Lacking Humanity | Moon Ridge

Chapter Two

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"I've been waiting for this my entire life, those two to fight." Jackson laughed, and that caused Grey to listen in closer. He knew that Sage mentioned brothers before, but the Mystic Grimm brother wasn't ringing any bells.
Not when the silence started to draw out further into the room.

"...Sage?"
"Now. I wait too long to hold my pups." She argued with a world-threatening growl to quicken his response.
"Dad! Fuck, stay on the phone. We'll be on our way soon, just one second." The chants and muffles of the panicked male on the phone caused Andrew to frown, but Remus smiled as bright as could be.

"Alpha Harlow Mystic is her brother." He said with a grin as wide as could be, and that certainly managed to drain the color out of Andrew's face as he began to pick his burial spot.

Jackson's laughter had been a blessing, although what followed hadn't been all that funny. "Hey Rem, how do you think Hayes will feel about a male taking advantage of—"
"Jackson, I learn a lot of Hocus Pocus. Please be quiet." She said, taking her mouth away from the phone and shifting impatiently before turning to her choice mate who could rally a vampire's complexion at the moment.

"And papa won't hurt you, maybe a spar but no killing." She warned, but Luke pulled up a hand to intervene.
"I don't know Sagey, dad might be just as angry, who goes after a mated female anyhow?" Elwood claimed, and the previous thoughts of killing Luke Elwood had all but crossed his mind once more.

"If I knew she was my best friend's mate, don't you think I wouldn't have done it?" He argued, and that turned into another segment as Remus' eyes turned to Sage.

"Why didn't you tell him I was your mate?" He questioned, and Sage frowned. "Darius told me to be careful who I tell my name to. And good thing, because Alpha Noah doesn't like Crescent Moon. Or Oak Wood." It clicked for Andrew as to why she had gone as Luna Hera in Oak Wood now, but then he frowned at the odd name.

"Who's Darius?" Sage licked her lips and closed her eyes, the headache was starting to fester louder and louder—And the only antidote she thought could soothe her was her pups.

"Darius is my demon shadow." While she had said it exactly as it was, Andrew had turned around the room. "You have a fucking demon now and you didn't tell me that?"
"I lost him, I haven't talked to Darius since we leave facility. I think bad vampire man took him away when he bit me."

The room had fallen silent.

"WHAT?!" The interruption caused Sage to jump as she placed the phone from her shoulder back to her ear. "Papa! I missed you, can you come to Crescent Moon?"
"Oh, Bubbles you best believe I'm coming over, not to worry...Haylee is coming too, Harlow just called her. We need to clear the tarmac. I know you want to see the pups, hun. Just wait, we're on our way." She sniffled and nodded, mumbling an okay through her sobs.

"And then when I get my hands on fucking Andrew Clark I swear to the goddess herself that he's—"
"No, you won't. I need to tell you what happened in facility, and if you touch Andrew I won't tell you. I see you soon papa." She said, hanging up the phone before he could even manage to speak again.

"So do we get to know that too or are we just sitting around and—?" Eli's voice had been entirely muffled as the welcoming voice of Blake Warren had sparked throughout the home, and Sage tear-stained face caused him to clutch his chest.

"Oh, come on now, Sagey. Are those tears really for me? Come over here!" He cheered, and the relationship of charge and mentor had been instantly reinstated. "I'm sorry I couldn't protect you, hun. I should've stayed at the bathrooms...I should've stayed and—"

"It's okay. I'm okay." It was clear that she wasn't okay, the marks on her neck had ranged from a scar of Remus', Andrew's, and a vampire bite all at the given location.