Hiding the Alpha's Twins: His Wolfless Luna
Chapter 182

Chapter 182: Chapter 182

[SAMANTHA’s Point of View]

When we arrived at the gates of the Silver Crescent territory, Dominic made sure the healers and the Omega servants of the Pack Manor took care of me and the children first.

As much as I wanted to talk to him and know what was in his head and why he just suddenly shut himself off from me, I couldn’t because he went straight to his office and went to look for Liam.

I wanted to feel angry. I wanted to confront him about what’s going on with him and why he suddenly went cold to me after everything that happened in the Black Forest. I wanted to know if I did wrong or if I did something that he didn’t like. But then my fears held me back. What if he came back to the old him—the cruel, heartless guy that made me suffer for so many years? What if he changed his mind again and doesn’t want to be with me anymore after so many problems I bought in his pack?

Should I stay? Or should I run away again?

After the healers made sure I was in my best condition and made sure the Alpha’s bedroom was clean and comfortable for me to have my rest, they all made their leave so I could sleep peacefully. Only it was hard for me to sleep as my anxiety slowly tortured me. I pulled myself up from the bed and walked towards the window, glad that we were home but worried about what was wrong again with my husband.

I couldn’t go and face Brianne. I heard her voice outside my room while the healers were busy checking on my injuries, asking the guards if she could see me. I felt bad that I felt relieved the guards didn’t let her in. I had no courage to face her yet and tell everything that happened to her mate.

I looked outside the window and then looked up at the perfect full moon in the clear, starry sky. How could I explain to her all the terrible things I saw after Killian revealed to me that he wasn’t really there to help us find the tomb but to lure us to be killed by the enemies?

However, a part of me remained unconvinced that Killian was entirely aligned with the enemies. He could have killed us all there in the cave—helped the giant beast in that underground lake to annihilate us all there. Or when the ancient library collapsed and Dominic and I were buried underneath all that rubble and debris. Or after Dominic fell into a coma while I and the kids were there in the bone cage coated with silver poison.

There was something strange happening and I couldn’t understand why Killian had to do this. What was his reason? Did Brianne know anything about this? Did he mention to her that something was changing in him? That something was pushing him or convinced him to join the Fang Trinity?

Embracing myself, I decided I needed to get out of the room and do something. I couldn’t stay in bed when all these thoughts haunted me. I needed to go somewhere. I needed an answer to all these questions in my head. I couldn’t stay like this and let these thoughts torture me while being scared that my husband would go back to being the way he was before. We all went through hell together, but I wouldn’t let these things destroy what Dominic and I had. Devon and Diana will be devastated.

I am the Luna of the Silver Crescent pack. I needed to find a way to fix these.

After changing into decent clothes, I left the Alpha’s bedroom and headed straight to the library. I wasn’t sure what I should look for there. My mind was like a huge mess, and I couldn’t figure out how to organize things in my head. Dominic’s coldness toward me distracted my mind from the important things I needed to do. I wanted to storm into his office so badly and ask him why. But I knew the action would only make things complicated between us. Maybe he’s pissed that I had been worrying about Killian? Angry that the Moonstone Alpha was still out there, posing a huge threat to all of us, and because of me, he couldn’t deal with this problem?

What did he want me to do then, though? Just let him kill Killian? What about Brianne? What about the Moonstone Pack? He knew once he ended Killian, it would be a war between Moonstone and Silver Crescent. Was he willing to risk that?

I didn’t know what to think anymore. I didn’t know how Dominic’s mind works...

My hand curled into fists as I embraced the jacket against me, wondering what to do as I stared at the stacks of old books on their shelves. Of course, there was no librarian inside anymore since it was already in the middle of the night and was supposed to be closed. Good thing I had spare keys and access to all the facilities here in the Pack Manor.

Desperate to do something and make my mind busy with anything else, I went to the archives and looked for the personnel files of the guards that Dominic fought while we were in the Black Forest. Olivia must have known these men well enough to dig them up from the grave, trap their souls, and use them against Dominic. Were these men close to my husband? I wasn’t sure what kind of relationship Dominic had with them, but I remembered his face while he faced them in the fight. He was grieving. He was in pain seeing them in that state, and that’s when I knew they were a huge part of him and molded him into the Alpha he was.

There were six of them. There were six Elite guards belonging to the Silver Crescent’s Alpha Clan. In that war, four Elite guards died in their fifties, and two would have been Dominic’s age if they had lived.

Those two. They were so young when they died...

Maybe that’s why Dominic was so angry after seeing those six men that Olivia revived from the dead. Those six men had already found peace after fighting for the Silver Pack and had died with glory. And Olivia took that all away from them. Now I understood what my husband felt.

As I dug into more files, wanting to know more about these men, something fell on my head that baffled me and almost made me yell in surprise.

“What the hell—”

When I looked down, it was an old parchment that was as big as a tabloid or ledger. I became curious about the parchment after noticing the strange lines in the corner. Then I blinked. Did they just glow a purple light?! I blinked again and then shook my head, hoping I was just seeing things.

“Goddess, we spent so much time in the Black Forest that everything I see is now glowing purple.” I laughed nervously as I picked the thing from the floor.

But I was dazzled by the purple light when I opened the parchment and it revealed a complex magical circle, almost making me blind from it. The first response my body did was to throw away the paper but I couldn’t. It was as if my hands were stuck to it and I couldn’t let go!

Before I knew it, images started to flash in my eyes. A place. In the middle of a foggy forest with wisteria trees around it. A small cave that had a stone covering it. All the plants fifteen feet around that cave were dead. Wilted. Like they were poisoned by something. Then, the full moon appeared, casting elongated shadows from the trees; sets of glowing purple eyes took shape from the shadows, all glaring at me.

I was so terrified that I flinched away and finally let go of the paper. I knocked down a box behind me and fell, creating a loud thud on the floor and winced as the pain spread on my hips.

“What the hell are you doing in the middle of the night?”

My eyes widened as I heard that familiar voice and saw the surprised look on my husband’s face. I stared at him for seconds as I panicked and searched for anything to say and then smiled awkwardly, “Oh, uhh... I can’t sleep so I am looking for something to read.”

From the corner of my eyes, I looked down at the parchment that rolled down the floor and then back at my husband, who was squinting at me suspiciously.

He frowned, but he offered his hand to help me get up. I was about to take it but then remembered he had been moody since after we fought in the Black Forest. He sighed when I stood on my own and brushed away the dust that stuck to my pants.

“How about you? What are you doing here?” I asked him with a serious look. Should I tell him about the parchment? I looked down at the thing on the floor and then pretended I was looking for something and then picked it up.

Dominic looked at the paper in my hand but then decided not to question it, which was a huge relief because how would I be able to explain everything I saw?! We just got back to Silver Crescent!

“I’ve been looking for answers about where those purple-eyed shadow werewolves came from,” he answered, his voice still exhausted as he brushed his dark hair with his fingers and then sat at the old books stacked behind him. The floor creaked from his weight. “I feel like there is a connection between them and my father. I am uncertain about how much Olivia knows about this. She manipulated all of them like they were all an extension of her power—of herself. Like they were her minion.

“Richard Bennette must have taught his daughter everything. Unfortunately, it all backfired on her, turning her into something monstrous.” I spoke to my husband softly, unable to meet his intense hazel eyes. "She’s no longer a werewolf; instead, she has become a servant to something more powerful than herself."

“Do you think someone powerful is behind this?” Dominic asked me and I felt that tension between us growing as his voice turned hoarse. Gentle.

“Yes. And Olivia and her father were just pawns to make the things happen according to what that powerful being is planning.”

I finally had the courage to look back at him, but my heart sank when Dominic decided to stand up and leave.

“Don’t stay here too late.” He said in his cold voice when he glanced back and stepped out of the door, leaving me alone in the library.