Don't Poke the Luna (Xena and Ryder)

Chapter 251

Chapter 252

Ryder's POV

XENA! I roared at the retreating vehicles, my voice tearing from my throat like shards of glass. It took me two agonizing minutes to break free from the ropes that bound me, my wrists burning as I struggled against the restraints.

The moment I was free, I stumbled toward where my mother lay crumpled on the ground. The sight of her broken body sent a wave of nausea through me, but I forced myself to keep moving.

"Ryder..." Her voice was barely a whisper, blood trickling from the corner of her mouth.

I dropped to my knees beside her, carefully lifting her head into my lap. "Mom, don't talk. Save your strength." My hands shook as I tried to apply pressure to the wound in her abdomen, but blood continued to seep between my fingers.

"Listen to me," she gasped, her fingers clutching weakly at my shirt. "Your father... after you and Xena left the pack... he took some warriors to search for clues... he wanted to protect you both..."

Tears blurred my vision as I leaned closer to catch her fading words.

"Promise me..." Her grip tightened with what little strength she had left. "Find him... protect Xena... protect the pack... I believe in you..."

Mom! I WILL!" My voice cracked with grief and

woman who used to sing me lullabies when I couldn't sleep. Then her hand went limp, and her eyes became

gone. The woman who had bandaged my scraped knees, who had taught

through my fingers. The world around me seemed to tilt,

being ripped in half. The mind link with my father suddenly

Dad's wolf was gone.

digging crescents into my palms until they bled. He was dead too. That bastard Wiley

to consume me entirely. I gently laid my mother's body on the

"AHHHHHHHHH!”

was the sound of a son's anguish, of fury beyond measure, of a heart shattered into a million pieces. Birds fled from the trees, and somewhere in the

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my lips, a promise of

will know parents' blood,

felt like acid, each drop carrying

power beginning to flow through my veins like molten metal. This should have been a moment of triumph,

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