The Shadow of a Luna
Chapter 23

Chapter 23: Chapter 23

Tyler and I were still in our wolf forms when that witch turned to look directly at me with blackened eyes and hissed ’Tesssssa.’ Almost like she was calling to me. It was the same voice that I heard the other times. She was the one doing this. But why was a witch messing around with me.

Tyler jumped in front of me and crouched into an attack position and bared his teeth at her. Trying to protect me.

’Tyler, don’t. She can’t cross the boarder. That’s why she hasn’t done it yet.’ I mind linked him.

’How do you know that?’ He asked.

’I can feel it. There’s a shield around the territory keeping her out.’ I say.

’Who the fuck put a shield up?’ He asked.

"Your mother did." The witch replied. Holy fuck, she could hear our thoughts. We were so fucked right now.

’My mother wasn’t a witch.’ I say.

"No. But she was friends with one. And the shield isn’t around your territory. Not technically. It’s around Tessa. Whatever territory she’s in, the shield is around." The witch says.

’So, you can’t hurt her then.’ Tyler says relieved.

"I wouldn’t say that." She smirked. When suddenly the roots from the trees near us started snaking up from the ground and coming closer to us. We backed away from them and they started coming after us.

We turned to run back to the packhouse, to get out of the forest but every tree we had to dodge as the roots were coming up from the ground.

We dove out of the woods together and were back on the ground of the packhouse where there were no trees near us and we turned back to see them all settle back down into the earth. Tyler and I looked at each other and then shifted back and got dressed and went inside.

"Alright. What the actual fuck." I said. " My mother was friends with a witch. My father is a vampire. What else is there in my life? Am I part faerie too?" I asked.

"Faeries are extinct." Tyler says.

"No their not. They just live on a different realm then we do because vampires were killing them and they were going to go extinct." I mumbled out before I realized what I had said. And Tyler looked at me with a raised eyebrow. " See. How the fuck do I even know that?" I yelled throwing my arms up in the air.

"What’s going on?" Cade asked coming into the room with Bella.

"Oh nothing. We just got attacked by a witch who tried to use the trees in the woods to trap us there." I say like it was nothing and I walked off. But they both turned back to look at Tyler.

"Yeah. It’s true." Is all that Tyler says before also walking out of the room.

Bella came to find me in the library and I was pulling out every book that we had on witch’s. I needed to know what I was dealing with here. With this witch that was obviously working against me as well. Otherwise, why would she use the trees to try and trap me.

I also grabbed my sketchbook and I started sketching her face while Bella was doing the research. I needed a photo to take to show Adam. To see if he knew her or anything about this Josiah character that we had absolutely no information on.

Once I finished the sketch I called Tyler and he met me at the dungeon stairs. We went down there together and we stopped at his cell, which was one of the nicer cell’s. At least it had a bed in it.

I hold up the picture immediately and he could by the look on my face that I wasn’t in the mood to play games.

"Oh. So you met Annabelle." Adam says.

"Everything you know about her. Go." I demanded.

"Not much. She’s a powerful witch. Also Josiah’s bedwarmer. For now anyway. Until he finds someone else." Adam says.

"I don’t give a shit who is fucking who. I want to know why she’s at the boarder of this territory trying to attack me using tree roots." I gritted through my teeth.

"Holy shit. So, it’s true. The shield follows you wherever you go. That’s some powerful shit man." Adam says. And I growl when he doesn’t answer my question. " Alright, sorry. I heard about the shield but I just didn’t know that there was actually a witch powerful enough to do it. All I know about Annabelle is that she’s the witch in charge. Josiah has more of them. He’s something of a collector. He has vampires with unique abilities. He has witch’s that can do all sorts of shit. And she is one of the most powerful ones that he has." Adam explained.

"Why is he after me?" I asked.

"Because you’re Angelo’s daughter. Once Angelo discovers that you’re alive and that Josiah has you, he will do whatever Josiah wants." Adam says. And my face softens straight away.

"What do you mean ’when he discovers that I’m alive’?" I asked confused. And Adam hit himself in the head.

"Josiah really is going to kill me." Adam muttered to himself.

"Why does Angelo think that I’m dead?" I demanded.

"Because Daniel knew that you and Addison were running away with him. He grabbed one of your shirts and got your blood on it as well as your mother’s blood on it and left it near the place you were meant to meet Angelo that day when you were running away. Angelo assumed that Daniel killed you both. That’s when he really changed. He started going crazy after that. I mean, he was crazy before that. But your mother kept him calm. He was going to change everything for his family. But then he lost his family and he had nothing left." Adam explained.

"Where is Angelo now?" I asked.

"I don’t know." Adam says.

"Don’t make me hurt you like I did yesterday." I threatened him.

"I’d listen to her bro. She’s not bluffing. She’ll do it." Tyler says casually leaning against the cell bars.

"The last I heard he was in vampire central. New Orleans." Adam says.

"And how long ago was that?" I asked.

"About a month ago. He could still be there. Or he could have moved on. I don’t know." Adam says. And I looked over at Tyler.

"You have another brother, right?" I asked. And Tyler nodded his head. "So, can I kill this one?" I asked.

Tyler cocked his head to the side like he was thinking about it for a minute and then shook his head no.

"Mom and dad would never approve of you if you killed him." Tyler says.

"Fine. But I will hurt you when I get back." I say looking at Adam and storming out of the dungeon. Tyler followed me but Adam started yelling from behind us.

"How long am I going to stay down here?" He yelled.

"Until I feel like letting you out." Tyler yelled back.

"Which means never." I added.

When we got to the top of the stairs Tyler shut the door and locked it and he grabbed my arm.

"You’re not going to New Orleans." He says.

"How else am I going to find Angelo? I don’t think he’ll be listed in the phone directory on google." I say. _{freew\e bnovel.com}

"Probably not. But it’s too dangerous." He says.

"You heard the witch. I have a shield. It follows me wherever I go." I say.

"Tessa. Don’t argue with me on this. Please. We can’t go to New Orleans right now. Not with the vampire attacks and Josiah being very close and a witch that definitely has a hard on for you." Tyler says.

"Ewe, you felt that too. I thought that was just me and it grossed me out." I say looking disgusted.

"You know what I meant." He says.

"I know what you meant. But I am sick of sitting here with no answers and doing nothing. We finally have a lead." I say.

"My brother is hardly a lead. You can’t trust what he says." Tyler reminds me.

"Then I’ll compel him. If I can. I don’t even know how I did it the first time, but I’m sure I’ll manage." I say.

"Please don’t make me pull rank on you." Tyler gritted through his teeth.

"Are you serious? You would actually pull out the Alpha card on me?" I asked.

"Yes. If I think what you’re doing is completely stupid." He says.

"I am trying to find my fucking family. How is that stupid?" I yelled.

"We were just attacked by a witch while still on pack grounds. You may have a shield around you but she showed that she could still get to you. Even with the shield. So yeah, I know that you want to find your family. But I am pulling rank. You’re forbidden to leave the territory." He demanded.

"You son of a bitch. I can’t believe you are doing this to me." I say. I turn to leave and I see that we’ve gathered an audience behind me. And Tyler tries to stop me from leaving but I push him away and I storm up the stairs to our room and I slam the door.

I pace back and forth, back and forth, back and forth before I realize that he had no right to pull rank on me. How dare he treat me like a simple pack member. I am his mate. I needed to do this. I needed to find my father. I just found out that he thinks I’m dead. I need to let him know that I’m not dead and Josiah is after me. Wanting to most likely kill me in front of Angelo just to hurt him. I didn’t Josiah’s plans were. And this was insane.

I walked to the wardrobe and grabbed a backpack down off the shelf and put some very casual clothes into it. As many as I could fit. I sat at my easel with my sketch book sitting there and I grabbed the sketch of Angelo and put it in my bag and then I wrote in big letters.

KISS MY ASS. I’M NOT YOUR SUBORDINATE. I AM GOING TO FIND MY FATHER.

P.S. I LOVE YOU.

I then climbed out the window and onto the roof of the floor below where out bedroom was and I looked around everywhere to make sure that there were no warriors or patrols around.

I jumped to the ground from there and landed on my feet but kept crouched down because I wasn’t sure where Tyler was in the house.

I peered through the window and I saw him sitting through on the other side of the open plan living area at the bar having a drink and I took off towards the woods. In a different direction to where the witch was of course.

I did come across a couple of patrol wolves but I told them that I was going for a hike and that Tyler knew all about it. They accepted it no worries and let me on my way.

I left the territory and got to the main road and started heading to the nearest town.

It took me two hours to walk there, and I wasn’t sure if Tyler would know if I was missing yet or not. And when I got to the bus station I grabbed a ticket to the nearest city, which was Boston.

The bus was already waiting so I boarded the bus and I just needed to wait for it to leave. I was getting more anxious the longer we sat there but eventually, we finally left and hit the highway away from the pack and towards Boston. I was determined to find my father and not even Tyler was going to stop me. I’m pretty sure Bella will explain all of this to him when he realizes that I’m gone. At least, I hope she does. No body forbids me from doing a damn thing. He should know that by now. And if he doesn’t, he soon will.