Chapter 29: Her Second Chance Alpha

After Jason and Eric left, everyone finished and went their separate ways. Jason's parents returned to their home, which was just down the road from the pack house. Sara also went to see her mate before she also headed home for the night.

Ella and I walked together to our apartments. I stopped at one of the large windows that looked out into the back garden of the house. The roses that were blooming tonight glimmer in the moonlight.

Looking out towards the tree line, I hoped to see my mate walking back to the house but he didn't.

"They will be back soon." Ella says as she walks up beside me. "It had to be pretty important for them to be called away at night."

She says as the door to Eric and Ella's apartment opens, then, a little girl with matching red hair to Ella's pokes her head out the door.

"Momma" the little girl cried as she ran into Ella's arms and buried her little face in her chest.

Another child, this time a little boy who looks identical to Eric, steps out of the apartment, followed by a woman that I recognize as an omega who works in the daycare center for the pack. Realizing that these must be Ella's children, how did I not know that already? I scolded myself.

"What's wrong sweetheart?" Ella asked the little girl, gently wiping tears from her little face. The poor little girl's eyes were red along with her nose from crying. The girl continues sniffling, trying to dry her tears. The little boy, stepping forward, whispered something in Ella's ear, causing her to pale at once.

Turning her attention to the young woman who must have been babysitting, "Thank you, Amanda, for staying with them this evening." Ella says, handing the woman some cash from her pocket.

"Luna" the woman says to me with a small smile on her face. I nodded in acknowledgment and she made her way back to the main area of the pack house.

Ella is still trying to console her daughter while her son looks at his sister with worry written all over his little face. Bending down to be at their level, I look at both children realizing just how much they resemble their parents.

"Is there anything I can do to help?" I asked, looking over at Ella.

The little girl raised her eyes from her mother's shoulder, looking over at me. Her emerald eyes were sparkling from her tears.

"No, it was just a bad dream." Ella said, picking up the little girl and holding her close to her chest.

"The bad wolf is going to hurt Uncle Jason." The little girl sobs into her mother's hair. Ella tried to console her once again.

Instantly, worry ran through me at her words. Who was going to hurt Jason, I thought to myself. How does such a young child know something is going to happen to him? I began wondering. Andra let out a small whimper at the thought of anything happening to her mate.

My feelings must be visible on my face as Ella reached out, placing her hand on my shoulder, "It was just a dream. I am sure Jason is fine." She says, but I can tell there is more, something that she is not telling me.

"I am sure you are right. I am sure he is fine." I said, forcing a smile on my face to try to ease both our worries.

Ella leaves and takes her children back into their apartment and I stand there looking at the door they had disappeared behind for a few more minutes before I make my way to mine and Jason's. The silence that hits me as I walk through our house is deafening and only causes my mind to begin to wonder back to what the child had said and the feeling that there might be something else that Ella had not wanted to mention.

Taking the stairs, I headed to our room to shower, hoping that would help take the troubled thoughts away. Turning the water on in the shower to warm up while I strip down.

"Do you really think that was just a dream she had?" Andra asked with a whimper.

"I don't honestly know, but whatever it was really terrified her." Looking back, the poor girl seemed too upset for that to have been just a bad dream.

The bathroom quickly fills with steam from the shower. Stepping in, I hiss as the hot water hits my skin, turning it pink from the temperature. My muscles slowly relax as the water begins to beat over my body.

I become lost in my thoughts as I just let the water run over my body until the water starts to run cold. I finally washed my body and got out, wrapping one of the white fluffy towels around my body and walked to the closet. I grab just a pair of underwear and one of Jason's t-shirts.

After I slipped them on, I settled down in a chair by one of the windows waiting and watching for my mate's return.

My worries started to fill my mind again as I watched the twinkling stars in the night sky. All the issues that have happened seem to have some kind of connection to Alexander but none of them make any sense as to why.

Why is he continuing to send more wolves after me? Why would he use black magic? What exactly does he want from me?

"Maybe it has something to do with whoever we actually are." Andra pips up. "The moon goddess said we were special. Maybe he knows about that."

"But how does he know about that then? We only just found out about it ourselves." I'm so exhausted from dealing with the whole situation that it is starting to give me a serious migraine.

"I don't know Holly, but we will figure it out and stop him," Andra replies.

My wolf and I both went quiet as we watched the stars and moon for a while before I apparently drifted off to sleep at some point while I waited for Jason.

Later I woke suddenly. I feel the tingles from the mate bond and his scent invades my nostrils as he lifts me from my chair and places me in the bed. His skin and hair are still damp from the shower as he lays me down on our bed before getting in behind me. He pulls the covers over both of us after he has pulled me into his arms. Turning over, I ran my fingers through his short beard.

"What happened tonight?" I asked as my eyes met his beautiful Hazel ones.

"Some of the warriors found a make-shift campsite just inside our boarder." He says, pulling me in closer. "It seems to have been a group of wolves staying there for a few days."

A sigh of relief left me, Clare's dream had to be just that , a dream. Nothing happened to Jason while he was gone and he was perfectly fine as he laid beside me. But wait, how were wolves able to cross our border in the first place?

Jason tilts my head back some so that I am able to look at him again. "How did they even get past our borders?" I ask, finally voicing the question.

He turns over just enough to slip his hand into the nightstand drawer. When he turns back to face me, he holds a black stone necklace in his hand. Taking it from him, I ran my thumb over the cold black stone.

"It is a masking pendent. We think that whoever was there had to all have one of these." He says as he watches me continue to study the stone. "It hides whoever wears it to make them appear as if they were a human, but we still haven't figured out how they were able to keep themselves and their location from being discovered by border patrol."

"Eric found a book with a little bit of information on it but it is typically used by Black magic users." Jason added after a few minutes. My eyes instantly snapped back to his. Andra gave a low growl in the back of my mind after hearing that.

"I don't think this will be the proof needed for Liam or to bring charges against Silver Bow because we still don't have anything tying them together but, at least, now we do know that 'someone' is using these to get into the territory for a reason." He says, taking the pendent from my hands. "And possibly using other magic to keep from being noticed as well."

"Alex has to be planning something," Andra comments, and I have to agree with her. Alexander is up to something and I have a feeling we are about to find out just what that is.

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Luna Alison has been showing me everything that I need to be a good Luna. I just hope I don't disappoint her. We have been going through all the guest rooms on the east wing of the house, getting them ready for the royal representative that should arrive tomorrow and a few of the neighboring pack Alphas that had been invited to my Luna ceremony.

After finishing with the room preparations, we had to finish some of the smaller details for the ceremony. In my last pack, a Luna would never have helped with decorating besides ordering around the Omegas, but here you can see just how much Luna Alison enjoyed it and just how much the pack loved and respected her.

Sara and Ella had also offered to help out and now we were all in the Luna Office for my dress fitting that was supposed to happen yesterday but had to be postponed. Andra snickers in my head, "I would much rather have spent the morning the exact same way again." She says, purring.

I could feel myself blush slightly as I began to slip into my dress. Calming myself down, I step out of the bathroom that is connected to the office and I hear a loud gasp.

Everyone is wearing bright smiles as they watch me walk to the center of the room. There were three large full-length mirrors placed side by side with a round step just in front of them that had been set up for the fitting.

As I step up and finally look at myself in the mirror, I am just as stunned as they are. It was a tradition for the New Lunas to wear the pack colors at their Luna ceremony. It was a beautiful tight-fitting navy blue evening gown with a high lace neckline and three-quarter length lace sleeves.

"You look amazing" Sara says as she reaches behind the couch she is sitting on and pulls out a shoe box. "I thought these would go perfectly with that dress." She says as she opens the box and moves the tissue paper.

Inside is a pair of gold high heels with a two and a half inch heel. Thank the Goddess she didn't get any higher or I doubt I would have been able to walk without breaking my neck.

Ella now pulls out a small bag that she was hiding behind her back and hands it over to me with a bright smile. Pulling the tissue from the bag inside to find a blue velvet box. Slowly, I lift the lid and inside is a pair of sapphire and diamond earrings. I gasped, seeing the expensive jewelry.

"Guys, this is too much. I can't accept these. What if I loose one?" I said, hoping they would not take it the wrong way. I have never worn anything even close to as expensive as what just the dress must of cost Jason.

Luna Alison stepped forward with another jewelry box in her hands. "Oh hunny yes you can. This is how we shower a new Luna here." She says, placing the box in my hands. "This has been passed down from every former Luna to the next since the start of Blackwater."

My eyes are brimming with unshed tears as I try my hardest to control all the emotions that are swirling in me. Luna Alison sees and wraps me in her warm embrace and I can't hold the tears back any longer. Ella and Sara also join and it turns into a group hug with all of us crying. After a few minutes, we all wiped the tears from our cheeks. Looking at the three women before me, I realized just how blessed I am to have all of them in my life now.

Luna Alison is becoming the mother figure that I never had growing up in Silver Bow and Sara and Ella are the best friends I could only dream of having.

Taking the little blue box from Luna Alison, I opened the lid. Laying on the soft velvet is a golden bracelet. It was designed with Cresent moons and small diamonds placed periodically.

Blinking quickly, I push the tears away again as they threaten to fall, "Thank you" I say to all three women. "Thank you all so much for everything you have done for me in this short time." I said, grateful to have such an amazing group of women that have accepted me so warmly.