Chapter 12

‘Lucy!’ Luna Hale’s mind-link woke Lucianne from deep sleep.

‘What? What happened, Luna? What?’ Lucianne mind-linked back in a daze as she reached for her phone to check the time.

2:32 a.m. ‘You’ve got to be kidding me. What the he*l is happening at this hour?!’, Lucianne thought to herself.

‘Lucy, sorry to wake you but we need you to come over now!

‘What happened? Where’s Juan? Is he okay?’ Lucianne bolted out of bed before putting a tank

top over the sports bra she was sleeping in. Her shorts will have to do. Hale’s mind-links

‘He’s fine. He’s speaking to Alpha Frederick from the Jewel Pack. Please come quick. You need to hear them out.’

‘I’m coming!

Lucianne didn’t even bother checking her appearance or tying up her hair as she dashed out o f the room with her phone and took the emergency stairs to the floor above and ran down corridor before she reached her leaders’ room and knocked on it three times.

Juan opened the door and said, “Come.”

He was worried. That, in itself, was not a good sign. Apart from Juan and Hale, Lucianne recognized Alpha Frederick, Luna Felicity and Gamma Brighton from the Jewel Pack, all of whom she just met hours ago at dinner. Luna Felicity looked like she was holding back her tears but the puffiness under her glistening eyes showed that she had already cried a lot before Lucianne’s arrival.

“What happened?” Lucianne asked, dropping all formalities despite being in the presence of the leaders from another pack.

Juan explained in a serious tone, “Lucy, there’s been an attack. The Jewel Pack lost eleven out of fifteen warriors.”

she calmed herself before asking in

The Beta?

who survived, and the one who delivered the news to

Juan explained

“How many rogues?”

ten, maybe

did the attack

“A little after midnight.”

nodded emotionlessly and said, “Then we need to leave now. They’ll attack again

I can mind-link the Alphas or Lunas.” Juan asked. This wasn’t the first time he left the discretion of choosing warriors

looked at the wall in front of her like she was going through an invisible list of names as she spoke, “Gamma Tobias, Alpha Tate, Alpha

Gamma Lucianne.” Alpha

smiled amicably at the guilty-looking man and

sights on their Gamma, and her confident voice rang in the room, “Gamma Brighton, you’re coming along. There’s no better

was something in Lucianne’s voice that no one wanted to argue with because there was assurance of their safety

SUTan

directing the question t o Juan but realized that it was her he was asking since

if your Luna allows it, Alpha Frederick.” With so many warriors dead, it was

worry and

bravely held back the tears and said in a muffled voice, “Go,

with Luna Felicity until you’ve all returned.” Luna Hale assured

Luna Hale.” He

bathroom at last, he

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