel was seated in her lap, nursing.
"It's a possibility that they're lying just so they could stay in the pack. They know Artemis will never abandon them," Bria said.

"I don't see how that could be," Lana objected. "They thought she was still mated to Marcus, why didn't they go to Shining Cosmos instead if they were under that assumption?"
"They must've heard from some other wolf that Artemis and Dimitri are mates and wanted to see if they could join the pack," Alessandro said thoughtfully.

"Good point. They must've found out from Natalie," father stated.
"Why would they leave Emerald Guardians in the first place? If it is true that Sadie, Emma and Tesha were close with Natalie and Tali and Barbara were replaced, that's no valid reason for them to leave the pack," Mom said. 

"Whatever the reason we'll keep a close watch on them. They're lucky Artemis forbade me from harming them, otherwise I would've ripped their heads off for the torture they put her through!" Dimitri said with a low growl.
"It's okay Dimitri, they're not going to receive any special treatment," I assured him.

"What about Beatrice? With all that's been going on we forgot about her," Lana mentioned as she adjusted Daniel in her arms.
"Whatever she decides to do, she was on the run for a while, I guess we could  offer to let her stay here," I mused.
"Will we tell Lydia about her?" Dad asked.

"I don't know to be honest, Beatrice clearly doesn't want Lydia to know about her, we have to respect her wishes," I replied.
Suddenly there was a series of loud knocks on the office door.
"What is it?!" Dimitri shouted.

The door opened and we saw one of our pack warriors, Gina standing there. "Forgive me for the interruption Alpha, Luna," she apologized. "There is an emergency downstairs."
"What's the emergency?" I asked rising off my chair.
"Two wolves, Garrett and Lydia Marcelo are downstairs, they're asking for the Luna," Gina replied.

"What? How did they find out about Beatrice being here? No one besides us know about her being Lydia's sister!" I exclaimed.
"Calm down they could just be here to visit, Lydia did say she'll drop in a day to see you," Dimitri said soothingly as he held my shoulders. "They probably don't even know Beatrice is here."

I was unconvinced by this. What a scary coincidence, Lydia shows up here the exact same day Beatrice came to Crimson Blood? There was surely something wrong. Taking deep breaths to calm my frazzled nerves, I walked out with Dimitri and everyone else followed except for Lana and Vincent who went to check on Beatrice and possibly hide her if need be.

Several of our pack members were in the courtyard and Lydia and Garrett stood in the middle of the circle, their daughters standing behind Lydia. I looked at Lydia and swallowed nervously. Her eyes were cold and her jaw was clenched. Clearly she was angry. Yup she definitely knew her long lost sister was here.
Forcing a smile I walked up to them.

"Garrett, Lydia. What a pleasant surprise, what brings you to Crimson Blood?" I asked pretending to be surprised.
"Drop the act Artemis! Where is she?" Lydia snapped.
"Huh? What do you mean? Where is who?"
"Beatrice! She came to Crimson Blood territory and is here with you. Where. Is. She?" Lydia demanded.