The Shadow of a Luna
Chapter 48

Chapter 48: Chapter 48

TESSA POV

I had been slipping in and out of consciousness for a couple of days now while my body tried to mend from the poisons. And the morning that I did wake up and I felt completely lucid it took me several minutes for everything to register. The attack at home, being shot and poisoned and kidnapped.

I looked around the room that I was in. It was pretty basic for a mansion that we were in. There was only a bed and a single chair across the room from me. I felt a sharp pain around my ankle and I looked down to see the silver shackle around my leg that was attached to the bed.

I started kicking my leg. Trying to get it to break the bed leg but I wasn’t strong enough yet. Then I heard the door handle turning and I shimmied back against the back of the bed and I rested my hands over my stomach.

A man walked in, who was obviously a vampire, and he turned the light on but it was still pretty dull.

"Relax. I’m not going to hurt you. I promise. My name is Sawyer." He says coming inside with a tray of food and he closed the door. He approached slowly and put the food next me on the bed but I was obviously hesitant about taking it.

"You need to eat. You’re pregnant." He says.

"You think I don’t know that." I spat at him.

"Keep your voice down. You don’t want those other men to hear you, do you?" He asked. " I need to check your injuries. Is that alright with you?" He asked.

"Is this some sort of dumb trick? Get me to trust you and give you all the secrets for that bitch to take out my pack?" I asked accusingly.

"No. I promise. I am not here because I want to be. But now that she has you, I’m glad that I am. I don’t want her to hurt you or your baby. I know who you are. I heard the others talking. I also knew Josiah. I really wish I didn’t, but unfortunately I did." He explains.

"Angelo killed Josiah. I don’t know why he still wanted me after I told him that I couldn’t have pups. The guy was twisted." I say.

"Yeah. Especially since you’re his niece." Sawyer says as he started checking my shoulder wound. But as soon as he said that I pulled away from him.

"What did you just say?" I asked.

"What?" He asked confused.

"Josiah was my uncle?" I asked.

"Oh my god. I thought you knew. He was Angelo’s brother. But he went off the rails and didn’t want anything to do with the rest of the family and he hooked up with Katherine and them two were inseparable." Sawyer explained.

"How long were they together?" I asked as he started looking at my shoulder wound again.

"About 550 years. Give or take. I’m not too sure." He says.

"Is she going to kill me once I have my baby? The men said that they wanted my baby." I say.

"I don’t know what her plans are for that. She doesn’t share that shit with me." He says.

"Why not? You’re in her inner circle." I say.

"No. I’m not. Katherine is insane. And I’m only here because she has got people watching some human’s that I have come to care about. And if I don’t do what she says that she’s gonna order their deaths." Sawyer says. But I look at him skeptically.

"I don’t blame you for not trusting me. But you do need to trust me when I say that I have to change these bandages." He says.

"Alright." I say. So he grabbed some other supplies from the tray that he bought in and he pulled off the wound dressings and he cleaned it out again which made me hiss in pain. And he recovered it.

"They are healing. But slowly. They will definitely leave scars." He says.

"I know. Silver always does with us." I say. Then the door opened and one of the big scary vampires was standing there.

"Time’s up." He demanded.

"What’s his problem?" I asked.

"Who knows. Probably needs to get laid." Sawyer says and I giggle at that. But the other man scowled at Sawyer. " Eat. You need your strength." Sawyer says as he stood up and left the room and the other man shut the door behind them.

So I picked up a piece of toast and I found some paper underneath it. And I picked it up slowly and unfolded it.

Whatever you do, don’t use your magic. She has a witch downstairs that can sense when you do. They will sedate you and keep you that way until you give birth. Your mate will have no chance of finding you if that happens.

It wasn’t signed and I don’t know why, it was just a gut feeling, but I knew that it was Sawyer that left the note. I just knew that it was. He was warning me. I guess he doesn’t want me to be sedated during my whole pregnancy. Which means he probably does know what’s going to happen to me after I give birth. He just didn’t want to tell me.

Would Josiah ever be out of my life?

TYLER POV

I had been running all day and much of the night with Cade and Carter when I noticed that they were getting further and further behind me. So we stopped and set up camp in the woods. Luckily Cade thought to grab the emergency bag of clothing that we had for emergencies like this. And our phones because Angelo started calling me.

"What is it?" I asked.

"A friend of mine just tried to do a located spell. It didn’t work. Which means that something is blocking the signal." Angelo says.

"Another witch?" I asked.

"Most likely. But we’re out now looking at some of these houses that are in foreclosure. The ones that we can get to and then get back to your packhouse before the sunrises." Angelo says.

"Send me a text message of the mansions that you can’t get to. We can go from there at first light. We’ve stopped to rest for a bit." I explained.

"Alright. I’ll text you when we get back to the packhouse." Angelo says. And I hung up.

It was really strange not feeling Tessa anymore. I couldn’t feel anything from her. I was so used to having her emotions flooding through me, and lately they were nothing but happy feelings. She was happy and excited to have a baby. But then she called me and asked me to come home because she knew that something was wrong.

Why the fuck didn’t I listen to her? Her instincts are never wrong. Her gut feelings are never wrong. I should have come home when she asked me to. They were so prepared. She knew that something bad was going to happen and I just ignored her. How the fuck could I be so stupid.

"Stop beating yourself up." Cade says from the other side of the campfire.

"What?" I asked.

"I know that look on your face. You’re blaming yourself for this. It’s not your fault. This Katherine bitch had it planned down to every detail. Even attacking a neighboring pack to get us out of the territory." Cade explained.

"Tessa called me the morning before she was taken. She asked me to come home. She told me that she knew something was going to happen. That something bad was going to happen and she asked me to come home. I told her that I couldn’t because I had made a promise to Alpha Ryan. So yeah, I can beat myself up for this. I should have been there." I explain.

"Why didn’t you tell us about that phone call? Tell me about that phone call?" Carter asked.

"I don’t know. I posted guards at the packhouse and told you to increase patrols. I thought that would do it." I say.

"That’s why you had me do all that stuff. Because she called you. I didn’t know that." Carter says then also looking very guilty.

"I should have told you. We all know that her instincts are always right. But this is definitely on me." I say.

"We will find her." Cade says.

"If this is about Josiah then I have a feeling that this bitch probably wants to finish what Josiah started. The baby." I say. And they both shut up after that. It obviously never occurred to them that she wanted the baby. And then what did that mean for Tessa when she gives birth. Are they going to kill her.

The only thing Tessa has on her side right now is time. She’s not due for another 12 weeks. That’s if Katherine waits that long. They can induce labor early if she really wanted to. The baby could survive being born a couple weeks early. I’ve read everything there is on pregnancy ever since Tessa told me that she was pregnant. I’ve been to all of her appointments. I know all this stuff. And I know that Tessa could be in serious trouble if we can’t find her.