Chapter 79 – The Perfect Luna by Marissa Gilbert

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“So, what’s the plan?” the Beta girl asked, and he turned to look at the glass.

Behind it the tiny fox was weeping again, trying to fill the air around her with pheromones.

“For a start, make sure only females guard her,” Gideon said coldly. “We need to make sure that she loses any hope of ever getting out of here. And when she does, we will break her. Part by part. Until she tells us what we want to know.”

Roxanne sat alone in that white room for goddess knew how long. She knew that they had not forgotten about her. She knew that she was their only chance to get the information they needed.

She knew a lot indeed. But weighing her options, she was not going to share anything. She had two tasks now – to save her baby and to get back to Castiel.

Roxy hoped that he would send someone to save her. He also knew that she was a valuable asset. So, she needed to hold on until then. She could still play on Brayden’s fatherly feelings. It could still work if she tried hard enough…

She heard the sound of the lock and turned to see the doors opening. The ability to cry was lost to her as she had already drained all the liquid out of herself. But the pheromones were in the air, all she needed now was to add some good acting to that.

But when she saw two women in black leather looking down at her, she couldn’t believe her eyes.

Women. Not men. This was bad. The worst-case scenario, no less. Her pheromones only worked on males!

“Seriously?” one of them chuckled, bringing in the tray with a paper plate and some food on it, as well as a water bottle. “This ginger hobbit is the big bad criminal they asked us to guard? Couldn’t they do it themselves?”

on her chest. “They say she is vicious and can easily get under your skin.”

“Eat,” the one with bushy curly hair ordered and pointed to the chair. Roxy decided not to cause a scene and obeyed quietly.

“You are not wolves,” she stated calmly to test her theory.

“Neither are you,” the other one, with straight black hair reaching her shoulders pointed out.

“Who are you?” Roxy asked, prying for information.

“Werecats,” the first one answered, “Now, eat. We are not staying here forever.

And nothing will be left for you in this room”

She started eating slowly, listening to their every word.

“I hope our Alpha arrives soon. I don’t want to hang here when the lycan king is this furious.” The two women whispered to each other, not bothered with her presence.

“Yeah, I mean, I get it. He lost his queen and now she is captive. Who knows what the fox king is doing to her this very moment? He did not contact the Union, he did not demand anything. It looks like he only wanted her and now he got that.”

Roxanne slammed her fist on the table, not caring that she attracted their attention.

“What’s up?” one of the girls asked her with an indifferent expression.

“I am not hungry anymore,” the fox replied.

Without saying anything else, they gathered everything that they had brought and left her alone, locking her again.

Roxanne sat in the same place for a while, keeping her composure. But the images of Castiel and Riannon were flooding her mind. She knew him the best and she knew far too well when he wanted a woman. He always had a harem, yes. But he had consent from every girl inside of it, herself included. They all wanted to be there, craved it. And as far as she knew, it was the first time that he had taken someone there against their will.

She had no doubt that he would take Riannon to his personal house and the spend his first night with her? Did he like it?

The perfect Luna would be fighting it, there was no doubt about that as well. And deep inside she was really scared that he would like her even more because of that.

Roxy tried to get rid of these thoughts. There were millions of perfectly sane explanations as to why he needed Riannon. She was the lycan king’s mate and it would make so much sense to use her to weaken him.

She chose to believe in this one. It was easier and more comfortable this way.

She prohibited herself from going into the dangerous territory of imagining

Riannon in his bed, of thinking about what he would do to her and how he would take her. She knew everything that he liked, so imagining this scenario was easy.

But it was so painful. Too painful for her to bear. Hell, now she would gladly agree to Bridgit, her oldest rival, warming up Castiel’s bed while she was absent. At least she knew that he wasn’t in love with her. She wasn’t so sure about

Riannon. Could Castiel even love? Just like that?

Her whole body was aching from sitting on the firm surfaces for hours and she decided to lie down on the floor to try and stretch her sore muscles a bit.

Did it hurt Riannon that much when she was with her husband? To her, Brayden was never the prize and she took their mating as a part of her job. It helped that he was good looking and could bring pleasure to a woman when he wanted to.

But for Roxanne, he wasn’t Castiel. All that she wished now was that she had never stepped her foot in this wretched place.

Hugging herself, she tried to rock herself to sleep.

***

Gideon wasn’t happy. Everything was going slowly. Too slowly for his liking. He knew he couldn’t push the fake omega too early. And now, sadly, she was the only one who could give him any information. He sent Brayden in again to make it seem like this was their plan – interrogation after interrogation. Of course, the

Alpha was returning with no news. But this was something that they expected.

he invited were already there.

“Are you sure that they can all be trusted?” Alpha Ramina asked him as she joined him earlier than others. She was the first one he called from the Union.

“No,” Gideon replied honestly, “I can never be sure. But these ones seem to be the most reliable.”

They went to the conference hall and greeted each Alpha as they came in and took their place. They would have to act as a united front from now on. After all, it was their common war and their common enemy. The Summit helped them to understand that.

“Looking gorgeous as always, Ramina,” Zack Morgan winked at the Alpha who was sitting opposite of him at the table.

“I know,” the cat flicked her long sleek hair to the back, looking clearly unimpressed with the compliment. “My Luna says it all the time.”

“She has good taste,” Zack smirked and the woman rolled her eyes.

“Are we waiting for someone?” Alpha Caleb asked impatiently.

“My sister will be joining us too,” Gideon took his seat at the head of the table.

Maya, Reid and Ash stayed behind him.

“What for?” Alpha Maddox knitted his brows. Not every pack even loved seeing females at such gatherings.

“She is bringing my warriors from the kingdom. And she will stay because she chose to take part in this fight,” the lycan king replied emotionlessly.

He could already hear the cars pulling down right next to the mansion. In just a few seconds the doors opened, revealing Savannah dressed in black head to toe, something that was unusual for her.

“I am sorry I am late,” she looked only at her brother when she felt it… This warm feeling, the scent, the myriads of overwhelming sensations. She couldn’t take it for anything else as she looked around the room full of alphas.

“Mate!” a loud growl echoed through the house as everyone gasped in disbelief.

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