Wolf-less Omega Luna novel Chapter 71

Alana’s POV

No no no no no. No! I wasn’t being fucking manipulated again. Not by my own father. No! Goddess, please. Please. Just this one time, let this be a lie.

I prayed silently, my heart drumming violently, sounding so loudly in my ears. Everybody had to have heard it.

“No,” I muttered.

“Put your weapon down, Alana.” My whole world came crashing down when the voice behind it happened to be his. My dad’s. I must have heard glass breaking, but it was my heart.

Not only was the look on his face the complete opposite of what I’d become somewhat acquainted with in the last couple of days, but the sight of a blade — one which I handed him to protect the rest of the werewolves in the safe house— pressed up against Kennedy’s neck made me realize that there was no way this was a joke.

Since I had been released and back to the safety of the pack, Axel had no more reason to keep his calm with Derek. He just needed the go-ahead to snap his neck in half. Now this? This changed everything. 

“You used me.” To get into Crescent Moon pack and find out where our pack mates were supposed to be protected. 

“Put down your weapon. All of you. Explosives have surrounded your precious safe houses.” My dad, no, Jake, —he didn’t deserve that title anymore— ignored me, and said.

“I don’t… don’t believe you,” I coughed out, my voice breaking. How could it be true? This must have been some elaborate prank. I slowly inclined my head to look at Axel, pleading with my eyes for him to save me from this. He returned a pained one.

Tyler, Coral, and everyone else had both angry and sad looks on their faces. We —I— brought the devil into our home.

My eyes moved to Derek grinning beside Axel. “You don’t have to. You just have to see it.” He then lifted a free hand in the air and in it was what looked like a controler. A detonator.

A warning growl escaped Axel’s throat. One that shook the ground we stood on and I couldn’t place if it was that or the scene playing before us that sent a chill down my spine.

I was trying to think of ways to get us out of this but I couldn’t. I couldn’t even process the betrayal. My eyes just died right in the moment.

Axel’s hands were in chains so he couldn’t have easily tossed the detonator off Derek’s hands. Even if he succeeded in doing so, my dad, no, Jake had Kennedy’s throat under a knife. He could easily cut her neck or stab her.

Kennedy’s skin looked pale. Short of blood. She looked scared and her fingers were shaking in front of her. Yet another packmate was on the verge of being dead because of me.

He must have seen me hugging her for an extended minute when we were leading pack members to the safe houses. One I pointed him in the direction of.

“Don’t make me repeat it!” Derek barked.

“Drop it,” Axel urged, and slowly, we all did. Dropped our weapons.

“And the blades,” Jake gritted out, directing the statement at me. “Obviously, you care about our little wolf here.”

“How could you deceive your own daughter?” I asked as I slowly took out the blades from my left and right back pockets and tossed them away from me. 

“You are no daughter of mine.”

“And you are no father of hers,” Axel spat. I was thankful he still had my back but I squeezed my eyes shut to hold back the well that threatened to overflow

He let out a dry laugh, causing his frail body to waver.

Derek’s men had started rounding us up now that we were defenseless. I thought about the pack members in the safe houses. How they would feel the very opposite of what the place was supposed to provide for them.

Was this truly it? Was this how it was all going to end? 

“I can’t believe you lied to me,” a high-pitched voice belonging to Britney cut through my haze. She was speaking to Derek. “This wasn’t part of the deal.”

“Exposing yourself now, are you?” He replied.

“I don’t care anymore. I don’t care what happens to me but you don’t get to walk away from this with my pack under your wings. It was supposed to be a harmless operation. Make her leave him and leave room for me to be Luna. You told me all you wanted was for her father to reconnect with his daughter. You manipulated me,” Britney spat.

Was she that stupid? 

“I didn’t force you to accept it. You were so desperate to be Luna, you believed whatever you were told. That’s on you.”

I didn’t fail to notice that Derek’s hold on the detonator had relaxed as he fired back at Britney. He truly did love to hear himself speak. It seemed that Axel noticed too. We just had to keep them talking

“And you?” Axel directed his attention to Jake. “All this could’ve been avoided. You could’ve bonded with her and there’d be no bloodshed. What did Alana do to wrong you that deserved stabbing her in the back like this?”

“You took her from me,” Jake spat at me. Venom was spewing from his pores and coated each of his words. “Sarah was a shadow of herself after you left. I lost her like this,” he made a snap with his finger.

His hold on Kennedy had also relaxed. 

“I was eight, Dad,” I screamed. “I was roaming about. I didn’t exactly get up and run to the border to cross through it.”

“Our lives were miserable after that and all this while, you were busy running a pack of your own. Making a new family. Bonding with him,” he shot daggers at Axel. “The one who caused it all in the first place.”

“So you have been working for Derek all these while,” I said in realization.

“You do not deserve to live after the misery you put her and me through. And you sure as hell do not deserve to bring that disgrace into this world!” His cold eyes glared hard into my eyes, and traveled to my…stomach? And then, back to my eyes.

What?! What in the hell did that mean?