Hiding the Alpha's Twins: His Wolfless Luna
Chapter 181

Chapter 181: Chapter 181

[SAMANTHA’s Point of View]

“How did you find it?”

I couldn’t resist glancing at Killian, squinting my eyes slightly with suspicion. Now that Killian had revealed that he wasn’t the man we all knew anymore, even Dominic and Devon became wary of him. Something happened to him. And it seemed he didn’t have any plan to tell us anything about it.

[What is happening, Killian!? Explain to me everything!] Dominic glared at Killian, still not letting his guard down. Killian drove the shadow werewolves away. But it was clear, based on what we were seeing, that he was already one of them. Devon looked at me with worry and hurt, confused about what was happening, and it hurt me too that I didn’t know how to explain it to them. Was Killian now one of them? Was he already an enemy? What happened to him? Could it be too late to get him back to normal?

“Mom!”

I clenched my teeth and didn’t let my eyes stray from Killian. There was something wrong with him. That’s what my wolf instinct was telling me. Until his smile disappeared, his green eyes grew cold as he glared at me and my husband through his nose—A kind of look I never thought I would see on him as he turned around with darkened eyes.

[Samantha—]

[I know,] I said to my husband, my heart shattering into millions of pieces as my tears started to sting the corner of my eyes. [I know.] My voice quivered as I tried my hardest not to break down in front of my kids and husband.

My best friend...

“What’s the matter, Sam? Why are you looking so terrified and sad?” The corner of Killian’s mouth pulled into a smirk as he closed his hand into a fist, putting off the light that repelled the shadows, and shoving the necklace into the pocket of his jeans. “Are you scared of me?”

I bit my lower lip as they started to quiver. I wanted to take my eyes away from Killian, but I knew the second I did it, it would be just a matter of a split second, and he could tear my head off my shoulders. I couldn’t risk it. When Dominic didn’t lower his guard, I knew he immediately sensed something on Killian. At first, I believed Killian had it under control after he saved us all from the shadow beasts after we got out of the cage made of silver-coated bones. But I was wrong. Very wrong to think that Killian was still the same man who cared for me when no one did. He wasn’t the best friend I knew. The darkness had already corrupted his mind, and he was here to lure us to our death and not to the salvation we were seeking.

As the light from that necklace turned off, all the shadows that disappeared emerged back, together with the giant guards and Olivia’s phantom shadow. I saw how Olivia’s phantom shadow’s eyes squinted as she grinned at me evilly; her hands were raised at her hips level, ready to summon more shadow werewolves.

[Why are you doing this, Killian? What happened to you?! Tell me!] I yelled at him with pain, I failed to hide in my voice. [What did they do to you!?]

“It doesn’t matter what happened, Sam,” Killian answered, stepping forward to me. A growl erupted from Dominic’s throat as he stepped in front of me, hiding me behind him. His eyes were lethal toward the Moonstone Alpha, ready to attack if Killian ever made a wrong move.

Killian stopped pacing forward, but his eyes were glaring back at my husband. “Ohh, you are finally awake, Dominic. I thought you couldn’t go back after Olivia’s nightmares while you were in a coma.”

[So it’s all planned along?] Dominic hissed, baring his teeth at Killian. [How dare you do this, Killian!? Samantha trusted you with all her heart!]

“It’s not my fault that all of you are so naive!” Killian hissed scornfully as he tilted his head to the side, giving Dominic a cold, arrogant look. “Look at you, Dominic. You are not the same Alpha that this region was scared of. You lost your teeth! The savagery that made you famous in all the territories here. Now I will question you. What happened to you, Alpha of the Silver Crescent pack?”

Angry snarls erupted from my husband’s throat as he suppressed his desire to shred Killion into ribbons, knowing that I wouldn’t allow him to kill the Moonstone Alpha. He stayed crouched in front of me, waiting for Killian to make the first move to attack.

[He’s trying to get into your head, Dominic. It’s not Killian. It must be the dark fog that is controlling his mind!] I yelled to my husband, hoping to stop them from killing each other.

[He is not the guy you know, Samantha. He’s completely possessed by something, and if we won’t fight back, he will kill us all one by one!]

Killian made an evil grin as if he could read the hesitation on my face. I met his gaze, and I saw a flash of emotion there, and then his face went cold and blank again.

[He’s still there. I believe he’s still there!]

Dominic’s mind suddenly went to complete silence, a sign that he cut me off from his thoughts. My eyes widened at what he did, and after he shoved me away from his head, his deadly glare and his desire to kill Killian were still there.

[Stay with the kids!]

[Dominic, no!]

With a speed that was too impossible for me to follow, Dominic lunged straight at Killian, opening his mouth to reveal those razor-sharp teeth, ready to sever Killian’s body in half while the Moonstone Alpha was still in his human form. But Killian was just as fast, for he sprang to his feet backwards and shifted to his wolf just in time before Dominic reached him. He avoided the teeth of the Silver Crescent Alpha but not the claws. Dominic’s claws slashed Killian’s chest, and even though they were shallow enough not to reach the heart, Killian bled awfully, making Diana gasp in horror.

[Don’t you dare mock me, Killian. And don’t you dare hurt any of my family, or I will shred you into ribbons!] Dominic snarled, his breath was ragged, and his nostrils were flaring as he filled his lungs with air, ready to strike again. [I won’t let you do this to Samantha!]

[Funny that those words came from you.] Killian scornfully laughed at Dominic, making my husband more agitated.

Their rally of attacks and defense lasted for thirty minutes. I was there, watching with horrified eyes as I saw how they exchanged deadly wounds, healed and then tried to kill each other over and over again. Devon watched as well without blinking his eyes. His mouth was partly opened, as if trying to anticipate who had the most advantage to win between his father and Killian.

There was worry on his small face. And I knew he was dead worried about his father despite his hatred towards Dominic.

Devon was rooting for his dad. If something happened to Dominic, the twins would be devastated.

I was about to head forward and help my husband but then I saw Olivia’s phantom shadow move, as if she was just waiting for the chance for me to leave the twins. My heart raced as I looked down at Devon and Diana and they looked back at me with the same terror in their eyes. No. I couldn’t leave them. Olivia was looking for a chance to strike at us while Killian was making Dominic busy and because of the power I owned, Olivia won’t risk attacking me unless she wants to be completely obliterated from the face of the earth.

She knew how to play this game well. She was really careful.

[Samantha!!!]

I was baffled when my husband screamed my name and the next thing I saw was that small thing flying in midair. From the corner of my eyes, I saw Olivia advanced towards us, her face tilted upwards to look at the object that Dominic threw in our direction, and then I realized what it was.

It was the pendant that Killian used to drive all those shadow werewolves away.

“Mom!!!”

Devon screamed at me, and then I knew what he meant after seeing Olivia lunge for it.

My eyes sharpened as adrenaline pumped into my veins like gasoline burned and everything in my body turned mechanical, acting on its own based on my wolf instinct. Before Olivia had reached it with the tip of her fingers, I had already kicked her in her gut and sent her flying on the other side of the collapsed well.

[DEVON!!!]

Devon knew what to do. The second I landed on the ground, he had already caught the necklace and extended his hand up in the air, turning that mysterious light on and sending the shadow werewolves screaming in pain as they all disappeared like thin smoke in the air.

However, Killian wasn’t affected by it, but he knew that if he tried to attack Dominic again without Olivia and her backup, Dominic would not hesitate to kill him right there and then.

[Killian, go back!]

[No, Samantha! It would be too dangerous to go after him! Let him go!]

Dominic stopped me from going after Killian, while Devon and Diana ran towards me and their father, crying loudly from the horror and heartbreak they had just witnessed. Tears rolled down my face as I watched where Killian had vanished.

Five hours after that incident we found out that the necklace that my husband took from Killian was also a holographic map of the Black Forest, pointing us exactly to where we were and what path we should take back to Silver Crescent territory. It was as if Killian had the intention to give us this so we could find our way back home.

Or maybe it was just a coincidence. I wasn’t sure.

How could we return home without him? What should I tell Brianne when we arrive at the pack manor?

I was so confused and scared of what would happen next, and the first thing I did was to hold my husband’s hand, hoping he could feel the fear in me.

But then he didn’t even give me a single glimpse and just stared ahead with a cold expression on his face.