The Young Luna novel Chapter 37

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Chapter 37

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Seth hushed me softly, holding me tightly as I sobbed into his shirt. They wanted to take my mate away from me. There was a chance that Seth would be executed...they were going to try and kill my mate. I was a mess.

"Hush, baby, you're going to be okay".

"I won't be okay if they take you away from me" I cried out, my face pressed into his neck. Seth didn't reply, as he rubbed my back soothingly. "I don't understand how they can do this! You didn't know. You didn't know". I dissolved into sobs once more as I curled tighter into his embrace – terrified he was about to disappear any moment now.

"We still have a trial yet. Don't plan my funeral yet" Seth teased, trying to lighten the mood. But his eyes were heavy with stress and his body was still rigid with tension, so his joke did nothing to ease my worry.

"Please don't joke about this, Seth. If the roles were reversed you'd been going crazy" I growled at him.

Seth sighed heavily, "yeah you're right I would". He offered me a tight smile, before tucking a loose curl behind me ear. Noise was suddenly heard from downstairs as Dean and the others returned. Seth's frown deepened, "let's go for a run. Blow of some steam".

He pulled me out of the bed, and out the back of the house. We both quickly Shifted forms. My Shift was no longer painful but it still took a few minutes, whereas Seth's only took seconds. Once I was a Wolf, I stretched out as Seth's large dark form – almost double my size – nudged me into a run.

We ran slowly for a while, warming up our muscles, before we sped up to as fast as I could go. Seth was faster than me, but he kept at my pace so that he didn't lose me. His fur brushed mine as we rushed through the forests, pushing thoughts from our minds and becoming nothing but instincts.

After a little while, I nudged Seth and nodded that he followed me. He growled in agreement, before I led him through the Vernal Pack territory and to a small hidden cave in the side of the small mountain on the west side of the landscape. The cave was a place that highschool kids used to get high or fool around in a few years back, but after a few teenage girls got themselves knocked up, the Alpha banned people from going there. But those rules didn't apply to me anymore.

I headed into the cave, laying down to get through the narrow entrance before it opened into a larger cavern. Inside was dark but my Wolf eyesight quickly adjusted and allowed me to see it. There was an old trunk on one side, filled with odd clothes and blankets for people are shifts, and on the other side were old fashioned oil lamps.

I Shifted back before padding over to the oil lamps and turning them on. The soft glittering lights filled the cavern in an orange-yellow flicker. Seth squeezed through the entrance, grumbling in annoyance as he struggled not to get stuck, before he shifted back.

"Did you bring me to a makeout spot?" he asked, lips tilting up into a smirk.

I shrugged, "wanted somewhere private where we could talk. The Pack is banned from coming out here, so thought it was perfect".

"Plus we get to makeout" Seth grinned childishly, grabbing me by my hips and pulling me to him. I hit my head on the top of the cave and yelped in pain, before exploding into giggles as Seth pulled me onto his lap. I felt his hard erection press against my hip as our naked bodies pressed together.

Seth laughed as cupped my head as I playfully pouted. "Sorry, baby girl, are you alright?" he grinned, rubbing my head as we shared a look. But his words dimmed the mood and tears glistened in his eyes.

"No, I'm not alright".

"Me either" Seth admitted truthfully. The fear was obvious and that cracked my heart, because Seth wasn't supposed to ever be scared. He was the strongest, fiercest, Alpha in the country and he wasn't supposed to be afraid of anything. If he was scared, then I was terrified.

"What are we going to do?" I asked, voice soft and almost lost in the hollow vacuum of the cavern.