Hiding the Alpha's Twins: His Wolfless Luna
Chapter 179

Chapter 179: Chapter 179

[SAMANTHA’s Point of View]

I didn’t know how to feel after seeing my husband wake up from his coma.

There was something different in his eyes. The way he looked at me—that softness, the ache, the guilt that was etched on his face. I wondered if there was something that happened to him while he was unconscious. Did something hit him on the head? It made me worried.

From the corner of my eyes, I saw how Dominic stole short glances at me. And when I caught him, he would smile sweetly with those strange emotions swimming in his soft, hazel eyes. I wanted to ask. I wanted to know if he saw anything in his coma that could help end this. But if something did, I knew Dominic would tell me.

Killian suddenly vanished, drawing the enemies away as we fled that part of the woods. We needed to look for him so we could all go home alive. Something happened to my friend, but deep within me, I believe he wasn’t among those evil beasts. He was still Killian. The Alpha of the Moonstone pack. My friend. The only friend I had who helped me when I was at my lowest. I needed to find him and take him back to Brianne.

“Where is Uncle Killian, Mom? Why did he leave us?” Diana asked while being piggybacked by her dad. “Is he one of them?”

“No, sweetheart,” I immediately answered, not wanting the kids to think that Killian was a bad guy after everything he did to save us all. “Uncle Killian is not one of them. He just drove the enemies away from us. He won’t do anything to harm us all.”

Dominic’s brow deepened, curious about what his daughter said. “What do you mean, he’s one of them?” he asked his daughter and then he looked at me with that grave look on his face, demanding answers from me. “Please tell me what happened, Samantha. Why does Diana think Killian is one of those men who wants us all dead?”

I bit my lip hard and then looked around. I wasn’t sure if I would tell him, but Dominic deserved to know so he knows what to do if anything unexpected happens. “You remember those purple eyes the Fang Trinity had whenever they let the darkness possess them?”

Dominic’s eyes widened as he realized what I meant. I averted my eyes from him and focused on the trail we were taking. It was so difficult to walk around the forest with thick fog around us. The night was getting colder and the path we were taking became rocky and steep and I had to carry Devon too after seeing that he was having a hard time keeping up with me and his father.

“I can do it, Mom! Put me down!” he grumbled, feeling embarrassed after I carried him on my back. “I am too old for this now.”

“You are not too old for anything when it comes to Mommy,” I said to him, smiling. It was difficult to breathe as the air went thin, but we couldn’t stop and wait for the sun to come up. We had to be there before dawn, and we couldn’t let the enemies find us, especially since Dominic and I were still recovering after we got the injuries from the Ancient Library that collapsed.

“I am too big to be carried, Mom,” Devon grumbled again, pushing away from me so he could go down, and when I had no choice but to let go of him, he looked me in the eyes with those angry, ocean-blue eyes. My eyes.

“Fine. As long as you can keep up,” I pretended I was annoyed and Devon just grinned, making my eyes roll. Dominic grinned when he saw me, and then I realized that he and Devon shared the same traits. Same stubbornness. Same pride. The same sense of dominance in everything. My heart started to swell as I looked at Devon and then at my husband, dreaming of the family I always wanted to have. If I trust Dominic again with my whole heart, if I throw away and forget all the bad things I experienced with him, could we have the happy ending I always wished for? Could he always choose me and love me with all his heart without any hesitations?

[What is it that worries your mind, love? I can feel it.] Dominic’s voice rang in my head through our bond link. [Tell me, so I know.]

[I am worried about Killian. We have to find him before anything bad happens to him.] I whispered to him, trying to even my breath as the air started to burn in my lungs fast. [And we have to find where that Wolf Tomb is. Based on what I read in the books I took from the Ancient Library, this should be just around here somewhere.]

There was a pause as he succumbed to his thoughts, and then he finally answered. [Do you want to look for him first before we search for the Tomb?]

It was my turn to fall into silence as we continued to walk. Diana had already fallen asleep behind her father’s back while Devon did his best to keep up with me and his Dad. My son occasionally looks at Dominic through the corner of his eye as if checking on his sister and looking to see if Dominic would do something again. I couldn’t tell my husband that he grabbed me by my neck in that prison cell made of bones. I was sure it would break him once he found out he tried to kill me in his sleep.

Devon was wary of his father, and I couldn’t blame him for the way he felt towards Dominic.

“Mom, look!”

My son’s shout snapped me out of my thoughts, and I looked at the spot where he was pointing. Even Diana had woken up from how excited Devon’s voice was. She looked over her father’s shoulder and her eyes widened.

As the four of us followed the butterflies, the kind that I saw when Dominic followed me into a cave, the tiny creatures brought us to an old dry well.

“Devon, no—”

But Devon rushed towards it without a pause. My heart raced, terrified at the carelessness he showed as he went to look down the dry well. I watched how his eyes widened and his lips pulled into a wide smile as he looked at me and then at Dominic. “Look, Mom! I found something!”

“Don’t you ever do that again!” I scolded him, my chest heaving as fear flashed in my eyes the moment I got to the well and pulled him to me. I pushed him gently away from me with my hands grabbing both of his shoulders, my face angry, and my eyes teary. “Don’t you just run anywhere, Devon! It’s dangerous to go around here! You know that!”

“I’m so sorry, Mom, but look! I found something!”

My son was right. There was something strange at the bottom of the well, and even Dominic was so petrified when he saw what it was. The crystal coffin was so familiar that it brought a weird feeling in my stomach, hoping that my eyes were only deceiving me—that it was something that wasn’t true, and that there was something in this forest that was tricking me and my husband.

“That can’t be your mom’s coffin, Dominic. That’s impossible!”

He looked down, his jaw stiffened, and I saw him swallow hard. “I don’t want to believe what my eyes are seeing as well... but I believe it is your Mom’s coffin, Samantha.”

“That’s crazy! Your Mom’s buried in Silver Crescent—”

“Grandma is there!”

“That’s impossible!” I gasped softly; my eyes were gazing at the coffin at the bottom of the dry well. Then I noticed there were symbols engraved on the bricked walls of the cave, the same symbols I saw in my mother’s diary.

“Dominic, what are you—”

It was too late for me to stop him. My husband jumped down the well and checked the thing himself. My heart raced when he placed his hand on the crystal coffin and carefully pushed the heavy lid, only to find it was empty.

“There’s something inside!” Diana yelled to her dad as she pointed at something and my eyes caught that something glittered when the light struck it.

“It’s a necklace!” Dominic said. His voice was as shocked as I was when he lifted it for us to see. “It’s my mother’s necklace...”

“We want to go down, Mom. I want to see it!” Diana said it to me with urgency in her voice.

“No, we’re not—”

But I gasped sharply when Diana jumped and Dominic panicked as he caught his daughter with both hands. I was so angry at what Diana did but got angrier when Devon jumped too, embarrassed that his Dad had to catch him and immediately stepped away from Dominic.

“So nobody is listening to me now!” I snarled at the three of them and Dominic just grinned, together with Diana.

All of them were at the bottom of the well now so I had no choice but to jump and join them. I squinted my eyes at Devon and Diana, who gave me puppy eyes and then frowned at my husband, warning him never to tolerate their behavior like that again.

“Let me see it...”

When I took the necklace from Dominic’s hand, the ground suddenly shook, and a familiar voice echoed inside the well, ringing painfully in my ears. “Hoping to find the truth here?!” Olivia laughed manically, making Diana tremble in fear. “Don’t think I will make it easy for both of you, Samantha and Dominic!”Black fog appeared inside the well, putting Dominic on full alert as he grabbed Diana and Devon close to him. A figure of a woman emerged from the black fog and I crouched, ready to lunge at it.

But the phantom figure went somewhere in the cave and triggered something that made the floor of the dry well tremble, threatening to bury us alive along with the crystal coffin.

“Save the kids!” I screamed at Dominic in the middle of chaos as the bricks around us started to crack and create fissures. “Now, Dominic!”

“I won’t leave you here!” He screamed at me. “Take my hand now, Samantha!”

I wanted to go to Dominic but Olivia’s phantom shadow stepped between us—its crimson eyes glared at me. Its hollow mouth grinned, taunting me to my death.