Chapter 96 – The Perfect Luna by Marissa Gilbert

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“It’s good that you know you are getting her over my dead body!” Gideon snarled.

“Don’t tempt me!” Kai seemed satisfied with his reaction. “Decide for yourself what it would be. Your sister or the land in question.”

He threw them a folder with a contract on the desk and stood up. “Your two minutes are up.”

“Go to hell,” Gideon couldn’t help himself, wishing for nothing more than to snap that man’s neck.

But Riannon placed her palm on top of his and he immediately calmed down, looking at her with regret in his eyes. .

“We will think about it,” she smiled at the northerner. “When do you want our answer?”

“By the end of the week,”Kai said and charged for the exit. But he stopped at the last minute and nodded at her. “It was nice to meet you, Alpha Riannon.”

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“We need him,” Ria pleaded. “What’s so special in this land?!”

“Everything,” Gideon sighed. “This piece of land is the reason no attack from the northerners was ever a success. They cannot cross our borders there unless we want them to. It’s essential for our safety from them. This is why he wants it. And don’t forget that everything can change any minute. We give him a the lands and he unites with our enemies instead. This is where we will be really screwed.”

She clenched her lips, knowing that he was right. But there had to be something else that they could do.

“I guess we have no choice then,” Savannah entered the room with a sad smile on her lips.

“Sawy,” her brother looked perplexed, knowing that she was eavesdropping. But he couldn’t blame her. They expected Kai to demand something like that. :

“I’ll marry him,” the princess said, and now they all stared at her. Gideon with disbelief and Riannon with understanding. She would make the same choice if it was her. Because it wasn’t really a choice.

“No!” the king growled loudly. “I am not letting you to…”

“This is my decision!” Savannah insisted with a tone that did not take prisoners. “I really appreciate you protecting me for so long. I will never forget this, big brother. But right now, it’s my time to help you protect our people. This is my kingdom too. I am a princess and I have my duties. I had my shot at this mate thing, but you know how it worked out for me. So now I am done with all that. My knight in shining armour is not coming. I am my own knight. And this is my quest. I choose this for myself, Gideon. I want to marriage is not going to be with my mate, then at least I will have the comfort of knowing that it helped our people.”

“Sav…” the lycan king wanted to say something, but again Riannon took his hand and intertwined their fingers together, helping him to calm down. “I am proud of you,” he smiled at his sister and pulled her into a group hug with his free hand. “You grew up and became everything our parents wanted you to become.”

“So did you,” she mumbled, squeezed between the two of them and then got out quickly. “But I have a condition!”

“What is it?” Ria looked surprised.. “I want to see the two of you get married before I go,” Savannah smirked.

***

Maya had been watching Roxanne screaming for the past twelve hours. And it wasn’t making her happy at all. She just hoped that the baby would be safe and healthy. But nothing was going right. The baby was in the wrong position and

Roxy turned out to have hips that were too narrow for childbirth.

“It’s a shifter baby,” Reid hugged his beloved wife, “She is going to make it.” But

Maya wasn’t so sure anymore. She wasn’t even sure what she was doing there.

The siren was swearing and calling her dead lover. Then she was switching it up a bit to sending curses to all of them and promising that one day she would kill them all. She had no idea how much everyone in the kingdom and her pack wanted her dead. And it was only Maya and Riannon who kept her alive because she was pregnant.

One long piercing shriek and the fox became quiet. But at the next second, they all heard a baby’s scream and a wave of relief washed over the two Betas.

Maya stood up first and went to the midwife, who was holding the tiny little creature. The first thing she saw was a few red curls on the baby’s head and she frowned at that. This was exactly what she was

But when she looked into her eyes, her heart started to beat faster. Those were

Dean’s eyes, her brother’s. And it wasn’t just this rich chestnut colour of them, it was the sincerity with which this tiny girl looked at her. Dean even saw the best in someone like Roxanne…

“So?” Reid hugged her from the back and she turned to look at him.

“She is just like him… Maya said, but then she noticed some movement behind her mate. Luckily, Reid had an even better reaction as a lycan. So, he covered her with his body and kicked the crazy siren/fox hybrid who tried to attack them with a stolen scalpel from the midwife’s table on her knees, causing her to fall down right at the small but sharp weapon she was planning to use against them.

It went into her neck, right where the main artery was, and the midwife screamed.

“Don’t touch it!” Maya warned her, holding the baby tight against her chest. But

Roxy was twitching on the floor, her gaze wandering around the room. “Hate…

you all,” she hissed and then got the scalpel out, causing the blood to gush out.

“Apply pressure!” the midwife screamed and Reid grabbed one of the blankets to try and help the crazy woman.

But Roxanne grew her claws and dug them into the hand he was applying the pressure with, causing him to take it back.

She threw away the blanket and stared at the ceiling with a smile of a mad person, curving her lips.

“Castiel…” she whispered, “I am coming…” Maya hid her face in Reid’s chest and he kissed her forehead when she looked at him again.

“At least she stayed true to herself,” the Beta female looked at the child and thought that it was for the best that she had no idea what was going on around her. “She kept hating everyone until the end and not caring for what she left behind. How could she abandon her own daughter?”

Reid touched the baby’s hand and she immediately wrapped all her tiny fingers around his index one.

“She chose not to be a mother,” he said. “But you can choose today to become one. I will do whatever you decide.”

Maya touched the red curls thoughtfully.

“I made my choice a while ago, Reid,” she smiled at her husband and then at her new child, “When I didn’t kill Roxy. This baby deserved to live. And since she was stupid enough to leave it, I have a right to take care of her now.”

“Yes?” there was more than just one word in his question.

“Yes,” there was everything in her answer. “Meet our daughter, Reid. Her name is

Danielle.”

***

“Are you ready?” Gideon asked his beautiful new wife as they stood before the doors to the main balcony

“No one can be ready for this,” she smiled at him. Once again, he muttered his thanks to the Moon

“Nonna

Goddess for sending him such a mate.

She was wearing a flowing champagne dress with lines of beads creating regal elegant patterns over her corset and a matching crown on her head. Her hair was up in an intricate hairdo as insisted by Savvy. Riannon held her hands together at the front and seemed like a perfect picture of a flawless queen.

In a few moments, a whole kingdom would be watching them, but right now they were the only two people in the world. He offered her his hand and she took it, trusting him as always.

When they finally calmed down, Gideon announced loudly and irrevocably,

“People of the West, meet your Alpha Queen!”

The crowd burst into cheering and clapping, while Riannon stepped forward and waved at them.

She knew that a lot still had to be done and her work was only starting. But she also saw that her werewolves were celebrating together with the lycans. It was the beginning of a new era. Different and better than before.

But most importantly, she knew that she was home… And together with her mate, she will defend it and make it better. Because together they were the perfect couple

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