His Favored Luna

Autumn’s POV

It’s been 2 months since Mikaela’s pup died. The little girl didn’t survive the birth. Mikaela is still devastated and my mate is trying to be strong and tells Mikaela that she is with the Goddess now, we weren’t able to get to the human hospital in time, Vincent tells us that even he wasn’t able to help her, the doctor wouldn’t release the pup at first for us to bury our loss, I have such a hard time being around Mikaela with my own healthy pup, he is growing so fast, of course Alpha male pups grow faster than the average wolf, but the pup already has his teeth and sits on my hip. I feel my mate’s emotions when he sees Mikaela, guilt being at the top, I know that he is confused as to what went wrong. “I don’t understand it, I could hear her heartbeat, she was a strong pup despite being half human, Autumn, it doesn’t make any sense, and I am so lost on what to do, I miss my pup, I never met her, but I miss her, I just don’t understand and it just doesn’t seem right, my gut feeling is telling me that she is still alive, I am torn on whether or not to talk to the doctor again.” I consider what he is saying and ask “you don’t believe that the pup we buried was your pup?” He turns and looks at me and shrugs with sadness in his eyes. I comfort him the best that I can.

With being a new mom and dealing with Mikaela’s pup’s death I haven’t had a chance to have a Luna’s circle, tonight is the full moon and I mind link the pack to let them know we are meeting tonight. When we offered the moon goddess the dead pup, I couldn’t get through to her, tonight will be my first attempt since that night. I must admit I am a bit nervous about the connection and if she will show tonight.

Mikaela and myself walk through the meadow in silence, I try to formulate the right questions in my mind about that night, she never talked about her pup and what happened and I am curious to get her account of what happened, I didn’t want her to know that Greyson had his doubts about their pup being dead, I didn’t want to sway her to give me answers that fit with his unspoken theory.

“Mikaela, you know you can open up to me, right? It is my job as Luna to look after the pack” she looks at me and says “I am not a wolf” I laugh and say “sweetie, at this moment I am not a wolf either, it doesn’t mean I am not a member of this pack, just like you, come on, Mikaela, we haven’t talked since it happened and that makes me a bad Luna, you are mated to one of our officers and you suffered a loss and it is my job as Luna to help you and I failed, mostly because I felt guilty because my pup lives while yours never breathed her first breath of air.” She looks up at me and says “but that’s the thing, Autumn, she did breathe, I heard her crying, right before the doctor put me under sedation, I saw her and heard her cry, I just wished I know what went wrong, the baby we buried didn’t even look like her, I know it’s absurd, but what if that wasn’t my baby, what if it was a mistake, no one was there with me, they wouldn’t allow Vincent in and it was just me and I just don’t understand, Autumn, do you think it could have been a mistake?” I pull her into my arms and my heart breaks for her as I try to soothe her as she cries against me. “Listen, I am going to find out what happened to your pup, I will not rest until I get answers”

I don’t want to give her false hope, but something isn’t adding up, Greyson said that the doctor said that the baby was stillborn, not breathing when born. Could Mikaela had imagined that? Maybe she wants it to be true so she tricked her mind into thinking she heard her pup’s cries, but with Greyson’s disbelief and my own gut feeling I want to investigate this further.

The moon goddess confirmed my suspicion, she told me that the pup we buried and offered up to her wasn’t a wolf, which meant that Greyson’s and Mikaela’s daughter was still alive. ‘She will be used as a weapon if not found’ I knew then that I had to find out what happened to the pup and whose baby did we bury?

I sought out the doctor for answers to only come up empty handed, he was no where to be found it was if he never existed. A week passed before I got back to the dungeons, for some reason I knew the wolves we were holding knew something about this, they have been here for months and I am quite tired of feeding them, I take two of our warrior wolves with me, today they will finally tell me what I want to know or they die. Greyson has been ready to rid ourselves of them and only held back for me, but now I am done playing games with them and am about to show them how fierce I can be. I know I will have to eventually tell Greyson about his pup, but a part of me wants to keep this information to myself until I get further confirmation that his pup is still alive and where she might be. The fact that the Goddess said she would be used as a weapon let’s me know that this wasn’t a simple mix up a case of mistaken identity, no this was done with malicious intent.

I make my way to the dungeon, the wolves are so used to my presence that they don’t really fear me, maybe I have been too nice, maybe I went to soft trying to get them to loosen their tongues or at the very least their minds. My approach has to change, these wolves are key to knowing where my mate’s female pup was, and they will either give me the information I sought or I would end them without mercy.

Coming out of the dungeon covered in blood, I see Greyson across the way coming out of the woods, we lock eyes and I know I have to tell him everything, he wastes no time covering the distance between us, he looks at me and asks “are you alright? Is this your blood?” I take a deep breath, “Greyson, your daughter lives.”