Hiding the Alpha's Twins: His Wolfless Luna
Chapter 111

Chapter 111: Chapter 111

[SAMANTHA’s Point of View]

After telling Dominic about everything I found out about my mother, it was my turn to talk to Lena and ask questions about it.

I needed her to explain why she chose to keep it hidden from me.

Lena and my mate’s Beta, Liam, went to the house the day after the incident. Dominic hadn’t come back from the Black Forest. With worry, I explained to them everything about why Dominic chose to go alone on that perilous search for the herb. The herb that held the key to unlocking my true potential as a direct descendant of the Primordial Clan.

The Mother Luna of the Silver Crescent stayed silent as she sat on one of the sofas in our home, and Liam was looking at her, worried and anxious. I suddenly hesitated if it was a mistake that I told her too soon about this, but despite Lena hiding it from me, she was the only person I trusted aside from my mate. She had been a mother figure to me since I became an orphan and a wonderful mother-in-law to me.

“Have you tried calling him?” Lena asked, pinching her lips with her fingers with worry. “Can you feel him through your bond if he is okay?”

“I tried to call him, but I believe there is no signal where he is right now,” I said to Lena as I pressed the palm of my hand on my forehead upward. “And the feeling of the bond is weak—”

“It must be because he’s in the Black Forest.” Liam interrupted as he saw the worry and panic in my face, “That place is filled with poisonous miasma. It interrupts with the mind link from the inside and outside of that place.”

“Should I go after him?” I asked; my eyes were heavy and worn out after not being able to sleep the whole night. “I shouldn’t have let him go alone.”

“No. It’s too dangerous out there. And Dominic is right. You are needed here. After what happened to the twins yesterday, there’s no way we would let the children go back to the pack manor.”

“But there’s a council meeting today, and I can’t leave them here with the babysitters,” I said, frowning at Liam. “I have to take them with me there. Will that be okay?”

Lena and Liam looked uncertain but understood that keeping my twins with me wherever I went would be safer. Liam straightened his back as he let out a heavy sigh and then smiled coolly, trying to ease the tension in the place. “Sure, Samantha. I believe there is nothing for you to worry about bringing them to the meeting hall. Besides, after what they did, there’s no way we could take our eyes off of them.”

“Yes. Bring them, Samantha,” Lena agreed as she folded her arms into her chest. “It’s time that the council acknowledge your voice in this pack. Liam and I will be with you; make sure the kids are safe and doing well.

I looked at Lena and she averted her eyes from me. The guilt was still there in her eyes, and I didn’t know when we could have time to discuss why she had to hide the truth from me.

Perhaps she wasn’t ready to tell everything yet.

But the question here is... why?

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[COUNCIL MEETING HALL]

Just as Liam and Lena told me, I brought the twins to the council meeting. The instruction Dominic left me was never to leave home. But since Dominic hadn’t returned from the Black Forest last night, I had to face the council and the elders as his Luna. Lena was confident I could do the job well despite the hatred I get from these people, especially from Olivia and her father, Richard Bennett.

Even while my children and I walked past the great halls of the building, I could feel their piercing stares at me, the kind that could puncture holes if only they could. When we all arrived in the meeting area, all eyes were on me and my kids with both confusion and hatred. Maybe if I were the same Samantha as before, eight years ago, I would run away from these people. But I was different now. I was not the same weak, helpless child they used to scare before.

With my head held high, I walked with my kids, each on my side, holding my hands. Lena and Liam did the same as they walked behind us with such elegance and power.

“What are you doing here? Where is the Alpha? We are expecting him to come after the infiltration and the incident...” One of the council members looked at my twins as she said the words, “...happened, making the Silver Crescent so vulnerable from the enemies.”

“Don’t you dare blame my kids for what happened,” I scowled at her. “Those who were guarding the dungeon at that time admitted enemies had infiltrated the garrison and pretended to be  dungeon guards to release those prisoners!” I snarled, “It’s just a curiosity that brought my kids to that place!”

Lena sighed in frustration and Liam averted his eyes, exhausted that the elders and the councils were after me and the kids again. Blaming me for everything awful that was happening to the pack. One of them asked with a distasteful look on his face, “And where were you while that was happening? You are the mother of these children! As the future heir of the pack, it is your responsibility to be with them and protect them!”

What he said shocked me, leaving me speechless. Devon looked at me with pain on his little face. Even Diana got so scared by the angry tone of their voices that she buried her face in my lap and trembled.

My poor babies... I shouldn’t have brought them here.

“Silence! The matter is not about them!” Lena snarled at the people in front of us with a deadly glare. “What is wrong with you? Blaming a person who has nothing to do with what is happening to Silver Crescent!?”

“Are you sure she is not to blame, Lena?!”

That familiar voice.

Everyone turned their eyes to the one who spoke. My eyes narrowed at Richard Bennett, who was sitting on the other side of the long table. He continued with a dark look on his face; his eyes were still on Mother Luna accusingly. “You know what is happening here, Mother Luna. You know what is going on.”

Everyone got confused and curious about what Bennett said. I had a feeling he had already told his daughter everything as Olivia leaned her back on the chair and folded her arms on her chest with a taunting grin on her face.

“Stop making amusing controversies here, Bennett.” Liam snapped at him sarcastically. “This meeting is about how we are going to get rid of these Black Claw criminals out of our territories. Not to entertain people with gossip.”

Lena and I looked at each other, and I saw how her face turned pale, making the people on the council more suspicious about what Bennett was talking about. I pulled my kids toward me, but I was surprised when Devon broke free and glared at all of them.

“Leave my mother alone!” He snarled as his eyes glinted golden orb. He bared his teeth to them and snarled.

Diana, who saw her brother defending me, ran to his side as well and gave a deadly glare at them. “You are all bad people!” she screamed at them, “She didn’t do anything to any of you! You all are bullies!”

‘Devon, Diana—”

“Maybe you should take your kids away,” one of the elders said flatly as she stood from her seat. “They’re not supposed to be in here.”

“Just like every one of you said, they are the future heirs and heiresses of the Silver Crescent.” I gave her a cold look. “So why don’t we continue this meeting and get done with it?!”

Everyone was silenced as they witnessed how my and my children’s eyes turned into golden orbs—a sign of pure power that made them all tremble in their seats. Even Liam and Lena stared at the three of us with terror in their eyes.

Olivia, Richard, and their followers weren’t thrilled about it, but as their Luna, they couldn’t do anything. I reached for Diana and Devon and squeezed their tensed shoulders, telling them everything was fine and they didn’t have to feel scared because I was there for them regardless of what would happen.

Devon and Diana looked up at me with a brave expression on their faces, and I was surprised. I was so surprised I was raising little warriors who would do anything to defend their mother—who would defend who was important to them. I was grateful because I knew at that moment I was raising them well.

“Thank you,” I whispered to Devona and Diana full of love, and kissed the tops of their heads.