Hiding the Alpha's Twins: His Wolfless Luna
Chapter 142

Chapter 142: Chapter 142

[SAMANTHA’S Point of View]

The inside of the cave was trickier than we expected.

Dominic’s ability to find old tracks, even those from weeks or months ago, was essential for us to navigate to the depths of the place. It was pitch black, and I couldn’t see anything even with my werewolf sense. I felt like we were floating in nothingness, unable to feel our hands or feet. Only my husband’s whispers made me able to follow him as we headed to the deepest part of the cave, and as the air grew thin and heavy, that’s when I started to worry.

[You think it is here? You’re sure about it?] Dominic asked. I could sense the anxiety in his voice as he walked in front of me.

I knew he was still holding my hand, but I couldn’t feel it anymore. I couldn’t feel him. Only his voice in my head made me aware that he was still with me—that he never left me, no matter how strange and scary the situation was. I was not certain what we were doing, but he still had faith in my intuition, and that’s what I loved most about Dominic. He believes me.

[Yes,] I answered as we continued navigating through the cave. [I have a huge feeling the Moon Goddess guided me to this place, Dominic. I feel like what I need is in here. Brianne told me it was in possession of the Bennettes, but I went to Olivia’s house, and she had no idea what I was looking for.]

I felt him frown. [You went to Olivia’s—what do you mean you went there?! Do you know how dangerous that is?!]

I didn’t know why, but I couldn’t stop chuckling as I heard how worried he was. [Yes. I went there and I wish you had seen her face after I sneaked into her room.]

[You don’t cease to amaze me, Samantha. No one can get inside Olivia’s room because of how strict the security is there, but you did. I don’t wonder why she really freaked out after she saw you.]

[But the thing I am looking for is not there.] I said to him with a soft, uncertain voice. [And when I asked the Moon Goddess for some answers, she led me here.]

There was a pause of silence, and then I heard his voice full of remorse. [I’m sorry, I wish I hadn’t listened to the council, Samantha. I thought I could handle all of  this until—]

I stopped walking, and that’s when I finally felt him squeezing my hand. [There are so many things we are not sure about, my love. But in the end, I am just thankful we still have and believe in each other. And I guess that’s a beautiful thing. That we still hang on, no matter how hard the situation is. We belong together.]

[You are lucky we are not in a situation now where I can just pin you anywhere, love.] I sensed desire in his head as he squeezed my hand again. [Wait until we get home.]

My lips tugged into a smile, and then I bit my bottom lip hard. [Focus!] I laughed at him.

[How can you make me focus when you are so near me, Samantha?] His voice in my head was getting rough and hoarse, and so sexy I couldn’t help but gasp a little. [You have no idea how bad I want you right now...]

But as his hand brushed up my arm, we both heard rustling and heavy footsteps coming towards us. It went louder and louder—like they were getting near, fast and deadly.

[What’s that?!] I screamed in my head as my eyes widened in panic. I felt my husband’s arms around me as he pushed me gently against the cave wall, anticipating the stampede that might happen. Dominic shielded me with his body and waited for the incoming running beasts, but the stampede didn’t happen. We were both baffled when balls of floating fire lit the cave, and there, in front of us, we saw a pack of ferocious wolves with crimson eyes standing in front of us.

Veins, like purple live wires that pulsed as they glowed in the dark, protruded from their black-painted bodies, like lava flowing down a newly erupted volcano. Their eyes promised death, and their unnatural, long fangs protruded from their mouths.

“Samantha...” Dominic whispered to me with tension in his voice. “If I tell you to run—”

“Do you think you can run from us now?” one of them uttered it with a sinister voice that sounded like it was booming from the underground.

Before Dominic could push me out of the way, one of them had already pulled me away from him, and four attacked him at the same time. There was no way for us to fully shift into our werewolf forms, but Dominic, with his expertise, managed to partially transform, his body rippling with bulging muscles. His fangs elongated, his eyes were crimson, and his hair grew longer to the back of his neck. I had never seen him transformed like this before, and it made me admire the control over his power more.

He easily got rid of the four that attacked me, but another batch of four jumped over him, and they were stronger as they dragged him away. I pushed the ones that grabbed me from him and tried to get away, but even with my newly awakened power, I still wasn’t strong enough.

“Dominic!!!” I screamed, but one of them covered my mouth, and I had never felt so terrified in my life as I watched my husband being held down on the ground with the side of his face pressed on the cold, rocky floor of the cave and his hands on his back. My heart hammered as I scratched my way away from them, but their grip hurt me like silver chains. Their nails dug into my soft skin.

To my surprise, the four that were dragging me to the depth of the cave flew one by one, and a roar made my eyes widen with both fear and delight as I saw my husband throwing all of them violently against the cave walls like they were blocks of bricks, with the sickening sound of their bones snapping as they hit the rock-hard surface.

But then we didn’t see it coming.

One of them was holding a silver knife that glimmered from the lights coming from the fireballs. He was so fast that I wasn’t able to run away from him. The next thing I knew, he was already grabbing me by the neck as he held the knife above his head.

Everything was in slow motion as I realized there was no way I could escape death. I blinked when I saw Dominic behind the giant werewolf. Both his hands were on the side of its head, and he snapped the neck of the strange creature in a quick, powerful twist.

“Samantha!”

He ran to me after he killed the werewolf with the silver blade. But I frowned and turned confused when Dominic stopped midway and then looked at me with dread in his eyes.

I followed where his eyes were looking.

A silver blade stabbed him in the back. The poisonous weapon sliced through his stomach.

“NOOOO!!!!”

My roar of pain reverberated all over the cave, and the earthquake turned intense as tears rolled down my face, and I jumped on the werewolf who stabbed my husband. I grabbed the weapon from his hand and used the blade to stab him in the chest multiple times until blood spurted from his mouth and ran down his face like thick ichor.

Dominic fell to his knees as he looked at the open stab wound on his stomach, and I quickly ran towards him. My heart was racing as the adrenaline pumped all over me, watching my mate grimace in pain. My fingers trembled, and my breath was shallow, fast, and uneven as I panicked in front of him, not knowing what to do.

“D-Dominic!” I burst into tears as I ran towards my husband. “Oh goddess, the poison!”

He shifted back to his human form and was starting to weaken. His face went pale as he stared into my terrified face. “We have to get out of here, love. I need to take you away from this place.”

I yelped when the ground shook so violently as debris fell from the ceiling of the cave. This time, huge rocks started to crumble from it and were falling above us.

“There is no time for us to head back to the outside!” I screamed at him in the middle of the chaos. I helped him get up by putting his arms around my shoulders as we went forward, finding somewhere safe to go.

“There’s a passage over there!” Dominic pointed to a small, dark path, which I hesitated to go down. “We have to go or we will be buried here like these bastards!”

I glanced back and saw gigantic rocks falling on the bodies behind us. Blood and flesh splattered from the bodies that were hit by the boulders, making me panic more.

“Let’s go, Samantha!” Dominic screamed at me through the deafening roar of the earthquake, and I reached for his hand.

“Goddess, help us!” I murmured a short prayer before I followed my husband through the small, dark passageway.

I was more scared of where this would lead us.