Longing For My Rejected Luna novel Chapter 29

*****Erika's POV*****

“Trouble?!” Both my best friends echoed in bewilderment.

At the mention of a possible trouble in the pack, the influence the alcohol was having over me left in the blink of an eye, even the seriousness in his tone was enough to make me sit up so fast that my head paid a little price for it — slight banging on both temples.

I shook my head to get the headache away but I ended up worsening it. I came down from the bed. “What trouble?”

“Father is back.”

“And why is that trouble? He went for a meeting for a meeting…wait!" My heart thudded. "The meeting didn't go well and other packs have declared war on us?"Hoping it was not the case.

We would surely win but I hated the thought of war, it brought a lot of innocent werewolves into the mix. Those who instigated the war usually survived, leaving the innocent pack members to die.

And when it came to war, Iron Claw was not to be trifled with, and every pack in Fangoria would suffer for it. So, I just prayed it was not that worse.

“No, worse.” The look on Jace’s face was grave. It quickened the beat of my heart.

“Tell me, Jace.” I took all of my willpower not yell at him.

He sighed then, his shoulders sagged and his eyes glazed with unshed tears. Kat, his mate ran to his side and held him. “What is wrong?”

“Father has been poisoned.” He growled after uttering those words, punching a wall in my room in anger.

I staggered back, not believing my ears.

Father? Poisoned? Who would have done that to him? I knew father had enemies, people who were envious of his pack and how prosperous it was.

Some werewolves hated father because he commanded more attention than they did. But was that enough reason to kill him? Was that why they wanted to end his life? Those bastards!

“It’s okay, Rika.” A distressed Paula rushed to my side.

“Take me. Take me there now Jace. I want to see him.”

He looked at me, and nodded. He offered me a hand and I took it, mostly for comfort and I knew he wanted that too. A reminder we had each other to get through this time. He was our father and only parent, he was all we had.

He led me down the hallway and turned a corner, my legs wobbled with each step I took. I stepped out of the mansion and we walked to where the pack’s infirmary was. I gripped Jace tight and he gripped back as well. We both welcomed the need to hold on to each other.

We passed nurses and other medical practitioners in the hospital, both of us ignoring their bows and greetings. On a normal day, I would have engaged in a little chitchat with them but today was not a normal one. From the beginning of this day, it had been filled with one unfortunate event or the other.

We reached the room he was left in. Our hospital was the biggest too in the whole of Fangoria, whatever amenities needed to survive in Fangoria, we had them all and they were the biggest.