Chapter 43

The third and last ritual I had to perform on this mountain was talk to the previous Lunas that had gone through this. This needed deep focusing and silence. The first time I tried to do it, I was denied. They said I was too weak. But I thought that the fact that they could even communicate with me was something. So I kept on persisting till I was allowed.

What I was told there would blow your hat off your head. Sadly I wasn't to talk about it to anyone not even my husband. Sorry.

Word had spread around the pack that I was the chosen Luna. Word had it that a Luna would not just go there, no ordinary Luna went to that ritual of ancient times. Only the lucky chosen one would go. If they stayed alive then they wee worthy.

Word had it that the women hoped that I die there and never make it home. They planned on having a Luna from their same pack. But me returning back had changed a lot of things, for them that is.

I was glad that my husband was still in love with me even when he saw me taste insanity. Talking of insanity, I did have a bad feeling about something but I didn't know what.

The doorbell rung, it was Claire. "Claire, what brings you here?" "Please, please Luna, help me," she said in between ugly sobs. "You have to help me please." She was in hysterics, I had to calm her down. "Would you like it if I made you tea?" I ask softly. She nods her head. And I let her in.

I made her that herbal tea I got from the midwife, for me it helped me calm down. Maybe it would help her as well. After she cools down I ask her what she needs help for. That's when she tells me that her brother had met a very tragic death and that she had no one to go to.

She seemed sincere enough, she even apologized for what she did to me, saying that she was hurt but now she is okay with it. I was a different woman, if you asked me a month ago, I would have told you that no way am I forgiving her. But I was a Luna now and thinking about other females was my given right.

I let her stay till she sorted herself out. Dumb idea? Yeah I know. But things were different now, I couldn't, no matter what I couldn't let myself deny this hopeless soul who lost her brother. And woman to woman? I wouldn't let her go on with no help. I just had to.

Aiden wasn't too happy with what I had done, he was upset that this woman was capable of anything, even killing the Luna so that she becomes one herself. I thought it lunatic talk because if she had to become the Luna, she had to marry the Alpha, which was impossible because the Alpha would not let this happen.

But, there was a nagging feeling at the back of my head, it agreed with my husband but I'm sure it was nothing. And I was going to make sure that she kept to her line. Me being nice did not mean she could take advantage of my hospitality.

A week staying with Claire was not so bad. I was even convinced that she had really changed. I didn't know her background but she looked to be well versed with house hold chores. I didn't believe in hiring help to help around the house. I believed that if a woman is worthy of keeping a house then she must be able to clean it too, if she can't then it's a waste of talent.

Claire had started a certain job somewhere to save up money enough for her to find her own place. In the time that she was gone, I and my husband would get busy at home. The walls here were paper thin and sound penetrated it easily.

As much as my husband and I made love at night, we didn't like silent sex. There was no expression in. so we opted to mate in the afternoon when no one was home. Like that we would make as much noise as we could.