Lacking Humanity|Half Crescent

Chapter Thirty-Six

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This was something both Sage and Andy were dreading, and so she firmly moved and positioned herself to look at him—Only to attempt a shift. While he did attempt to stop her, the better half of him knew that this was definitely a conversation to have in skin than half and half.

Now she sat on top of the covered mattress in her travel gear, and he made the silent notion of helping her out of her bear fur and folding it up. "Talk about what?"

"How we're going to call everyone's families and packs...It's going to take some time, and we have to make it appealing to the Alpha. Even if you are a part of the pack, we don't have much of a standing."
"My brothers will help, and then family in Mystic Grimm too." Andy had remained silent for a moment and sighed.

"I dunno hun, Alpha Harlow didn't sound too stoked about the idea. We need to be prepared on the off chance that they don't want to help." She swallowed thickly after that notion, she didn't doubt that even if Remus had died that her friends would remain just as they were friends.

Her stomach ached at the idea of his death, that he could've died thinking that he'd meet her again in the afterlife or whatever was after this place.

Andy spotted the turmoil and came down beside her, his soft eyes were a gentle awakening. But that still didn't change the fact that she still wasn't feeling all that great in terms of being so close yet so far from the arrival date.

"We'll figure it out, I just like having a backup plan. I didn't mean to scare you like that."
"Not scared just...Very worried. I don't think it looks good that I'm having your pup." He nodded, guilt riddling his scared face soon after.

"Yeah, I'm not gonna lie, pumpkin. This doesn't look good on my end. But you'll protect me from your mate's brothers, right?" Sage blinked for a moment, the automatic response almost fell out and would've ruined the last few hours to days that they had left in bliss.

Instead, Torin had come over with the first drop of firewood. "The pups are looking for food, witches claim there are no signs of life...It's strange. The Luna was right—This building is evil." Sage nodded to his words and gave a light smile to the Viking as she spotted his tattoos under his own thick coats.

"Evil man does bad things in this building. Mate calls it a graveyard." Andy allowed his head to bounce a few times in agreement. "It's fortunate we found this place when we did, the snow is already starting to settle. I'll need more able hands for wood." With that, the Alpha was prepared for some heavy labor to get his mind off his cruising demise.

It crossed his thoughts on occasion on how utterly wrong his relationship with Sage is, that she mated to another male that was wrongly stripped from each other.

The Moon Goddess will certainly punish him for his betrayal of messing with her divine plan for her sons and daughters. But he knew that he had more than just Sage's mate to answer to, and that started with getting to the bottom of why this place still continued to feel eery and dark, even after being foreclosed for more than a decade.

With his knowledge of Sage being downstairs with plenty of help in fornicating the house and bed situation, he took initiative in making sure that the witch's theory on the building being completely was true.

In passing by the many wolves, he was thankful when he finally had a chance to be alone with his thoughts. He didn't want Sage to pick up on the looming dread that coursed through his veins.
He didn't want to lose her to her old pack.

In finding a secluded room, he bent down to one of the many statues of the goddess that lingered around and begged—Begged for forgiveness for past, present, and future mistakes.

And above all, the hope that Sage could ever forgive him or adapt to what might come next.