by KL Fast
“We can get started on the naked part right now,” I say in a voice I don't even recognize.
She bites her plump bottom lip and blushes. “Only if you get naked too,” she says with a sassy grin.
“I was planning on it.” I playfully growl kissing her.
The door explodes open, splinters of wood fly everywhere.
Luna screams out in shock. I wrap my body around her, taking most of the impact.
“What the fuck was that?” She screeches, clinging to me.
“That my dear, was me.” We both turn to look at a man walking through the doorway he looks familiar but I cannot place him.
“Clayton? What are you doing here? How did you do that to the door?”
“I am here for you, my dear. You still owe me that dance.”
He looks at Luna with his beady little eyes. They rake over her body and licks his lips. I growl pulling her closer to me.
“You ain't ever getting that dance, mother fucker,” I say between cleaned teeth.
“Was I talking to you mutt?” Luna growls, taking a step towards him.
“Don’t you ever call my mate that again. Get the fuck out of my house, Clayton.” She screams at him. His eyes flash and his nostrils flare as he looks at her mating mark. I don't know what the fuck he is but it sure as shit isn’t human.
“NO, you should not have been able to turn her!” He whips his head toward me. “I have spent millennia trying to keep the two of you apart. Why do you always pick him? You were meant for me. Not him. You were always meant to be mine! You have always found each other no matter how far apart, I put you. How the fuck do you keep finding her?” Clayton screams at us spit flying out of his mouth.
“Because no matter what you do or how many times you bring us back, she will always be mine. The fates have it written in the stars for fuck sake. Do you really think you can break a mated bond? Even if she couldn’t turn, she was always mine! MINE! Not yours! She will never be yours.” I say fully stepping in front of Luna. Her small hands go to my back holding onto my shirt.
“This is the first time that you have been able to fully accept the mating mark. You should have died like all the other times how can you possibly still be here.” he seethes out passing back and forth
“We had a little help from some friends,” I say with an evil smile, as Gypsy and Duncan come down the stairs, standing next to us. He stops passing and shoots daggers at Gypsy
“I should have known it was a witch that saved you.” He spits at Gypsy and Duncan growls low.
“Ye ever look at my mate again and ye’ll be wearing yer intestines like a necklace,” Duncan says through clenched teeth.
“Try me, cub and watch what happens,” Clayton says in a dark voice. Gypsy lowers her head and says something, but when nothing happens her head shoots up and her eyes go wide looking at Clayton.
“Oh little witch, you are no match for me. I have been alive far longer than you and I know more magic than you could possibly imagine,” he says laughing at her.
“Come, Luna,” he says holding out his hand. “Maybe you won’t have to die after all. You are so strong in this body. I will enjoy fucking you into submission.”
I growl and my wolf comes to the surface it takes everything in me not to let him free.
“Yeah, that is going to be a hard no,” she says standing beside me.
“You may act strongly with your friends, but they can't always be here, Luna. I will not allow for you to be anyone else's.” Clayton screams shifting into a God-awful looking demon with big beady, yellow eyes.
I roar, my wolf ripping through my body as I shift. I land on all fours and stalk towards him. He smirks at me.
“You really think that you can stop me, mutt?” I snap my teeth at him and growl. “Tsk, tsk why don't you be a good boy and sit? I think we will be leaving now.” He snaps his fingers and I am stuck in place.
“I am not going anywhere with you, you fucking crazy freak,” Luna yells at him. He laughs and waves his hand in the air.
The next thing I know, he and Luna are gone.
Ten
Luna
One minute I am looking at the grotesquely deformed demon from my nightmares while standing in my house and the next I am in his arms flying through the air. I screech and thrust my head back hard, hitting Clayton in the face. He roars and loses his grip on me. I feel myself dropping out of the sky. I scream, but no sound comes out.
Clayton shoots down and grabs me in a punishing grip. I cry out in pain as his hands dig into my arm. I kick and thrash around, trying to get him to let go of me. I don’t care how far away we are from the ground. I would prefer to have a couple broken bones then to go anywhere with him. He growls and lets go of me.
I squeeze my eyes closed, preparing myself for what is about to come. I land with a small thud and it takes my breath away. I’m on my back looking up at the sky, my mouth open in a silent scream.
Clayton lands on a crouch beside me and looks down. He drags his sharp razor claw across my cheek and I hiss out as I feel the sting and smell my blood.
“You should not have done that little Selene. You don’t get to hurt yourself, only I get to do that.” I jerk my head away from him and he laughs. “Now that we are all alone how about we have a little chat, Selene.” I sit up I can’t help scrunching up my face in disgust at the smell of his breath. I scoot away from him.
“Yeah sure.. sure… but can you please get a tic tac or something before we do.” I close my eyes expecting him to hit me but he throws his head back in laughter.
“Oh yes, I am going to love breaking down that spirit of yours.” I stand up fast and take a step back never taking my eyes away from his. I have seen Animal Planet. I know you never turn your back on a predator. I take a deep breath trying to get my heart rate down.
When the smell of the lake hits my nose, I hold in my sigh of relief. I realize we didn't make it out of town. He gives me an evil smile and I know that I didn't hide my relief all that well.
“I put a cloaking spell on us. Don’t worry my dear, your little mutt won't find us.”
“Why the fuck do you keep calling me Selene?” I ask, my voice coming out stronger then I feel. I know that I need to keep him talking so I can come up with a plan to get the fuck away from this crazy person... thing... whatever the fuck he is.
“Ah yes. We have much to discuss. ” He shimmers back into his human form. “Since I am going to keep you, I am going to tell you a little story about your life.” He steps a little closer to me and I take a step back. He chuckles, then continues.
“Long ago there was a Goddess, Selene, who came from the heavens and fell in love with a wolf but she did not know that she belonged to Minos, the judge of death in the underworld, son of Zeus, the right hand of Hades. She was mine the minute she stepped foot on this Earth. I took her from the wolf and brought her back to Tartarus, my own personal hell. I told her that she was mine but she would not listen. She pulled upon her Goddess power and sent me back to the underworld. She thought I was gone forever but I found my way back. When I did the wolf had claimed her. While she was in the middle of her first shift, when she was the most vulnerable, I put a spell on her. Blocking her abilities to use her Goddess powers making her mortal, then I killed them both, knowing that she would be created again. I waited years, then found her again making sure she saw me first. I courted her, but then that mutt showed up again and took her away from me. It was then I made it to where if she were to take his mating mark, she would die. He would have to suffer, growing old alone without his Mate but he always found me. He knew that I was the one taking you away from him. He would come alone and die fighting for her. Over and over again, I have tried to make her mine and that time is now. You, Luna Marie Oakes are Selene. My Selene.”
My heart aches and tears run down my cheeks as I get flashes of the lives I’ve had with Gabe. All of the years we found each other again. Something in me snaps. I stand up straighter and lock eyes
on the bastard that has fucked with our lives for the last time.
“You will never have me. Gabriel is mine and he always will be. I will never let you take me away from him again,” I scream at the demon. Reaching out and slamming my hands together, hard. I watch the air ripple, and a burning sensation starts low in my stomach and runs through my body, getting hotter and hotter. I scream out in heartache and anguish for all the times he has taken me away from my Mate. For all of the times Gabe has never given up on me. For all of the love that I have felt for Gabe, through all of those lives, and this one rushes through me. My body bends in half and I scream at the top of my lungs. Light flashes through my body, like a thousand suns.
“What the fuck?” I hear Clayton yell out. My eyes snap open.
“Never again Minos, never again.”
“NOOO.” I hear him scream trying to get to me. I drop to my knees and pound on the ground. Bright white light erupts from my body and I gasp as everything around me turns into ash.
My body starts to shake and I curl into myself, sobbing. I don't know how long I lay there before I hear footsteps running through the woods. I lift my head up to see Gabe running towards me. He skids to a stop dropping to his knees, pulling me into his lap.
“Luna? What happened? One minute I was looking for you, but I couldn't catch your scent then all of a sudden I caught it and ran as fast as I could to get to you.” I cling to him sobbing.
“He’s gone, Gabe. He will never hurt us again.”
“How is he gone? What happened? Why do you smell like a campfire?” he asks looking around the clearing I have made. I look up at him and run my hand through his five o'clock shadow he turns his head towards mine.
“It’s a long story baby, take me home and I will tell you all about how the moon fell in love with her wolf.”
Epilogue One
Six years later
Luna
“Congratulations, Gabriel and Luna, it's triplets,” Dr. Sanders says as she studies the computer screen, checking sizes and measurements.
“What?” Gabe croaks out I look up at him smiling.
“I told you. I knew that this pregnancy was going to be different.” He swallows and nods his head.
“Are you sure that there are three babies in there?” he asks Dr. Sanders, who nods her head.
She chuckles “Yes Gabe, I am quite positive and from the looks of it, it looks like it's three girls.” I whip my head towards her tears filling my eyes
“Really?” Over the last six years, Gabe and I have had four wonderful boys. Felix is our oldest, then we have Zack, Wendell, and Dave who are the light of our lives. I told Gabe that I wanted to try one more time to have a baby girl. Then I had jokingly told him that I was done having his pups if he didn’t make his baby gravy give me a girl. Which I would never do as I love being pregnant, but I have always wanted to have girls before we stopped.
Don't get me wrong, I love my boys, but my house is overflowing with testosterone-fueled boys that are as overprotective of me as their father is. She turns the monitor and shows me the screen, my lip starts to tremble as I trace their perfect little bodies with my finger.
“Oh God, Gabe, look at them. We are finally getting our girls.” I look back up at him as he looks down at me with adoration. He leans down further to kiss my lips softly.
“They're going to be beautiful, just like their momma,” Gabe says in a gruff voice. Dr. Sanders stands up handing me a paper towel to wipe off my round baby bump. “I'll go ahead and let you guys have a moment. I'll be back in a couple of minutes so we can go over some of the precautions you are going to have to take with three babies,” I give her a watery smile and she walks out, shutting the door behind her.
Gabe moves to stand in front of me, taking the paper towels, he slowly rubs the goo off my stomach. When he's done, he kisses my belly.
“Hi, my sweet girls. I can’t wait for you to get here.” He throws the soggy paper towels away while I put my dress back on. He comes to stand in between my legs and cups my cheek with his hand. I lean into his touch sighing in contentment. “My sweet Lună Mică thank you for this gift. You are so amazing, Thank you for bringing our pups into this world.” I wrap my arms around him and he pulls me closer.
“Thank you for making all my dreams come true baby.” He kisses me soundly. The doctor knocks on the door causing us to reluctantly pull away from the kiss, breathing heavily. He puts his forehead on mine.
“Let's hurry and get done with our appointment so we can go home. We have the next four hours to ourselves and I planned on spending them all between your thighs.”
We spend the next twenty minutes talking to the doctor before we finally make our way home where Gabe makes sure I am thoroughly fucked. I fall asleep to him talking to our girls telling them the story of how the wolf caught the moon and lived happily ever after.
The End
Be sure to check out Hunting Allegra by C.M. Steele coming 10/18
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thank you to my husband, Seth. You have always been my # 1 fan. Thank you for supporting my dreams.
MK Moore, my partner in crime. Thank you for pushing me out of my comfort zone. Thank you for dealing with my crazy ass when I am on a deadline. Thank you for being a kick-ass best friend. I love your face .6 times…
Elisa Leigh, thank you for beta reading this. #UnicornBestieForLife
Jenny R. Thanks for coming on board with this one as a beta reader! You are awesome!
And to my readers. Thank you for sticking with me this far! I hope you love Gabe and Luna’s love story as much as I do!
MK, Elisa, and CM: Thanks for writing this serial with me. It was fun as always!
KL
Meet The Author
KL is a twenty-five-year-old doing what she loves. She’s making her dreams come true one book at a time. She is the wife of a chef and the mother of an amazing son. She is a full-time author who does a little housework on the side. She can be found perusing social media when she should be writing. If you like Hot AF Alphas and Sassy Heroines with seamy yumminess and sweet Happily Ever After’s than her books are right up your alley.
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