Luna

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I was tossed into the cell with the another female. The man slammed me into the concrete as I yelped out in pain. I was too weak for this. My body was still healing and everything felt as if I were on fire. I had never been this exhausted before. My body had never taken a beating, I wasn't ready for this. I needed help, needed to get out of here.
Josh's voices filled my thoughts, I'm here Josie.
I know.
We're getting closer, just hold on a little longer.
When will you be here?
Tomorrow night. Maybe sooner.
My eyes stayed shut tight, Taking her wolf is going to make me weak. I won't be able to defend myself after and I don't know what will happen.
Then wait. We can do it together.
Goddess isn't going to wait. My jaw tightened in anger, Maya killed you and her wolf needs out, the human in her is a monster.
Please.
A little girl moved to my side, she couldn't have been older than twelve, "Are you okay?"
Holding onto my side, I nodded and sat up. "I'm okay."
Her eyes widened, "Did he..." Her words drifted off and her eyes held a fear I had never seen before.
"What?"
The girl chewed on her lip in embarrassment as she fidgeted with her thumbs.
Josh sighed in my thoughts, She is asking if he sexually assaulted you. I could feel his anger with the thought.
Oh. "No. Is that what he does to you guys?"
Her eyes filled with tears and she pointed to the cages across from us, "To them he has."
My heart ached and eyes filled with tears, "Well they aren't going to touch you any more."
Some of the others began to stand and move closer to me. The little girl frowned, "You can't stop him."
"My mate is coming, he will."
Josh relaxed and I could feel the happiness my words gave him.
She sighed, "That's what they say but they never come."
My jaw tightened, "Well he will be here."
She settled against the wall as she shrugged, "I'm Kass."
"Josie."
Her frown deepened, "Josie Wallace?"
"Yes. How did you know?"
"Alpha Rickards was my father."
My heart ached, "What?"
She nodded, "I remember my father talking about our Luna and your father but I was very young."
"How did you get here?"
"He took me and my sister Kendra when we were younger but she got out."
Josh gasped, It can't be. She died, we saw her die.
I watched through his eyes as he turned to Kendra, "Kass is alive."
Her jaw tightened and eyes went black, "Why the fuck would you say that!"
"It's true! I can see her. She looks so much like you, it has to be her." How did I not see it before?
"See her?"
"I can see through Josie's eyes and she's talking to her right now."
Kass pulled my attention away from them, "You're really spacey."
"Do you know where we are exactly?"
She shook her head, "No. When they move us around, he has us drugged."
"How often do you move locations?"
"Every six months."
I nodded and spoke to Josh, Did you hear that?
Yes. Don't worry we have a general area and Kendra will be able to find you.
"What are you doing?"
"I'm talking with my mate."
She looked at me funny, "How can you keep a connection with all this silver?"
"I'm Luna."
She frowned in confusion, "How will he find us?"
Josh interrupted, Tell her I'm with Kendra and we're coming.
"He's with Kendra."
Her eyes widened and she trembled, "What? How? She..."
"She's coming with Alpha Darrow."
Her eyes filled with tears, "Did he take her? Is he going to hurt her?"
This confused me, "What? No. He's my mate, he's coming here to help us, get us out of here."
She flinched away from me, "He's bad, don't trust him."
Josh?
It's not what you think.
Why is she so afraid of you?
There's a lot you don't know about this world.
Clearly.
He sighed, My father sent me there when I was younger. He set up a treaty with William and to keep his half of the deal he sent me with William to stay there until my first phase. He experimented on me and had me do terrible things to try and create a new race of wolf and vampire. He used a few other children of Alpha including myself, Maya, and Kendra. We were the ones he had help with the experiments and explain the wolf ways to him.
My heart ached for him, I'm so sorry, I had no idea.
My father was a terrible man. He got our pack into more trouble than I even understood. Because of all this is why my mother died.
What?
Rickards was mad, mad that my father didn't have to give up Bailey when he had to give up both his daughters to be a part of the treaty and that's why he killed my mother.
But why is this little girl afraid of you?
He whimpered, My job was collecting the girls from the cells and giving them to Kendra to get ready for William.
Oh.
And... t-to kill the children that didn't fit what William wanted. She was just a baby herself and stayed with the children and she saw... His vision filled with tears and I could feel his pain.
This was too much, too hard to focus with all this information. I need to go.
Please Jo, I'm not bad. I'm not.
My heart burned with his. I need to focus on taking Maya's wolf tomorrow, this is all to much to take in right now.
Please. Let me help.
No. Forcing him from my thoughts, I broke down and cried.
He killed children.
Kass rubbed my back, "What's wrong?"
"He killed children." I couldn't seem to wrap my head around this fact. The man I knew would never, could never. He was too good. There was too much love in his heart even if he didn't show it like others.
Her movement froze and she sighed, "They all had to do things they didn't want to. Our parents made us come here, forced us. We didn't have a choice and if they didn't do as they were told, our packs would have been attacked and slaughtered by the vampires."
My jaw tightened, "Why did they not get my mother involved, she could have helped."
She looked at me as if I were stupid, "You know the answer to that."
"No I don't."
"You are the source of our strength, our powers. If you die, we die. Why would they bring you into a battle like this - it's not one that can be won." She shrugged, "Plus I'm pretty sure my father was the only one who believed in what the Luna could do, the others just had too much pride."
"This is too much."
"Not when you grow up with it."
My heart ached, "That's not fair to you."
"It's not like I have a home to go to anymore." Her energy grew angry, "Thanks to your mate."
"Your father killed his mother, it wasn't okay but if he hadn't done it, my mother would have. You have no idea what it's like to lose a mate."
"Yeah. You're right."
Guilt washed through me, "I'm sorry. I get a little defensive about him."
She shrugged, "Most of the females here who have mates are much worse about it."
I looked around in horror, this place was horrifying, "This is so messed up."
"So what's your plan?"
"To get some rest." I curled up into a ball beside the wall and cried myself to sleep.