Chapter 142
The iming by Cooper Book 2
The Council by Cooper (Jara & Mason)
Jara
My little pup has be very active. I was so excited when I first felt her move inside me. It was
wonderful. Ever since Mason could hear her heartbeat, he couldn’t wait to be close to her at night. Now
that he can feel her moving around inside me, he’s always touching my stomach, hoping to feel her
move. When she’s awake, she never disappoints him.
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Today, after Mason and ourrge group of warriors leave to help Alpha Davis rebuild, I decide to go
with Layan and the kids outside to y. Jace and Melinda are very active and giving them time outside
to run around is a great way for them to burn off some of their energy. Since Katerina will be here
tomorrow for the weekend, I wanted to spend some time with Layan today to see how she’s feeling
about the visit.
I sit and watch Layan chasing the kids around the yard, ying tag and then hide and seek. When she
finallyes to sit beside me, I turn to her.
“How are you feeling about tomorrow and this weekend?”
She shrugs. “I don’t want to scare her off. You, Hana, Annabel and Mignon all had good experiences. I
know mine wasn’t the norm and I know that you are working to make sure it never happens to anyone
again, but….” She trails off, watching the kids ying.
“But?” I prompt her.
“But that wasn’t my experience. If she asks me, I’ll tell her the truth. Things can go bad inside the
iming territory. You know that as well as I do.” She says. “Yes, I do.”
I’m just about to say something else, when the howl of warning goes up. Almost instantly, it is cut off,
as if the person was attacked. I’m hoping they are okay but I don’t have time to worry about that.
I jump up as does Layan. “Jace! Melinda!”
We run to them, picking them up and turning to go inside when the scent of rotting flesh hits my nose.
I turn and see the most hideous creature I’ve ever seen running straight toward us. It’s ck, its fur, if
that’s what it has is matted all over its body. It looks like it has four legs, but they aren’t ced like they
should be on a four-legged animal. The two in back are too close together and they are too close to
what should be its front legs. Whatever it is, it isn’t natural.
I shove Melinda into Layan’s arms. “RUN! Get them into the safe room. NOW!”
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“Jara!” She yells, seeing the creature behind me.
“GO!” I yell again, turning to put myself between the creature that is stilling straight for us and
Layan and the pups.
She grabs a child in each arm and turns to run, yelling for help as she does. The men and wolves that
were heading toward the sound of the howl immediately turn to help her. My guards, having been off to
the side, giving me space to rx with Layan,e rushing up.
Just as the creature leaps at me, Lewis jumps in front of me, taking the brunt of the hit, but the force of
the creature attacking pushes it and Lewis into me, knocking me to the ground.
“Luna!” I hear someone yell and the creature pins Lewis to the ground, its teeth snapping at his face.
Another guardes over, ripping the creature off and Lewis gets up, standing in front of me. The
smell is horrible, worse than anything I’ve ever smelled before.
From behind Lewis, I can see that our pack members are trying to surround the creature, but it’s so
wild, and misshapen that it’s just attacking randomly. Its snarls are feral, and I finally realize that this is
a feral wolf. I don’t know what’s happened to it to make it so disfigured, but it’s so far gone that it
doesn’t even know that its body is so broken.
The men begin fighting and I see Elijah in wolf forme racing over, leaping over the men to fight the
creature, the creature that is also a wolf, but looks nothing like one.
Elijah grabs it by the scruff of its neck and yanks it away from me. The men following, attacking the
intruder as they can. It continues snapping its teeth at everyone. Even when they get a grip on the
creature, he pulls away, seemingly oblivious that his body is broken.
“Luna, get up, I’m going to get you into a safe room.” Lewis says to me, never turning his back on the
creature.
“What is it?” I ask. “It looks like a wolf.”
“It’s Alpha Typhon, Luna, you need to get up. Are you injured?”
“Typhon?” I exim, looking at the creature again. I would never have guessed that it was my sister’s
mate.
“Luna, can you stand?” Lewis asks me again more urgently.
“I don’t know.” I say, and I try to stand. My side hurts, but I push myself to my feet. I stumble, not feeling
steady after my fall.
Lewis turns, seeing me struggling and wraps his arm around my waist. I wrap my arm protectively
around my stomach and we begin making our way to the packhouse.
I hear the snarling intensify behind me and Lewis turns, releasing me and stepping in front of me just
as the creature attacks him again. This time, there’s nowhere for me to go and Typhon ms Lewis
into me. I fall to the ground on my back, Lewis on top of me, crushing my stomach as Typhon snaps
and snarls at him, trying to get to me. His saliva, which smells like rotten fish, is dripping onto my face
and body as he snarls, making me want to vomit.
Elijah rushes forward again, grabbing the back of Typhon’s leg. I can hear the crunch of bones
breaking but Typhon doesn’t seem phased at all by the pain. If anything, it seems to drive him forward
even more.
The others are rushing over. I can see that some of them have been bitten and others have shes
and gashes on their bodies. Even feral, Typhon is an Alpha. He may not be a strong Alpha, but as an
Alpha, he’s still stronger than the warriors in our pack.
They begin shifting into wolf forming to attack Typhon from different sides, surrounding him. Lewis
is still thrashing on top of me, trying to keep Typhon away from me and I can do nothing but try to
protect my daughter.
Just as Elijah gets a hold of Typhon again, hetches onto the corner of Lewis’s neck where it connects
to his shoulder. Elijah, not realizing, yanks him off Lewis. The force of Typhon’s hold and Elijah pulling
him off, rips Lewis’s throat open.
As the weight on top of me lessens, I feel hot blood begin rushing down my face and chest.
“Lewis!” I scream, pushing him off of me. I can hear the snaps and snarls that continue behind me, but I
can’t stop to look.
“LEWIS!” I scream again. His eyes are so wide, and his mouth is opening and closing but nothing is
coming out. Air bubbles begin blowing out of his throat and I realize he’s drowning in his own blood.
I roll him on his side, putting his head in myp, hoping to keep him from aspirating. I begin rocking
back and forth.
“Hold on, Lewis. Just hold on.” I say, rubbing my hand over his head
I scream for help and one of the warriorses rushing over. He drops to his knees beside us, putting
his hand over the wound, but there’s too much blood. Even I know there’s too much blood, but I don’t
want to believe it. I don’t want to believe that this man who has been such a good person, a good guard
to me, is dying in my arms.
I look down into his eyes, and he reaches up to touch my face. “It’s okay, Luna. Don’t cry.” He mouths
to me I grab his hand, holding it to my face “Stay with me, Lewis. Just stay with me. That’s an order
from your Luna”
He smiles just before I see the light leave his eyes, his hand bing heavy in mine, the blood
pumping out of his wound slowing until there is nothing
“Noooo!” I lift my head to the sky and scream.
A momentter, a bloody, n*ake*d Elijah is falling to his knees beside me, checking Lewis for a pulse.
He looks at me. “I’m sorry, Luna. He’s gone.”
I hear a keening sound and it’s only when Elijah pulls me to his chest rocking me, that I realize that it’s
me. Lewis gave his life to save me.
“Come on, Luna. I’ll call Alpha and have hime home right away. Let’s get you upstairs and into the
shower and then to bed. You’ve had quite a scare. I want the doctor to see you.”
Elijah starts to help me up and I realize I’m sore all over, my body feeling bruised. I put my hand on my
stomach just as it cramps. I stop, bending over, the pain sucking the air out of my lungs.
“Luna?” Elijah is looking terrified. “Get the doctor here NOW!” He shouts. “I’m okay, I just need to catch
my breath.” I say but as soon as I try to stand, the pain shoots through my stomach again.
This time, I look up at Elijah and I know the fear on his face is mirrored in mine. He reaches down to
pick me up, just as I feel a warm, sticky wetness between my legs.
“No, no, no!” Elijah yells as he scoops me up and begins running to the pack hospital. It takes me a
moment longer than it took him to understand what is going on. But then I smell it. Blood. My blood.
I’m miscarrying my baby. I’m losing my little girl.