The Forsaken Luna

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN

Jason

I barely slept at all. I have been wrecking my mind for ideas. Elliot and Mackenzie don't have much time to live and we still haven't figured out where they are.

So when I am woken up by a text, after only two hours of sleep, I want to break my phone. I groan and pull the blanket over my head. Whoever decided to text me can fuck off. But my phone doesn't stop dinging. There's another text.

I throw the blankets off me, angry at the person that keeps texting me. When I grab my phone and look down on the screen, my eyebrows furrow.

Unknown number: Hey. Are you going to school today? I really need to talk to you.

Unknown number: Oh, this is Max btw. I got your phone number from Elliot's phone.

Max? Max has my number? Max wants me to go to school? Max wants to talk to me!

I practically jump out of my bed, almost tangling into the blankets and falling over. I catch myself on the nightstand and kick the blanket off my legs. Max wants to talk to me, but what could this be about?

I want to knock myself out. I have become that idiotic fool that swoons over the littles thing their crush does. I really want to bang myself in the head right now. When did I become a spoon, instead of the knife I carved myself into?

I get dressed and head into the bathroom to wash my teeth. I return to my room to grab my backpack for school and head down the stairs into the common area of the pack house. When I get there, I notice that it's full today. My parents, David and Knox sit on the sofas. They are all silent, which makes my skin prickle. David has his head in his hands again and I see how his shoulders shake.

"What's going on?" I ask, announcing my presence. Mom and dad both turn to me. Their expressions are unreadable. I can't decipher anything from the way they look at me, but the air smells of sadness and tension.

Dad turns away from me. He still doesn't want to talk to me. He doesn't want to accept that my mate is a man, so we haven't talked ever since I accidentally announced to everybody that Max is my mate. If I'm being honest it kind of hurts.

"Nova saw Mackenzie with her Seishin." Knox informs me. My lips part in shock and I step closer to my parents. "She's okay, right? Please tell me she's alright." I plead. My heart is pounding in my chest and I pray to the Moon goddess that my mother tells me she's alright.

"Mackenzie is alive. She's awake. But..." Mom pauses, her lips quivering slightly. She's about to cry. Oh god, my mom never cries. Why is she going to cry? "They've set up torches in front of them, so they keep their wolves alert. They're trying to exhaust them so they won't be able to fight back." Mom sobs out, her eyes glossing over. She closes her eyes to try and keep the tears at bay.

I just stand there. I don't know what I was hoping to hear, but this isn't it. They are tiring them out so they won't be able to fight back? Will it even be possible for them to shift on the full moon? Will they even last till then?

I don't feel sad or scared. I feel angry. All my life this emotion has been swimming in the pit of my stomach and now it's slowly bursting out. I clench my hands into fists and hang my head. This feeling of hopelessness is going to eat me alive. I don't know what I can do to help them. I wish I could do something.

"We're going to try and link our minds with Mackenzie. We want all of you in the conference room by ten." Knox tells me. I glance over to the clock in the common room, noticing it's almost eight. "What? We don't even go to school anymore?" I question, raising one of my eyebrows.

David finally lifts his head up. His eyes are bloodshot from all of the crying. He practically glares at me when our eyes meet.

"Nobody goes anywhere. It's far too dangerous." He orders me. I part my lips to argue, but the way dad looks at me tells me I should just keep my mouth shut. I huff out in anger and throw the backpack against the back of the sofa. Mom flinches at the sound of impact, her eyes turning to look at me.