Fates Hands by Lori Ameling

Chapter 9

Chapter 9

Maybe it was the whole mate bond thing, she didn’t really know. It felt like they were connected

somehow. It felt deeper than just love alone. Adira was getting really comfortable with Duncan, she

never thought that she would ever be able to trust anyone again.

Here she was though, on her back floating in the water with his arms under her. It felt wonderful, if she

was going to be honest about the whole thing. Once he was confident that she at least knew the basics

of swimming, they got out of the water.

She sat on the edge of the bank with her feet swaying in the water as she became lost in thought. So

many memories, so much pain, so much betrayel. Why? she never wanted anything more than their

love. She wanted a family. When she started sneaking out and following her father and uncle, she

wasn’t sure what she was going to find. It was far worse than she ever thought it was. 2

When the family would go on vacations, she would go down to her fathers office and look for stuff, she

found plenty of bills of sale, documents, fake visa’s, bank account records

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and account books for profit and loss.

She also found another account book seperate from the others, she wasn’t an accounting genious but

she could tell that her father was keeping this book to keep track of the money he was stealing from

their businesses.

Wonder if Uncle Alpha knew about that.? Not that she was going to tell him. Who know’s neither of

them liked each other, so it’s a good bet that Uncle is also doing the same thing to dear ole Dad.

She drifted off to other memories, the one where she and another girl were playing together in the

woods and Uncle Alpha came up behind them. He just stood there and watched them, it gave them

both the creeps. Finally Cathy’s mother called out for her and she never saw her again.

A week after Cathy went missing, there was a note taped to her attic door. She remembered it word for

word…….

{I Don’t Ever Want You to Play in The Woods Again.}

The note wasn’t signed but she knew who it was from. She never went to that spot again, but when

Artemis showed up she needed the woods

10:40 AM | 1.7KB/S DOO again. She would always wait till the end of her shift at the hotel and run in

the woods behind it. It wasn’t really all that much, it was enough to get them through some bad stuff

Adira noticed that she was shaking and was having trouble breathing, she couldn’t get enough air. The

world around her started to dim as she could hear the voices and all the terrible things they were

saying to her. She could hear Duncan screaming her name off in the distance and then it was all gone.

She was back in her room in the attic, tied to a support beam and being beaten by her father because

she got caught using the downstairs bathroom.

Duncan was in a panic, she was fine one moment and then she went quiet. The next thing he knew she

was screaming NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! over and over. He picked her up and carried her to the

tent,as he held her yelling her name over and over hoping that she would come back from her

nightmare.

He saw the scars on her back and legs, he wished he could of been there for her so none of this would

have happened. He could not because he was not. He will do anything she

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He laid her down on the rug and got out the blankets, the pillows and made her a bed. He then went to

the sides of the tent and shut the curtains, so when she woke up she would be surrounded by white.

He lovingly put her down right in the middle of the bed he made, then cuddled up next to her and

gathered her into his arms. Falling asleep as close as he could get to her.

An hour later Duncan woke to the sound of Marco in his head, Marco was waiting outside for him. He

slowly disentangled himself from her b*dy and went to meet his Beta. When he stepped outside the

tent he gave Marco an angry stare. Marco held up his hands in surrender.

I have a message from Jack, “he says that there were enforcers sent into his territory. Jack and his

Slueth of Bears took care of them easily and sent a rather nasty message back daring Alpha Micheal to

send more.”

As far as he knows they still believe that Adira is with them in their territory. He said he will play as long

as you want him to.”

“He also said that he can be on the move at a

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moments noticed if needed. All you have to do is give the word.”

“That is good Marco, send this message back to him. Tell him he can play as long as he wants, just let

me know when he get’s bored with it and I will change it up for him.”

“Also Marco I need a favor, Adira had a bad PTSD attack. I don’t want to move her through the forest

and wake her. Can you bring one of those futon mattresses here and some extra blankets. Ask the

Pack cook if she can send along some of her homemade herbal tea.”

“I’m going to keep her here over night and possibly most of tomorrow.”

“The Doc warned me about this, I think just keeping her here away from everything for a little bit, might

help her sort it some of it out.”

“I can’t believe that those flea bitten mongrels did the things they were doing to her, not to mention all

that shit they were dishing out in their own pack.”

“You stay here, I will make sure you have all you need, keep her here a couple of days while the

weather is good. Give her some time to just be with you and maybe heal her heart a little.”

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“Then you can come back and declare her your Luna. The pack has waited a long time for its Luna, I

can tell you that they are all happy and are with you both all the way.”

“Don’t worry about pack business, I will take care of it till you come back and I will mind link you to any

developments going on as well as any problems.”

“Now go back to our Luna, I will be back shortly with everything you’re going to need.”

Duncan pulled back the curtain and just looked lovingly at his Luna. She was so beautiful in her sleep,

he could see that she was sleeping peacefully now. He lay back down beside her and fell into content

sleep of a happy wolf.

The next morning Adira woke up to the most wonderful warmth, Duncan’s scent hit her and she just

snuggled in closer to him. He in turn, held her tighter.

Duncan had been awake for sometime when he felt her awaken, he was surprised when she snuggled

deeper into his arms. Mated or not if he were to die right now he would die happy. When he heard her

soft breathing turn into sleep once again, he gently got up and went to see what his Beta sent him.

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s e When he opened the curtain what he saw made his jaw drop. How in the hell did he manage this

without him waking up? Then it dawned on him, Marco went to the pack mages and asked for help.

There was a small cabin not more than 10 feet from their tent. He went inside and it was a cozy inviting

little cabin. The kitchen was old fashion but workable, there was a table with two chairs, on the other

side of the room was a couch and two end tables, with oil lamps. A fire place adorned the other wall

complete with wood.

He went into the bedroom and realised that Adira was going to love this room, it was old fashion in

decor, the bed though looked like a big fluffy cloud. He opened an ajoining door and it was a bathroom.

The door on the other side was a huge closet, with some of their clothes in it, as well as more blankets

and towels. There was a note on the bed, he picked it up and read it.

Dear Alpha Duncan,

This is to inform you that you are on vaction for the next three days, this cabin is magically built.

Everything you need is all here, Running water, hot water, an oven and a fridge. Stocked

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TV. Enjoy and bring back our Luna.

Sincerely,

Your

faithful,

Mages.

Duncan just shook his head, he had two elder mages that lived with them in their retirement. They were

a couple, going on 50 years now. Mathew and Cheryl. He will have to come up with a really nice thank

you gift for them.

He went back to their tent, Adira was awake and sitting up. He looked at her….”Are you ok?.”

“Yeah, I am sorry about that yesterday.”

“Do not say your sorry ever again. You will have these for awhile and I am here to help you through

them. Come and see what my two mages did for us in the night.”