The Shadow of a Luna (Tessa and Tyler) novel Chapter 18

Chapter 18: Chapter 18

"I said, what the fuck are you doing here Adam?" Tyler growled out with a really pissed off look on his face. I stood next to the stairs with Aria and Bella while Cade and Carter were just behind us.

"Oh shit." Cade muttered.

"Is something wrong?" I asked.

"Well, things are about to get a whole lot more interesting around here." He answered.

"Cade, Carter. I can’t believe you are still here serving my brother. I thought you would have bailed years ago. How the hell have you been able to put up with him for so long?" Adam asked.

"It’s pretty easy when you’re not around." Carter replied.

"And who are these lovely ladies?" He asked looking us three up and down.

"Off limits." Cade growled.

"Oh. Their mates. Gotcha. But what about you blondie? How serious are you about your mate?" Adam asked approaching me and he reached out and stroked my hair. And within a second Tyler had him by the throat and slammed him against the wall next to us.

"Oh. I probably should have mentioned that I was Tyler’s mate." I say casually while Adam was having trouble breathing.

"Alright. I’ll stay away from her. I promise." Adam choked out. And Tyler let him go.

"You still didn’t tell me why you are here." Tyler says as Adam regained his exposure.

"Well, maybe it’s because I have nowhere else to. Mother and father don’t want me to home anymore. they think I am a bad influence on our sister." Adam says.

"Well, they’re not wrong there. Weren’t you in college?" Tyler asked.

"Yeah. I kinda got kicked out. I honestly didn’t mean to burn down the gym. It just kind of happened." Adam says.

"Well, you’re not staying here. We’ve got enough to deal with without you causing shit around here." Tyler says.

"I promise to be on my best behavior. I’m telling you the truth. I have nowhere else to go. I’m your brother Tyler." Adam said seriously.

"Fine. But you’re sleeping on the bottom level of the house." Tyler ordered.

"Isn’t that where the help and the warriors live?" Adam asked.

"We don’t have any help here and the warriors have moved out once their own houses were built. So, you’ll be the only one down here." Tyler smirked at him. He then put his arm around my shoulder and led us all back to the library in the house.

I sat on the couch and opened the computer again and I started looking through some other passages on the computer while Tyler was flicking through a book.

"So, you have never once mentioned your family to me." I say casually without looking up from the computer.

"Yeah. And you just met the reason why." Tyler says.

"He looks like a fun character." I smirked.

"He’s a jerk who thinks the whole world is a joke. And watch out for his pranks." Tyler says and I snapped my head up quickly.

"He plays pranks on people?" I asked.

"Uh-oh." Bella says from behind us. And Tyler saw me smiling widely at him.

"Can you do anything bad enough to get rid of him?" Tyler asked.

"Not sure. I’ll have to get to know him a little bit before I can determine what I can do to him." I say.

"You have my full blessing." Tyler says leaning over and kissing me. And I looked back and Bella with a huge smile and she hung her head shaking it.

"You were right Carter. Things are about to get a whole lot more interesting around here." Bella says.

Adam then came into the library and saw all of us on either a computer or sifting through books and stopped at the doorway.

"God, what a bunch of nerds." He says.

"Go find something else to do Adam." Tyler says.

"There is nothing to do around here. I’m bored shitless." He says.

"Go into town. I’m sure you can find some more helpless unmated females around somewhere." Tyler says.

"Why the hell would you unleash him on those innocent girls?" I asked in moch horror and Tyler smirked at me.

"You’re right. You’re banned from leaving the packhouse." Tyler says.

"Bullshit. See ya." Adam says running from the library and we heard the front door slam shut.

"Thank you. We actually work good as a team." Tyler says and I smile at him.

"He seems like a douche." I say.

"He’s 19 and thinks he’s gods gift to women. He stakes out more than he gets lucky." Tyler explained.

"Not in this pack. All he has to do is mentioned that he’s your brother." Aria says.

"I know. I just sent out a mind link to the whole pack. Watch out for my little arrogant brother roaming around town." Tyler laughed. And so did the rest of us.

"At least you’re one step ahead of him." Aria says.

"Why do you hate him so much?" I asked.

"That’s a story for another day." Tyler says looking away.

"No. That’s a story for tonight while we’re alone." I said coldly looking straight at him.

"Alright. I will tell you tonight." He agreed. I didn’t want their to be any secrets between us. And Goddess knows, he knows everything about my family.

After sending Adam off to town I realized that I am sitting here trying to find out everything I can about my real father who isn’t even here and I don’t even know my own pack. The pack the I will lead one day. Tyler told Cade that if he died in the battle against Matthias and Daniel that I was to be the Luna, no matter what. But I don’t know this pack. I’ve been here a couple weeks now and I’ve only stuck to my own group of friends. That’s not what a Luna does. And now I was going to have to change that. I needed to change that.

That was my next mission. I needed to get to know my pack. And I was going to do it as soon as possible.

After dinner that night I headed upstairs to have a shower and get ready for bed and Tyler wasn’t too far behind. As soon as he got out of the shower he saw me sitting on the bed waiting for him.

"Well. I want to know everything." He says. So he took a deep breath and exhaled and then sat down next to me.

"I am the oldest of seven. Me, 25, Melody, 22, Adam, 19, Liam, 18, Emily, 14, Madison, 12 and Skylar, 11. Adam has always been jealous because he thought he could take over as Alpha better than I could. But I was given this pack when I turned 20 and he was only 14. That’s when my parents moved the kids away to get them away from the hectic pack life. They are still part of this pack, but they live away and lead normal human lives. Adam always hated that." Tyler explained. " Sometimes he would actually ’accidentally’ let his claws slip of a patch of fur slip just to upset everyone’s lives because mom and dad would have to move away. He was a real pain in the ass. And he’s only gotten worse as he’s gotten older." Tyler continued.

"Well, it sounds like he’s just trying to get to you. Do I need to be the buffer between you two so you don’t kill each other?" I asked. 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

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