The Shadow of a Luna
Chapter 50

Chapter 50: Chapter 50

BELLA POV

The packhouse had been so quiet for days. My mate had been gone for four days now out looking for Tessa with Tyler and I had nothing to do but have nightmares about the situation or pace around the house and try to clean every surface of the packhouse. Because I felt completely useless.

I decided to get on the computer and I hacked onto the dark web and I started reading up about Katherine. Everything that everyone knew about her. And there was a lot. Apparently she had been around for a long time. A lot longer than Angelo and his siblings. And she never left a good impression on anyone by the looks of it.

An entire village burnt in England about 300 years ago that Katherine was responsible for. 200 human lives perished that night. Another time she was accused of witch craft and was almost killed in the witch trial of the 1700’s but managed to escape.

She was accused of being a vampire in the 1800’s and was captured but again, she escaped.

She loved the finer things in life. She would never settle for second best. She always needed the best. The best house, the best clothes, the best men. That’s usually what got her into so much trouble.

But there’s nothing printed about her in the last couple of years. So there’s absolutely no indication of where she might be. Except that she was breaking the vampire council rules at the moment by consorting with Rogue vampires. She was being hunted by the vampire council for questioning because our species weren’t really allowed to spend time together. When we did, it usually ended badly. So she was definitely hiding.

She was hiding from the vampire council and now from our pack and every other pack in this area. Every pack that knew Tessa and wanted to get her back. She was the most wanted vampire in the world at the moment. Not that she would probably even care. From what I saw when she took Tessa that night, she loves the attention. She’s probably sitting back in some big old mansion laughing at all of us while torturing Tessa.

I slammed the computer shut and I put my head in my hands and as much as I tried not to, I couldn’t help the tears that were starting to run down my face. And then I felt a hand on my shoulder.

"Tyler will get her back. There’s no way that he’s ever going to stop looking." Naomi says.

"I know that. But not having her around is just weird to me. She’s my best friend and I just stood there and watched them carry her away. There was nothing I could do." I sobbed out and Naomi put her arm around me.

"That’s right. There was nothing that you could do. We all saw the footage. She shot Tessa right in front of you. There’s no telling what she would have done if you tried to stop her. She would have killed you and then Tessa would be the one that is sitting here broken." Naomi explained.

"I know that. But why isn’t she using her magic? She could easily escape if she uses her magic. She opened the goddam heavens for fuck sake. And now she can’t even use her magic to get herself out of this king of trouble. To free herself now. I don’t understand that. Why isn’t she doing anything to save herself?" I practically yelled.

"Because they are obviously stopping her from doing that. There is definitely a reason. There is a reason she’s not using her magic. Angelo says that there is a witch blocking the signal to try and find her. Maybe her powers are suppressed or something." Naomi says trying to comfort me.

"That wouldn’t stop Tessa. She would be able to take that bitch out." I say.

"We don’t know that. She hasn’t used her powers since she came back from New Orleans and since she got pregnant. A werewolf pregnancy takes a lot of energy out of the mother. That’s why they can’t shift while their pregnant." Naomi says.

"Maybe that’s why she can’t use her powers. Because the pregnancy is stopping her from doing it." I say.

"Exactly. We don’t know what’s going on there. But there would definitely be a reason. Otherwise she would have done everything she could to escape and be back here with us. We all know that." Naomi says.

"Yeah. I know." I say wiping away my tears.

"We both know how strong Tessa is. If anyone will survive this, then it will definitely be her." Naomi says.

"She’s been gone for almost a week now and they are no closer to finding her. That’s what is worrying me." I say.

"I refuse to believe that this is how Tyler and Tessa’s love story ends. There’s no way this is how it ends. I refuse to believe it. They are going to grow old together. And probably die together in the same bed, next to each other at the same time. They can’t live without each other. And I am going to be there to say ’I told you so’." Naomi says.

"You better be." I chuckled out.

TESSA POV

I had started scratching the wall next to my bed to count how many days I had been here. Locked in this room. I was allowed out to use the bathroom but they made sure that the chain stayed on my leg at all times and someone stood outside the door holding the other end of the chain.

Ever since they worked out my little plan, they were going to extra measures.

Sawyer came back in one afternoon to bring me lunch and I started nibbling on it while he checked my wounds.

"He says that their healing nicely. Almost all healed." I say.

"Yeah. Thank god." I say staring at the blackened out window.

"What is it?" He asked.

"Nothing that you need to concern yourself with." I say.

"Tessa. Don’t do anything stupid. She’s got rogues and witch’s and vampires working for her." Sawyer tried to warn me.

"No shit. You see those marks. It’s been 14 days. I’ve been here for 14 days. Two weeks. I am now 10 weeks pregnant and the baby is due in 10 weeks time. I am not staying here for another 10 weeks just for Katherine to rip the baby from me and then kill me. It’s not happening. Sorry." I say.

"They will kill you and rip the baby from you anyway. And that will kill the baby. It won’t be strong enough to survive." He says.

"Then I guess I will just have to make sure that I don’t get killed." I say.

"You’re insane if you think you will actually make it out of here alive." He says. But I just shrug my shoulders.

I knew that this wasn’t me. I wasn’t going to just accept my fate and that was that. There was no way I wasn’t going to fight for my own life and there was no way in hell that I wasn’t going to fight for my child’s life.

I walked over to the window and opened it slightly because that’s as far as it would open and I saw where the sun way. Which meant that it was around lunch time. And I thought that was perfect.

I sat back down on my bed and I started tearing into the mattress so I could pull out one of the springs from inside it and then covered it back up with the sheet and blanket. I then got up and started pacing around the room a few times to make sure that I was strong enough to do what I was planning. And I actually felt pretty good consider I had silver wrapped around my leg for the last two weeks. I could handle this.

So I knocked on the inside of the door and one of the guards opened it.

"I need to go to the bathroom." I say. So he unchained me from the bed and took me to the bathroom.

I closed the door behind me and luckily the chain fit just under the door so I didn’t need to leave the door open. I think that was the only break that I was going to get.

I then used the springs I pulled from my mattress to pick the lock on the shackle and then I flushed the toilet and started running the water in the sink and I opened the window very quietly.

I climbed on the windowsill and I was on the second floor but I was a goddam werewolf for fuck sake. This was nothing to me.

I leapt from the window and I fell on my side. I’m not going to lie. It hurt like hell. But I didn’t let that stop me. No vampire could come running after me right now, and I didn’t see or smell any werewolves or witch’s outside the mansion either.

So I got to my feet and took off running away from the house and towards the town that I could see in the distance. They wouldn’t dare do anything in front of humans. That was an automatic death sentence if they exposed the supernatural beings.

I hadn’t been running for too long when I heard wolves howling in the distance and I knew that they realized I had escaped.

I didn’t turn back to look though. I kept running as fast as I could, holding my stomach with my hand. It had grown a fare bit in the last two weeks and it was feeling really heavy while I was trying to run through the woods bare foot.

I didn’t care though. I was getting cuts and splinters and everything you can think of in my feet but I didn’t stop. I refused to stop.

I could hear the wolves getting closer to me but I finally reached the edge of that town and I knew that I had to keep moving further into the town so I would be safer.

I got to the center of town and people were looking at me strange. It wasn’t a big town and I was a stranger. Plus I was pregnant. I was filthy. I was covered in blood and bruises and I was still wearing pajamas.

I saw one women walk past me and I stopped her.

"Can I please use your phone?" I asked. But she looked at me hesitantly. " Please. I won’t steal it. I was kidnapped. I need to call my husband." I say.

"Yeah. You can use my phone. Do you want me to take you to the police station?" She asked.

"They can’t help me." I say taking her phone and I dialed Tyler’s number. But I got his voicemail.

"Tyler. It’s me. I know that you’re out looking for me right now. I’m in a town called Gibson. I escaped from Katherine and her band of evil followers. I need you to get here before dark. I know that’s a lot to ask and I don’t know how far away you are, but you need to get here before dark. Please? I can’t run any further right now. I love you." I hang up the phone and I give it back to the women.

"Can I at least take you to the hospital. They can check you out." The women says. But werewolf DNA is different to human DNA so that was a definite no.

"No. Their just cuts and bruises. I’ll be fine really. As long as my husband gets here in time." I say.

"I don’t feel right leaving you. At least come back to my place and I can get you come clean clothes or something like that." She says.

"I appreciate the offer but I can’t accept. These people are crazy and I don’t want you getting hurt because of me. And believe me, they will hurt you. Thanks for the phone. I’ll be alright." I say walking off. _{free\we\bnov(e)(l).com}

Now I just needed to wait and see if Tyler made it here in time. And I wasn’t sure if he was going to. I had no idea how far away he was. Or if he’d even get my message before dark. I had no doubt that he was in wolf form and he wouldn’t be able to answer it like that.

I found an alley behind a restaurant and hunkered down behind the dumpsters. Hoping that would drown out my smell from the Rogues that were after me. At least I hoped it would.