Love's POV
"Love" Lucian crushed me into a bone-tight hug. Every inch of my body that was in contact with Lucian was tingling as if it has been blessed.
Lucian's scent was driving me crazy and after so long, so long I can feel something inside me, my wolf.
Finally, I can feel my wolf inside me, who was now happy.
"Love I thought I" he broke away from the hug and held my face in his hands, looking straight into my eyes.
His handsome face looked like a shed that has withstood thunderous hurricanes. His eyes had worry bags below them and his body looked tense as if he hasn't relaxed for long. He took a long breath and his body let loose.
"Lucian, I missed you" I looked into his eyes. My words were honest. Even while staying with Jake, I had Lucian in my mind almost all of the time. That is, until the kiss with Jake.
Jake.
My eyes scanned across the kitchen to find him but he was nowhere to be seen.
"Oh Love, I'm so grateful to the Moon goddess that you're alright" he looked at me and kissed my forehead.
It felt like I was suddenly drunk and my body was floating, his forehead kiss was that good.
"Now, we need to go back now." He smiled. Not many people have seen him smiling and I'm among the rarest. But boy did he have a gorgeous smile.
"Right now?" I questioned half-mindedly. My mind was busy staying drunk.
"Yes Love" Lucian chuckled. "But before we do, I want to take you somewhere" he looked at the guard werewolves and nodded. The guards started dialing something on their phones.
"What is it, Lucian?" I questioned but then stopped myself as I saw Jake walking out to them.
"Alpha" Jake bowed in front of Lucian, his eyes fixed on Lucian's face as if he refused to see me.
"I'm honored Jake, honored with what you have done for your Luna" Lucian's hands snaked around my waist.
Jake's eyes stayed fixed on Lucian and I felt my heart aching. Jake can't even stand up in front of Lucian. It was for any other wolf, if he saw his mate with somebody else he would have ripped their hands off but Jake and Jake stood there bowing as if nothing was wrong as if I was his Luna.
"It was my pleasure Alpha" Jake pushed his head down.
"Lucian" I called him "there's something I need to tell you". Lucian turned to me with love-filled eyes and Jake's head snapped up to me in an instant, his eyes wide.
"We will talk Love, you can tell me everything you want but for now, we need to leave," he said kissing my forehead again. My legs went weak as if I was a 13-year-old getting her first kiss.
"It's important Lucian" I tried talking again but Lucian shushed me.
"I know Love, just give me a minute to sort things here," he said lovingly, happiness flowing from his voice.
My eyes went to Jake who was now looking at me in alarm, his expressions telling me not to do what I was about to do.
I looked at Lucian and nodded, agreeing to talk about this later. His smile went wider as I agreed.
We spent another 10 minutes in the apartment with Lucian instructing them to clean the whole place and free it from our scents. Jake was ignoring me the whole time and it was frustrating me internally.
Turns out Lucian sent Jake to take a shower to clean his scents and now every guard, along with Jake was clearing this place of our traces.
After another torturous 5 minutes, we finally left the apartment.
The car had just me and Lucian and he was driving like a mad man.
"What happened Love?" He asked me once we were stuck in the traffic, waiting for the vehicles in front of us to move. "What happened the night of the attack?" He questioned.
His voice was not filled with accusations and neither was his intention but my heart was filled with guilt.
"I heard some noises" I recalled that day "noise of a man growling in pain. Then I couldn't control myself and left" I peeked sideways, at his face to see any sign of anger or aggression. There was none. "I thought I'll just go, help the person and come back in no time so I jumped the window. My feet took me to the place where I saw-" my voice stopped and Lucian looked at me with a raised brow "Jake. Two of our guard wolves were attacking him so I helped him"
The cars in front of us started moving and Lucian started driving as well. "Then we heard some people shouting in agony, fear, and aggression. After that, we ran off and I fainted on the way so Jake brought me here" I told him everything. Well, everything except the part where I recognized Jake as my mate.
"We were attacked that day" Lucian spoke with some new seriousness in his voice. "Amaruq, the alpha of the cross sun pack attacked us. He was one of the guests who arrived first and then he attacked." He sighed " we were able to control the attack but some members of his pack disguised themselves in our pack. We had to fight the bAttle for 2 days after which we won. But we still had to sort the intruders."
He stopped talking, trying to remember the path forward to our destination. "Then we check the whole pack and dealt with the intruders, after that all I've been doing is looking for you" the car came to a stop and he looked at me. "All I've been doing for the past month is to look for you Love. Although I'm grateful to the moon goddess that you're safe and were not there when all the chaos happened, I just wished you would have come and met me."
"I'm sorry Lucian" I sincerely spoke, my eyes went down with guilt and I felt terrible that I made him suffer that long.
"It's alright Love. I appreciate that you were here safe" he spoke and opened the door on his side. "But for now, I want to tell you something, before I tell anybody else" he kissed my forehead and left the car.
I looked around us, we were out in a forest, or what seemed like a forest.
While I was watching the place, Lucian came and stood next to me opening the car's door.
"Come on," he said with a little excitement. He held out his hand and I took it. He took me a few hundred meters into the forest and now we were surrounded by tall trees.
"Love, just don't be scared alright?" He whispered hugging me.
"What is happening Lucian, and I can never be scared of you, I trust you" I replied with building anxiety.
"Then you should brace yourself for this." Without taking much time, he stepped back from home and removed his shirt, followed by his pants.
My whole body felt like it was on fire and my heartbeat raised looking at him.
His body is surely stronger than any human or wolve's body I've ever seen.
"If you keep looking at me like that Love, I will finish our mating process right here right now." Said Lucian with desperation in his voice.
My cheeks heated and I closed my mouth, nodding.
He stepped back again, making a little distance between us.
His back arched forward and he bent. His muscles started swelling and his body started getting covered with fur. He was changing to his wolf. The only thing here was, that only half of his body was changing.
His face and neck changed to that of a wolf while his claws rose from his paws.
Within a minute, 2 things happened. and 2 very unexpected things.
One, Lucian changed into a Lycan. Lycans have long ago left the earth as they were getting killed in large numbers. People were forming large groups to kill them because their strength is like otherworldly as if the moon goddess herself sent her children.
Lycans were once also called moon goddesses' children, that is, people stopped calling them out of guilt.
The other thing that happened, which further complicated my life was that my wolf spoke to me. And not just speaking, my wolf told me something.
Mine
She said as she watched her mate in front of her.
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