Hiding the Alpha's Twins: His Wolfless Luna
Chapter 158

Chapter 158: Chapter 158

[SAMANTHA’s Point of View]

It was as if my body moved on its own.

The second I saw the purplish-black cloud of smoke, I knew instantly what would happen.

I lunge away from Killian, who was trying his best to protect me from the corpses after Dominic was forced to ram them out just to make sure none of them would ever touch me, scared that another supernatural thing would happen. I bet my husband had enough of that sh*t already.

But I would never let Olivia take the diadem! After what she did to Devon and Diana, there was no way I would let her win!

“Samantha, no!”

Despite my husband’s warning, I still went after Olivia and put all my strength into my legs as I jumped towards her at a speed that even Dominic failed to follow. The head of the statue was destroyed and crumbled into pieces after I snatched the diadem before Olivia could. Her ear-splitting scream of rage filled the hall, and Killian and Dominic immediately ran towards me. My husband’s hands were gentle on my arms as he helped me get up, and then he glared at Olivia.

“THAT IS MINE, SAMANTHA! GIVE IT BACK!”

“Nothing here is yours, Olivia Bennette!” Dominic barked at her as he shot her a deadly glare. His hazel eyes glowed in the darkness as his Alpha power awakened in rage. “You will pay for what you did to my children! You and your father! You are both traitors and enemies of the Silver Pack!”

“I don’t f*cking care about any of you!” Olivia snarled at Dominic, and her fierce retort surprised me. It was as if she was possessed by something and wasn’t the same Olivia who was desperate for my husband’s attention for so many years. “Just f*cking give my diadem back and I will let you get out of this place alive!”

Killian scoffed, “Don’t make me laugh, Olivia. Do you hear yourself? You are starting to sound like a lunatic, like your father.”

“You don’t know what you are doing!” Olivia snarled as she bared her perfect, sharp teeth at us. Her slender body looked thinner than the last time I saw her. The dark bags under her eyes and the lines on her forehead made her a few years older, and I wondered why Olivia had to suffer like the others for a thing that was never meant for her.

“You have no right, Olivia Bennette! After you kidnapped Devon and Diana, don’t you f*cking dare say we don’t know what the hell we’re doing!” I snarled back at her, giving her one deadly look. “Go. Before I wring your lovely neck, Olivia. I will never forgive you for what you did to my children!”

“Give me back the diadem!” She hissed at me, stretching out her hand for the crown. “That is mine, Samantha! Give it to me and I will go!”

Killian and Dominic stepped in front of me protectively. Their wide bodies and height completely obscured me from Olivia’s sight.

“You are not getting anything here, Olivia. Didn’t you just hear what Samantha said?” Killian hissed at her.

“GO!” Dominic barked at her as he pointed to the door out of the hall. “Before I tear your limbs apart, Olivia! This is not a threat! After what you and your father did, I won’t hesitate to kill you, right here, right now!”

Olivia’s eyes were wide with terror. She was crouching into a fighting position, but she knew there was no chance of survival against the Silver Crescent and the Moonstone Alpha. Her bloodshot eyes glanced back and forth between Killian and Dominic, as if calculating her next move, before shifting to me, with desperation etched all over her face. Her gaze landed on the diadem in my hands. I knew deep within me, when she glared in my direction, that she would never go despite my mate’s threat against her. Her desire to get the diadem was bigger than her desire to live, and that was a dangerous thing.

I glanced behind me at Diana and Devon, who remained unconscious inside the crystal coffin. I then turned my attention to the diadem in my grasp. Something inside the thing was calling me—like a faint whisper—like it was calling my name and wanting me to do something.

That voice whispering from nowhere wanted me to wear the diadem.

Wear it. Wear it. Wear it.

Wear it!!!

I watched my trembling hands move on their own as I put the diadem on top of my head, and Olivia’s scream was fading in my ears as fragments of memories flashed in front of my eyes.

Memories that weren’t mine.

I felt all the muscles in my body tensing, my heart beating rapidly as adrenaline rushed all over me, and then seconds later, I felt myself shudder. As my body heat rose, my eyelids fluttered so quickly that my eyes rolled to the back of my head. My arms and limbs went rigid, and the veins in my neck protruded, making Dominic’s eyes widen in horror.

I saw myself sitting on a throne. I blinked. No. No, it wasn’t me! My eyes had the same ocean blue hue as my dad’s! Then I squinted and realized who it was. It was Mom in her younger days, almost looking like me with long, dark hair and a heart-shaped face. Only her eyes were amber gold, and she was so gorgeous!

The I looked around and everyone in front of her was kneeling. I recognized the throne she was sitting on and then my eyes widened at once! It was the throne of the Alpha King! Why was my mother sitting on the throne of the King!?

Then the memory faded like ink on water, and the image reformed, revealing how my mother fled from the palace with some of her servants and friends. The palace was under attack, and one of the people who were running away with my mom was Lena! I realized Dominic looked like his mother in her younger days.

“You have to go to the Silver Crescent pack,” Lena begged my mother as she grabbed my mother’s hands tightly. You and your child will be safe there! You have to make everyone believe she is a wolfless youngling!”

“She will marry your son one day, Lena.” My mother murmured to her with worry in her voice, “I am not sure it is a good idea for Samantha to be branded as a ‘Wolfless Luna’ of an Alpha like your son.”

“This is to protect her,” Lena rested her hand on my mother’s shoulder. Her eyes were teary. “For her safety, my friend.”

Then another image appeared and it was Richard Bennette conspiring with the Black Claw Pack and the Fang Trinity after betraying the Alpha King. The diadem showed me the old man’s desire to revive the dead king with the use of Devon and Diana’s blood, the blood of the direct descendants of the Primordial Blood Clan.

That’s when my eyes opened as I gasped sharply for air.

Like I was pulled into the deepest part of the ocean and reached the surface to fill my lungs with air.

“Samantha!” Dominic’s hands were grabbing me by the shoulder and violently shaking me to wake me back to my senses. How many minutes did I pass out? Five? Ten?

“W-What happened?” I asked my husband as I took off the diadem from my head, still feeling dizzy and weak, “What happened, Dominic?”

“The diadem,” he answered, his hazel eyes clouded with worry, “ was consuming you, Samantha. Your soul. I saw the diadem take your life aura; if you hadn’t woken up, it would have devoured you!

“What—”

I looked around with my blurry eyes and saw Killian struggling to fight off Olivia, while Dominic ensured that she wouldn’t come anywhere near me. I glanced to the back, where Devon and Diana were still lying unconscious in the crystal coffin, and tears started to swell in my eyes.

To my shock, the crystal lid slipped down the coffin and landed on the marbled floor with a loud thud, shattering it from the impact. Even Olivia and Killian paused their fight, while Dominic and I stared anxiously, our hearts beating frantically in our chests as we waited for the twins to move.

My heart was slamming against my chest every second.

Would they wake up?!

Thud.Thud.Thud.

Please... Devon. Diana...

I thought my heart exploded when Devon suddenly woke up and opened his eyes wide as he pointed somewhere. A wall. A wall that had a weird pattern on it.

“Mom! He’s there! He has grandmother Lena’s earrings with him!”

Dominic didn’t waste another second and ran straight to where his son pointed. He crouched and concentrated all his power in his fist; his every muscle flexed. Dominic punched the wall, revealing a secret compartment where we all saw Richard Bennett standing inside with terrified eyes.

“YOU BASTARD—”

Dominic searched Bennette’s pockets and saw Lena’s earrings still stained with her blood!

All of us were petrified at what we saw, and I was so confused and disconcerted. I didn’t know if I would go and tear the old man to pieces first, avenging Lena’s death, or if I would go to my twins and bring them to a safer place before Olivia could think of attacking them. Dominic had already grabbed Richard by the collar of his shirt and swung him, causing half of the old man’s face to collide with the stone-hard wall.

“Stupid bastard!” Killian yelled at Dominic in anger, “You can’t kill him! You want him to have a quick escape from everything he did!?”

Killian was right. Dominic couldn’t kill Richard yet! I wouldn’t let the bastard get away with what he did to Lena and the people of Silver Crescent!

I was so distracted by the thought of Dominic killing Richard that I forgot about Olivia. One quick move and she had snatched the diadem away from me. She sprinted to the far corner of the hall and then wore it with two hands while staring at me with a mocking grin.

“OLIVIA, NO!!!”

She shuddered like I did, and her eyes turned all white as her limbs turned rigid. But seconds later, the black mist swirled all over her and she slowly shifted into a half-human, half-wolf monster that I had never seen before. The wound festering on her neck grew and looked like a second head attached to her.

All the hairs on my nape stood in dread.

But what almost gave me a heart attack was when she moved so fast she was already standing in front of my twins.

Her long, sharp claws were poised to sever them.