The Alpha's Unwanted Luna (by Miss L) novel Chapter 451

97 - Elara

This border magic is unlike anything Marietta and Brianna have shown me. I can feel it tingle on my wolf’s fur, but it has a metallic taste too.

“It’s like someone put a bunch of coins in water and let them sit for a year.” Jax gripes in my head.

“That is oddly specific. How do you know what coins in water taste like after a year?” Ben asks him, and I have to hold in my laugh. I know exactly what dare Jax is talking about. Copyright ©️ 2025 Miss L Writes and Ember Mantel Productions

We are running the northern edge of the magical barrier. I want to know what is in here and yet, I want nothing to do with anything Walt has had a hand in. I’m torn between leaving this thing alone since it appears to be impenetrable by everyone and therefore useless and letting Walter rot in a cell, or beating the sh*t out of Walter until he tells me how to stop this mess. I don’t think either is going to get me the results I want though. I want my pack back in order, my order.

“Has anyone else tried to touch the barrier?” I ask.

“No one is that stupid.” Jax laughs.

“Just because you and the witches were able to get that kid down yesterday, doesn’t mean the rest of us will get the same courtesy.” Dev quips.

“WAIT!” Ben shouts through the link. We all skid to a stop, Jax’s wolf stumbling over a tree root in the process. “It’s weaker here, the magic’s pull or force or whatever it is that I can feel.”

I move closer to the hum of magic and follow it as it starts to turn back south. “This must be the tip of the border.” I say edging closer.

“Don’t you even think about it!” Ben growls, “You saw what it did to that kid.”

“I also saw my own two hands go through the barrier to get him down. At this point I’m the only one we know of that can touch the thing.”

“You are NOT the only one.”

“The only one here.” I shift before Ben can argue and reach my hand out to feel the magic. Just as my hand passes through, I feel arms lock around my waist, but he doesn’t pull me back.

“Dammit, Elara! You are not the only one at risk here.” Ben growls in my ear.

“But if I won’t take the risk, I can’t ask anyone else to do it either.” I look over my shoulder and his brown eyes which are normally stoic and guarded, show fear. I hold his gaze for a moment, then another. Finally he takes a deep breath and exhales an irritated sound.

“F*ck! Fine, you’re right.” He presses his forehead into my shoulder. “But let me do this with you. Okay?”

Everything in me wants to keep him safe and tell him to stay here, but I know if the situations were reversed I’d be pissed if he left me behind.

“The two of you aren’t going anywhere without backup.” Dev announces next to us.

“Yes! Where the hell are you two? We’re looking at the barrier, but see nothing.”

“We see you.” Ben interjects. “It’s like a one-way mirror.”

“Do the two of you trust me?” I ask as I stick my hand out through the gap Ben and I came through.

“Oh f*ck! You have got to be kidding me.”

“You are part of my pack. So, theoretically, you should be able to walk through yourself. But…just in case…I’d like to pull you through.” I try to sound as sure as possible. I don’t want my best friends to end up like the kid we found, but this has to be right. It’s the only reason I can think that Walter would want me to be a part of this whole debacle. I am tied to this somehow, through my dad. Through my bloodline. Copyright ©️ 2025 Miss L Writes and Ember Mantel Productions

“If I don’t survive this trip, I will come back and haunt you!” Jax yells at me.

“Deal!”

“I mean it! You will never have sex again. I will show up right before your going to climax. You will be edged out for the rest of your life.” Jax yells out loud like we can’t all hear him through the mind link.

I laugh as Ben shoots his arm out next to mine. “Get your asses in here and help us figure out this f*cking problem.”