Chapter 285

Oakley… Bee’s hurt? …. Badly? The fear in his mind stopped me short, I didn’t want to lie to him, but at the same time, not knowing his exact location and not wanting him to get injury himself, I sighed before answering him, just come back to the house Ben, Grant, Julia and I are worried about you, Oakley wouldn’t like you to be out there alone, so come back home, I said giving my tone more authority towards the end, an order than his wolf wouldn’t be able to – “Chelsea, we’re pushing fluids to fight off the rush of toxins in her body, we’re going to start using pins to put her bones back together, even if we let you heal, it’s so swollen that it’d drain you and she’d lose too much blood, we’ll have to fix it humanly, and daily you’ll heal it quicker,” Jack said interjecting my thoughts. Expressionlessly I nodded, silently watching as they worked on Oakley, the minutes turning into hours, “I wonder what she was doing all the way up there,” Lux finally spoke, I just snorted, now that I had found her it seemed pretty obvious to me. “Well are you going to share with the class Luna?” Lux probed, “I think Kieran is her mate, he seems possessive over her, or maybe he just knows the area and didn’t want her to injure herself,” I shrugged not seeing anything wrong. “She – He – Kieran – I don’t…” Lux refused to look at me, his posture tense, poor girl, “Wait what? What am I missing?” “I’m half surprised that Kieran didn’t attack Oakley… I mean Chelsea did you notice no other scents near his?” I nodded, Greta grimaced like she knew something, I had stopped listening to everyone, especially now that I was concentrating on the people here on the island first and foremost. “Okay so no other scents, what does that matter?” “Kieran… he prefers to be alone, he has a horrible temper, he’s even attacked his own sister – that whole family – he’s more feral than human,” Lux said slowly as I rested back in shock, worrying about what this could mean for Oakley. What it meant period? “You think it’s possible he might have pushed Oakley?” I asked pausing between my words, trying to word things fittingly. “I mean you’re making it seem like you’re all afraid of him?” I snorted. “Kieran – those facilities where they had him, they broken him in there, doing tests, research, the worst of the worst Luna… all in the name of research. So no we aren’t afraid of one wolf, but the island is large for less than 2000 people, as you see we didn’t make a path up there, so that’s where he stays. We normally make him sacks, he has them the food lasting him nearly a week sometimes two, he comes down when he wants but he never really stays-” Shaking my head, “No… I think – I don’t think he’ll be a danger to Oakley, I mean he called out for me…”my words spacey as I analyzed, “I don’t think he will verbally reject her, I’m not sure he even understands what’s going on with him. All he thought was that he didn’t protect Oakley that he tried to cut her off but she just sidestepped him. She encroached in his personal space and he didn’t attack her…” Lux pondered my words before speaking, “I have nothing against Kieran Luna, but where Oakley is concerned I think that they need to be watched, she is in a vulnerable place and Kieran needs…” so much, more than he can find in just a mate, he thought not finishing his words out loud but I understood. But as he mentioned the facilities, “Liam, I met with him earlier, he was in one of those Facilities?” I questioned curiously. Lux nodded as he answered, “Yes,” the words growled, “Honestly I don’t think we even knew the real truth about what was occurring Chelsea, I mean until we finally got our hands on Kieran and Liam, the other few escapees we hadn’t understood just what we were dealing with here. I think when you’re dad learned of the true core problems here, he really wasn’t sure if even you were capable of fixing the corruption and heinous activities that were being conducted,” he spat, the ends of his lips turned down in a frown. “This is so much more than just about the Elders Luna, the Elders went in with the government using our kind for research. Warm-blooded vertebrates have more protection in the U.S. than our kind, we don’t fall under human research and we don’t full fall under animal research – no protection. Not that they’d be following those laws anyways, especially not the people that find ways to do things under the radar. The Elders have been giving our kind to them, there are many of people just like you and I Luna that they’ve warped into believing that they are doing the right thing for our kind. It’s not just humans treating shifters inhumanely its other shifters as well.” I thought his words over, so even if I took down the Elders I’d have problems, “What was dad planning?” I asked curiously, surely he had a plan going. “Can we discuss this later Luna?” Lux asked seriously eyeing the door then the ceiling, “Yes,” I answered in a clipped tone. He had been bringing people that were in danger here; he had no real way sometimes figuring out just why they were being targeted even with our research. Like Mr. Hellmann? He stole money from the Elders, I wondered how many Mr. Hellmanns this island was harboring? Most people here have different gifts Luna, we have to take down the Elders, but we need to be ready because then you have their followers… dealing with them – many will want to take the place of the Elders, they won’t be pleased that you’re going to take a spot that many want for their own, Lux finished. Basically even disarming the Elders, I’d have to deal with the blow back, the people that have wanted power and will see me removing the Elders as an easier target. As the surgery continued I sat thinking, plotting. We had the violins. As of late I had already decided that Gabriel, Nonno, Casey, Jamie, Jack, Mikael, Nona, Greta, Angel, Oakley and Ben would be the ones for sure that I chose when I released their energy to help in the absorption. I tuned out only checking in when Jack called me, thinking over the others, Lux, Marlon and Walter, the three from the island that I wanted to add as well, but there was a larger part of me that was hoping that Grant and Julia would ask to be changed. I’m not sure how Pat Lawson and Grant Lawson could be so vastly different but I had never been in Pat’s shoes, I didn’t know what led to him being this type of man – weak in my eyes. They would do great with power, my third wolf chimed in, knowing that after all the searching that we had in their minds at different times they sought out the good. They are able to reproduce now, but they are thinking of Oakley and Ben first, Aria thought adding that slightly shocking piece of information. I thought back to the Richards, how quick they were to give me back when they learned that they had conceived a biological child of their own.