Get Back The Abandoned Luna (Scarlett and Alexander) novel Chapter 14

Chapter 13

The Beta didn’t hesitate. He stopped the car and quickly got out, handing the keys to Lucien.

Lucien got behind the wheel. I had no idea what to make of this sudden shift.

“Get your ass in the front seat,” he ordered.

“No, thank you,” I said curtly.

“I won’t ask twice,” he said, his voice low and flat.

55 vouchers

I’d had enough of his games. Rolling my eyes, I climbed out of the backseat, slammed the door, and slid into the front. passenger seat.

He gave me a “watch it, darling” look. I didn’t care.

“What?” I asked.

He said nothing, facing the road as he started the engine.

“The scenery here is terrible,” I muttered.

“You could focus on something else,” he replied.

I rolled my eyes again. “You? Please. You’re such a pain.”

His comeback hit like a slap. “Only when I’m between your legs.”

I had no response. Did he like me? Or just want to sleep with me? What was I thinking?

I stared out the window, watching the trees blur with light. But my skin prickled with heat–as if his presence alone wrapped around me.

“Don’t get that pretty head of yours twisted,” he said.

I blinked, surprised he knew what I was thinking. I turned to look at him.

He said quietly, “I don’t like you. I just… don’t like others touching something I haven’t decided what to do with yet.”

1

4:40 pm

Chapter 14

Chapter 14

Scarlett

65 Vouchers

My gaze fell onto the stretch of empty rural highway as the forest pressed in from both sides. I’d been staring out the window, still thinking about who I had been and who I was becoming.

Lucien sat beside me silently but his presence was hard for me to ignore.

I looked back at him and was about to ask him something–but before the words formed in my mouth, a deafening crack split the air. I groaned as the car lurched violently.

“What’s going on-”

I couldn’t even finish my words when the world tilted.

The front tire blew out–Lucien’s beta, who was driving, cursed under his breath as he yanked the streeing wheel.

“Out! I heard Lucien barked.

His voice snapped something in me. I hurriedly unbuckled the seatbelt, and shoved the door open.

Fuck.

The night had already swallowed the road, and the wind carried the scent of something dangerous lurking, watching every of our moves.

I watched Lucien’s back who stepped in front of me, his posture shifting instantly from composed to a natural predator

His beta cursed. “Alpha, the tire’s shredded. That wasn’t a random blowout!”

“I know,” Lucien said, scanning the tree line. “It wasn’t.”

I didn’t need wolf senses to recognize the tension between trees. A ripple of movement–shadows shifting unnaturally fast was enough for me to know who they were.

Rogues.

Not wandering feral wolves or desperate loners.

Organized ambush.

The attack from the left was first–a pair of wolves bursting through the brush, growling like they weren’t even going to pretend not to want us dead.

I dodged an attack at my head before I even realized what was happening. I caught hold of one of its arms and twisted so hard I kneed it in the ribs. I could hear its bone crack that made it shrieked. Another came from behind–too fast for a normal wolf–and I hurriedly blocked it.

I could tell from their moves that they were a trained one.

One lunged for my throat. I dropped under the strike and slammed my elbow into its jaw, sending it sprawling. The adrenaline hit like a drug. My wolf surged, finally awake, finally hungry.

“Scarlett!”

1/5

1:40 pm P ppp.

Chapter 14

H 55 VODOTIRIE

1 spun at the sound–just in time to see a rogue rushing straight for Lucien’s Beta. The man was too slow, still holstering a

weapon.

I sprinted, tackled the rogue from the side. We crashed hard, gravel tearing into skin. He shrieked and slashed blindly. Claws cut across my side, hot and deep. I snarled and slammed his head into the ground until he went still.

I gritted my teeth and couldn’t help but curse under my breath as the pain flared. Wet heat spread down to my ribs but I didn’t stop–if I did, I’d be dead by now.

Another rogue jumped over me, lunging toward the convoy. I was about to block his way when Lucien finally appeared–I thought he would fight against them like he had showed.

Yet, he suddenly raised his hand.

Power burst outward from him in a shockwave as I couldn’t help but gulp at his aura. An Alpha’s aura.

The air tightened. Every hair on my arms stood on end.

The rogues froze mid–lunge, bodies seizing as if their muscles had turned to stone. Several collapsed outright, whimpering, hands clawing at their skulls.

Lucien’s voice rolled out, cold and lethal.

“Kneel.”

Every rogue still conscious trembled.

And they obeyed.

Hands and knees. Foreheads pressed to gravel. Submitting to a power they couldn’t outrun.

I stared, chest heaving, barely processing the impossibility of what I’d just witnessed. I’d known Alphas had aura–pressure, intimidation–but this wasn’t intimidation.

This was domination made tangible.

Absolute.

So this is the power of the strongest Alpha.

Lucien lowered his hand and coldly looked at his beta who was panting. “Secure them. If any resistance–kill.”

His beta moved swiftly. Sensing that it was finally over, I took a deep breath as I pressed a hand to my side, breathing hard. Blood seeped between my fingers, warm and sticky that made me frown.

Lucien’s head snapped toward me.

He walked over, his gaze darkening. “Let me see.”

“I’m fine,” I lied.

He ignored me, peeling my hand away. The gash was deep, jagged, bleeding too fast.

Without a word, he placed his palm over the wound.

Heat pulsed.

2/5

4:40 pm

Chapter 14

55 vouchern

Not burning–just intense warmth flooding into me. My skin tingled, muscles tightening, then loosening. Pain retreated, replaced by a strange buzzing sensation.

The bleeding slowed. Skin knitted, not fully closing, but stabilizing.

“What “I choked out. “How-”

His eyes flicked up briefly. “Nightshade lineage.”

I didn’t comment on it–because even if I asked him about it, I doubt he would tell me about their secrets.

“You’ll finish healing on your own,” he said. “But you won’t bleed out before we’re done here.”

I swallowed. “Thanks.”

He shrugged. “You were useful. I’m protecting my investment.”

I couldn’t help but roll my eyes at it.

Well, he’s not wrong.

I wiped dried blood from my fingers, exhaling. “This wasn’t random.”

Someone sent them.

Someone wanted him dead.

Or me dead.

Or both.

“Yeah,” he agreed. “It wasn’t.”

His beta dragged unconscious rogues to a pile, binding them. Two were already dead. Three fled. Five remained.

Lucien watched them with a predator’s calm interest.

“They were tracking us,” he said. “Not the convoy. Us.”

My stomach tightened. “Because I’m with you now.”

He didn’t deny it.

I looked around the wreck of the road, the car that had its front tire blasted, and also the dead bodies of the rogues and couldn’t help but sighed helplessly.

“What do you need to finalize the contract?” he asked.

I snapped back to reality, raising my head and gaze at him whose eyes were on me

I exhaled slowly, feeling the dull ache where claws had been moments ago.

“I’ll sign,” I said. “If we amend it.”

Lucien crossed his arms. “Go on.”

3/5

4:40 pm p p pp

Chapter 14

55 Vouchers

“I don’t want to simply walk away from Alexander. I want to dismantle him. If I become your Luna for a year, I’m not doing it empty–handed.”

His eyes sharpened, interest flickering. “What do you offer?”

“Leverage,” I said. “Alexander’s alliances–perfume, distribution, sponsorships. Every deal he’s built.”

Lucien tilted his head slightly.

“Hm?”

“They’ll belong to Nightshade,” I finished. “If you help me.”

Silence followed.

Not stunned silence–calculating.

Lucien studied me like someone examined the edges of a blade before using it.

“You’re suggesting,” he said slowly, “to transfer the commercial spine of Crescent Moon Holdings to Nightshade Pack- through legal distancing and contractual reallocation.”

“Yes.”

“With you acting as the central witness and executor.”

“Yes.”

Lucien’s voice lowered. “Knowing it will cripple your former mate’s influence and bankrupt half of his alliances.”

“Yes,” I said. “That’s the point.”

A faint smile ghosted across his lips.

“Scarlett Winter,” he murmured, “I thought you wanted revenge. Not annihilation.”

“Why not both?” I asked.

He didn’t laugh.

He stepped closer, the night wind catching in his coat.

“And what do you want in exchange for this gift you’re offering me?”

“Autonomy,” I said. “I want Nightshade’s protection–but no ownership over my pack. When the year ends, the Crescent Moon remains independent. Under my leadership. Not yours.”

“A strong demand, I see,” he said softly.

“A necessary one.”

His gaze swept down to my still–healing side, then back up.

“And you’d risk everything for it.”

“I already did.”

415

4:40 pm p p p p

Chapter 14

155 vouchinta

Silence pressed in, broken only by wolves reorganizing vehicles and dragging bodies to the ditch.

Finally, Lucien nodded.

“Very well. Amendments will be drafted, protection guaranteed, and autonomy is granted after one year–if the transition succeeds and your pack remains stable.”

5/5