Chapter 66

Chapter 66

Amelie

"Come on, girls, we need to go. You are starting school today." The twins are not as energetic as they usually are in the morning. I think the vision they had, took more out of them than I realized.

"Mommy, can we stay with you?" Daisy clings to my leg. This is odd behavior for her. She is the brave one, always charging ahead. For her to stick to me must mean she really does not want to go to school, this is out of charter.

"Mommy, please let us stay with you! We will go to school tomorrow, we promise." Rose's eyes are pleading with me.

"I think they should stay with us too." Inari chimes in.

"We need to show that the Alpha family supports the new school changes them going to pre-school is important in many ways." I need to stick to the plan.

"This once don't use logic and feel. They need to stay with us." Inari's ton was surprising. It was consequential and direct. I close my eyes and let my instincts tell me what to do.

"OK, I trust you. They will stay with us." I let out a big breath in defeat.

"Girls, you can stay with mommy today, but you need to go to school tomorrow. Agree?" I pat their heads.

"Thank you, mommy." They both say.

I mind-link Shay, Jorden, Matt, and Tyson. "Slight change of plans. The twins are coming with us today. Matt, I want a guard assigned to each of the girls." Becky is staying back as she has her hands full with the packhouse staff.

Matt replies, "Yes, Luna."

"We are going to drop the boys off at pre-school, then meet you out front of the packhouse." Jorden mind-links me back. Honestly, I didn't mind if they brought the boys with us, but I understand if Ryan and Easten wanted to go to pre-school.

We all meet at the front of the main packhouse and get into the SUVs. The new school we are constructing is on the edge of the pack town. It's not a lively town like most pack towns. That's what I am trying to improve. Druit Guard has always focused on the work they do and never the lives of the pack. I want to change that. We have a lot of satellite packs that people don't know are associated with us. Those small packs need overhauling too. I must remember one step at a time. I have so much to do with such a big pack. It's more like an organization than a pack. The only thing that feels the same as other packs is we have an Alpha and Luna; otherwise, it's very businesslike. Packs tend to feel like a giant family. Druit Guard did not. I wanted it to feel warm and inviting for everyone. It was a big task, but I think I can do it.

We pull up to the site and get out. We are standing in a field with bright pink flags outlining where buildings and other features will go. The architect and the construction foreman are waiting for us. They start to walk us through the project, showing us where the different buildings will go, even walking through the main building with blueprints. The guards are all close by, and the girls have not let go of my hands. The wind shifts, and I smell something odd.

Out of nowhere, at the edge of the field, we see six wolves. They look like rouges, but they don't smell like rouges. They are snarling and foaming at the mouth. Quickly the guards take action the pick up the twins and start ushering me back to the SUV. Shay and Jordon surround me, blocking any attack.

"Mommy! Help them! They need Help!" Daisy is screaming as the guard is running her to the SUV.

"Don't let them get hurt, mommy! Please!" Rose is screaming and reaching for me while the guard is holding her tight and running with her.

This is what they were talking about. I turn around and shake off Matt, who was ushering me to the SUV. "Luna, you need to get in the car now!" I don't turn; I start running toward the edge of the field to the fight that has formed.

Matt grabs my arm, "Luna, please get in the car!"

I turn and look at him, "I am the Luna, and I give the orders." I shake free from his grip, and all he can do is follow me. It's chaos; I need to take control.

The guards and mystery wolves are fighting. Everyone has shifted and attacking each other. The rogues' attacks are erratic and uncontrolled. It's like they don't know what they are doing. Our Elite Deltas quickly overpower them. One of the guards is about to kill one of the rouges.

"We have to stop them. They are not rouges!" I franticly tell Inari.

"Let me take control" I give Inari control as much as she can come to the surface.

"STOP!" Inari commands. "SHIFT!" No one moves, and I can see both our guards and the mystery wolves are fighting Inari's command. "SHIFT NOW!" She screams, and we push all our Luna aura out, forcing all the wolves to submit. Gideon said I was the strongest Luna he's ever met.

What I see when the mystery wolves shift proves to me the twins have the gift of sight. It also breaks my heart. Once they shift, they don't smell like rouges. They smell like children. When a rouge denounces its pack, they smell of riot. Before a pup is accepted into a pack, but after their first shift, they smell sweet. These six smell like pups not accepted into a pack or non-affiliated wolves. They all had their heads shaved, even the females, and they were covered in scars and bruises. They were shaking in fear; their eyes are distant and cloudy. They looked so young, too late teens at best.

I feel Matt come up behind me, and he stops. I look over at him, and he's staring at one she-wolf. "Mate!" comes out of his mouth, and in an instant, he's trying to hold onto one of the she-wolves. She's screaming and confused, and she starts to cling to him. I can see the look in her eyes begin to clear. The mate-bond is helping clear her mind. I take a few steps toward them, and to my surprise, Matt growls at me. "Mine." This damn bond is making Matt possessive of his frightened mate. The person his mate fears is me. Oh boy. This is not going to be easy.

"Inari, I'm taking over. We will need our Mother Luna aura." I take over from Inari.

"Matt," I try and get his attention while using my Mother Luna aura. "Matt, look at me." He turns to look at me. I can see him, and his wolf are conflicted and confused. His instincts are in overdrive.

On the one hand, he protects his scared mate because he doesn't want her harmed. He knows what happens to rouges. On the other, I am his Luna, and he must submit to my command. I'm going to need to calm him.

"Matt, I would never hurt your mate. Look at her. She's scared and hurt. I want to help her and her friends. Will you let me help her?" I reach out my hand and slowly put it on Matt's shoulder. I push my Mother Luna aura to him, and I can feel his tension ease under my hand.

"Yes, Luna." He nods and looks down at the poor naked, frightened she-wolf. I nod and sit on my knees, so I am at eye level with the poor thing. She's terrified, and I couldn't blame her. She was forced to shift, found her mate, and doesn't seem to know what is going on. The others that were with her were still shaking on the ground and mumbling. They are still out of it.

"Hello, dear. I am Luna Amelie of the Druit Guard." When I say Druit Guard, she looks up at me, and her eyes get wide. She quickly looks down again. "No one will hurt you. What is your name." I want to start simple.

I hear the faintest whisper, "Bailey Rhea."

"Bailey, Matt, here is your mate. Do you know what that means?" I watch as she nods her head.

"Bailey, you know Matt won't hurt you or let anyone hurt you, right." She looks up at me with the saddest blue eyes I've ever seen. She nods slightly.

"Can you help us take you and your friends to the hospital?" She nods her head again.

"Good, thank you, Bailey. Once you are feeling better, will you talk to me?" She looks at Matt then back to me.

"Luna, don't send us back. We don't want to go back." The shakiest voice falls from her lips. Bailey breaks down in tears. I lean over to drape my cardigan around her, and she clings to me like how the twins did the night before, like a child needing comfort from her mother. This poor girl is so broken. I look over, and I see the other wolves are coming too. They are terrified. I push out my Mother Luna aura in a comforting way. I want them to know they are safe. It works; they calm down and crawl over to where I'm now sitting on the ground holding Bailey. The guards take a step near me. I shake my head.

Through mind-link, I tell them, "They will not hurt me. I don't know why they attacked us, but I don't think they wanted to. Matt, you need to get them to the hospital. No one questions them without me, and Matt doesn't leave them. He is in charge of them till I get to the hospital. Call for two more cars. Jordan, Shay, and I will take the twins home and meet you there shortly with Tyson. No one tells the Alpha about this but me. Am I clear?"

"Yes, Luna." I hear in unison. I sit on the ground with the mystery wolves. Shay and Jordan come over and join me, comforting and calming them.

Jordan mind-links me, "It's like they are children, but they have to be at least 17."

"I know. I need to know what happened to them, but I know it's going to break my heart." I link back.

The additional cars pull up, and we wrap them up in blankets and get them on the road to the hospital. I turn around, and Shay and Jordan are standing there.

Shay breaks the silence first, "You know Tyson already called the Alpha, right?"

I sighed, "I figured he did as soon as rouges were reported. I wanted to be the one to tell him. My phone's in the car. Let's get the twins to the packhouse. I'll call him on the way."

We get in the car, and before I can even look for my phone, I see Daisy and Rose are already talking to Gideon on FaceTime. I get in, sitting next to them, and Gideon sees me on camera.

"Amelie, what happened!" He was calmly talking to the twins, but now I hear the panic in his voice.

"I'm not really sure. We were attacked, but the wolves who attacked were non-affiliated wolves, not rouges. The whole situation is odd." I furrow my brow thinking through all the events as fast as it all happened.

"I'm heading back right now," Gideon demands.

"Have you gotten everything you need for the Kory Pack?" I ask.

"No, we have some things, but I was scheduled to meet Alpha Flynn in a few hours." He huffs.

"Gideon, I think whoever planned this doesn't want you to stay in New York. They wanted you to rush back. You need to stay and get all the evidence you can. That's the only way we can stop this. If you come home, you are giving them what they want. They will be controlling us with fear." I want him home, but I want my family's future to be safe.

He dropped his head and let out a breath, "I know you are right, but all I want is to be there with you."

"I want you here too, but we need this to stop more. I love you. We are safe. Please trust me to handle the situation." I plead.

"I trust you. I love you too. Please call me as soon as you can, and once I'm done here, we are heading home! I don't care if it's the middle of the night!" I giggle. I miss him.

"I promise. I love you." We hang up the phone, and the SUV stops in front of the packhouse.

The girls are not fighting me about going to pre-school now. I drop them off, and we jump back into the SUV to head to the hospital. Tyson and Becky jump into the SUV with us, and we drive over in silence. No one knowing what to say, and we all had so many questions. Nothing can be answered until we get to the hospital.