True Luna: The Darkness Within (The White Wolf Series Book 5)

Alexander’s POV

I entered the cabin with a huge grin on my face.

I couldn’t wait to look it in the eyes and tell it that we would very soon be getting rid of it forever. We would get my Fia back and that fucking thing would be gone forever.

Hunter was behind me and I could feel the tension rolling off him.

“Don’t worry, Hunter,” I told him excitedly. “We will get rid of it soon.”

“You found a way?!” Mason exclaimed before Hunter could answer.

We approached him and he flinched a little.

“Goddess, Alex, you look terrifying,” Mason mumbled, glancing from me to Hunter. “What the fuck happened?”

I furrowed my eyebrows.

“What the fuck are you talking about?!” I growled. “I have a huge smile on my face because we are killing that fucking thing that captured my twin!”

Mason glanced at Hunter again.

“You have a smile on your face, but it looks weird,” Hunter mumbled, making me look at him.

He was studying me carefully.

“It looks like a mixture of excitement and anger,” Hunter added. “It looks like you are about to explode.”

I tightened my jaw and gulped.

He wasn’t wrong. I was pissed as fuck. I just didn’t realize that it was so visible.

“What idea did you come up with?” Mason asked, but I ignored him completely.

I needed to see it and laugh in its face. I walked past him and approached the window. It was sitting on the bed and looking around the room with furrowed eyebrows.

I growled and clenched my fists tightly. I could feel my power bubbling up inside me, fueling my muscles and my whole body.

“There is no use in growling, Alex,” the thing said. “It won’t help you.”

My vision blackened. I really wanted to kill that thing. It looked at me and smiled.

“What genius plan did you come up with?” it asked as it stood up and approached the window. “Let me save you some time. It won’t work.”

“Yes, it will,” Hunter said, his voice laced with anger. “It will work and we will get our Sophia back.”

I could hear the pain behind his words. I looked at him and saw him clenching his jaw repeatedly. I could tell that this was torture for him.

The thing sighed and shook its head.

“It makes me so sad knowing that you will never accept me for who I am,” it said, looking from Hunter at me. “I am Sophia. I am just not the nice, kind, naive little girl I was before.”

I growled again. It was talking bad about my Fia.

“Shut the fuck up,” I said, slamming my fist against the glass. “You are not my twin. You are not my sister. You took her from me, but I will get her back.”

The thing smirked, making me even angrier than I was.

“Oh, Lex,” it said, shaking its head. “I hoped that maybe you would see me for who I really am. I hoped that I would always be your Fia, no matter what.”

My canines and claws elongated. I growled loudly and the power exploded inside me. The lights in the cabin flickered.

“Do not call me that!” I screamed, slamming my fist against the glass again.

Two strong arms wrapped around me and pulled me back.

“Breathe, Alex,” I heard Hunter say, trying to stay calm. “She is doing that on purpose. She is trying to get some kind of reaction out of you. Don’t let her win.”

Mason was standing in front of me with a worried look on his face.

I tried to listen to Hunter and I took what was supposed to be a deep breath. It was useless. I could see it smirking and it wasn’t helping my anger.

“She is probably hoping that you would lose it enough and open those doors to confront it,” Hunter said quietly. “She is trying to find a way out.”

I gulped. He was right. It was trying to provoke me, hoping that I would go inside. It was hoping that I would open those doors and break the spell.

“My mate is smart, isn’t he?” it chuckled, making the three of us growl at the same time.

“I am not your mate,” Hunter said, his voice trembling. “I am Sophia’s mate and I will get her back.”

It rolled its eyes and sighed.

“You keep saying that, but I am still here,” it said. “When will all that “bringing Sophia back” stuff happen? I can’t wait to laugh in your face when your plan fails.”

It air-quoted “bringing Sophia back” like it was something that wouldn’t happen. Oh, the thing was so fucking wrong. It would happen and it would happen soon.

“Oh, it will happen soon,” I said as I stepped away from Hunter.

He moved his arms and I approached the glass.

“It will happen very soon and we will never have to deal with you again,” I growled. “You aren’t nearly as powerful as you think. We are stronger than you. Sophia is stronger than you. We will kill you and you will never come back.”

The smirk disappeared from its face and it was replaced by anger.

“I am Sophia,” it said. “If you kill me, you will kill Sophia.”

It narrowed its eyes.

“How will you live with yourself knowing that you killed your own twin sister?” it asked, making my heart stop. “You promised that you will always protect me. You will break your promise if you kill me.”

I had to gulp down to stop myself from screaming.

I did promise her that. I promised Sophia that I would always protect her and that she would always be safe with me. She promised me the same. We were twins and protecting her was like protecting my own heart. We were part of each other and we couldn’t let anything happen to either of us.

But this thing in front of me wasn’t my Fia. It wasn’t my twin.

“I will kill you to protect Sophia,” I mumbled as I took another step closer to the glass.

I was staring at the exact copy of my eyes and a shiver went down my spine. Those were Sophia’s eyes, but it wasn’t Sophia behind them.

“I will do whatever I have to do to protect her,” I continued. “You are nothing and we will reduce you to ashes. You are nothing and you will always remain just that.”

Its eyes blazed with fury.

I turned around and stormed out of that room. I needed to go on a run and clear my head before I went into that room and killed it.