Lacking Humanity | Moon Ridge

Chapter Three (Rewritten)

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"I've been waiting for this my entire life for those two to fight." Jackson laughed, and that caused Grey to lean in closer to listen. He knew 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?" Harlow asked, his voice coming off as unsure.

"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, please, just—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 brightly as could be.

"Alpha Harlow Mystic is her brother." He said with a grin as wide as possible, and that certainly managed to drain the color out of Andrew's face as he picked 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." Sage 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," he reminded, "who goes after a mated female anyhow?" His eyes lingered on Andy's person. However, Andrew hadn't been all too innocent either, not when he previously had thoughts about killing Luke Elwood.

Thoughts that crossed his mind more than once.

"If I knew she was my best friend's Mate, don't you think I wouldn't have made a blood pact?" Andy argued, and that turned into another segment as Remus' eyes turned to Sage.

"A Blood pact?!... Sage, why didn't you tell him I was your Mate?" Remus questioned, and Sage frowned.

"Darius told me to be careful who I tell my name to. And it's a good thing because Alpha Noah doesn't like Crescent Moon. Or Oak Wood." Andrew wondered 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, and you didn't tell me that?"

"I lost him," Sage mumbled, saddened by the reminder, "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. Don't worry..." Hayes said directly, though he sounded out of breath, "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." Sage 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 the 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.