The Perfect Luna novel Chapter 70

Riannon didn’t even gasp when Gideon lifted Brayden up in the air, growling fiercely. She expected for it to go this way between the two of them at some point.

“If you think that I am leaving my mate with a piece of garbage like you, you must be crazy!” he snarled. The werewolf tried desperately to fight the clutch of death but was

unsuccessful.

“Gideon,” Ria placed her hand on his chest, calming him down instantly. “Please… Just let him go. Not now, okay?”

The lycan unclenched his fingers and the other man fell all the way down to the ground.

However, he got up quickly, baring his teeth at the opponent.

“Bray!” his ex-wife warned him, “You asked for our help, remember? Not the other way around! Be grateful we do this for you in the first place and behave. Remember our deal.”

He took a step back, still panting and looked at her. “I asked for your help. Not his!” “Well, too bad,” she folded her hands on her chest, “We come as a pack now.”

She could swear she heard him grit his teeth. But decided to ignore all that. None of this was important now.

“They will kill Harper the moment they see him!” he said spitefully.

“Plainly speaking,” Gideon interjected, “I don’t care about Harper. If you don’t like something, I am taking my queen back and we are leaving this very moment. Good like getting

your sister and fake mate out on your own.”

Another growl emerged from the Alpha’s chest but this time someone else interrupted them.

“Why leave if we are all already here?” Castiel’s voice echoed through the forest, and they all turned to see him in the company of two bulky warriors and Harper with tied hands. She

was typical of her.

There was no sign of Roxie, though.

“You!” Bray recognised the man and his lips parted as he was stunned. But the next second he furrowed his brows as he realized that he was tricked.

“Me,” Castiel grinned wickedly, “Long time no see, Alpha. And such different circumstances. Don’t worry, I treated your little sister and the mother of your future child better than you did me. One might say they enjoyed staying with me.”

The fox chuckled and the wolf snarled at him.

on!”

“It’s indeed not what we agreed on,” the fox king confirmed with ease as a sneer formed

on his handsome face. “You brought one more person and I brought one less. It’s only fair.”

Brayden turned to glare at Gideon as if blaming him for what was happening, but the latter didn’t give a care in the world.

“No,” Ria smirked, “You were supposed to bring three. We counted the baby too. So…. “Riannon,” Castiel smirked, “ always a pleasure.” “Can’t say the same,” she retorted, and his lazy grin only grew wider. He enjoyed this

game.

“Cut the small talk!” Brayden grunted, “Where is Roxanne?!”

“Oh, she is here,” Riannon sniffed a few times and pointed to the East, “And not that far. I would recognise that scent anywhere.”

With that, she let Ash and Maya know the location via the mind link.

Bray snapped his head at her. She knew where Roxanne was, while he didn’t feel anything. Surely, he was supposed to feel his mate’s closeness. Or at least her scent like Ri did. Yet there was nothing. His wolf Ragnar wasn’t restless, he was only thinking about the future fight now. And everything together made him wonder if Riannon was right all this time… She was always right before… What if Roxy wasn’t his mate after all?

“Excellent,” Castiel clapped as if they were in a theatre, each clap louder than the other. “I have to say, that you don’t stop to impress me. I placed her at a distance that would be far enough for any alpha or lycan to sense her. But you did… I wonder why.”

“And I have to say that you are disappointing so far,” Riannon coc.ked her brow, trying to change the subject. She wasn’t aware of all her powers and abilities herself and had no desire to share that information with strangers. “Why don’t we get to the part where you tell us why we are all really here?”

“Ouch,” the fox touched his heart with a smirk. “But you are right. Why don’t we? So, want the lycan king to denounce himself from the throne and free the lands of Crimson Fang, Silver Stone, Fenrir’s Eye and Moon Wisdom packs.”

“And I want you to stab yourself in the heart right now to save me the trouble,” Gideon scoffed. “Those two girls are not worth it. And considering that you’ve brought only one anyway...”

were the impossible conditions. “Their Alphas aren’t even here!”

“They can go to your land,” Castiel sneered and tilted his head. “After all, you still have a vast territory and no money to sustain it. You can charge them. It would be a win-win. You already figured out you are bankrupt, right?”

“What?” Riannon’s head snapped in the direction of her ex-husband, but he looked just

as surprised as she was.

“Oh, you didn’t know?” the fox gave them a sly smile. “Your pretty mate and sister gave

You are not that great at book keeping, are you?”

Brayden got pale. His whole world was crumbling under his feet. His ex circled him angrily but whispered, “You will deal with this later. Concentrate now.”

Her words gave him strength just like they always did before. He realised that he missed this. But this wasn’t the time for thinking about them now.

“He can’t give you those lands and you know it,” Gideon intervened, a mask of boredom on his face.

“But you can,” Castiel looked as if he was having the time of his life. Riannon tried to figure out his plan. Did he want to simply kill them all? Or was there something else? He sure

personality now.

“Yet I won’t,” the lycan chuckled, looking down on the fox. “I just wanted to finally see your face. You’ve been hiding well in your fox hole all this time.”

“Why thank you!” Castiel bowed mockingly. “It was hard after your father killed mine. But staying incognito helped me to do so much. It was essential to uniting fox clans and creating our own kingdom.”

“I don’t remember my father killing a fox Alpha,” Gideon narrowed his eyes at the enemy.

“Who said that my father was an Alpha?” Castiel chuckled and looked straight at Riannon. “See? There is no imagination! Such predictable way of thinking! How do you even live with him? You must be bored to death!”

The king growled so loudly that the ground shook underneath their feet. “Bray!” Harper squeaked through tears, “It’s a trap!”

The fox laughed menacingly and wrapped his hand around the tied girl, pulling her closer, “Sweetie, don’t you see that they already know? They’ve been preparing for me! They really did want to save you. Too bad that the plan wasn’t too good.”

“Release the girl and surrender quietly,” Gideon suggested firmly, stepping forward. “ Then we’ll consider…”

“Useless!” Castiel shouted, “I have more people in…”

“Now!” Ria commanded and the three of them went into the fight well. Brayden was helping the warriors that were his just a day ago. He couldn’t see them getting hurt. Riannon did the same, while her mate tried to get to the fox king. His path was blocked by the two guards, who shifted before his eyes into two huge werebears.