My Miracle Luna
Their Gemini Wolves Chapter 60

{Chad's P.O.V.}

Things escalated quickly after Lexie unleashed her power on the unsuspecting pack members, causing them to suddenly disappear. I was glad I knew what was coming since I've witnessed this phenomenon before. In the split-second that it took for her powers to take effect, I saw Lorelai and Damon trying to sneak away while everyone was distracted. I swiftly mind linked Trent and another guard to stand by the door to make sure they didn't leave. "Move, Trent!" Damon shouted. Trent stared at him, unwavering, and crossed his arms. "I said, move!"

"No."

"What?"

"Alpha's orders. You and your sister aren't allowed to leave this room. And I'm not even going to ask about what happened to the dozen or so pack members I saw come in here," Trent announced as he glanced over at me. I just shook my head. "Where did they go?" I asked Maverick, tugging on his arm.

"I have no clue," he responded and then looked at Brent and me.

"We'll explain when they get back. It's a long story," Brent replied. Maverick and J left it at that and didn't ask any more questions.

"YOU CAN'T KEEP US IN HERE! YOU'RE HOLDING AGAINST OUR RIGHT!" Lorelai screamed.

"Actually, we're not. You attacked us, and how should I put this? The pack members are on a short journey to find out the truth," I told her.

"Where did they go anyway! What did that freak do to them!?" she shouted, pointing at Lexie.

"I f*****g swear to the moon goddess, if you call Lexie a freak one more time, I'm going to f**k up your already f****d up face! Even the monster of Frankenstein will be better looking than you!" Brent snarled at her.

"Threatening to harm a pack member is against pack laws!" Damon asserted.

"Only if it's not warranted," Richard specified. "But the two of you have done more than enough to warrant a hundred threats from them, as well as from Jackson and myself. So unless you want to keep adding to your sentences, I suggest you two keep quiet. As the human Miranda Warning states, you have the right to remain silent."

"Richard, I think you've grown soft in your old age," Jackson joked with him.

"You have no room to talk, you're older than me," Richard snarked back. "By a month."

"Still older." They kept bickering back and forth when, suddenly, one by one, pack members began to reappear in the rec room out of thin air.

"What the hell!?" Damon and Lorelai shouted in unison. As each of the pack members started to regain their composure, they would look over at Lexie, who was now back to normal. Some were a mixture of scared and shocked, while others seemed impressed and elated. But one thing they all had in common was that they believed what they saw with their own eyes, and all snapped their heads towards Damon and Lorelai.

"What!?" Lorelai scowled, obviously uncomfortable being stared at in this manner. Some of the pack members glared hard and even growled at her. "Why are you growling at me!? You're acting as if I did something wrong!"

"That's because you did!" one of the older female pack members criticized her.

"I didn't do anything!"

"We saw it with our own eyes!" another argued back.

"Yeah, whatever the Beta Female did, it allowed us to see what exactly you and the brother did to the ranked members! You're disgusting and vile! To think, I almost felt sorry for you and your stupid lies about being the chosen mate to Alpha Chad!"

"Your brother is even worse! I saw what he did to the Blue Lake Luna and what she did in retaliation! You should have been banished for your crimes, Damon, not locked up! You're lower than the scum on the bottom of my shoe!" an older male spat at him. And I mean, literally spat. The rest of the pack members chimed in and started to talk s**t to Lorelai and Damon, accusing them of committing crimes that warranted death, such as attacking the Beta female and fighting with the Luna.

"LIES!!! THEY'RE ALL LIES!!!" Lorelai shrieked as two of the females grabbed her by the hair and pulled her down to her knees. Male pack members jumped on Damon and also forced him to kneel.

"GET OFF OF ME!! UNHAND ME, YOU f*****g FOOLS!!" Damon screamed.

"WHAT'S HAPPENING IN HERE!?" someone screeched. We all looked towards the door, and Torrance was standing there, staring at the scene in front of her. "Why are my children being apprehended by pack members!?" "Torrance, you kids are lower than filth, and they have to pay for their crimes!" someone told her.

"WHAT DID YOU TWO DO NOW!?" she screamed at them. She looked over at me and the others, and then she saw Richard and Jackson as well. "What did they do? Please, tell me."

"Well, where to start," Maverick responded. "Let's see, they insulted us, cursed at us, said that we're undeserving of our ranks, and called Richard and Jackson here old farts," he counted off their crimes while putting up a corresponding finger on his hand. "WHAT!?" she bellowed and looked down at her children.

"Oh, let's not forget, Lorelai lunged at Lexie but ended up fighting with Lanie. Then she lied to everyone, saying that Lexie and Lanie attacked her," Brent added.

"Right, and there's also the fact that Damon lunged at you and landed some hits on you a few times. But the worst part was that he kicked you while you were down and also lied about it," Maverick concluded.

"Is that everything?" Brent asked sarcastically.

"I think so," Maverick answered. Smartasses, I thought to myself.

Torrance closed her eyes as she took in all of the information presented to her. After a minute or so, she opened her eyes, and they were black with rage. She was silent for a minute, but she suddenly turned around and smacked both Damon and Lorelai across the face, leaving claw marks on their cheeks.

"M-mo-mom!?" Lorelai stammered as she held her cheek and blood seeped through her fingers. Damon was shocked and stayed frozen in his spot, looking at the floor as his face bled.

"You attacked the ranked members!? ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MINDS!?" she roared at them. "I didn't raise you two to be this stupid, this immature, this ... irresponsible, this ... this ... EVIL!!!" "DAD ALWAYS TOLD US TO FIGHT FOR WHAT WE BELIEVED IN!" Damon shouted at her.

"He always told me to fight for what I want!" Lorelai cried out as well while still holding her cheek.

"Your father!? Are you seriously still going on about what he told you!? HE'S f*****g DEAD BECAUSE OF HIS OWN STUPID DECISIONS!" she spat. "I shouldn't even be surprised that you two are just as stupid as he was!" she ridiculed them. "You're our mother, you're supposed to be on our side," Lorelai muttered.

"No, Lorelai, that's not how parenting works! Parenting is making sure you raise your children to be decent and kind people! Parenting is about putting your kids on the right path in life so that they know right from wrong! Being a parent is about pushing your kids to do what they're passionate about WITHOUT having to step all over others to be successful! There is no such thing as taking sides when you're a parent! Being a parent means not always making your kids happy. If your kid f***s up, like the two of you have, then it's the parent's job to discipline them before someone else does, before someone else kills them for doing something stupid! I did all of the above, and yet it seems that your father undermined my parenting, and he went about it the complete opposite. Now, I'm not surprised that he's dead! He got himself killed, regardless of whether Patterson killed him!"

"You should be dying too!" Damon yelled at her. "Your mate is dead, and yet, you're just peachy! You're perfectly fine! How is that possible!?"

"Want to know why? Because your father had broken our bond long before he betrayed this pack. He betrayed me one too many times as it is, but I forgave him for the sake of you two. Because I didn't want to raise you two in a broken family!" "What are you talking about!?" Lorelai shouted.

"Your father broke our bond the day he cheated on me with a human." The entire room gasped. And I mean, the entire room. The pack members, the girls, us guys, and even Trent and the guard who were standing by at the door. "Torrance?" Richard called out to her.

"I'm sorry, Richard, I should have told you," she confessed to him without looking in his direction.

"When did he-"

"When Damon was two, and before I found out I was pregnant with Lorelai."

"NO!" Lorelai screamed. "YOU'RE LYING! DAD WOULD NEVER! HE COVETED AND RESPECTED THE MATE BOND! HE WOULD NEVER CHEAT ON YOU! YOU'RE LYING! YOU'RE A f*****g LIAR!" Without saying a word Torrance knelt in front of her daughter and pulled her turtleneck to the side. Lorelai took in a sharp breath.

"That can't be," Damon whispered. Torrance stood up and faced all of us while still pulling her turtleneck to the side.

"Torrance, when..." Jackson started to ask.

"Not long after he died, I'm assuming," she replied. "I didn't feel the pain one would normally feel when their mate passes, but I did feel this start to disappear," she responded, referring to her smooth neckline.

"A mark can disappear?" Lanie asked.

"Only under extreme circumstances, but it's very, very rare," Richard answered.

"Holy s**t, their mom was in a bondless bond?" Maverick questioned, scratching the back of his head.

"But we never suspected anything. Dad was always with us!" Damon exclaimed.

"He was only with us because his human lover died during childbirth," Torrance replied, making the room gasp once again.

"Wait, are you saying that we have a hybrid half-sibling out there somewhere!?" Lorelai questioned.

"No, the child died as well. It was premature and was more human than a werewolf. Since it was born after just five months in the womb, like a werewolf, the organs didn't fully develop. It died only 24 hours after being born. Your father was devastated. I had never seen him cry before. Ever. He didn't even cry when I rejected him for infidelity. He left to be with her when he found she was pregnant. He only came back to me because he found out I had Lorelai."

"What!?"

"Hold on, are you saying that Thornton didn't even know you were pregnant with Lorelai?" Jackson asked for clarification, and she shook her head. "He found out from another pack member whom he was still in contact with that I had given birth out of wedlock. Thornton came back because the pup was a girl. Apparently, the child he lost was also a girl, and he felt that the moon goddess was giving him the daughter he thought he wouldn't have."

"Are you saying that he only came back for Lorelai!?" Damon exclaimed.

"At first, but, over time, he came to love you and became the father that I always hoped he would be. Unfortunately, our bond was never the same. It never came back, even though I took back the rejection. I suppose it was because he didn't come back for me." All of us were silent, and things had taken a really awkward turn. What should have been an easy vote to banish or kill Damon and Lorelai turned into a TV drama in the rec room.

"Is this where people normally say they wish they had popcorn?" Lanie asked me. I turned to her in shock. "What?"

"I did everything I could to provide for my family, to give you two the best home you could possibly have, and yet, it all seems that it was for nothing. Because no matter what I say, you two will always put your father before me. You always have." "What are you talking about!?" Lorelai spat.

"When's my birthday?" Torrance grilled them. They looked at each other and didn't answer. "What's my maiden name? What's my favorite color? How old am I? What's my favorite food? What's my favorite flower?" She kept shooting off questions to them, but they couldn't answer a single one. I felt horrible for Torrance. I really did. As she was firing off these questions, I was mentally answering them about my mom. I wasn't the son of the year, but I knew my mom, at the very least. She was the one who carried me for five months and gave me life. I knew firsthand how hard it was to raise a child. After all, I have a son of my own. I even watched my sister raise her three pups. It was daunting, but it was so rewarding. "Wow, what worthless kids," someone muttered.

"Pst," Maverick got my attention. He showed me his phone, and it looked like he had pulled up the pack files on all current pack members. My eyes widened at what I saw.

"No way," I said, and he just nodded. Now I felt really bad.

"What's going on?" Brent asked. He, Lanie, Lexie, and J hovered over the phone and also saw what I just saw. They all gawked at me, and I could see the sympathy in all of their faces. Even J. "What are we going to do?" Lanie asked. I bit my bottom lip and thought about it.

"Torrance," I called out to her.

"Yes, Alpha?" she turned to me.

"The pack members who witnessed their crimes will vote on their punishment. Either they will be banished, or they will be given the death sentence. If they're banished, it will be effective immediately." "And if they're to be executed?" she asked with tears in her eyes.

"I will stay their execution for 24 hours so that you can spend one final day with them, but that's only if you want to," I informed her. More tears welled in her eyes, and she nodded her head once.

"Chad, do you know what you're doing?" Richard asked me and I nodded my head. I showed him Maverick's phone, and he, too, sympathized. He nodded his head.

"If you vote for Damon and Lorelai to be banished, raise your hands," I instructed the pack members. Not a single person moved.

"Banishing them is showing leniency they don't deserve!"

"Yeah! What's not to say they won't follow in their father's footsteps and go find Patterson as well to get back at us! We can't risk retaliation! "Here, here!"

"Okay, quiet please," I told them. "All in favor of the death-" I didn't even have to finish my statement before everyone's hands shot up in the air.

"YOU f*****g BASTARDS!!!" Damon roared and shifted into his wolf, throwing Trent and the rest of the men, who were holding him down, off him. They were scattered across the room, and some had even landed on top of Richard and Jackson. Women screamed and retreated while at the same time letting go of Lorelai. She, too, shifted into her wolf and wasted no time in lunging at Lanie and Lexie. I pushed Lexie towards Brent, and I grabbed Lanie and pulled her back to avoid the attack. Nova, Lorelai's wolf, crashed into the coffee table, and it shattered under her weight, impaling her with some glass shards. It was enough to injure her, but not enough to kill her.

I placed Lanie behind me and shifted in Havoc while Brent shifted into Chaos and Mav into Arkos. An all-out war broke out in the rec room, and the pack members ran for their lives, knowing they were the targets because of how they voted. Damon got a hold of the older woman by the leg and pulled her back while chomping down on it. She screamed as he literally launched her across the room. Her body hit the wall at the wrong angle, breaking her neck and killing her instantly. You could hear a cry from inside the packhouse -she was someone's mate.

Lorelai got up from where she landed and had her sights on Lanie. Lanie didn't waste any time as she, too, shifted into Atlanta and stood her ground. She shifted faster than ever before, and she was ready for a fight. Atlanta was bigger than Nova but not by much. Havoc stood in front of Atlanta to protect her.

Chaos was now in a standoff with Damon's wolf, whose name I can't remember. Lexie had also shifted back into Brooklyn, and I was surprised to see I had shifted into Zahara. Before Brent and Damon could even start their fight, a scruffy, cream-colored wolf jumped on Damon's back and bit into his shoulder. Damon wailed in pain and rolled over to crush the other wolf into the ground. He didn't kill him, but he knocked the wind out of him. Damon went to stomp on the cream-colored wolf, but Chaos tackled him, and they started to grapple.

Last chance, Chad! Leave that b***h, and take me as your chosen!

Stop this now, Lorelai! I'm trying to give you and your brother one last chance to be with your mother!

We don't want it! She gave up the right to be our mother the moment she slapped us!

How can you not see that she only cares about your wellbeing!? Your father didn't! He came back for his own selfish reasons!

He came back for me! What difference does it make!

No, he didn't! He came back for himself. He abandoned you, Damon, and your mom for someone who wasn't his mate! You say that he coveted the mate bond, yet he didn't respect his own with the woman who brought you into this world on her own! Damon was already alive, and your dad had no problem leaving him behind for a woman who wasn't meant for him!

My mother is lying! My father would never! He loved me and Damon! She's just jealous that he loved us more than her!

How can you say that about your own mother!?

Stop chastising me, Chad! It's beneath you! All of this is beneath you! She's beneath you! TAKE ME! CHOOSE ME! LOVE ME!

Unlike your late father, Lorelai, I actually do covet the mate bond. I love Lanie! I even loved Terrine! She was my first mate. I loved her with every fiber of my being, but just like your father, she betrayed our bond to have a rank! And now, look where she is!? She's six feet under, goddess only knows where! She left Killian without a mother because she was selfish! But you know what the irony of it all is? Had she stuck with me, she just might have become Luna!

I DON'T CARE ABOUT TERRINE! OR LANIE! I ONLY CARE ABOUT MYSELF! AND I WANT YOU!

Lorelai, stop this bullshit and stand down! I don't want to hurt you!

You can't hurt me! You love me! I know you do!

There was no getting through to her. She was completely non-compos mentis, and it was going to be the death of her. She reared back on her hind legs, but her sights weren't on me, they were set on the person behind me-Lanie. I, LORELAI LEDGER, HEREBY CHALLENGE THE LUNA FOR THE RIGHT TO MATE WITH THE ALPHA, CHAD MCEVOY!

Lorelai had announced her challenge through the pack link, and the fighting came to a screeching halt. Paws were mid-air, and mouths were wide open with jaws hitting the floor, both human and wolf alike. This was not good.