Hybrid Aria by Jessica Hall novel Chapter 50

Aria’s POV

I woke to Lily and Amber crying, my instincts going on high alert. I grabbed them, hugging them to me before glancing around, looking for the threat they fear. I didn’t recognise my surroundings, why were they here? Reid said they were staying away for the night. I push trying to feel for Reid, but I get nothing, he is blocking me out. The girls are hysterical. I try soothing them enough to get them to speak. I look around. I am in some sort of bunker, getting up. I peer around and huddled on the ground are hundreds of women and children. Fear consumes, what is going on?

I walk over to a woman, trying to figure out what the hell is going on. The lights flicker before I hear an explosion above us. Bits of concrete cracking off and falling to the ground. The room reeks of tears and fear, it was burning my nose, the stench nearly making me gag. The woman stands up when I approach, she is wary of me. But she can feel that I’m an Alpha female. The woman has sandy blonde hair and big brown doe eyes. She is lean and muscular, she is a trained fighter, and blood smears her clothes. A child is clinging to her leg, whom I assume is her pup; she looks around the same age as Lily.

I can almost hear the vibration of everyone shaking in fear. The room seems to buzz with tension. “What’s happened? How long have I been out?” I ask.

“Two days, Luna. We are at war.” she whispers as the girl clinging to her leg whimpers. War?

“With whom?”

“Hunters they attacked and took some Pack members two days ago, your Beta came and warned us Alpha locked us in the bunker, they attacked not long after. We fought, but there were too many, the Alpha said it was best we stayed here.”

“Which Alpha? Reid?”

“No, Luna, you’re in Black Moon Territory.” I know something has gone terribly wrong if I am here and so is half my Pack.