Chapter 87 – The Perfect Luna by Marissa Gilbert

Filed To Story: The Perfect Luna by Marissa Gilbert

But she wasn’t going to give up.

A grey and white wolf jumped on top of her out of nowhere, knocking her off her feet. Savannah bared her teeth and ripped his neck out for obstructing her. The blood sprayed her own fur.

And soon she sensed him. Her mate. He was after her too…

Two brown wolves attacked her from two different sides. She managed to bury her claws and teeth in one of them, but unfortunately, the other one ripped a part of her side.

She winced from pain, but charged at him next, killing him almost instantly. Then she finished off the first one and charged in the opposite direction from the howls.

She was running for her life now. But not only. She was also running for the lives of everyone she loved.

Savannah could feel them with her skin. They were literally inches apart now. So many of them…/ Would Zack kill her now, knowing that she wasn’t a little obedient princess? Or would he just hurt her and lock her up? She heard so many stories about Alphas treating their mates horribly. She’d rather die than be one of them.

But in all honesty, she’d prefer to kill him instead.

She took one last leap and ended up with her paws in the shallow water. It was a small river and she decided to cross it.

Her pursuers charged right after her, yet suddenly, out of nowhere, three pumas jumped out from the trees on the shore she just walked out on, followed by a beautiful snow leopard.

Savannah shifted back to her human form in seconds, falling to her knees and raising her hands. “Asylum!” she screamed, “I, Savannah Stormhold, seek asylum!”

She turned to look over her shoulders and realised that there were more than just three pumas there. There were also several lions and tigers, all of them baring their teeth at the wolves.

Zack shifted before her eyes, looking at her with a mix of emotions. But fury was evident on his face.

“Sawy, come back!” he called her with an intonation that, before everything she found out today, she could call gentle and full of love.

But she wasn’t buying any of that anymore.

“No!” she said firmly and the snow leopard shifter into a young woman with snow-

white hair that contrasted with her skin. A part of her skull was shaven while the other was braided into many thin long braids tied together.

“I am Alpha Zack Morgan,” her mate spoke, addressing the woman, who was clearly in charge there. “This is my mate, Savannah. All I want is to get her back.”

“She doesn’t look like she wants to go with you,” the white-haired woman smirked.

“It’s just a lovers’quarrel!” Zack insisted, talking as if Sawy wasn’t even there. “I’ll take her home and we’ll fix everything.”

“No, we will not!” she stood up from the ground, covering her bleeding side with one hand and clenching the fist of another. She had enough and she wanted to put an end to this. “I, Savannah Stormhold, princess of the West Lycan Kingdom and a member of the Stormhold pack, reject you, Alpha Zack Morgan, as my mate.”

“No!” he growled so loudly that flocks of birds flew away from the nearby trees, feeling the predator.“ I do not accept!”

She wanted to insist, but the wolves suddenly charged at the werecats and a new fight began. Savvy wanted to join them, but the woman with white hair stopped her.

“There is no need,” she said, “They will not be able to come to our land.” It looked like it was the truth as more and more huge cats were arriving now. She saw pumas,

Savannah realised how lucky she was. The wolves would hardly be able to deal with all of them, Those were deadly beauties.

“Come,” the girl stretched her hand, “You need help and you will get it here. My name is Cresseida, am the daughter of Alpha Ramina.”

“Nice to meet you, Cresseida,” Savvy smiled weakly, “I will never forget your kindness. And, now, please… It’s very urgent. I need a phone to speak to my brother…”

Gideon was standing and watching at the mansion where his beloved was kept and wishing nothing more than to get her out now. He was about to try and connect with her via the mind link when his phone rang

His sister’s voice was trembling and he wanted to ask her what was going on.

Riannon was locked in her room and the feeling was not new to her. Now that she had time to think about it, she had been trapped before. In her first marriage with Brayden. She was a hostage to that relationship and her own reputation.

Trying to be perfect all the time was exhausting. It was funny that only death helped her to see the vicious cycle. Gideon helped her to get free from it. And just like that time, soon he would help her to her freedom once again. She knew it.

But by the time he came to get her, she was sure that she would destroy this place. And when she heard a knock on the door, a smirk formed on her lips.

“Onyx, help me out to scan this place,” she asked her wolf, and now she could sense that there was only one person behind the door. A female. Two guards were standing at a distance that would make it hard for a regular shifter to know what they were talking about. Those two were new. The Paddington and the fox she knew were replaced by Castiel and now no one was fulfilling her every request like before. The fox king learned his lesson.

“Riannon,” Bridgit whispered, “Do you hear me?”

“Yes,” she smiled, knowing that the presence of the werebear was the proof of her plan working.“ How did you manage to get here? I thought that everyone would be punished…”

“Everyone was punished,” Bridgit confirmed with a sigh, “But I am not everyone. I have some privileges around here and Castiel either trusted me or forgot to strip me of them yesterday.”

“Good for you,” Ria chuckled, “He didn’t forget to strip me of my privileges, as you can see.”

“Oh, Riannon, you are still the most privileged woman here. Just the fact that you are locked in the room that’s right opposite to his own is proof of that.”

Ria swallowed. She did not want to think of Castiel sleeping this close to her.

“Anyway, he is not here now,” Bridgit assured her, “and I want to speak to you again. Do you have any kind of a plan?”

She did have a plan. A few actually. But this right now was her number one plan.

She wasn’t sure though that sharing the details with the werebear was a good idea though. All they had was two conversations and during the first one, Bridgit tried to kill her. This wasn’t a friendship built on trust just yet.

She was probably silent for too long and the girl on the other side of the door got that right. “Listen,” Bridgit sighed,”you probably don’t get how it feels to be betrayed by a man you loved.” Oh, the irony of that statement was not lost on

Ria, but she did not say a word.

“When we joined the harem one by one, we knew that he wasn’t exclusive with either of us. But each of us believed that there was a possibility of that. Castiel could make you feel like you are the only one for him. While he is with you… but over time, I think all of us realised that this would never be the case. However, it was too late because each of us had feelings for him.”

“Bridgit,” Riannon couldn’t stop herself from saying, “he is hot as hell, yes. But there is no way that every single woman could fall in love with him. Have you seen his lab? Have you seen what he is doing there? He learned to create scents that give you a similar response that you would have if you met your mate. I hate to be the one telling you that, but he is so good because he was experimenting a lot. And I think that he was experimenting on you. All of you.”

The werebear girl on the other end of the door was silent but then started speaking again with

“We all came here willingly, and we agreed to be with him willingly too. The rest is history.”

For a moment there Riannon was worried that she had lost her new ally. Was it too late for those girls? Was there some kind of addiction to those scents? After all, Brayden was an Alpha and he had fallen to the charm pretty fast. She always thought that it was because of Roxy’s siren abilities, but what if those artificial scents were to blame too?

“But,” Bridgit chose to continue her speech, giving her hope, “When we entered the Eden there was an it on both ends. Each girl agreed to be with him and not to be the only one. Each of us had a different reason for that. Some had no choice, like me, some already liked

Castiel, some were seeking, political gains and some were so poor that living in the harem of the fox king did not seem like a bad thing at all. The list goes on and

But there was one condition that he himself set for all of us. He was always

saying that it’s important to him that each of us lived here willingly. He made it a big point and this was one of the reasons we all trusted him so much. He said that we could leave whenever we wanted.”

“And?” Ria leaned over the cold door.

“And when after the revelations of yesterday, a few girls expressed the desire to leave, he did not let them,” the she-bear’s voice trembled. “Everyone is locked in the Eden now. Now we know why there is only one door and no windows except for the ceiling that we can’t get to.”

“The Eden is locked yet you are here,” Riannon pointed out. She still wasn’t convinced she could trust the woman she was talking to.

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