Lacking Humanity | Moon Ridge

Chapter One

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Sage had been left to stare in both shock and pure hopelessness, of course—of course, it was her luck to mate with Remus' best friend. The one who was pronounced dead long before Sage had a whiff of freedom.

Remus had struggled with his cane as he managed on the unsettled ground to bring his friend into a hug, and while Andy didn't want to relay in the torment of what he and Sage had done together. He'd allow himself this moment of peace before being threatened by the majority of males in the vicinity.

Torin growled at any attempt that anyone made in terms of talking, but Grey couldn't hold it any longer as they finally made it into the Alpha's home. "Sage doesn't even need us anymore, she had her own Beta and Delta this whole time!" He said with a pout on his lips, and Sage came over and quickly shook her head.

"That's not true!"
"Can only have one set of them in a pack, Luna," Severin explain and she huffed in annoyance before turning to the rest of the room. Jackson was currently helping Remus with the chair, holding up one-half of Sage's outfit in hand as he analyzed it.

"You know, when Mikey said that there was a crazy bear lady talking gibberish in the woods leading a pack of fifty or so wolves to our territory...We thought he was smoking some weird ass—" 

"That's enough Jackson, let Sage tell us where she was these last few months." She swallowed thickly and sighed as Julia didn't waste a moment before getting to the truth.

"I don't know how I was taken from dinner, I just know I wake up in a facility like the Underground. That's where I meet most of my females outside, they're from facility. Both witches and wolves, the pups too. I stayed there for a month and then break out, we escape and make camp at Black Crescent...I didn't know where we were and we stayed there to heal. That's when Severin comes and offers us to meet Andy in Half Crescent." It was a mouthful, but Sage didn't want to go out of order and leave room for questioning, though Severin's rough bit of laughter had stalled her from continuing.

"You did more to impress us, Bear-Slayer." He claimed and Luke followed up with a laugh.

"It's a beautiful coat, hun. Wish I was there to see it get taken down." The room was filled with agreement, but Remus couldn't decide who to keep his attention to.

His mate or best friend.

Or why Andrew had been so shy in the hug, usually he was the one to give the hugs—Not pull away from them.

"It was a sight, believe me—Oh I'm sorry, I'm Elena. I'm Severin's mate." She engaged the room with a smile and a wave. "You're from the facility too?" Julia questioned and it earned her a nod.

"Yes, I owe Sage my life. Most of us do." The gesture had been made to the progress that both witches and wolves made in terms of housing, and while Remus wasn't the biggest fan of it, there wasn't any current room to house them as of yet.

"So...Where the hell is Black Crescent?"

"Canada." This certainly earned the attention of everyone in the room as they straightened their backs. "Canada?! What the fuck?" Luke growled, saying what everyone was internally thinking.

"That's why it takes us so long to come, we needed a plan in Half Crescent and Alpha Andy said he'd help bring us here. But we ran into some trouble." She spoke, and Luke couldn't help but shake his head with a smile.