Chapter 139
Chapter 139
Gideon’s POV
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The moment my paws touched the ground, I pushed myself forward, rushing to catch up to my former wife, who was already moving at full speed. She was strong and fast, nearly as strong and fast as I was, but I was determined to catch her, to show her that I was with her after my tremendous failing of only a few minutes
before.
I wouldn’t fail her again, after I had already failed so much.
Even if she couldn’t forgive me for this, or for anything I had done in the past, I was going to be with her. We were going to rescue our daughter together.
And I was going to tear Daphne’s throat out with my teeth – if Claire didn’t get to her first.
Daphne’s POV
I sensed Gideon behind me, but I didn’t care about him. He had already abandoned Nova and me. While I was pleased that he would protect Leo, to abandon Nova to do so was unforgiveable.
He might have been behind me, but I didn’t consider him with me. I didn’t trust him or anything else. He could stay with me and offer support or he could leave. That didn’t change my overall initiative here, which was to save my daughter and bring Daphne to justice, in that order.
As when I searched for Leo, I closed my eyes and searched inwards. My bond with Nova was strong, cultivated since her surprise birth six years before. Unlike the distance that had separated Leo and I and therefore weakened our bond, Nova and I had spent all that time together.
When I searched for her bond, I felt it pulse inside of me. Internally, I gripped it, reassuring Nova on the other side while also using the bond to guide my path.
The journey was far, but not across the continent. My darling little girl was being held captive just inside the rogue lands. I steeled myself, pushing down on my fear.
When I had been abandoned there in the past, I was weak, drugged, and just having given birth. I had barely been able to move, my wolf stripped away from me. There was no way I would have been able to defend myself.
This time was different. I wasn’t a lost lamb left in a realm of predators. This time, I was the creature in the night that others needed to fear.
I wasn’t moving slowly. I had been too cautious, too careful when rescuing Leo, and because of it, I had arrived too late. Leo had been hurt right in front of my eyes, and I had been powerless to protect him.
I would not make that mistake a second time.
Soon, though far later than I would have liked, I started to reach the end of the tether. An old dilapidated farmhouse came into view. At one point, long ago, this land had been cultivated and loved by a pack. That pack had been destroyed, their homes left in ruin. Rogues had taken everything.
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They would not take my daughter too.
There were a few rogues patrolling out front.
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I didn’t slow. Instead, I kept a furious pace until I finally approached them, then I leaped, leading with my teeth and claws. I grabbed one of the rogues around the neck and snapped it. Dropping the body, I turned to the other quickly, ready to move in for another quick kill.
Gideon was there first. He snarled as he dug into the rogue’s shoulder, his claws tearing at the rogue’s back. Where I had been quick, Gideon was vengeful.
I didn’t disagree. And finally, I was pleased to have him with me.
Together, we would lay waste to this place and save our daughter.
To do so, we would kill anyone who stood in our way.
Claire’s POV
I gripped the annoying little girl by the upper arm as I pulled her roughly into one of the rooms near the back of the house. There were three rogues with me in this room. One was watching through an open doorway, reporting as his brothers were slaughtered by Claire and Gideon, both of whom had descended on this place like a pair of vengeful angels.
“Call off your mother,” I said to Nova.
Her eyes were wide, her face white. “I don’t know how,” she said, and I believed her. Even though I wished I didn’t. Shouldn’t she have some answer?
“We could give her the girl,” one of the rogues said. “This is a mother’s fury. Give her the girl and she will stop.”
That wasn’t true, either. Claire wouldn’t stop, not after all I had done to her. She would only end this carnage when I was dead.
But I was determined not to die here, even if I had to lead the rest of these fools to their own deaths, I wouldn’t meet my own.
“I need time to think,” I said. “Get out there and make me that time.”
“She fights like an Alpha,” one of the rogues said. “And there is an Alpha with her. They will kill us.”
“What do you live for?” I asked them. “Do you not fight and die for the cause? Get out there and protect me, or my father will never forgive you. He will never want to be your Alpha if I am dead.”
These fools were so damn easy to manipulate. For all the time they had spent out here fighting and dying, they had not learned any skills about how to determine lies.
This was to their detriment, and to my advantage.
I was already a Luna. What did I care if my father was an Alpha or not. I just wanted him free. And I wanted
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Gideon to suffer for all he had done to me and my family.
Why was this too much to ask for?
“Get out there. Go!” I shouted.
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The rogues looked at each other and then nodded. “Yes, Luna. Please. Protect yourself. Tell your father our names so that he remembers us.”
“Of course,” I told them. I lied. I had no idea what their names were now, I certainly didn’t care either way.
To me, they were only meat shields thrown in the way of a killing force to buy me a little time.
I only needed a little time to kill this little girl and make my escape.
Quickly, I gripped Nova by the back of the neck.
“Let me go!” she shouted, struggling.
“Stay still, you little worm!” I shouted back, trying to get a better grip, wanting more than anything to snap her little neck like a twig.
But she was slippery.
And in the distance, her mother howled, the sound loud and angry enough to shake the walls.
As I force instinctively at the sound, Nova stamped her foot down on mine, causing me to gasp and release her.
Nova ran toward the front of the house.
Chasing her would be suicide.
Damn it!
I wanted her dead, wanted my vengeance, but I wasn’t going to die to have it.
Turning the other way, I threw open the back door and raced out into the field. Shifting, I ran as fast as I could, putting as much distance between those two furious parents and myself as possible.
This wasn’t over. Not by a longshot.
Maybe it wouldn’t be today.
But I was still going to have my revenge.
I didn’t care who had to die for it.
