Lacking Humanity|Half Crescent

Chapter Twenty-Nine

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Now in some pack cultures, a male would always help the female eat. Whether it is by plating their food, chewing through the tougher meat or simply separating the bigger pieces from the animal carcass. Today, however, Sage fought for her right in holding a spoon, and damnit she was getting pissed.

But she knew this catering was coming deeper within his beast, the primal urge to right the wrongs made. If Lucy had been a former friend, she could've understood. The fact of the matter is, she wasn't.

She was a jealous bitch, and Sage was for certain that nothing was going to be in her way from a corpse, no matter what her family tried to do.

And a part of Sage knew that there would be something else to rectify. That the fight wouldn't go as well as she's planned in her head, but she remained content as Andy didn't leave her side for the rest of the time spent in the infirmary.

And while she didn't want to be rude, he was starting to smell—So she had a grand idea, though fighting the urge to listen to his warning growl was tempting.

"I thought we talked about you telling me if you need to get up, hun?"
"And I thought I told you I'm not listening?" She shot back, pointing off toward the bathroom as she clutched the lower end of her stomach. The small part still offered cramps when she applied too much pressure to her right side, and thankfully Andy took the bait.

"Where are we headed?"
"Bathroom, I think I smell bad." She grumbled, looking at her matted hair, and continued off in that direction. Granted, Andy hadn't thought twice about going and joining her. If anything, he wouldn't have been surprised if she told him to get lost, but remained planted by her side to keep her standing while she cleaned up her knotted hair.

What he did love, however, was her trying to reach his height by scrubbing his hair—Causing her to go up to her tippy toes, and giving him the excuse of holding her by the waist. "I'm sorry about your friend." She whispered, and he chuckled.

"Not much of a friend anymore, is she?"
"No. Not really, but she was a friend. And I'm sorry."
"Don't be. I should've made it clearer to her that I'm not interested in getting back together with her—Not that was ever really with her, to begin with." Sage squinted her eyes for a moment and then smirked.

"Girlfriend?"
"Well, ex, and she wasn't really my girlfriend...Just a girl I'd—Oh forget it, the point is I can't stand the sight of her and won't forgive her for this." Sage nodded along, her eyes drifting to the side as she recalled what happened the last time she was pregnant.

"You said this happened before?" He received another nod, "What happened? How did you know it was your mate's ex?"
"I dunno, I was eating lunch with everyone and my Charge. He made a lot of food, and I remember being hungry because pups were hungry. My tea did not taste good, but I needed to drink it because healer said it would help. Not the right tea, but Blake didn't know...We got a lot of gifts from pack members because I was pregnant." A light smile erupted on Andy's face, it was always a sweet gesture for a pack member to give gifts like that.

But then he realized that'd be the perfect and unsuspecting way to hide said poison among dozens of other gifts. "What happened after?"
"I don't really know. I remember going to the infirmary and mate promising to make it better...Didn't want him to leave so I follow, and he starts yelling at the pack and big pack meeting."
"Did she get in trouble?" She hummed in response.

"I learned before about Crescent Moon's history, and I read about punishments. After we found out who it was, Alpha asked me what I wanted to do—He whipped them."

"What?!" Andy gasped, having not been prepared for something so brutal, but Sage shrugged her shoulders. "Alpha was very mad, I almost died and lost pup. They get whipped and then stay on the pole until we got Council death ticket so they could die. That or they become Rogue, but Blake didn't like that." Andy still felt shocked that had been the outcome, granted he was all for it, but he thought Crescent Moon had changed...