Moon Phased: The Triple Claim novel Chapter 259

Chapter 132-1

Chance POV

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With an unsettling feeling in my gut, I was unable to go back to the ranch, especially knowing that Raven was at her grandmother’s house without direct protection from one of us. It was taking all the willpower I had inside of me not to turn back around and remain parked outside her house, but I knew that if Raven spotted me outside lurking, she would not be happy with me, as she had told me that she needed space tonight.

After everything she had learned today, I could see why she needed the night to compute it all, as it was a lot for one to take in, especially someone who wasn’t raised within our world. To be honest, she was taking it better than I thought she would, but then again, Raven was different, just like us.

The only difference between her and us was the fact that she had been raised human, and it was going to take a while for her to accept our world and who she truly was. I had a feeling that she was on the verge of believing all of it, especially after her friend Lexi from California dropped a bomb on her.

Never in a million years would I have expected a witch to be involved, and I now knew that someone had been forking out some money to keep Raven safe. I had to wonder who was behind hiring Lexi and her family to watch over Raven all these years, as it was clear that they had a stake in keeping Raven safe.

Whomever it was, had to be somehow connected to Raven’s mother, because her mother had been in hiding all these years, and had obviously left here to avoid what was now coming for Raven. Piecing together what my father and my uncle had said, I took it that Raven’s mother wanted nothing to do with our world, and, by the looks of things, she had been trying to keep Raven as far away from it too, but fate has a funny way of finding a way to prevail.

With my mind unable to rest, and not able to get Raven out of my head, I turned back around, heading straight towards Raven’s grandmother’s house, not caring now if she saw me lurking within the shadows. As long as I knew she was safe tonight, that was all that mattered to me, and if she was mad at me for being worried about her safety, then so be it.

It obviously wouldn’t be our first or last fight, as we had a lifetime to spend together if I had anything to do with it. One thing I knew about Raven was she was very forgiving, especially when it came to my brothers and me. If she could so easily overlook the hurtful things that Chase had done to her involving Jessica, then she could clearly overlook that I was worried

about her wellbeing.

As I approached the house, something seemed off to me, and it didn’t take long for me to

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spot Jacob outside the house in the most peculiar pajama pants that I had ever seen. Even though his pants looked beyond ridiculous in this neck of the woods, it wasn’t his pants that had me thinking that something was wrong, but the fact that he was outside wondering around. It didn’t take me long to spot the glow in his hand, to realize that he had his cell phone held high in the air, as if he was trying to get a signal.

Knowing that there was no way in hell that I could take another ear–piercing scream from him tonight, I decided to shift back to my human form before stepping out of the shadows of the forest. Slowly I made my way out of the shadows, trying not to scare him with just my presence, as I knew that he scared easily.

“What the hell are you doing out here? Is Raven, okay?” I finally asked him, as I made my way fully out of the forest, covering into the front yard of Raven’s grandmother’s house.

Jacob’s eyes instantly widened as he turned to look at me, but I realized quickly that I probably should have put some pants on, because it was clear that his eyes were lingering more south than I would have liked them too. Seeing that Jacob, was a bit distracted by my nakedness, I covered my junk up, while I said to him, “Up here California.”

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