Filed To Story: Secret with Betas Daughter: Skylar Story Series
“Umph!”
I giggle a little into Luna Anne’s arms. “It’s good to see you too.”
I mumble awkwardly into her very soft jacket.
“Oh, sweet girl, you have no idea how hard it has been to stay away, but Reggie said it would be worse for you if I came in and showed any type of favoritism toward you. This has been torture and Warrior Brogen and Warrior Nickolas won’t say anything about your training either. I don’t know if that is my husband’s doing to force me to separate or if those boys really do take their warrior code that far.”
She’s like a tornado walking around the room, waving her hands and talking. I’ve never seen her this animated and it must show on my face. “Oh, stop looking at me like that, I can be myself here. I don’t have to worry about who’s listening or looking. I don’t have to be poised and dutiful like the Elders believe a good queen’ should.”
She used air quotes.
“I’m starting to get the feeling this assignment to Xander is going to be way less fun than I anticipated. Xander mentioned me basically cock-blocking some of the potential chosen mates they have lined up for him. I’m about to be a target aren’t I?
“You’re not far off.”
She chuckles. “Come sit, we’ll eat and I will explain a little before we get the fun stuff started.”
She pulls me over to a table laid out with a ton of food. Meats, cheeses, fruits and vegetables of every variety were at my fingertips. I could feel my mouth watering at the sight. Well, she at least knew I would be hungry training the way that I did. “How much do you know about the Luna Queen’s role in this whole situation?
“Not much, really. Like any other Luna, but somehow you have a connection to the Moon Goddess. I don’t think I’ve heard anything else that is unique to being the Luna Queen.
“You’re right, I do have a connection to the Moon Goddess.”
My eyes went wide.
“Can you just have conversations with her? Or how does that even work? I have so many questions!”
I blurted, leaving the bite I was about to take hanging in the air and thinking of all the things I would want to know having that kind of access.
“Hold on , hold on. It’s not that easy.”
She giggles at my excitement. “I can talk to her, or rather make requests to talk to her, she’s a bit busy.”
Luna Anne winks at me. “But mostly she comes to me with things that I need to know or things that need immediate intervention. She mostly lets us handle ourselves, but occasionally she needs our help. She told me about you actually, it was the reason we chose to visit your pack.
“Wait, what? What do I have to do with anything?”
I was afraid I had done something so bad that I needed to be watched.
“Relax, child, you didn’t do anything wrong, but the people who could help you had their hands tied, and that is all that I am allowed to say about your situation. The Moon Goddess knows you well and has special plans for you. We needed to get you out of your pack before anything else escalated.
My jaw was on the floor and I’m sure the look on my face was hilarious. I wonder if the Moon Goddess told her about all the things I went through with Kaley. I wonder if she knows who attacked me in the locker room after training?
“Close your mouth, you look like a fish. Don’t be surprised when people take notice of you. You work hard for it. It’s okay to be seen for the amazing things that you do.
“I don’t know how to respond to that, I literally have no words.”
I mumbled at her and she just laughed again.
“So say nothing and just listen. You need to be trained for whatever is coming. ThRogue King is trying his best to take over. He wants total control over all of the territories and our is the biggest in our region, so he’s starting here. There have been smaller attacks going on for a while, and that usually isn’t cause for alarm. Packs have feuds and disputes all the time that lead to fighting before it’s resolved. But many reports that we are getting are of attacks that seem to be unprovoked and upon further inspection is not the work of a neighboring pack, but an outside group. This is what most of our warriors are researching and gathering information on for us when they go outside the territory.
“What does all of this have to do with me though? I’m only 15, barely old enough to be a warrior let alone make any kind of impact.
“That’s where you’re wrong. You are so much more and you started blooming so early no one knew what to do with you, so the Goddess let you keep yourself hidden until the time was right to reveal your talents. When she thought you were ready, she came to me and we brought the trials to you. You have no idea what kind of impact you had at those trials do you?
| just shook my head, this was so much information and nothing | expected.
“Well, you confirmed what your Alpha and Luna have suspected for a while. You came out, just this tiny little thing, amongst all of these warriors who have probably trained for longer than you have been alive, and took on everyone and won. No contest, no bias, nothing but you and your instinct to survive. Then you did it again with your wolf, who you got so early. That’s when Reg and | knew you were special. He has some theories and wants to see you today before you go, but we are done talking about your amazing Trial run, let’s get your armor for the battle that is the Elder’s Conference.
She claps her hands and Omegas come from all over moving trays and rearranging the room.
Soon the big food is gone, replaced with little snacks and three racks of dresses have been set up with a privacy wall for changing, a full length gilded mirror, that looks like it weighs a ton, and a pedestal just like the one in the dress shop Sierra dragged me to with the guys. With that thought my heart squeezes a bit. | wish | could have said goodbye to them all and hugged them, and just gotten that closure instead of being ripped away unconscious.
“What has that look on your face?”
Luna Anne asked.
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