The Secret They Kept

18.

I ran out of my moms house as fast as I could and into my car. What she said was completely uncalled for and was stupid non the less. I would not be leaving or running away from this. She could not tell me to leave my mate. She definitely could not make me stay with her either. I will sneak into the house later through the window and get more of my things because I couldn't just keep wearing Derek's. 

 I went into Derek's house knowing full well he was alone and slammed the door closed and went to where he was and started ranting. "I've had it with her!" 

"Babe, what happened?" Derek sounded curious.

"She told me that I should run! Told me that I couldn't handle being Luna! That too many people wanted me dead already!" My tone decreasing as I was screaming. "She doesn't believe in me. She doesn't think I can handle being Luna and being with you. She doesn't think that you're good for me." The next words came out a little lower than a whisper, but they definitely affected Derek,  "She said I should leave you." 

He had me trapped between me and the wall in no time "You're not leaving me." He was practically growling the words. 

"No, I never would."  This seemed to calm him down a very good amount. I'd say that this was going pretty well so far.  We ended up on the couch me on his lap, his arms around my waist holding me there, not that I would have wanted to leave, but he felt more comfortable that way so I didn't say anything. I just kept staring into his eyes, his very blue eyes that could keep me locked there for hours. He slowly leaned in and crashed his lips onto mine, it didn't take long for me to respond and kiss back. It slowly got more and more heated, his lips started to move down to my neck and kiss his way to my collarbones stopping there and moving back up to my lips. 

Then Patrick knocks on the door of the house " Alpha, Luna we have something to discuss."

"Come in Patrick." I yell when I realize Derek's not going to say anything because hes to interested in kissing me. 

"Can we go in the room?" Patrick asks.

"Yea lets go, Mel i'll be right back, okay?" Derek says.

Before I could answer Patrick interjected, "Alpha I need to talk to both you and the Luna."

Before Derek could reject that idea I said okay and went with them to the room, which ended up being a soundproof room in the basement that only Derek could get into. As we walked into the room I looked around and it looked like a conference room but it had a wall of computer monitors and TV screens with many different keyboards. I felt like I'd walked into hacker heaven, I hadn't hacked into anything besides a few social media accounts in a while so to see this set up was like opening another door I had thought would be locked for the rest of my life. I pushed away my desire to sit down in front of the computers and instead I sat down next to Derek at the table while we  waited for Patrick to start talking. 

"Before I say anything Amelia can you umm kind of maybe climb onto Derek's lap and keep him calm, please?" I gave him a weird look but did it anyway because well the obvious of keeping him calm because this would probably end of being something that would make him quite angry if Patrick hat actually asked me too, but also because why not hes my mate and he gives me comfort just as much. Patrick continued, "Okay well first id like to say thank you Luna for doing that, second welcome to the pack and I'm happy you're you and not the person everyone was sure was gonna be Derek's mate and also Caleb escaped and no one knows where he ran off to or how he got out also he didn't leave any trail behind so we can't track him."

Derek stiffened up when Patrick started mentioning the whole pretty sure it was gonna be this girl but really glad it wasn't thing, but then he just started to get pissed off. I was shocked but still turned his face towards me and made him look at me. "Derek, look at me." He looked into my eyes. "It'll all be fine, okay? I'm right here with you right now. I'm okay and I'll stay that way."

"For how long though?" It was barely above a whisper but I could hear it as clear as day. He was still worried.

"Even if I do disappear you'll be able to find me."

"How do you know that?"

"Because I know you." Before he could say anything else I added. "Promise me something though."

"Anything."

"If I do disappear, don't go crazy, please." 

"Mel that -"

"Promise me Derek."

"Okay I promise."

I turned to Patrick who patiently waited through the whole thing. "please, tell me you have a sufficient plan on how to catch him."

Patrick looked troubled by this but answered anyway, "Yes we have a plan, but it might not exactly be sufficient."

Derek perked up at this and spoke out what I was thinking, "What do you mean its 'not exactly sufficient' Pat."

"Well umm its a terrible plan and even my mate rejects the idea but its the best we've got and we can't exactly figure out another way to-"

I cut him off because he was starting to annoy me with his stalling, "Stop stalling and spit it out!"

"We use Amelia as bait to get Caleb to come out of hiding and then we can get him." I now understood the real reason Patrick had me sit on Dereks lap, it wasn't because Caleb had escaped, it was because the plan they had to catch him again. It also wasn't just for Dereks benefit of not getting angry either, it was because I now couldn't move or focus or do anything but cry and hyperventilate, I was having a panic attack and Derek was trying to get my attention but I couldn't convince myself that I wasn't going to die because I knew that I wasn't going to die in that particular moment, I knew that this panic attack was not going to kill me,  but I did know that Caleb would. 

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