Belladonna
It was a long afternoon for both Bella and Kane, as she was systematically removed from the pack’s
protocols as the Luna. Bit by bit, she was stripped of everything that had been hers for the past eight
years. She sat at her Luna’s desk and reset all the passwords to the different systems and files she had
access to.
Including the Luna’s Library. She’d liked being there. It was quiet and there were many interesting things to
read. She changed all the passwords to NewLuna@1. Something easy to remember, she wrote it down on
a sticky note and handed it to Kane. Even though he documented himself on the clipboard he was
carrying around with them.
It didn’t really shock her that it was the pack’s Beta exiting her life from the pack. She and Parker didn’t
spend time together unless it was to do with Luna Duties. The Alpha would be spending time with his new Mate. She’d told him to go and Mark and Mate her. She supposed that he would do so, could well be
walking her all over the pack showing her around for all Bella knew. She wasn’t keeping track of him; never
had.
She printed out the list of all the pups that had been born while Parker had been out of the pack, meeting his Goddess–Gifted at that mating ball. It was something she would have done anyway, just waited until
tomorrow after he’d initiated all the new wolves into his pack. She would have strolled into his office and place it in his in tray for him to get to when he was ready.
She then printed out the list of upcoming due dates for pregnant she–wolves, highlighting those that were, she suspected, going to be difficult labours, due to their past history, of losing pups prior to her arrival within this pack, and had continued to have difficult labours under her care.
Though Bella was certain that Annette would also know this information, she still did it herself, so that Parker would be aware of when the Gamma was needed to stay within the pack. If they were expected to be off pack territory, Shannon could be left behind to help ease distress with the pregnant she–wolves of his pack; he, along with Annette, should be able to do what she did and make sure no lives were lost, pup
or she–wolf.
Before she had been brought here to the Lustrous Moon, there was a record of one death in every seven or eight deliveries, whether it be the pup or the she–wolf. She thought that was quite a high rate, she’d not seen many in her home back and none she’d assisted with even as a first year.
Though Annette had come from another pack, one that Parker had gone in and taken over, absorbed into this pack, apparently for the better. Annette had told her where she had come from, the death rate had been practically non–existent when she was growing up and then their Luna had vanished from the pack and the death rate had gone from nothing, to one in every ten deliveries saw the death of a pup or a she wolf, and it never got any better.
Bella had her hand print removed from the packhouse’s lockdown mode after all her access to the pack’s
+25 Points
files was removed. And she and Kane walked to the hospital and had her fingerprint removed from the hospital system’s medication rooms access. He even helped her to box up her things in her Dr’s office.
He stood looking at all the boxes of her books and study materials, medical journals, “You read a lot.” He commented. “I’ll go and bring the Luna’s car around, put it all in there so we don’t have to lug all those boxes up to the packhouse. You go do a round with your patients. I know you want to.” He’d smiled at her. “I’ll meet you back at the Packhouse for the last few things, Parker will likely want to do that himself.”
Bella frowned right at him, “Kane, I don’t have a car.” She stated, and she didn’t to her knowledge.
“You do actually, you’ve always had one. You just never used it. It was also upgraded and replaced when we all got new cars two years ago as well,” he told her.
Her frown deepened “I never knew that.” She stated more than a little confused.
“Mm, Parker was waiting for you to ask him about getting you one, so he could give it to you himself. I
don’t believe you ever did ask. So, it sits there unused but maintained.”
Bella shook it off as Kane left her office. She’d never once asked for anything from Parker, he’d given her a
pack card to use, and she’d bought only things that were needed with it. Study aids, medical books, the
hospital staff’s new scrubs and hospital equipment, when something needed updating or the hospital

She’d asked Shannon once, not long after she’d gotten here, if she could purchase new shoes and a pair of jeans. He’d just stared at her for a moment and shaken his head and walked off, and she’d taken that as a no, she was not allowed to, hadn’t realised at that time it was disbelief at her question.
She had taken herself down to the laundry and found the donation bin to hunt clothes others didn’t want and would fit her, no different to what her and her grandmother had done in the old pack. Clothes that

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