The Alpha's Borrowed Luna (Abigail Hayes) novel Chapter 82

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Consciousness returned slowly, like wading through a fog. My head pounded with each heartbeat, and every muscle in my body ached as if I’d been stretched beyond limits. I blinked, trying to focus as the world gradually stopped spinning.

“Kalus?” My voice sounded raspy, foreign to my own ears.

“I am right here; you need to rest. His voice came from beside me, followed by the cool press of a glass against my lips. “You blacked out earlier; it must be due to your now heightened senses. It would take you some time to adjust to it all. The liquid would help clear the dizziness.”

“No: What is this?” I

I turned my head away from the strange–smelling liquid.

“You need to drink it,” he insisted, his tone leaving no room for argument.

I reluctantly parted my lips, allowing him to tip the glass. The liquid was bitter yet oddly invigorating, sending warmth spreading through my limbs almost immediately. The fog in my mind began to clear.

“Where am 17” I asked, pushing myself up on my elbows to look around,

In our room,” Kalus replied, setting the empty glass aside.

1 glanced down, realizing I was completely unclothed beneath the silken sheets. “Im naked, Kaius.

“Your dress was utterly ruined by your shift. Too bad, it was really a

“So I did transform… into a wolf?‘ I hardly dared to believe it.

“Yes, you did.” His amber eyes held mine, filled with something like ride.

How?… I was pretty sure I had lost my wolf.” I’d spent years trying and failing to shift, enduring the mockery of those who saw my inability as proof of my weakness.

Talon I think our mating was just a physical thing; usually mates tabe strength from their partner, elevating their status.”

he was saying “What does that mean?

I frowned, trying to process what he was sa

“It means you wouldn’t be seen as an omega anymore.”

“That doesn’t make sense; I was born an omega.” My identity, though painful at times, had been fixed for so long that the idea of change was difficult to grasp.

“From the size of your wolf, I can tell that you aren’t exactly that.” Kuus sat on the edge of the bed, his weight causing the mattress

to dip sightly.

My wolf… what was the colour?” I couldn’t remember seeing myself clearly in the brief time I’d been shifted.

His expression softened. “White and grey, with those blue eyes of yours…. haven’t seen any more beautiful.”

Something warm bloomed in my chest at his words. “I didn’t think it was possible, but you knew… how did you know what to do?

“I didn’t, but I might have used my Alpha aura on you.”

“And what is that? I don’t really speak wolves.” I said, trying to keep my tone light despite my confusion

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Alphas have this aura, a commanding kind of presence, and I don’t

it most of the time. I didn’t intend on using it on you either, but you didn’t believe you could do it, and so I made you believe you could.”

1 sat up straighter, palling the sheets with

“Alphas inve that?–

“With this aura I could command anyone lesser than me, in rank–an, so I just had to make you know what pleases me and you would do it, even if it leads to you danger or worse.”

A chill ran down my spine. “Yet you tried that on me?

“Yes, but most don’t use theirs because it isn’t easy to control and things could end up going very ud

I felt like I was hypnotized. I remembered the strange compulsion 1 fell in the forest, the way my body had seemed to respond to an invisible command.

“That’s the feeling from what I’ve heard–you’ll be willing to do anything, and I had commanded you to catch up with me as fast as you can. Of course, you couldn’t do that in your human form, so you had to find the wolf in your and transform just to catch up.”

“Do you think you can do it again? Like use the Alpha thing on me to help me transform? Lasked, both fascinated and disturbed by the prospeck

“You should be worried, I could command you to do for more dangerous things,” he said, his tone serious despite the slight curve of his lips.

“I want to believe you won’t do that,” I said, studying his face for reassurance.

“Right, not unless it is necessary.”

I narrowed my eyes. “Necessary, what does that mean?”

“Who knows, if you deny me of what is mine long enough, then I might have to command you to please me in any way you can.” The threat might have frightened me once, but there was a teasing glint in his eyes that told me he wasn’t entirely serious,

“You won’t,” I said with more confidence than I felt.

*I was just kidding.” He smiled, confirming my assessment.

“So you can literally

ly make me de

do anything, just by what? staring at me?” I asked, trying to understand the extent of this power

You could see it that way, but it isn’t just staring or summoning, still I would never force you against your will. You won’t need the Alpha thingy,” he assured me, his hand covering mine, to transform next time. I can actually feel your wolf.

“You can?” This was new information

“Yes.”

1 fell silent, processing everything. I had shifted for the first time in my life. I might not be an omega after all. Kaius had some kind of power over me that could make me do things against my will. It was a lot to take in.

“Kaius… Thank you; I can’t thank you enough; I don’t know how to repay you. The words felt inadequate against the magnitude of what he’d given me–a part of myself I’d thought lost forever.