My Miracle Luna
Their Gemini Wolves Chapter 38

{Lanie's

P.O.V.}

Lexie, Brent, Chad, and I sat in Richard's office while we awaited his return. I guess I should refer to it as Chad's office now; despite the announcement of Chad as his new Alpha, Richard was still Alpha for the time being. We only heard from him briefly, and he did not give us any details. Only that both Rylee and Allie's packs had defeated those who were attacking them. Richard was on his way back along with Maverick and Jennifer. Lexie and I were confused as to why Jennifer was coming back with them, but Richard simply mentioned that he would explain in detail when they returned home.

"What's taking them so long?" Brent asked impatiently.

"Calm down, man. Richard said that it would be a bit since they needed to make a pit stop at Blue Lake to drop off Marlon," Chad responded.

"Marvin," Lexie and I corrected him.

"Does it honestly matter?" Chad asked us. Lexie and I just rolled our eyes in response. Just then, Chad's eyes turned cloudy for a moment. "Perfect timing. They're back." We all waited with anticipation and a few short minutes later, Richard, Maverick, and J appeared. She clung to Maverick and kept staring at the floor; she looked so defeated and weak.

"Oh my god, what happened, J!?" I exclaimed and ran over to her. Lexie was right next to me. She collapsed into our arms, and we carried her over to the sitting area. She sobbed straight into the pillows.

"Richard, what happened?" Lexie asked, turning around to face him.

"The Desert Moon Beta's visions came true. We were attacked, but it wasn't by Xavier. It was by Marvin." We all looked at him confused. "Marvin's had the help of a dark witch. Turns out she's Olivia's evil sister. One sister a light witch, the other sister a dark witch. Apparently, the traitor of Blue Lake, Sierra, had been spying on Wyatt and Dorian's pack discussions under the radar. She gave all the information she knew about Rylee, Allie, and the others to Xavier in exchange for safe haven. Xavier then tried to bargain with Marvin. Jennifer, in exchange for the information he received. Xavier was double-crossed, and Marvin ambushed his pack."

"What!?" we all shouted.

"Sir, what about J's parents?" Brent asked.

"They're dead," Maverick replied softly. We all whirled back and stared at him as though we heard him incorrectly. "Along with their entire pack. Black Moon no longer exists." Lexie and I looked down at J who was still sobbing.

"Oh, J," I bent down and helped her sit up. She immediately cried into my chest. Maverick looked absolutely devastated seeing her falling apart, somehow even more fractured than before. The plan to have her heal at home was no longer an option. Her home no longer existed.

"J, do you want to go to your guest room?" Lexie asked. J nodded slowly. "Do you want us to take you, or do you want Maverick to take you?"

"I don't care," she trailed off. Her voice was so quiet we could barely hear her.

"Luna, Beta, I'll take her," Maverick asserted. He gently took her from us, but she was so weak, she could barely stand. Maverick lifted her up as if she weighed nothing and left the office.

When the door closed, Lexie and I looked back at Richard. His eyes were cast down, and he was shaking his head.

"Sir, did you find Xavier's body?" Chad asked.

"No, and I don't think there will be any bodies."

"What? Why?" Lexie asked.

"Before we left, some of Dorian's men found a large pile of ash in a hole that was about ten feet wide and 20 feet deep." I gasped loudly and covered my mouth.

"Are you saying they burned the bodies?" Brent asked.

"It appears so," Richard replied.

"We would have seen smoke coming from that way then. Even if Black Moon is a few hours away, a smoke that large would catch our attention, or at least human attention!" Chad shouted.

"We believe the dark witch burned the bodies with dark magic given that we didn't see any smoke of that magnitude," Richard responded.

"What's going to happen to J?" Lexie asked.

"Well, she is technically Maverick's mate, which makes her the future Gamma female of this pack. Unfortunately, her body is too weak to take on such a role, for now," Richard answered. "For the time being, we need to be here to support her emotionally and physically. We need to get her health back in order, and she is going to have to decide if she wants to be with Maverick or not." Lexie and I just looked at each other and gave a knowing look. Thinking back to last night when her wolf, Zahara, said she would protect Jennifer from everyone and everything, even Maverick, made us worry.

"Girls, is there something you need to tell us?" Chad prodded. I bit my bottom lip, and Lexie avoided eye contact.

"Lex, I may not have known you long, but you have an obvious tell, baby," Brent told her.

"A what?"

"A tell. It means you do the same thing over and over when you're trying to lie or hide something. You avoid eye contact."

"You're the exact same, Lanie," Chad said to me. "You bite the side of your bottom lip." Lexie and I both glared at them. They didn't budge. Lexie and I looked at each other again and caved.

"Fine!" I shouted and threw my hands up in defeat. "Last night, we met J's wolf. She came out suddenly and felt like she had to protect J."

"Protect her from what?" Chad asked.

"From everyone and everything. Including Maverick," Lexie replied.

"Why him? He's her mate," Brent said.

"Psychological trauma." We all looked at Richard. "The poor child has been in captivity practically all of her life. And from what we heard Marvin say about her, she was used as a s*x slave to try and produce more Jade wolves. In her mind, all men are evil, and all men will hurt her." "Holy f**k," Chad muttered under his breath.

"Damn," Brent grumbled and rubbed the back of his neck.

"We convinced her to go home to heal, mentally and physically with her parents. We felt that would be best for her, and Maverick agreed. But given what you've told us happened to them, that's obviously not going to happen anymore," I said and put my hands on my hips.

"We're afraid that if her wolf continues to think Maverick is a threat, she may force Jennifer to reject him. Or Zahara may even do it herself," Lexie continued.

"Do they even know the concept of rejection?" Chad asked. We both shrugged. We had no idea if she knew or not.

"I mean, maybe not. We didn't even know. At least, not until Rylee explained everything to us a few weeks ago. But she said that rejection was painful for both people involved. Neither one of us wanted that honestly. We were just afraid to find mates so suddenly," I replied. "Whether she knows it or not, we cannot force her to accept Maverick. Just like we couldn't force Lanie and Lexie to accept the two of you," Richard stared point-blank at Chad and Brent. "You two will need to talk to Maverick to convince him to give Jennifer space when she asks for it. If her wolf is appearing and needing to protect her, then there is no telling what she would do." Chad and Brent nodded. "And girls, if you two can try and convince Jennifer that Maverick is a good man and that he would never hurt his mate, that would be very helpful as well."

"Us!?" we both said pointing to ourselves as we exchanged puzzled glances.

"Yes. Just as Rylee did for the two of you, you will need to do for Jennifer. She is your friend after all. In this pack, you two are going to be the only ones she can trust even remotely right now. Her family is dead. A family she never even had the chance to know. As of this moment, you two are her family." Lexie and I nodded and let out deep breaths.

"Hey, speaking of family. Did you guys ever find out if Marvin was the s***m donor?" Brent asked. That was a good question.

"Holy f**k, are you serious? ... yeah, I got it ... No, it's okay, Wyatt. It's understandable... Yeah, I'll relay the message... Okay, take care," Chad hung up the phone after speaking with Wyatt. He looked at all of us and his face was ghostly white.

"Chad, what did Wyatt say?" I asked him. It had been several hours now, and Chad finally felt it was a good time to call Wyatt to see if they got the answers we were all seeking. Chad looked over to Richard and Brent, and he just didn't seem very enthusiastic to tell us. "Chad, what did he say!?" I asked again. Chad took a deep breath and made me come sit on his lap. Lexie and Brent were on the couch in his office, while Richard sat in front of him at his desk.

"This isn't easy to digest, but it really changes the perspective on everything," he started to say. "First off, Rylee got the answers she needed. Secondly, it caused such an emotional response that she used her powers and decapitated Marvin."

"Oh my," Richard gasped. "What exactly did he say?"

"Rylee asked a series of questions to Marvin's wolf by using her ability to force his conscious forward. She knew that Marvin wouldn't answer, but she felt that his wolf would. And he did ..." "But..." Richard inputted.

"When Rylee got to the part about whether her mother was indeed the one kidnapped, it turns out that is true. So, Rylee and the girls are in fact, half-sisters. However..."

"Dude, quit beating around the f*****g bush and tell us already!" Brent demanded. Chad growled at him. "Sorry, man. No disrespect, but just rip off the band-aid already."

"Marvin isn't the s***m donor. Apparently, he killed his Alpha in a challenge and took over. He also wasn't the one who initially kidnapped the girls when they were infants from The Lunar Kingdom. He had enlisted the help of another Alpha, a true Alpha. That Alpha was the s***m donor. He's the one who chose the female, which in this case was Rylee's mom."

"Who was the Alpha?" Richard asked. Chad looked at him and exhaled deeply once again.

"Sir, it was Eric Patterson." Richard's eyes widened and he perked up. He looked at Lexie and me with a puzzled look. "s**t," was all he could say.

"Hold the f*****g phone!" Brent shouted. "Does this fucker have any relation to that bastard, Ash!?"

"Yeah, Eric was his father," Chad responded. Brent growled ferociously, looked at Lexie and then at me, and his eyes turned black. Brent stormed out of the office.

"What just happened?" Lexie asked, utterly shocked.

"Things just got very complicated for everyone, especially Rylee and Brent," Richard said rubbing the back of his neck.

"I don't understand," I said.

"Baby, Ash was the Alpha that kidnapped Brent and the others when they were human," Chad said. I just shook my head, not understanding.

"Girls," Richard got our attention. "Eric, was the Alpha of the Halfmoon pack before he gave it to his son, Ash. Halfmoon was the pack that slaughtered Rylee's parents and her pack and turned her into a child slave." Lexie and I gaped at him. "Ash and his sister, Emma, along with a traitor from Blue Lake orchestrated the kidnapping of Brent, along with 100 or so other humans. They used them as experiments and tried to take down Blue Lake. That is another story in and of itself; my point being is that Ash is the reason Brent is a wolf. He was forcibly turned without consent, and he witnessed many of the humans captured die during the transition. Several of the Blue Lake pack members, and others here as well, were part of that group."

"I still don't get it," Lexie said, unable to follow the latest plot twist.

"Lexie, Eric is Ash's father. He was the s***m donor for you two," Chad said trying to get us to understand. Lexie and I looked at each other. We both understood that Eric was the man who turned Rylee's life upside down. And from what we both just heard, he was the man that violated Rylee's...

"Oh god!" I shouted when I finally understood what this meant.

"What?" Lexie said. She may be the more outgoing one between the two of us, but for all the wit and street smarts she possessed, she could be really dense at times.

"Lexie..." my eyes brimmed with tears when it hit me what this might mean for her.

"What, Lanie!? Tell me!" Things like this really didn't click for her.

"The Alpha who turned Brent into a wolf, Ash."

"Yeah, what about him?"

"He's the son of the man who kidnapped and ... you know... got Rylee's mom pregnant with us."

"Yeah, I got that."

"Lexie! You can be so stupid sometimes!" I was so aggravated at her. Give her a puzzle to solve, she'll do it in ten minutes. But give her anything related to science, she blanked. "Eric is Ash's father, and he's our biological father as well!" Lexie stared off into space as she processed everything I just said. Little by little her eyes widened, and her breathing became erratic.

"Oh my god. The Alpha that destroyed Brent's life is our half-brother." Tears fell from her eyes in record time. "My mate hates me." I pulled her into a hug and looked at Chad and Richard. Their eyes were on the ground. What was this going to mean for Lexie?