My Miracle Luna
Their Gemini Wolves Chapter 23

{Chad's

P.O.V.}

"SHE'S YOUR WHAT!?!" both of my parents screamed at the top of their lungs. After practically being cornered by them, I decided that I couldn't wait for Richard to arrive home to explain things. I took my parents into my father's study and closed the door to speak to them in private. The last thing I wanted was to put Lanie on the spot with them, things with her were already complicated enough. I didn't need to add my parents interrogating her on top of everything else. "She's my second chance," I repeated to them.

"Hold on, hold on, hold on," my dad said, waving his hands in the air at me. "Second chance? As in a second chance mate?"

"For the millionth time, yes!" I exclaimed. "Second chances aren't abnormal, why are you two freaking out over this?"

"Sweetheart, you had a son with your first mate who rejected you via a handwritten note in a shady hotel. It's been over two years since that happened, finding a second chance so long after your first rarely happens, if ever. That's why people take a chosen mate," my mother explained.

"I know that mom, but she is. I know she is. I felt it the moment I laid my eyes on her. It felt like my heart was going to jump out of my chest at her beauty, and Havoc was going nuts when she walked into Alpha Wyatt's office at Blue Lake."

"Chad, son, I don't understand. If she's your second, why does it seem like she's rejecting your bond with her?" my father asked.

"She's not," I answered and paused a moment. "She's ... she doesn't know how to handle the fact that I have a son already. She didn't have a normal childhood and only recently found out about mates from Luna Rylee."

"What do you mean, she didn't have a normal childhood?" my mother asked cautiously.

"This is why I wanted to wait until Richard came back."

"Son, what is it? Is there something wrong with her? Is she ill?"

"No, dad, it's nothing like that," I replied. I paused again trying to figure out a way to explain things to them without overstepping. "You two know about the Luna's story, right? How she was raised as a slave by Halfmoon?" They both nodded. Why wouldn't they know? Our entire species knew what happened to her after it all came to light with the fall of Halfmoon. "Lanie and her twin sister Lexie had it a lot worse, and from the day they were born."

"Oh, my goddess!" my mother gasped. My father's eyes held nothing but anger and disbelief. "Is that why she's apprehensive about the bond?"

"That, among a few other reasons."

"Angeline, we can't force this. If this young lady is his second chance then this is a very delicate situation," my father said to my mom. "Oh, that poor chi... wait, the other girl. Her sister, Lexie, is it?" I nodded. "Is she Brent's mate? Is that why they're together right now?" "Yes, it is."

"What about them? Did she accept him?"

"Not yet, from what I know. Even Lexie is fighting her bond because she feels that she has to protect Lanie from all the evils of the world," I answered.

"Those poor girls' parents. They must think their children are dead, when in fact, they're alive and well," my mother said, sounding troubled. "Do we know where they came from? Who their parents are? We have to tell them that we have them and that they're safe!" My mother was frantic.

"Mom, mom," I called to her and grabbed her shoulders gently to calm her down. "We don't know where they came from or who their parents are, not yet at least. But, Richard is going to do what he can to figure it out. The girls are part of our family now. Even if they choose to reject me and Brent, we owe it to them to find their family," I assured her.

"Yes, yes, of course," my mother replied. I hated that I wasn't able to tell them the full truth about Lanie and Lexie's real identities. I had no choice but to withhold the truth, even from my own parents, in order to keep them safe for the interim. I only had to keep up the charades until Richard was back. The announcement that I would be the next Alpha was his job, and I wouldn't take that right from him.

My mind began to drift and I found myself wondering how it was going at Blue Lake now that the girls were no longer there. {Levi's P.O.V.}

*SMACK*

"WHERE ARE THEY?" he screamed in my face, but I didn't have an answer. After the meeting ended, the boss went directly to the room where I caught a glimpse of Project Gemini last night to confirm my findings. But for some reason or another, they were nowhere to be seen when he went to check.

"I don't know, boss. They were there last night," I answered with my head down. I honestly wished I could kill him already, but I needed the twins just as much as he did, if not more. There was no room for error, if I f****d this up now, it would ruin the plan for what we were really after. All I had to do was successfully deliver the girls to the buyer Bane and I secretly arranged and we could get rid of Archimedes for good.

"You're so f*****g worthless! What the f**k do I pay you for?" he blasted me. "All this planning! f*****g ruined because of your incompetence!"

"It's not my fault! They were there! Weren't you the one who pushed the Alpha's and Luna's buttons last night? I wouldn't be surprised if they knew who you were from the very beginning!"

"Don't blame your idiocy on me, Levi! You had one f*****g job, and that was to make friends with the Beta and Gamma of this pack! Distract them long enough so I could see Gemini with my own eyes. I needed them to trust me so they would leave willingly. But now they're nowhere to be found! All because you lost them!"

"ME!? Had you not pissed off an entire room full of werewolves, this never would have happ-" I was cut off mid-sentence as he grabbed me by the throat and lifted me into the air.

"Have you forgotten who you're speaking to?" he snarled. His eyes turned black and I watched as his teeth elongated. "I am a goddamn werewolf. We are territorial, and aggressive by nature. I don't have to play by their rules because I don't answer to their Elders. I answer to no one, especially the likes of you," he said through gritted teeth. I felt my vision going black as he cut off my airway. "I could kill you right this instant, and blame it on another wolf; however, fortunately for you, I still need you," he warned. He eventually released his grip and I collapsed onto the floor. I started to cough as I gasped for air, desperately trying to fill my lungs with oxygen. "Find them and do it before the end of tomorrow. We will not leave until we know exactly where they are."

"Yes, boss," I replied through fits of coughing.

"And don't forget to take your potion. Your human stench is starting to make an appearance." He tossed another potion bottle at me which landed right by my hands. I was grateful it didn't shatter on the floor since I was still on all fours trying to catch my breath. Later that evening, I headed towards the castle grounds to see if I could do some recon on Gemini's whereabouts. They had to be here somewhere-there was no way they already left because someone would have seen them. As I was making my way around the perimeter of the castle, I saw a group of younger individuals huddled around a bench near a maze.

"What do you mean Brent left already?" a girl asked.

"That's what I heard from Hugo," another replied.

"Kelsey, calm down. He probably had to go back to his pack for whatever reasons. It's not like we're never going to see him again," a boy mentioned.

"Vic, it's not fair. We haven't seen Brent in over a year and the one time we get to spend a weekend with him, he leaves less than 24 hours later. What gives!?"

"Kelsey is right, Victor. Brent is one of us, and he always will be. It's not cool that he just took off without saying bye to any of us," another boy said.

"Justin, I get it, but he's one of the head warriors of his pack now. If he gets called back, he gets called back."

"Ugh, this sucks. I was hoping he would find his mate here," another girl whined and crossed her arms. "He's the only one out of our group that doesn't have one."

"Speaking of mates, Justin, where is yours?" the boy named Victor asked.

"Tasha was supposed to be back from London by now, but she had one final fashion show she wanted to work on. It was something that would make her career, so she didn't want to miss out. Sorry guys."

"I can't believe that you're mated to the Gamma's younger sister. That's got to be awkward for you and Jason," the girl named Kelsey pointed out.

"Gamma Jason literally tried to kill me when I grabbed his sister and straight-up humped her on the wall of the rec room. The Alpha literally had to throw him off of me. I don't think I've ever been so f*****g scared." The group broke out into laughter as another young girl ran quickly towards them.

"You guys! You guys! You guys!"

"Whoa, Nat, where's the fire?" Victor asked her.

"The girls."

"What girls?" they all asked in unison.

"Those blonde girls. You know, the ones that Rylee befriended and kept hidden in the west wing of the castle?"

"You mean Lexie and Lanie?" Justin asked.

"Yeah."

"What about them?" inquired the girl whose name was still a mystery.

"They're gone!"

"What do you mean they're gone?" all of them exclaimed.

"I overheard the ranked members talking about it, and they said something along the lines of Rylee leaving and taking them to another pack. Something about whoever was after them had found them here!"

"Natalie, are you positive that's what you heard?" the unknown girl asked.

"Of course I'm sure, Lisa! I wouldn't have dropped my baby off at the nursery and full-on sprinted here if I wasn't absolutely positive."

"Wait, where did they go? And why did Rylee go with them?" Victor asked.

"How the f**k should I know!?"

"When did they leave?" Justin asked.

"This morning. During the Alpha meeting."

"Natalie, when did Brent leave?" Victor asked.

"This morning." I watched as they all looked at each other in confusion. Who was this Brent they were speaking of, and what did he have to do with Project Gemini? At least I found out who Gemini was with, but the question was where? "You don't think ..." Kelsey started to say before Victor held up his hand to her. He turned his head towards my direction and I quickly hid behind the wall I was next to.

"What is it, Victor?" I heard Justin ask him. Could I have been made?

"Let's take this back to my place. Too many ears out in the open. We promised we would keep Lexie and Lanie safe. We can't talk about them out here like this. Let's go." I heard their footsteps as they left.

When the coast was clear, I started to rack my brain. Project Gemini was no longer on the premises. It wasn't that they were just gone from their room, they left the territory. The boss wasn't going to like this. The worst part, I had no idea who the f**k Brent was or which pack he came from. How the hell were we supposed to retrieve Project Gemini now? I couldn't go back to the boss with this information, he would kill me.

I thought long and hard for a minute and realized I would have to get close to this group of young adults before we left. The problem, unfortunately, was that they already knew. The Alpha already had a target on our heads and knew we weren't friendly. This was the boss' fault. He allowed his pride and ignorance to get the best of him, just as I predicted. Now we were completely f****d. No one trusted us.

It was then I realized that I had been played by the Beta and Gamma of Blue Lake. They also knew the girls were being moved and kept me preoccupied with entertaining me with false information that would give out any clues. We were too late from the moment we stepped foot on this land. There was no way in hell that anyone from this pack, or any of the other packs, would trust us. We had to leave before we were caught or worse, killed. The boss may be a strong wolf to me-a human-but he would be no match for a pack of this magnitude.

I f*****g hate werewolves. {Archimedes' P.O.V.}

Levi was a f*****g imbecile. I knew bringing humans into my operation was a bad idea, but it was the only way to prevent myself from being caught. Trafficking the supernatural was never my intent, let alone my own kind. I did it once because I needed the money, but once I got a taste and realized how easy it was for someone in my seat of power to conduct such business under the radar, I gave my life to it. My pack has no idea what I do, and it wouldn't matter. Because anyone that finds out is either trafficked or killed. Being a small pack from Canada had its many perks; having a base of operations in the middle of nowhere, away from the packhouse, made things even easier. I knew it was a risky business, being an Alpha that trafficked the supernatural, but that's why I brought in the humans. A scapegoat, if you will- if I were ever to be found out.

I still couldn't believe that I had Project Gemini within my grasp, only for them to be hidden away somewhere within this ginormous pack. I would never find them in time, let alone figure out a way to gain their trust to come with me. Or convince that young mutt of an Alpha to hand them over willingly. I knew that he didn't believe my story about the girls being run-aways. He would have handed them over without proof or needing verification. And that other Alpha, Richard, I think his name was, he was no better. Sticking his nose in where it didn't belong. And don't get me started on that old fart, Jonah. f*****g Elders. Always getting involved in a business that has nothing to do with them.

For this exact reason, the packs in Canada rose against the Elders. They're weak and can't fight for their tails; the whole lot of them slow, stupid, and senile. Elders in Canada have no say in pack business the way they do here in America. They know better. They know they would be slaughtered if they tried to dictate our packs. There is no loyalty to the Elders of Canada, and they know it.

"Marvin." I looked up from where I had stared off into the trees to see Xavier walking towards me.

"What do you want, Hentz?"

"I did what you asked. I got you an invite to Blue Lake for the Alpha's meeting."

"Your point being?" I asked snobbishly, even though I knew exactly what had prompted him to say this.

"I upheld my end of the deal. You told me if I got you to Blue Lake, you would tell me who you sold Jennifer to!"

"Tsk tsk tsk, Xavier. You heard incorrectly. I said if you got me here and I got what I came for, I would give you the buyer of your precious Jennifer, or ), as the other prisoners liked to call her. But I don't have what I want yet, so you don't get to know that information." "YOU SICK BASTARD!!! WHERE IS MY DAUGHTER!?!" he roared whilst grabbing me by the throat and pinning me against the tree.

"Now, now, Xavier. If you kill me, you will never see your precious Jennifer ever again," I croaked out as he strangled me.

"I should kill you. I should f*****g kill you for what you've done. How do I even know my baby is still alive!?"

"You don't." I gave him an evil smirk as I watched him succumb to an internal battle with himself. After a few seconds of personal deliberation, he released me. I stood straight up and fixed my collar. "Xavier, I would watch that temper of yours. If you ever want to see Jennifer again, you will continue to help me until I get what I want."

"And what is it that you want, Marvin?" he gritted his teeth.

"That's for me to know, and for you to never find out," I replied and walked away, laughing. Stupid fool.

{Xavier's P.O.V.}

I wanted to rip his despicable head off. My wolf, Zeus, was consumed by bloodlust and on the verge of coming to the surface to kill him, but I held him back. As much as we both wanted to see him dead, he was the only one who knew where my daughter was. Jennifer, my precious baby girl he kidnapped over 20 years ago.

I didn't want to help him get here, truly. But he gave me no choice when he approached my wife and me two weeks ago on our territory. We didn't believe him at first when he introduced himself as the man who had our baby girl kidnapped at two years old. That all changed once he showed us pictures of her as she grew up, held captive in a cage her entire life. I knew I had no choice but to do what he asked if I wanted to get her back. When he revealed that she had already been sold, I wanted to kill him, but his life was spared when he told me he knew who had her because he kept records of all his sales.

I had to give in to his demands and get him to Blue Lake. Luckily, this year's Alpha's meeting was going to be at Blue Lake, so it worked out. He was able to come here, participate, make a few allies, and get what he came for, and in exchange, I would receive the information as to the whereabouts of my baby girl. But it didn't work. Whatever happened between yesterday and now, whatever or whoever he was after was no longer here. I had to put an end to this madness, but I needed to find Jennifer first. "Alpha Xavier?" I looked up to see an unfamiliar face.

"Who are you?"

"My name is Lorenzo Rossi, and you have some explaining to do," he said as Alphas Wyatt and Richard came up from behind him. "Richard ..."

"Xavier, what have you done?