Moon Child (The Year of the Wolf #2) - Serena Akeroyd Page 0,117
on the hyena attack.
“Who is her new mate?” Sarah Langley asked, her tone eager.
“Todd Choi,” I told her. “The Rainford alpha.”
Everyone’s brows rose at that, except for Maggie who, as always, seemed to know everything, but Sabina corralled them quickly by explaining, “Jana had a vision of one of her sisters’ mates being the reason for her death. She was mated to a hyena, and she used her position as leader of her clan to make a pre-emptive strike against us.”
“Is she dead?”
“Yes, Maggie. She’s dead. Todd killed her. I saw it with my own eyes.”
I cut her a look at that, hearing something in that final sentence that had my brow furrowing with curiosity.
She’d seen something else too.
Something she hadn’t shared with us.
“So she was right, then,” Elsa pointed out. “One of her sisters’ mates did kill her.”
“Yes, but she was the reason behind her prophecy’s fulfilment, because we’d have left her the hell alone if she hadn’t come and started a war with us.” Sabina cleared her throat. “I thought she was dead. Lara did too.” She hitched her shoulder. “There was no reason for her to come and attack us, but she did anyway, and a lot of people died in the process.”
“How did Knight bring us back to life?” That haunted question came from Marjory, the first wolf Knight had saved.
“We have no way of knowing the answer to that,” Sabina replied, but she squeezed Knight in a hug, gently patting his back as he carried on sleeping through the meeting. “He just did. I assume it’s because he’s Roma too.”
Whispers stirred at that, whispers that I knew brought peace to some, but would leave others with more questions in need of answering.
I couldn’t blame them.
What Knight had done was enough to make him a saint to the human’s Catholic Church. He’d done the impossible. Done the unforgettable.
And if anyone knew?
They’d come for him. Would want to harness his gifts, steal his powers.
I gritted my teeth at the thought, a fear that had been hovering at the back of my mind ever since Knight had reaped a miracle. “If I hear of any whispers of this from outside the circle, if anyone talks about Knight in my hearing, there will be punishments. I command you all to inform me of any chatter about my son. His safety depends on you all keeping this a secret.
“Honor his gift to you, honor your lives, something he gave back to you, by keeping him safe.”
Eyes widened at my hard tone, but Maggie nodded. “I hear anyone talking about it, I’ll bring them straight to you.”
Hushed whispers surged at that, but I sensed they were in agreement.
No one had thought about the repercussions of Knight’s gift, but it was my duty to see the pros and the cons to every situation. I’d just found a massive con.
There was someone out there who’d either want to monetize or weaponize my child, and that was never going to happen. Ever.
“That’s the only reason the hyenas attacked?” Maggie’s mate asked.
“No.”
The voice came from outside the circle and, brows high, I saw Todd and Lara standing there, the supernatural pack of wolves clustered around them in a loose open-ended semi-circle that was protective.
I wasn’t sure if they were protecting us or the couple, but I figured I’d find out soon enough.
“No?” Sabina asked, her eyes on her sister. “That’s all we found out from Jana’s mate and her second-in-command.”
When Lara turned to look at us, I gritted my teeth at the sight of her eyes.
Didn’t take a genius to sense that the silver in her eyes was not a good thing.
Most of the pack twisted to look at her, saw what I had, gasped, and immediately ducked their heads and stayed out of it. Smart bastards. Even Miss Know-It-All herself, Maggie May, kept her nose out of things.
“What happened to you?” Ethan demanded, striding forward, not out of the circle, but closer to the edge so he could see her.
“She ascended to her rightful place,” Todd told us, his voice calm as he raised his arm and lifted it to her shoulders.
“What place is that?” Sabina asked, confused.
“We can discuss that, leader to leader, later,” Todd reasoned, his gaze meeting mine. He didn’t push any dominance on me, because if he had, I’d have gone for him, especially with my pack looking on the way they were, but instead, I dipped my chin.
Elsa surprised me by speaking up, “We have a right to know.”