Rejected Luna: Untamed Desire Of The Lycan Alpha
Chapter 201: Animorphos

Chapter 201: Animorphos

Inez looked at the countless graves that had been dug overnight. The kids who were taken away from their rightful places had finally returned, but in silence. The pack seemed to have been shrouded with a thick layer of nothing but grief and sorrow. The loss of the pups was always a big loss, but this felt even more personal as she watched the parents cry their hearts out while trying to look for their child, who might never return.

She turned to look at Killian, who stood just a bit far from her. He was staring at the graves that were being closed up one by one. Those stiff shoulders, those clenched fists, they told a different story. She wanted to go ahead and stand next to him, but Inez knew that Killian would not appreciate it.

He wanted a moment of silence where he could accept the grief that was rolling in the air like the scent of the fresh soil that had been dug up.

Her heart ached for him because Inez knew that Killian was blaming himself for the things that happened. For the loss of life that happened right under his nose. They stood in silence as the funeral ceremony ended.

However, Inez knew that she had to bring Killian away from here. All the anger, blame and grief must be leaking into the pack bond. It must be stifling. She tried to channel her concern into the bond, but she knew with so many people cursing and yelling, her concern would be lost.

She sighed and walked over to where Killian was standing. She placed her hand on his forearm and then steered the man away from the graveyard. She told him, "It’s not your fault."

The man grunted but didn’t say a word.

Inez didn’t force him to say anything because she knew that he would start talking in due time. As the two of them headed down the rocky trail, she heard Killian say, "It was my mistake. I was too confident. I thought that I could see through their patterns that I knew what they were doing."

"It wasn’t your fault," Inez sternly told him. "No, really." She added a bit more pressure to her voice when she saw that the man was about to say something more to her. "You did everything that you could... it’s just that you cannot always be there for them, Killian."

"I am their Alpha!"

"Yes, I understand that," Inez said in a soothing voice when she noticed the agitation that slipped into his voice. "But just because you are their alpha doesn’t always mean that you can stop the sky from falling. You might be a big, bad alpha, but you are not that big, you know?"

A muscle twitched in his jaw, and Inez was sure that she saw him smile. Only if it was just a little bit.

A few seconds later, she heard him sigh. "I know what you are saying is correct, but..." He gritted his teeth and continued in a harsh whisper, "Attacking kids is a low blow."

"You are right, and we will make them pay for it..." Inez had just raised her head to look at the man beside her when she noticed the dark grey clouds coming toward them. Something about them. told her that there was something weird about them. Especially when they were moving as if they were rolling on wheels. She didn’t even have the time to think as she pushed the man down on the ground and yelled, "EVERYONE TAKE COVER!"

The next second, screams erupted all over the pack as a flaming hailstorm came down on the pack.

"Stay down!" She heard Third Eye yell somewhere behind as he started chanting a spell in a language that she couldn’t understand. Her back was hissing as the burning stones or whatever it was, landed on her back, burning through her clothes, skin and flesh.

Excruciating pain shot through her nerves down to her extremities as Killian rolled them down under the roof of a lodge.

"Inez! Are you alright, baby?" Killian asked, frantic as he looked at the many wounds on her back. Dread filled the pit of his stomach when he saw the red and burning flesh on Inez’s back.

Behind him, he could hear the pack’s cries and Finn trying to control the situation, yet his first concern was Inez. Upon seeing the raging storm that was going on in his pack, he needed to make sure that Inez was alright.

"I am alright. Even if I am latent, I am still a shifter," she breathed through her mouth as she lay on the floor, trying to ease the pain that was shooting through her at that moment. "Go and take a look at the rest of the pack."

He didn’t. His eyes were on the red patch that was getting bigger by the second and was now slowly spreading its way too far within him. So far that it disrupted his own peace. "I can’t leave you alone."

"Help your pack first." Inez practically shoved him away from her when she saw that the flaming rain had stopped. "Go."

Killian gritted his teeth as he turned around and called for Ajax through their pack bond.

"Ajax, come to the southern hillside. Take Inez to the healer right away."

He then turned to look at Inez, who was trying to keep her eyes open, and said to her, "Hold on, baby. I will come back for you right away."

"I know", she waved her hand weakly. "Now go and do your alpha duties."

Killian leaned down and kissed her on the forehead before turning around on his feet and charging up the path from where he came. However, as he walked away from Inez, he felt a sort of heaviness in his chest as if he had left his very heart behind.

"Bring in the fire extinguishers and stop the fire from spreading any further. Stop moving the seriously injured and call for the healers from the council. Tell them that if I don’t see the healers in three minutes, the next thing burning will be their very building!"