Chapter 387: Shelter in the storm...

Lyla

The front door of the house burst open with such force that it slammed against the wall, splintering the wood around the hinges. Ramsey and Elias stormed in.

As soon as Elias saw the chaos—the destroyed sitting room, the hole in the roof, the creatures advancing on me—he didn’t hesitate. His human form melted away in seconds, replaced by a massive grey Lycan that was easily as large as Ramsey’s war form.

Without a sound, he launched himself at the nearest creature, his claws tearing through its chest like paper.

Ramsey immediately wrapped his arms around me, pulling me against his chest as his body tensed. "Are you hurt?" he demanded, his hands running over my arms and face, checking for injuries.

Across the room, Nanny finally stopped fighting the creatures. Since Elias had entered, she quickly shifted back to her human form and rushed to the bedroom to change her clothes since it was torn.

Two of the clawed creatures snarled and charged Elias. His powerful paws struck them like twisted wrecking balls. One got crushed against the couch; another lunged and exploded into dust when Elias sank his claw into its throat.

Elias fought with the efficiency of someone trained for this exact situation, his massive Lycan form eating up the space in the sitting room as he continued to fight the creatures. Each strike was calculated to kill, not just wound. Within minutes, the last creature lay motionless on our destroyed floor.

Elias shifted back to human form, breathing hard from the exertion. His clothes were torn and bloodstained, but he appeared uninjured.

I stared at him, still trying to recover from the shock that he wasn’t human. "So... you’re not human?"

Elias nodded, guilt written across his features. Without hesitation, he dropped to one knee before me in the traditional gesture of respect to a Luna.

"I am Elias Thornwick, assigned as your personal guardian by order of the Hollow Kin Council," he said formally. "I am deeply sorry for not revealing my true identity sooner, Luna. The deception was necessary for your protection."

I turned to Ramsey, seeing a contemplative expression on his face that suggested he’d already put some pieces together. "Did you know?"

Ramsey nodded slowly. "I only found out today. I suspected something when he defended us to the police, but I confirmed it this morning."

I shot him a glare that could have melted steel. The betrayal stung—not just from Elias, but from my own husband, who had kept this information from me.

Turning back to Elias, I crossed my arms. "First of all, I’m mad at you. Moons! I am so gullible! How could I have missed the fact that you’re—"

"Maybe because you’re pregnant," Elias said quietly, shrugging his shoulders. Then continued hastily, "And also because I needed to stay undercover. My assignment was to protect you without drawing attention to my true self. I’m sorry, Luna, but I had orders."

"So what are you doing here then? Why do I need a guardian I didn’t know about?"

his throat. "I’m sorry about that, again, Luna. It’s just

against his side. "We should clean up first," he said, his voice tight with

clothes and without any preamble, or rather, I would say with her eyes burning with fury, walked up to Elias, who took one step

those creatures were and what

his head uncomfortably, looking to Ramsey as if he was asking for

all of that later, Miriam. How about we try to clean up the house first and sort out the roof issue? It’ll be night

would allow my daughter to stay in this same house after hearing clearly from one of those creatures that they came here to

to me. "Come here,

myself from Ramsey’s protective embrace and walked to Nanny,

bags," she said, stroking my hair. "I’ll call the doctor and the

hesitantly. "I’m

you." Nanny shut him down immediately, her voice filled with

his head and muttered, "But you have

back. "Do you have a

the aura of a High Priestess even though you no longer perform your

me what I don’t know, Lycan Leader," Nanny sneered again, shooting

apologised, clearing his throat nervously. "But you can’t leave now with

your sweet time

through their bond. I hope

patience dwindling every passing second. "What

First of all, Miriam, we won’t be staying here again. I already made arrangements for us

just

need to get to our new house." He turned to Elias. "How

on it," Elias

"And our transport?"

too, Alpha," Elias murmured, typing

it as much as he could before returning to me. Without saying a word, he

in front of me, stroking my cheek. "I’ll go pack our bags from the bedroom

flooded inside of me right now reminded me of the reason why I was head-over-heels for Ramsey.

muttered

and straightened, not before placing a kiss

tried to pick up the worst of the

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