The Eclipsed Life of Luna Mischa (by Jennifer Francis) novel Chapter 30

Mischa stood and looked over the pack. They looked non to plussed about the punishment that was being dealt out. After hearing all that had gone down, it was her right to have Christy’s head come off her body. Christy was only now realizing this, as the pack were talking about that no leniency should be granted at

all.

She could hear that they themselves were making their own judgment on everything that was laid out, and they too saw Christy’s behavior as treasonous. Her eyes moved to Anthony and his eyes were closed as he knelt there hearing how the pack felt about his second Mate and Luna. It was going to be hard for them

to accept her once more after this.

If she didn’t actually redeem herself, it was unlikely they’d accept her and could, in fact, call for her head at a later date in time if she was seen to on purpose bring, or try to bring harm to Mischa once more.

She looked at Christy, who was finally quiet as she knelt there, realizing she’d just alienated the entire pack, and they weren’t going to be as forgiving as Anthony, who she thought she was only accountable to. They wanted her head as much as the Elders did, and she would have to know the pack could plead for that and be given what they asked for in this situation. That Anthony held no power to save her either, seeing as she’d stupidly involved him in her plot.

“I have.” Mischa addressed the Elders, “Luna Christy will be remanded to the cells for nine weeks… This is one week for each day of her heat that she tried to frame me for having set off. Then for her trying to have me punished and at the hands of my own Mate. She will not be allowed any visitors, not even her Alpha Mate during those nine weeks. Not even so much as for the delivery of a meal.

“If wolves are taken to the cells or rogues captured and need to be questioned, only the Alpha Unit will do this. The Alpha is not allowed to set foot inside the cells while Christy is under punishment. She will also be wearing a silver cuff the entire time to stop all communications going between them.”

She’d thought long and hard about what that time in the cells was going to be. The way Christy constantly mind–linked to Anthony and pulled him away from herself and he went. This punishment she’d made sure of, that not once in the entire time Christy was in the cells would she see or speak to Anthony.

It would also bring that she–wolf out of the cells with only three weeks until her regular heat. “I did consider a full year in the cells… but that would mean that Luna Christy would have to suffer her heat alone in those cells…” she sighed heavily. “And the pain of that, not being mated through a heat… I now understand in full, and I do not wish that upon any she–wolf… Not even a prisoner.

“So, I will not do that to my Alpha’s second Mate… I’m not that cruel.” She murmured as her eyes moved to Anthony, and her words landed exactly as she wanted them to. He flinched visually at her words.

He, too, had willingly made her suffer through her bouts of heat alone. She also knew that her words here and now before the pack would also see Christy once again being cruel towards Mischa. If and when she had the hide to do this again, set off her own heat and keep Anthony with her during it.

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She stepped back and sat down in her seat next to the Alpha Unit as the pack chatter rose once again about how she was too kind and generous, that the punishment was too lenient for their eyes.

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“Christy’s formal punishment will be four days on the shaming post. On this, today, the first day, she will receive 25 lashes with a cat of three tails. We’ll get to the other five and where they will go shortly. Then she will be remanded to the cells for a period of nine weeks, where she will have no comforts or contact

with her Alpha Mate,” Elder Simone stated for all to hear.

Elder May stood, “Alpha Anthony, stand and speak your own formal judgment of your second Mate and Luna, Christy. As you spoke it to us yourself, yesterday.”

Mischa watched as Anthony stood up and turned to face Christy, who was now wide–eyed in shock that he was going to deal out a formal punishment of his own to her. “Luna Christy for your wrongful doings

against my Mate and Luna of 22 years… I hereby declare that no pap can ever come from this heat. No

heir can come from such deceitful ways as have been shown.

“I, as the Alpha, order the pack doctor to give you a drug that will force your body to reject any pup that may have been conceived over the course of this heat. Order it to be destroyed if there is one.”

“No! You can’t do that, it’s our heir.” Christy gasped, horrified at hearing her own Mate’s punishment for

what she did.

“This I do, to teach you the harshest of lessons, to show you, Christy, that even as my Mate and Luna, I will not ever tolerate anyone trying to bring about harm to either of my Mates. Not even you, my second Mate and Luna. Hear me and listen well, there will be no second chance for you.”

Shade pushed forward to stare down at their Mate as they spoke together. “If you ever dare to try something like this again, we will take your head from your body. Mate and Luna, you may be, but we will not stand for you being deceitful like this towards Mischa ever again.

“This is the only warning you will get. As the Alpha of this pack, we swear this to be the truth for all the pack to hear and hold us accountable to.” He turned and looked to the pack, bowed his head to them,

turned to look at Mischa and bowed his head to her.

Christy was kneeling there starring up at not only Anthony but his beast on the surface in complete disbelief at the words she was hearing, words she was still reeling from the decision of him wanting to rid any pup she might be carrying, and now this, his threat to take her head off, rendered her speechless.

Then Anthony turned and looked across the ballroom. “Come forward, Doctor Brent, and administer the punishment I decree as fitting for the crime committed by Luna Christy.”

“No.” Christy gasped and shook her head, turning to look to see the pack doctor walking towards her now.

“This is my order. I made this decision alone. No one forced my hand in any way. I simply see it is

necessary to have Luna Christy change her ways and see the real harsh reality of her own actions, which must not go unpunished.”

Mischa watched as Christy got up and tried to run, saw the Alpha Unit grab her and bring her back, hold

her down as Brent produced a syringe and injected her with the substance inside it, while she struggled and pleaded, cried for it not to be given to her, that the pup would be innocent.

Anthony stood the entire time and watched on as she was administered the drug, ignoring all her pleas and tears, begging looks towards him and then, when it was done, he turned to Mischa once more.

“This was my and Shades promise to you. I will make another here and now, before the pack. My heir to

take over and reign this pack in the future will be of your and my blood only. Any and all pups that come

from Luna Christy will be considered heirs only after those we have, regardless of if they are born first or how many you and I have.”

Mischa raised an eyebrow as Christy gasped once more. “No, that’s not right, it’s the firstborn that is the

true heir.”

Mischa looked at Christy, and she understood those very words of Anthony’s was him trying to prove his loyalty to her was still there. But she also understood Christy’s nature as well. Those very words were going to breed even more anger and resentment inside that she–wolf and Mischa really didn’t need that.

She took a moment to think about it, what could come from those words, and then shook her head ‘no‘ and stated, “Thank you for your pledge, but I agree with Christy on this… it is written that the firstborn pup will be the pack’s heir. That should remain as is. I do not intend to compete or fight for any child of mine to be the pack’s heir. It will be up to the will of the Goddess as to whose pup will be the true and rightful heir to the pack.” She took the decision from him, her or Christy and handed it right to Selena.

Christy turned curious eyes upon her even as the pack was praising Mischa for her true generosity. Some were heard stating she was a True Luna, who could not only know how to show mercy but could, even under these heinous circumstances, grant it in full. That she was benevolent and kind, fair and just, always upholding the pack laws.

It was clear to her that Christy either didn’t believe her words or thought she was scheming something. Which she wasn’t. That was a Christy thing to do. She just didn’t need that particular target aimed at her.

Anthony sighed as he looked at her. “Then my Luna, you must come off your wolfen birth control for the pack’s heir to be at the will of the Goddess,” he stated.

“What?… She’s on birth control.” Christy frowned. “I thought that…” she trailed off.

Mischa smiled down at her. “I am, I always have been. It was a decision Anthony and I made at the very beginning of our mate bond. Something decided due to this pack being in so much debt,” she informed her. “Did you think I couldn’t have pups or was having trouble conceiving an heir?” Mischa shook her head, ‘no‘. As she watched Christy come into the realization of all she’d done to herself, that all of this here and now, was now something she’d not have had to do at all.

That the pup she could well be carrying and was now forced to lose was only a loss that she’d created for herself for no reason at all. Because no pup would have come from Mischa’s heat in the first place, she really should learn to get all the facts before enacting a plan.

It actually amused Mischa, and she smiled right at her, “I don’t know where you got that idea. You never

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asked nie unce about why Anthony and I didn’t have an heir already. I guess you just presumed that he and I, being mated for 20 years and their being no heirs, I couldn’t.” She shook her head. “Silly of you, no one should just presume to know something from their own thoughts, one should do their homework… their research or ask questions to get answers on things they don’t know about…

“Oh, on that note, your Luna Lessons, I will no longer be tending to those. Lurra Debbie has kindly offered to take them on full–time when your punishment is over. She’s, I believe, much more strict than I am,”

Mischa stated with a smile.

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