Reclaimed By My Alpha (Natalia and Andrei) novel Chapter 370

Damon and Grace arrived at sunup the following morning

Andrei and I managed to sleep. Barely. Two or three hours, if that—and then we were up again, preparing for a battle that might come at any moment. A battle against trained warriors with ruby weapons and led by a woman who wanted to take me alive for reasons I still didn’t understand.

“You both look like shit,” Damon pointed out by way of greeting as he and Grace entered the barracks. He clapped Andrei on the shoulder, then walked over to me and kissed my cheek.

“You look great, too, Damon,” I snorted, although there was no humor in it–I was too tired for that.

Truthfully, he did look good. A whole hell of a lot better than he had the last time I’d seen him, that was for sure. I wasn’t sure what they were feeding him in Ashmoor these days, but Damon’s posture had improved, and the color had come back to his skin. He looked like he’d made a complete recovery after that close call.

“Well, now that the pleasantries are out of the way,” Andrei said, gesturing to the round table around which sat Andrei’s Beta, several top Gammas, Mila, Karl, and a few others, “let’s get to the meeting, shall we?”

We all nodded and took our seats. I scooched in between Mila and Grace, squeezing both of their hands under the table. Grace offered me a thin smile and ran her thumb across my engagement ring. I did the same to her.

“As most of you know by now,” Andrei began, spreading a large map of the territories across the table, ” Natalia’s brother, David, a member of Bloodmoon pack, recently showed up with wolfsbane psychosis.”

“Someone poisoned him?” Grace asked, leaning forward.

I nodded. “We believe it was Helena.”

Grace pursed her lips and sat back in her chair. Andrei cleared his throat. “Thankfully, Karl managed to heal him just enough to get some answers out of him. We believe that Helena has taken control of Bloodmoon pack—” He tapped the location on the map where “Bloodmoon” had recently been added in bold red- “and intends to march on the territories, starting with Moonshadow. Natalia, your knife, please.”

My throat tightened as I carefully took out the knife and laid it in the center of the table. The rubies were cool and lifeless. The knife wasn’t hungry just yet, but I could feel its power simmering down low, down where my fear and horror resided.

While everyone watched, I reached deep within that pool of terror, picked up a drop, and fed it to the knife.

The knife levitated, buzzed, then slammed into the wall behind Damon’s head with a whoosh strong enough to make his hair flutter.

Everyone around the table gasped. Damon shot to his feet, turning to stare at where the knife had embedded itself in the wall. Gulping, I called it back to me, and it returned to my palm like a dog called to heel.

“There’s a good chance that at least a handful of Helena’s followers have been supplied with similar weapons,” Andrei explained calmly, as if we were discussing the weather and hadn’t just shown everyone a magical knife.” Therefore, you’ll need to keep an eye out for the flash of rubies in battle. Natalia, would you like to explain?”

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I launched into an explanation of the rubies and how they worked. Everyone was mostly silent, still in shock, although Mila and Damon asked a few questions.

“Bloodmoon is in a strategic location,” Andrei went on once I was finished. “It stands between Crimson Peak and the rest of the territories, and we believe Helena has been using it as a waystation to prepare the rogue king’s forces.”

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