Filed To Story: Falling for the Alpha As a Student Novel
“I know all about you,”
Xander said, a glimmer of humor in his eyes. “What honor do I have for this visit?”
“You once tried to kidnap my daughter. Were you working with someone?”
Selene asked, getting to the point.
I coouldn’t help but scoff, knowing he wasn’t going to say a word.
“I can’t tell you, Luna,”
he told her, which was predicted.
“Can you tell me about darkness?”
Xander’s face fell and his eyes widened, but he said nothing so she continued.
“Darkness took my daughter, and I want her back. If you aren’t working with it, then tell me about it.”
He opened his mouth to speak and for a second, I thought he was actually going to talk. I would have been a little pissed because we’ve been trying to get him to talk for weeks but to no prevail.
But then he closed his mouth and for a second, he looked a bit lost.
“I’m not working with it…”
he said slowly. “But I can’t talk about it.”
“Why?”
She demanded to know. “My daughter will die if we don’t find her. We need to get her back.”
Xander sighed and I thought he actually looked a little remorseful.
“A lot more people will die if I speak,”
he answered.
“He’s not going to tell you anything,”
I muttered. “We’ve been trying for weeks.”
“Or maybe you aren’t asking the right questions,”
she shot back, giving me a firm look.
“If I speak about it out loud, it will be heard and everyone I love will die,”
Xander muttered. “I can’t let that happen.”
“We can protect those you love,”
Selene assured him. “You can trust us.”
“I trust you, Luna. But you won’t be able to stop it. It has eyes and ears everywhere…”I grabbed the cell bars and shook it, rattling the entire cell.
“Answer her questions, damn you!”
I growled; I was done with these mind games.
“I can’t,”
Xander said through his teeth. “I had a job to do and by being here, you prevented me from doing that. My only job was to train her and get her ready for the battle of her life. I don’t know if she’s well enough prepared. All I know is that she must stay alive.”
He paused and lowered his head. “I might have said too much; I can’t give it any more reasons to search my mind.”
“Darkness can read your mind?”
Selene asked, furrowing her brows together.
“It can get in your head,”
he muttered.
“He said the same thing to Lila too,”
I pointed out. “He said it can get in your head.”
“And you didn’t listen to him?”
Selene scolded.
“He’s a maniac,”
I argued, making Xander scoff.
I scowled at him.
She rolled her eyes and looked back at Xander.
“Can it read all of our minds?”
“Not the mind of a Volana,”
he answered, and then he looked at me. “Or those with Volana blood inside of them.”
“So, we are allowed to know information without it finding out,”
Selene breathed. “But we can’t get the information from you because if you spoke about it, darkness will hear you and know that there is an entire pack with the same knowledge.”
“I’d rather we didn’t give it a reason to search my head,”
he muttered. “I’ve already said too much and discussing this any further will make it suspicious.”
I didn’t know what that meant, but I was done listening to him. We were wasting time here; I needed to be out there searching for Lila.
“The guardian of the earth is protecting this pack; darkness isn’t here,”
Selene assured him.
“It’s protecting against dark magic, but darkness is a much more powerful force. It can still get in,”
Xander told us.
“But we would be warned if it was currently here,”
Selene mentioned.
“I’m not taking the chance…”
“You might not have to chance anything. You don’t need to tell us anything. But I know someone who might be able to help us.”
Lila’s POV
When I came through again, there was a bright light shining in my eyes. I winced away; pain seared through my body and hissed in agony. I jerked away from the firm hands that were grasping me.
I felt a blow against the side of my face, and I knew it had to have been someone’s hand. Some hit me. I felt a warm liquid oozing down the side of my face and instantly smelled my own blood. My body quivered and shook in agony. I could see my wolf in my mind’s eye, and she was cowering against a corner, not wanting to speak, but also not wanting to leave me. I could see the pain in her eyes though; it was the wolfsbane. It was hurting her terribly.
“I’d like to do a proper examination of her,”
said a gentle voice. My vision cleared only slightly, and I saw a tall woman standing before me. Or maybe she just seemed tall because I was being pressed to the ground.
But she wore a white doctor’s coat with a blue blazer underneath. She had long blond hair and fair skin; when she looked down at me, I saw her emerald, green eyes that were practically glowing and her long lashes that nearly touched the glass of her silver-framed glasses.
From the silver, she definitely wasn’t a wolf.
She was pretty though, and she looked gentle. She was speaking to someone I couldn’t quite see. I wasn’t sure if I was still in the dark, or if it was just my vision, either or, I couldn’t tell where I was.
But I could now feel my body and I could move. If these assholes holding me would allow me to move that is. But they were pressing me hard into the ground; I could hardly breathe. They were treating me like a rabid animal. Like I was a beast they couldn’t tame.
“You can do the examination here,”
a familiar voice seethed.
It was Jazzy; I knew her voice almost immediately. She was standing nearby, speaking to this woman. I’m assuming this woman was a doctor of some sort, but she wasn’t a human. Maybe a witch? She could be a healer.
“Not properly I can’t. I need my clinic. It has technology that you could only dream about. I would be able to do a full examination and get you a report on her health in only a few hours,”
the woman explained; she sounded almost desperate and eager.