Luna Aleksa's Escape
Luna Aleksa’s Escape Chapter 47

*Aleksa POV*

“What was that?” I asked, with a shocked expression on my face. Kingston looks at me worriedly. He can sense something isn’t right.

“It’s ok. I felt it too,” Abbey said, smiling at me.

I was confused. What was that? So many questions consumed me. I went to say something when Abbey cut me off.

“You have powers! You are special too! I’m a hybrid, in case you are wondering. I’m half-werewolf, half-witch!” Abbey told me excitedly. Although she wasn’t moving her lips, was she mind-linking me?

“Wow, Aleksa! It appears you have the ability to mind-link anyone, you have allowed me to share your link, how cool is this!” Abbey replied.

She sure is bubbly. I wish I shared her enthusiasm, but I haven’t decided whether this is a good thing or a bad thing just yet.

I looked at Alaric and Kingston, who were looking at us with confused expressions evident on their faces.

“Our mates look concerned. Maybe we should include them in this conversation?” Abbey suggested.

“There are others around, so perhaps you should tell Alaric and I’ll tell Kingston via mind-link. We should talk a little later this afternoon. What do you say?”

“Deal!” Abbey quips.

And with that, I break our mind-link. Turning to Kingston, I linked him and told him what was going on. He was surprised as he hadn’t met a hybrid before and agreed we all needed to sit down and talk later this afternoon.

The next SUV pulls up to the main entrance. Asher had arrived to escort Alaric and Abbey to their cabin. Kingston must have mind-linked him, I assume.

I hear Amber stir in my head. “Don’t worry Aleksa, it’s OK. She’s friendly. She will be a great ally.” Amber reassured me.

Before I could prod her further, she blocked me out, in true Amber fashion.

I shake my head, sometimes my wolf drives me crazy, always deciding what I can and can’t know and making me wait so much. She can be so frustrating. But I have to trust her. She always has our best interests at heart.

As Asher escorts Alaric and Abbey off to their accommodation, Abbey turns and waves back at me with a great smile on her face. Amber’s right, she seemed really nice.

Kingston and I walked to the next SUV to meet and greet our new arrivals. A young alpha walks out, he doesn’t look like he’s a day over eighteen, his driver opens the other car door, and out steps what I assume is his Luna.

They walked up to us and introduced themselves. They are from Wisconsin, they are hard to gauge in conversation, and are eager to get to their accommodation. Once their escort had arrived, we made our way to the kitchen to make a quick coffee.

While we drank our coffee, I told Kingston about my interaction with Abbey, as well as the visions I saw of her. Just quick glimpses of her at various stages of her life, good and bad memories by the looks of things. She has been through a lot in her life by the looks of things. He was a little uneasy about our interaction, probably more concerned than anything. I told him what Amber had said about Abbey and he felt a bit better about things after that.

Kingston then went on to have a discussion with Sabre. Kingston tells me that Sabre agrees with Amber.

I am making a note to follow Abbey up later today, although I have a feeling Abbey will seek me out before I get to her. I am not too worried though, all I get from her are positive vibes.

The next entourage had arrived, as Kingston and I made our way back outside. A large and intimidating-looking alpha with a dark aura walked out of his SUV. His face was void of emotion, something about him gave me the creeps.

“Watch them, Aleksa. They are trouble. Our friend is in danger!” Amber tells me alarmingly.

As I was about to ask Amber what she meant by that, when another male got out of the second SUV. He was large and menacing. He had a huge jagged scar down the right side of his face. In fact, he had scars all over his neck and arms. I didn’t want to offend him by staring, but I couldn’t help but notice them.

He started sniffing the air around him and let out a huge growl.

“Where is she!” he yelled at us both. His head switched frantically from side to side. Kingston stood in front of me with his arms out in a defensive stance. I could feel the anger rolling off him.

I had a bad feeling about this. A feeling of dread was consuming me.

Kingston let out a warning growl at them both. In what seemed like only moments, several of our warriors descended upon the main entrance of the packhouse.

“Get your pack member under control, now!” Kingston demanded of the visiting alpha.

The alpha in front of us looked agitated that Kingston had yelled at him.

“Ezra, control yourself!” he growled.

Ezra! Oh, my goddess! It hits me like a ton of bricks. Kaia! I thought to myself.

I felt a tightening in my chest and it felt hard to breathe for a moment when I realized that this was Kaia’s mate, the one she rejected, the one that tried to lock her up. I was instantly concerned for my friend.

I immediately mind-linked Kaia. “Wherever you are, stop right now! Ezra is here! At the packhouse!” I yelled at her through our mind-link. But I accidentally mind-linked the entire pack at the same time in my panic. I quickly block out all voices except Kaia, Asher, and Kingston’s.

“What the f**k!” She replied to me. I can’t respond as the alpha in front of me is looking at me angrily, as is Ezra.

“Alpha Finn of the Midnight Pack,” the alpha says, trying to deescalate things, reaching out to shake Kingston’s hand.

Kingston shook his hand firmly “Kingston, and this is my Luna Aleksa,” Kingston said to him.

“This is my Beta, Ezra,” Finn says to us both.

I try to mask my confusion. Kaia had told me that her mate had been an elite warrior. Kaia was the Beta female of the Midnight pack, and her brother was to take over the beta role. How could Ezra be the Beta? What does that mean for Kaia’s brother, I wondered.

“I can smell that my mate is here! Her scent is everywhere!” Ezra declared to us all.

We looked at him feigning confusion.

Kingston questioned him, “And who might your mate be?”.

“Kaia! My mate’s name is Kaia,” Ezra replied gruffly.

“Can’t say we know anyone by that name. We have had a lot of packs through her. Perhaps you have confused a scent?” I suggest to Ezra.

“Bullshit!” I saw you mind-link when you heard my name. Where is she?” He yelled, stalking aggressively towards me.

“Watch your f*****g tone with my mate! And take one step further and I will end you!” Kingston growled at Ezra.

The three of them stood aggressively staring each other down, the warriors were on edge, ready to pounce at any moment, for a few moments until Kingston spoke again.

“You are not getting off to a good start here gentleman, remember who’s pack it is that you are in!” he added further.

“Apologies Kingston, my Beta lost his mate some time ago, he’s a little on edge.” Alpha Finn says, trying to deescalate the situation.

Ezra is pulled aside by his Alpha.

“Excuse us for a minute, please,” he said to us, nodding respectfully, although it was lacking in sincerity. I got the feeling they were up to something.

They mind-linked each other for a minute, facing away from us.

I took this opportunity to mind-link Asher, including Kingston and Kaia also “You need to get Kaia out of here now, Ezra, her ex-mate is here! Take the back entrance. We will distract them for now,” I told him.

“Go, Asher. We will talk later.” Kingston added.

“Yes Luna, Alpha, we are leaving now.” Asher linked us back.

“Thank you!” Kaia says to Kingston and me. And we end our mind-link.

“Gentleman, why don’t we escort you to your accommodation?” I suggested to them. Kingston took my lead also.

“Let us get you settled and then we can talk about this further, in my office perhaps?” Kingston suggested to them.

Knowing that they can’t deny this offer, as to do so would be too obvious, they reluctantly oblige.

“Thank you Kingston and Aleksa, that sounds like a good idea,” Alpha Finn replied.

Ezra didn’t say anything, he just screwed up his face and looked away. Clearly, it was taking everything he had to remain calm.

Kingston has mind-linked Kai, to ask him to take over the meet and greets for now. We will need to buy some time to figure out what to do with Ezra and Finn, and how we can protect Kaia from him.

It looks like things just got a whole lot more complicated for us all. As if one psycho ex-mate wasn’t enough to deal with. Now there are two of them.

As we reached their allocated accommodation, we both received a mind-link from border patrol. They told us that Evergreen had arrived. I turned to Kingston, “He’s here!”