Hiding the Alpha's Twins: His Wolfless Luna
Chapter 159

Chapter 159: Chapter 159

[SAMANTHA’s Point of View]

No!

It was as if time turned everything into slow-mo—or was it me that surpassed the limit of my speed? In a split second, I dashed straight in front of my twins, my legs stiff, my body trembling as I shielded both of them with my body. I heard my husband’s scream as he lunged forward to us. Killian’s cry as he tried his best to reach us echoed in my ear, together with the thundering beat of my heart, a painful hammering in my chest that reminded me I had to keep my children alive.

I had to keep them alive!

“SAMANTHA!”

There was no other way. Not enough time. I wrapped my arms around Devon and Diana and buried my face between them, ready to accept my fate. My twins were both in shock at what was coming as they stared at Olivia in her beast form with wide eyes. I squeezed them, felt them in my arms, wanting to make them feel they would be safe no matter what—that I had them. Mommy was there to keep them safe.

“I love you both...” I whispered as a tear rolled down my cheek.

Gasping, I waited for it. The pain—for Olivia’s massive and razor-sharp claw to slash across my back, severing my skin, flesh, and spine. I waited for my warm blood to gush out. My sacrifice would be enough for Dominic to reach us. In my head, I prayed that I had given my mate enough time to drive Olivia away from my kids, kill her, keep our twins safe, and take them out of this place. Dominic and Killian could destroy her. They had to.

I sucked in a deep breath and held it as I embraced my twins tight.

My eyes opened when nothing came. Confused, I glanced back and saw a white barrier thing that protected me and the kids from Olivia’s claws. My eyes widened at what I saw, and then I looked at Devon and Diana. They were both glaring at Olivia, focusing on materializing the shield that kept us all alive from Olivia’s deadly attacks.

Breathing hard and fast, still baffled at what my twins did, I slowly stood between them and then glared at Olivia. I had no idea how Devon and Diana did it. But Dominic was right. They weren’t just ordinary werewolves. They were both from Promordial Blood and from the Clan of the Silver Wolves of the Silver Crescent pack. Devon and Diana came from two powerful bloodlines that these people feared so much.

Olivia’s eyes widened in confusion and terror as she screamed and kept on slashing against the light shield. As I watched her, I noticed that the shield had the same pattern as the vines that covered the castle. Her shriek of anger echoed all over the hall as Dominic and Killian froze and watched in shock, as if seeing a miracle happening in front of them. Both their mouths were parted in awe and distress. Richard, on the other hand, was half unconscious. Dominic beat him half dead as he destroyed the old man’s face.

“You failed, Olivia. Even with the diadem taking over you, making you the monster you really are, you can never hurt us.” I snarled at her as I put my hand behind my children’s backs. I stood with my back straight, lifting my chin as I glared at her through my nose. She kept on slashing, piercing the shield with fear and despair on her half-rotting face.

“Why don’t you just all f*cking die!” She screamed as she kept on trying to destroy the shield with all her strength. “DIE!”

My heart faltered when I saw the shield slowly chipping from her claws, and even Devon and Diana lost their focus as fear etched on their faces. They stepped back as they felt the power of Olivia’s blow.

I crouched, prepared to launch an attack as soon as the shield crumbled. But before Olivia landed her most powerful blow, Dominic had already jumped over her and grabbed her arm away from us. To my horror, his arm got infected with the disease that came from the black purple mist, and Olivia took the chance to send him flying to the other side of the hall with a kick.

Killian let out an angry snarl when her attention went back to us. He sprinted towards Olivia and shifted to his werewolf form, lunged at her with his teeth, and aimed for her neck. But Olivia saw it before he could reach her and caught him by the neck, strangling him to death.

My mind started to panic. I looked at Killian and then at Dominic. Killian was trying to escape Olivia’s grip while my husband writhed in pain from the infection in his hand and arm. I didn’t know who I should help first... I didn’t know—

[Go to Dominic, Samantha! I can...] Killian grunted as he tried to push Olivia away from him. [I can do this!]

“Mom! He’s dying!!!” Diana cried as she pointed to Dominic, and I wiped my tears with the back of my hand before I tore my eyes away from Killian, who was already struggling to breathe.

“Dominic!” I cried and was horrified to see that the poison was almost on his shoulder.

He panted, sweat beading on his forehead, and flinched away from me, scared that I might get infected too. “Don’t go anywhere near me, Samantha! Just go and get the kids away from here!”

“As if I’m going to let you die in here!” I growled at him and then bit the side of my hand so hard my teeth sank into the flesh, making myself bleed.

I remembered what Brianne told me before. The tears of the Royal Blood can purify darkness. I dripped my blood on the poisoned part of my husband’s arm, and it slowly healed with the help of his rapid regenerating ability.

Dominic looked at me, his eyes wide with disbelief. Then, I looked at my kids and exclaimed loudly, "Don’t be afraid, Devon, Diana! You’ve got this! Focus and remember that feeling when we used to chase butterflies!”

I saw Diana’s eyes blink, like she remembered something familiar that made her more confident and powerful. She stepped forward, pulling her brother with her as she glared at Olivia. I panicked when I saw Killian already unconscious as she wrung his neck.

“Killian! No!” I screamed in terror and quickly ran towards my friend. With my werewolf ears, I could hear his heartbeat getting slower and slower.

Until it stopped.

My eyes widened, and I was petrified in fear. No! He couldn’t be dead! No!!!

Diana must have felt my grief, too. She screamed with all her might, and the light shield expanded. It exploded and threw me and Dominic, and we landed on our backs with a loud thud. Olivia was thrown violently, her body embedded deep into the stone ceiling of the hall. There were sickening cracks of bones, and blood dripped from her broken body down to the marble floor. Her twisted body made me nauseous.

“Killian!” All four of us ran to the Moonstone Alpha, and Dominic moved as he tried to revive him again.

“C’mon, Killian!” Dominic snarled as he did CPR on him. “Don’t you dare die on us! Not here!”

Devon and Diana started to cry as Diana held his hand. “Uncle Killian, please open your eyes!”

We were all startled when a loud, high-pitched, manic laughter filled the place.

“You think you won!?” Olivia screamed with a crazy grin on her bleeding face. “You think you have already gotten rid of me!?”

I stood up and glared at her as I looked up at the ceiling, where she was embedded in the stone structure. I bared my teeth at her as tears poured down my face and hissed, “This is the end for you, Olivia. I will make sure of it!”

“In the tomb of the Black Forest, your mother’s—”

Before she could even finish her sentence, the color of her skin turned gray as she quickly deteriorated, her skin cracking as she started crumbling like a corroded statue that was powdered into a pile of silver ash.

The diadem fell from the ceiling, and the sound of the precious metal clanking filled the room, causing my heart to sink. I walked towards the diadem, looked at what remained of Olivia’s body, picked it up from the marbled floor, and brushed the dust away from it. I didn’t know what to feel at that moment as Dominic tried to bring Killian back to life. I was numb and in agony while my eyes focused on the precious thing.

“The Luna of the Pack with the Ocean Blue Eyes.” I read the carving inside of it that made me blink.

There was a loud gasping and coughing as Killian sat up straight; his bloodshot eyes were wide as his hands automatically touched his neck.

“Oh my goddess, I’m alive!” He smiled so wide as he looked at me and then at Dominic and the kids. “I’m alive!”

Diana was so happy that she threw herself on Killian and embraced him tightly. Dominic smiled and then patted his back gently as he stood and walked towards me. His eyes were gazing into mine as he held my hand and kissed it.

“Let’s go home...” he whispered to me and then kissed me gently on the lips.