Marked by the Alpha Team (Luna Merrick) novel Chapter 57

Chapter 57

Luna’s POV

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The moment the word left my mouth. I knew something was very wrong. It didn’t feel like I chose to say it. It felt like it slipped out of me, like it belonged to something else inside me, something that was now louder than I was. I stood there, frozen in front of Theo, my heart beating fast against my chest while my mind struggled to catch up with what had just happened.

I wanted to take it back, to laugh it off, to say I didn’t mean it, but my body didn’t feel like it belonged to me anymore, and that was the most terrifying part of it all.

Theo tilted his head slightly as he looked at me, his green eyes focused on my face like he was studying me. There was a long silence between us, one that stretched on so much that it made my chest feel tight, like I was waiting for something to happen but didn’t know what. Then, finally, he spoke, his voice calm and steady, like nothing about this situation surprised him at all.

“It may seem as though your wolf is finally awake,” he said, and the way he said it made it sound like this was something normal, something expected, something he had already accepted.

My brows furrowed immediately, confusion hitting me all over again. I wanted to ask him what he meant, to demand an explanation. to finally get some kind of clear answer about what was happening to me, but before I could even open my mouth, my body moved. It was slow at first, like I was testing the movement, but then it became steady, and before I knew it, I was stepping closer to him without meaning to.

“I can’t believe there are two of you,” I heard myself say, and the moment the words left my mouth, my eyes widened slightly in horror because that was not what I wanted to say at all. I had meant to ask him what he meant by my wolf being awake. I had meant to ask him what was happening to me, but instead, those words came out, and I couldn’t stop them.

It felt like I was trapped inside my own body, like I was watching myself from the inside but had no control over what I was doing or saying. My heart started beating even faster, panic rising in my chest as I realized just how little control I had in

that moment.

I kept moving closer to him until there was no space left between us. My chest pressed against his, and I could feel the warmth of his body through his clothes, steady and strong, and for some reason, that made something inside me settle, even though my mind was still in complete chaos. I looked up at him, my eyes locked on his, and I hated how focused I was on him, how everything else around me seemed to fade into the background like it didn’t matter anymore.

I tried to speak again, tried to tell him that something was wrong, that I wasn’t in control of myself, that he needed to do something, anything, to stop whatever this was, but once again, my words betrayed me.

“Your eyes are beautiful,” I heard myself say softly, my voice almost breathless, like I was completely lost in him. “I can’t believe… I have two mates.”

My stomach twisted at my own words, because even though I could hear myself saying them, I didn’t feel like they were mine. I wanted to pull back, to put space between us, to break whatever this strange hold was, but my body didn’t listen Instead, I stayed there, standing so close to him that I could feel every small movement he made, every breath he took.

Theo didn’t move, not even a little. He just stood there, letting me get closer, letting me look at him like that, and when he finally spoke again, there was something in his eyes that I didn’t like. It wasn’t confusion or any type of concern. It was something else, something amused.

“You’d be very surprised,” he said slowly, and the tone of his voice made my chest tighten even more, because it sounded like he knew something I didn’t, something I wasn’t ready to hear, and then it hit me.

Ivy’s words from earlier about all five of them being my mates.

My breath caught in my throat as the realization settled in, heavy and uncomfortable. I didn’t even understand what being a

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Chapter 57

mate meant, not in the way they did, but I understood enough to know that whatever this was, whatever was happening to me right now, it wasn’t something simple, and the idea that I would have to feel like this around all of them, that I would lose control like this every time, made my stomach turn.

I didn’t want this. I didn’t want to feel like this. I didn’t want to lose myself like this.

Just when I thought it couldn’t get any worse, my hands moved on their own again. I felt my fingers lift, felt them reach up, and before I could stop myself. I cupped Theo’s face, my palms pressing gently against his cheeks as if I had done it a hundred times before.

My eyes widened slightly as I realized what I was doing, but it didn’t stop there. Within seconds, I found myself rising on my tiptoes, my body leaning closer to his, and my heart started racing even faster because I knew what was about to happen, and I couldn’t stop it.

“No….” I tried to say, but the word didn’t come out right. It barely came out at all.

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