Rise Of A Shattered Luna (Natalie) by Kave Derry novel Chapter 237

Chapter 237 Baron’s Shadow Everywhere

Chapter 237 Baron’s Shadow Everywhere

Jensen’s POV

“Yes. Do it now, Hansel. And keep it off the pack’s main frequency,” I growled into the receiver.

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Hansel didn’t know why I was suddenly so obsessed with the identity of a human psychiatric patient, but he was a loyal enough Beta to know when not to question me.

He nodded – I could hear the rustle of his uniform – and agreed before the line went dead.

I barely had time to slide the phone into my pocket before the butler’s name flashed across the screen.

I answered on the first vibration.

“Alpha Jensen, where are you?” The man sounded like he was hyperventilating.

“Come back to the estate at once! The Matriarch… Luna is in trouble! The scent at the gates is… it’s a disaster!”

The words made my heart jolt.

“I’ll be right there.”

I ended the call and, without another word, I drove back to the pack house.

The drive back felt like an eternity.

My mind was a whirlwind of dark possibilities.

Had the Stone family finally retaliated?

Had Waylon Stone sent his enforcers to reclaim the dignity his daughter had lost in our house?

The moment I skidded to a halt in the driveway, I didn’t need my enhanced hearing to know something was wrong.

Loretta’s wailing cries pierced the heavy oak doors of the manor.

Alarmed, I rushed inside, my nostrils flaring as I tried to catch the scent of an intruder.

“Mom, what happened?” I shouted, rounding the corner into the main foyer.

Loretta spotted me and immediately threw herself at me, her fingers clawing at my suit jacket. “Son! Jensen! You have to stand up for me! You have to kill them!”

I recoiled instinctively.

Her entire body was soaked, especially her face and hair.

But it wasn’t water.

A thick, bittersweet scent filled the air, so potent it made my eyes water.

It was coffee.

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Gallons of it.

Her makeup had run in black and blue streaks down her cheeks.

If I hadn’t known it was my mother, I would have been frightened; she looked like a vengeful spirit from a low–budget horror film,

Her hair stuck to her head in wet, matted strands, reeking of that sickly sweetness that made the scene almost unbearable for my wolf’s sensitive nose.

I nearly shoved her away, my stomach turning.

“Mom, how did you end up like this? Did you fall somewhere? Did someone attack the car?”

The look of disgust in my eyes only made Loretta cry harder, her shoulders shaking with pathetic sobs.

“You ungrateful boy… you dare to look down on me? You have no idea how much I suffered! The humiliation! The sheer, agonizing disrespect!”

Thinking back on what she’d just gone through, Loretta trembled with rage.

“Jensen, I’m telling you, this was that wretched Natalie’s doing! Do you see this? Do you see the coffee all over my hair and my Chanel suit? They dragged me off into a warehouse, Jensen. They just shoved my head down and forced me to drink bucket after bucket of coffee. They kept calling it treating the Luna to coffee. Treating me? It was torture! This was revenge for the café! That little tramp Natalie was getting back at me for what happened this morning!”

Her eyes burned red with a fury that was almost feral.

I faltered at her words, my mind racing.

I had just called Natalie not long ago.

I remembered the ice in her voice, the utter lack of interest in my mother’s fate.

I know when someone is lying to cover their tracks.

Natalie hadn’t sounded guilty; she had sounded bored.

Judging from her tone, there had been no reason for her to lie.

If she had orchestrated an abduction, she would have used it as leverage, or she would have been smug.

But she had simply hung up.

Which meant this couldn’t have been Natalie’s doing.

“Mom, breathe,” I said, trying to settle my own rising irritation at the stench. “Besides forcing you to drink coffee…. what else did they do? Did they mark you? Did they mention the Stone family?”

Loretta blinked, the black mascara running into her eyes.

“Nothing else. They just kept pouring. After tormenting me until I couldn’t take another sip, they dumped me at our doorstep like a bag of trash. But this can’t just be brushed aside, Jensen! I’m the Matriarch of the Nightfang pack! To be humiliated like this? If word gets out to the other packs, how will I ever show my face at the gala?”

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The more she thought about it, the angrier she grew, her voice rising to a screech.

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“Good thing you didn’t marry her back then! I told you she was low–born! Someone that petty would only shame the family. A little coffee… what real harm could it so her this morning? And I’m her elder! She dared treat me like this! Jensen, I’m telling you, today she must apologize to me on her hands and knees or I’ll never forgive her! I’ll strip her of every contract she has in this city!”

I rubbed my temples, the headache from earlier returning.

“Mom, listen to me. This definitely wasn’t Natalie.”

“At a time like this, you’re still protecting her?” Loretta shrieked, her face contorting, “What spell has she cast on you? You’re blinded by that bitch!”

Furious, she landed two punches on my chest.

I stood there and took the blows, waiting for her to exhaust herself.

“Natalie’s the type to confront someone face–to–face,” I said calmly after she finally stopped. “She has the Stone pride now. She wouldn’t sneak around with buckets of coffee and warehouses. If she wanted you to suffer, she’d do it in a boardroom or a courtroom. This… this feels like someone else. Someone settling scores on her behalf.”

“Who?” Loretta asked, her eyes narrowing.

MES It was clear she didn’t believe a word of it.

To her, Natalie was the only enemy that mattered.

But my mind was already moving elsewhere.

I thought of the man that had always been with her.

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