Chasing His Betrayed Luna

ALPHA RAIDEN

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Following Larisa was the best decision I have made in my entire life... well aside from getting justice for my daughter.

I got to discover the truth about her even though I still couldn't explain some things like how she walked out of the air. One minute I couldn't see her and the next, she walked out with Kyle staggering and struggling weakly behind her. "What the actual fuck!" Lex gasped, shocked.

Despite his suspicions, my wolf was still shocked to see Larisa drop her mask, revealing her real face as she stepped closer to Aurelia whose pain flooded my system.

It took a while to get here. Larisa walked around in circles for a while before she disappeared. I didn't know where she had entered but I could still sense her presence in the vicinity which was why I decided to hide and wait for her reappearance. I had thought to myself, "Where could she have gone? It's an open forest. There is no building in this area."

It took seeing Aurelia after many minutes of waiting for Larisa to reappear for me to realize that this area was the marked spot on the map we received with the note. I fucking lost my mind when I saw Aurelia and I knew for sure at that point that Larisa had something to do with my son's disappearance as well.

It was hard to not leave my hideout and approach Aurelia who seemed to be speaking confidently. I even saw her smirk a couple of times, taking steps like she could tell where to go. This wasn't the plan yet I let Aurelia do her thing and she was fine until arrows were fired out of nowhere and at Aurelia.

The way she fell on her knee made it known that the arrows were laced with some sort of poison. Aurelia's screams broke me and I was quick to let my eyes scan the forest, hoping to find the shooters so I could make them pay for hurting the woman I loved... even though she never ceases to disobey me.

Lex's eyesight became one with mine and soon, I found two shooters. One was hanging on the branch of a tree which was far from me and the other was leaning against another tree, hiding in plain sight.

After getting over Larisa's reappearance and seeing her with Kyle, confirming that she was indeed the kidnapper... Truth be told, there was no getting over that but I sprung into action regardless, quietly moving towards the shooter closest to me.

"Take them out and help Aurelia before we lose her to the witch you chose to love!" Lex snapped at me.

This wasn't the time to argue with him or let the guilt he was trying to plaster all over my mind take over me. I needed to be focused but a question lingered in my heart- Was Larisa a witch? Witches were banished many years ago and it's rare for a werewolf to be a witch but it wasn't impossible as long as the werewolf gets initiated and invited into a coven by a powerful witch.

Larisa couldn't have been initiated-

My thoughts were cut short when I arrived by the tree and found the target lying on the floor, completely knocked out.

How?

"The second one is out too," Lex announced into my mind as my eyes cut to Aurelia and Larisa.

"That can only mean there is someone else here. I can't sense-" I started talking to my wolf while keeping my eyes on what was transpiring between Larisa and Aurelia.

Lex interrupted, "There are more of them."

"More of what," I asked him, hoping that I'd be able to save Aurelia and Kyle from the evil incarnate that Larisa had suddenly become.

Perhaps it wasn't a sudden change. Perhaps I had just been stupid and blind to who she really was.

"More fallen men. Unconscious bodies are everywhere within this vicinity." Lex clarified and true to his words, I sensed other unconscious men in the forest the second I let my senses loose. I didn't do that earlier because anyone in the forest would have sensed my natural energy and even now, I was putting Aurelia and Kyle in danger.

I could only imagine how fast Larisa would use the silver gun I saw her taking out of her family home if she sensed my presence but fortunately, Larisa didn't notice me as she was engrossed in whatever she was saying to Aurelia while keeping Kyle at arms length.

"Sniff out the person taking these men out. I need to locate-" My words to Lex died in my mind as I perceived the looming presence of someone who was undoubtedly a skilled warrior. "He is behind me."

I made the mistake of assuming that the warrior was a male and that he was working with Larisa and simply taking out everyone I could take in for questioning to help Larisa escape my wrath... which she would get. There was no escaping that!

However, I was proven wrong when

a strong yet feminine pair of arms skillfully grabbed my neck, pressing the right angles that would hinder blood flow to my brain. I tried to be quiet as I twisted out of her hold, turning my body to face who assumed was the enemy until I came face to face with Jessica.

"You?" I was shocked to see her.

Rather than respond, Jessica's eyes flashed with recognition and her face relaxed a bit as she placed a finger over her lips, shushing me and pointing towards Larisa who happened to be staring into the forest. I must have attracted her attention.

"You came with someone, didn't you? Bad, Aurelia. Here I was thinking you cared about your son." I heard Larisa as she raised her voice.

She wanted me to hear even though she didn't know it was me, and Jessica in the forest.

"Show yourself or she dies now." Larisa's voice rang through the forest and she pulled out the silver gun, pressing it against Aurelia's head. "I'm not bluffing."

Aurelia chose that second to rip out one of the arrows in her thigh despite knowing that would do more harm than good. She knew doing that would lead to loss of blood but I assumed she did that to protect Jessica who she knew was in the forest...

It drew on me that the duo came together just like I realized that the men Jessica was busy knocking out were Nolan's personal guards.

The pieces were beginning to come together and I concluded that I should put an end to Larisa's insanity. I pushed her into this crazy state by leading her on so I should end it-

"Call your trusted men and save us. I've done my part. We're trusting you from here on." Jessica whispered to me and she showed herself to Larisa without giving me the chance to stop her.

Fuck!

"You might not know this but I hate threats, bitch, especially from spineless wimps like yourself, Lorita, or whatever you're called." Jessica didn't hesitate to strike.

And with her actions, I knew if I didn't step in soon and end this madness, Larisa would kill them all. Quickly, I called the men I trusted, oblivious to the glaring truth- among my trusted men was Larisa's faithful protector.