The Human Luna

Hopelessness

Ailani's P.O.V

"SHE'S YOUR MATE YOU FUCKING IDIOT!"

Everything was slowly becoming a blur. Before I knew it the door had burst open and Adrian was being pinned to the wall behind him, eyes still locked on mine, full of regret and disgust. I tried to plead with him without using words, but it was as if he was looking at me but he couldn't see me. The side of my neck was still bleeding, but I was too exhausted to hold my hand on the wound, and so I let my hand fall to the floor, along with the dark red droplets of blood.

"That is not my mate," he spat viciously, pulling his gaze away from mine. "She is no wolf, her blood tastes alien. Have some for yourself if you don't believe me." He looked at his brother solemnly, breathing heavily as if to calm himself down. Solomon kept his arm on Adrian's collarbone, eyeing him carefully.

"Her blood tastes alien cause she's a fucking human, you stupid piece of shit!" Jack roared, aiming for Adrian, but getting nowhere near him.

It wasn't even a second before Adrian had pushed Solomon off of him, sending him flying into the coffee table, the shattered glass only just missing me by an inch. He stalked over towards me, eyes now bloodshot red, his wolf basically possessing every part of him. Catalina attempted to pull him off of me, but her petite body was no match for his strength; she fell to the floor with a loud thud.

I winced in pain and shook violently with fear, pleading over and over again for him to not to hurt me. But my cries were in vain. Adrian had me in a death grip up against the back wall, his jaws clenched intensely as he watched me struggle to breathe.

"How dare you step on my territory. Have you no fear?" His voice was strong and low, anger seething through his teeth as he spoke. Before I could answer, a crack of glass was broken on Adrian's head, and I dropped back down to the floor.

"You're going to kill her!" Solomon shouted, hands clutching a beer bottle.

"Who's fucking side are you on? You're a traitor!" Adrian yelled, lunging for Solomon.

"Bro, you need to calm the hell down. No one needs to get hurt." Solomon dodged Adrian's punch, but Adrian wasn't giving up any time soon.

"You're not my brother! Treason! If I find out you've been communicating with humans, you're guilty of treason!"

"No one is guilty of anything. That girl is your mate! And you know it!" Solomon's voice had grown louder, his eyes glowing an unnatural colour.

"I thought I knew it. But that girl is human! What kind of Alpha has a human mate?"

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Katie's P.O.V

"They're here! Quick!" We all harboured around the entrance of the hotel, waiting as the first of the horses came to a halt outside. I was waiting for people from our pack to start running off into the crowd, clinging desperately onto their newly found mates.

But no one moved.

In fact, there was an eerie silence that came upon the hotel's territory, the men and women before us didn't look very welcoming.

"Where the fuck is Alpha Adrian?" Maddie whispered from beside me.

Christopher and two men beside him walked out to greet the Alpha of the pack. Breathes were held as they engaged in conversation.

"Greetings Alpha Mason - it is a pleasure to see that you have come." Christopher started.

"I did not travel all this way to be greeted by a soldier. Where is your leader?"

Ailani's P.O.V

"Marcus, you took your time. Give him the book."

Adrian looked cautiously over at Marcus who was slowly walking towards him with a large brown book in his hands, very similar to the one we had seen in the library.

"What's this?" Adrian spat, looking over to Solomon for an answer.

"Tut-Tut-tut. You're an Alpha and you don't know of your own packs history. I'm disappointed." Solomon answered.

Marcus was about to place the book down on the coffee table, but, when realising it was shattered into pieces, he handed it over to Adrian instead.

"The Legend of the Female Luna," Solomon started, walking towards where I was sitting.

"This shit is nonsense fairytale bull, only the elders believe in this story!" Adrian cried defensively. Despite his detestation of the book, he still held it tight in his hands, eyes scanning the pages.

"You are foolish to believe that our elders would put their trust in a fairytale brother. Respect must be given to where it is due. Our elders hold this book to the highest degree, what is in it they regard as true."

Adrian continued to read the book a bit more, but within 5 minutes, he shut the book viciously and threw it with the shattered pieces on the floor.

"How can you show such disrespect!" Solomon hissed, grabbing the book back as if it were on fire.

"That thing over there is not my mate." He snapped, words piercing a hole through my already breaking heart. "That legend is just a story we were told when we were young, nothing else-."

"You're wrong." Catalina argued...

"This girl is human and," Adrian started to walk towards the door of the hotel room, ignoring me as he passed by. "If she, and her two 'rouge' friends are not off this territory by the time the Mating Call starts, I'll kill them myself."

Tears started falling from my eyes as soon as the door slammed shut. Not even the comfort of Catalina and Jack could save me from my misery. The wound on my neck felt numb, and a part of me wished to make a bigger gash, just to feel pain.

"He'll come around," Catalina said soothingly.

"No. My brother is too stubborn. He will not come around any time soon. You must leave, now!" Solomon said demandingly, head bowed down to the floor.

"You can't be serious!" Catalina cried, eyes narrowed down at Solomon. "She can't leave now!"

"No." Jack started. "Solomon's right. We need to leave here. And besides, I'm not putting my best friend in harms way. Adrian didn't sound like he was kidding when he said he will kill us. I'm ready to go."

"But the Legend-" Catalina said.

"It is final. Jack, help Ailani get up. Marcus, go and get Katie. Pack your things and be ready to leave in the next 5 hours."