The Shadow of a Luna (Tessa and Tyler) novel Chapter 6

Chapter 6: Chapter 6

TESSA POV

Tyler and I talked for a little while after that, but he was able to fall back to sleep. But I was unable to go back to sleep. I lied in bed with my mind racing with everything that I told Tyler. I honestly didn't know what came over me. I felt like I could be completely honest with him but this wasn't the type of thing that I told anyone. Even Bella didn't know about the rapes. She just knew about the beatings because they were harder to conceal.

I saw the sun rising through my window so I got out of my bed quietly and I got changed into black and red tights, a red top and a sweater over the top with socks and sand shoes.

I went to my wardrobe and grabbed a bag out of there and I left my room and crept out of the house being careful not to wake anyone.

I went out the front door and this was the first time I had seen this place in the day light. The packhouse was situated on a huge piece of land surrounded by the woods and only one road in and out which was the driveway that took us to the rest of the werewolf town.

I walked over to the tree line and I knew that I couldn't go into the woods because there would be patrols around and they didn't know me. They would think of me as a threat. So I picked one tree on the tree line and I opened my bag and grabbed out a target.

I pinned it to the tree and then I stood back about 20 feet and I grabbed my bow and arrow. I aimed it at the target and hit the bullseye first go.

"Still got it." I said to myself. And I grabbed another bow and aimed and shot it at the target and got the bullseye.

I then heard something just inside the tree line and I knew that it was one of the patrols. But they had to know that I wasn't an intruder because I wasn't near the border and I was just outside the packhouse.

I heard bones braking and rearranging before a big muscly man came walking out wearing a pair of tracksuit pants that would have been hidden in one of the trees. Every pack had trees in their forest that had clothes in them for when they needed to shift and had no clothes on them.

"Hi." Is all I managed to get out. He looked at the bow and arrow in my hand and didn't say anything. So I slowly put them down and put my hands up in surrender to let him know that I wasn't a threat. " I'm not an intruder. I promise." I assured him.

"Who are you?" He asked.

"I'm Tessa. I guess I'm the future Luna. Tyler Lowe's mate. He bought me here late last night." I revealed a little sheepishly.

"I did here that we had a new Luna. It's nice to meet you. I'm Parker. The head warrior." He introduced himself.

"It's nice to meet you." I say.

"What are you doing out here this early?" He asked.

"I couldn't sleep. So I wanted to come out and practice. I didn't go into the woods because I knew that the patrols would probably consider me a threat. Especially since I had weapons with me. But I promise, I'm just practicing." I explain pointing to the target on the tree. He turned to look at it and nodded his head.

"You're pretty good. How far away are you? About 20 feet?" He asked.

"Yeah. That's right. I try to improve each time I practice and move back a little further than usual." I say.

"Well, you've been taught well. You were seen by one of the warriors and he called me. That's why I am here. To see who you are. You shouldn't really be out here until the whole pack knows who you are." He explained.

"I know. But like I said, that's why I stayed away from the woods. I'm on the outside of the woods near the packhouse. It would give them more of a reason to think that I wasn't an intruder." I explained.

"Well, yeah. That was smart. They probably would have attacked if you were in the woods." He says.

"I needed to practice. And I know that Tyler would go nuts if I wondered away from the packhouse. So this is the safest place for me." I say.

"The Alpha would definitely go nuts if he couldn't find you. Is he still asleep?" Parker asked.

"Yeah." I say.

"Well, I have to say on behalf of myself and the other warriors, welcome. We are glad to have you here and hope to goddess that you are nothing like Rachel." He announces. And I scoffed.

"I'm not. I promise." I smile at him. And he smiles back.

"You know, not many wolves use weapons. We don't really need to." He says.

"I know. My trainer back at my old pack started training me before I had a wolf. So weapons were my only options back then. And I just stuck with them." I explained.

That wasn't exactly true. I did have a wolf, but she was being suppressed by poison. So I needed to find another way to defend myself in case I really needed to.

"Do you use any other weapons?" He asked. So I bent down and pulled out my throwing knives that were in my bag.

He stepped off to the side a little bit and I grabbed the knife and got into the perfect stance and threw it at the target. Also hitting the bullseye and breaking one of my arrows.

"Wow. Impressive." He says.

"I've been practicing for years. It takes a while to get that good." I say.

"Maybe we can convince their Alpha to let you train younger members of the pack with weapons. It's always a handy trick to have. Especially if you've been hit with wolfsbane or anything like that." He says.

"Yeah. Definitely a good trick to have in your back pocket." I say shaking my head. Trying not to think of just how right he was about that one.

"Well, I have to get back to patrol. Welcome to the pack. I'm sure we'll be seeing a lot more of each other." He says.

"I'm sure that we will be." I say. And he went back into the woods while I went and got my knife and the other arrow out of the target.

I kept practicing with the bow and arrow for ages before I put another target on a different tree and then practiced with the knives for ages.

"Tessa." Someone says behind me and I turned around to see Tyler coming out looking like a Greek god in only his sweatpants. His chiseled 8-pack looking like it was made of stone.

"Hi." I say.

"What are you doing out here?" He asked.

"Just practicing. I could go back to sleep after last night. After I woke up. So I came out here as soon as the sun started rising.

" That was two hours ago. And you shouldn't be out here. The patrols might mistake you for an intruder." He says. And I explain my whole conversation with Parker, and he alerted patrol to me being there and who I was. So I was fine. And I didn't go into the woods. I stayed on this side of the woods where the packhouse was.

"Come on. Breakfast is being served." He says. So I grabbed my knives out of the tree and took down all the targets and I packed up all my equipment. " Where the hell did you learn to do this?" Tyler asked looking at my targets.

"Tobias. That warrior you met at my last pack. He trained me." I explained.

"Women aren't allowed to train in your old pack." He says.

"Tobias saw me in the hospital once when I was 12. And he knew without me saying what happened, so he knew that I needed training. The wolfsbane was suppressing my wolf so he started training me with weapons. And I just kept up with it." I say.

"That is impressive. You're pretty good. And that was a good idea training me with weapons. Why didn't I ever use it on the others?" He asked.

"That's a whole other story. I usually woke up in the middle of the night to them injecting me with wolfsbane and I couldn't move. That was the warriors. And I didn't want my dad to know what I was capable of until it was the right time. Probably until I was ready to kill him. But that day never came." I explained.

"You were actually planning on killing your father?" He asked shocked.

"I had a feeling that it was going to come down to that. I didn't know when or how. But I had a feeling." I say.

We walked inside and I see a lot of people at the window watching us and must have seen my practicing but Tyler just guided me upstairs while he was carrying my bag.

He put my bag in my wardrobe while I went to the bathroom and had a shower and I got dressed for the day.

We then went down to breakfast and as soon as we went into the dining room Aria practically jumped on me hugging me. But I hissed in pain because of the bruises and ribs. So Tyler grabbed Aria by the waist and pulled her off me.

"What is your problem? Aren't I allowed to greet our new Luna and my new cousin?" Aria snapped at Tyler.

"Yes. You can greet her. You don't need to attack her." Tyler snaps back. And he guides me into the dining room and pulls out a chair for me.

Only people who lived at the packhouse ate there in the dining room and there was a buffet all set out like at our old pack. But Bella and I weren't really allowed to eat from it. So when Tyler came back and handed me a plate with a little of everything on it, I looked at him weird.

"No more food restrictions. Not here." Tyler says smiling to me.

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