My Miracle Luna
Their Gemini Wolves Chapter 70

{Rylee's P.O.V.}

"Rylee!... Rylee!... Rylee!!"

I stirred awake when someone kept shouting in my ear and shaking me. I slowly opened my eyes and was met with a face I never wanted to see that close... ever. "AH!" I shouted and pushed Kendrick away from me. "Finally!" he exclaimed.

"Dammit, Kendrick! Don't ever put your face that close to mine again!"

"Well, it's either my gorgeous face or that of Ash Patterson." I caught my breath, scowled at what he said, and shuddered in disgust. "Yeah, that's what I thought," Kendrick retorted at my reaction. "Where are we?"

"f**k if I know."

"Where's Melody? I heard that she was taken too."

"She's not here with us, as you've already noticed. She's being held in another cell, but she's close by. That I know for sure."

"Are you able to link with her?" I asked while holding my head from the sudden dizziness.

"Yeah. She said that there are others with her. A few of our pack members, including Aunt Zoe." I snapped my head up at him when I heard the last part.

"Zoe? She was taken too?"

"Yeah. I'm sure Uncle Felix is throwing a fit. Jason and Tasha too."

"Who else?" I asked him as the headache quickly faded.

"Dot says it's a handful of pack members from every pack in the region. Mostly relatives of ranked members."

"Why are we separated from them?"

"I think it's because I wasn't planned, and you, well, you're kind of obvious," Kendrick replied. I pursed my lips, knowing he was right. "Are you good?" he asked me. I nodded my head and stood to my feet, only to find that I was chained to the wall. "What the f**k?" I thought out loud as I looked behind me.

"Oh yeah, did I forget to mention that we are both chained to the wall?" he mocked.

"This isn't silver," I replied as I surveyed the cell. Kendrick was chained to the wall opposite of me, and our chains were equidistant from the walls to the center.

"Yeah, it's something stronger. It doesn't hurt us, but it sure as hell can hold us. I've already tried to break it," he responded as I was yanking on the chain with all of my might.

"Ugh!" I said, completely exasperated. "What the hell? Why.won't.this.break!?" I enunciated each word as I kept pulling on the chain.

"Because it's made out of the strongest steel alloy," someone explained from behind us. I turned around to see an unknown female. "And it's backed with dark magic," she continued while looking at her nails and smirking at me. "You sad little werewolves aren't strong enough to break it."

I'll show her who's sad and little. Kaleigh snarled in the back of my mind.

"Who are you?" I asked her. I tried to read her mind but couldn't.

"Don't even try to read my mind, little wolf. I know that you have mind-reading capabilities, so I cast a little spell on this cell to prevent you from doing so," she informed me.

"Then answer my question. Who the f**k are you?"

"My name is Morgan. And you, you're out of your league when it comes to me."

"You must be the dark witch that's been helping the Pattersons," Kendrick stated.

"Aw, look who has a brain after all!" she ridiculed him.

She is weak.

What do you mean, Kaleigh?

She may be a dark witch, but I don't think she's as powerful as she claims to be. I think when we are at full strength, we will be able to break through whatever barrier she has put on the cell. Goddess, I hope you're right. Because I'm ready to kill everyone and get home.

Patience, Rylee, remember what our mate said. We can't just go killing everyone. We don't even know how many enemies there are.

I get the feeling that there aren't very many anymore, considering Eric did kill more than two dozen people recently.

"Quit conversing with your wolf!" Morgan shouted at me. "That's all you furballs ever do! Converse with your damn wolves!"

"That's enough, Morgan!" I heard an all-too-familiar voice. I snapped my head towards the dark corner and sure enough, my worst nightmare came forward.

"Hey, if it isn't the little pipsqueak Alpha that likes to hit women!" Kendrick jeered at him. I smacked Kendrick with the back of my hand since this was no time to be stirring the pot. Ash calmly approached the side of the cell where I was standing. He then stretched his hand through the cell bars as if to caress me.

"Don't touch me," I growled while swatting his hand away. Before I could distance myself out of his reach, he lunged forward and grabbed the back of my head while yanking my hair towards him. Kendrick snarled and tried to come towards me, but the chain prevented him from getting any closer, and I was just outside of his grasp.

"LET GO OF HER!"

"Or what?" Ash spat and looked at me. The lust in his eyes made me want to vomit. He yanked my head back further while pulling me towards him, and that's when he put his face as close as the cell bars would allow him. He inhaled deeply, and I could smell his sudden arousal. It smelled like a landfill. "Goddess, you smell good. Though, it's a little different," he said, making me freeze. "You used to smell like roses, but now, you smell like roses and champagne. If champagne had a scent, it would be you," he continued. I gulped silently, praying to the moon goddess that he didn't realize that my change in smell was coming from my unborn pup.

As he was practically daydreaming while inhaling my scent, he loosened his grip on me just enough to where I could move my head. I looked him up and down, and it was then I saw that the years have not been good to him. Even though Ash was more of average height, he was never one to let himself go. He had pride in his looks and his body. But now, he wasn't just short; he was skinny and had barely any muscle left. "What happened to you?" was all I could say to him. He opened his eyes slowly and stared at me with pure hatred.

"What happened to me? What happened to me!? How can you be just as stupid as you ever were!?" he shouted and tried to throw me to the ground-keyword tried. I barely tripped over my feet but caught myself. I turned and looked at him, and I realized just how weak he really was. "You happened to me! You and that goody-two-shoes know-it-all Wyatt Valencia!"

"Are you seriously blaming me?" I huffed. "None of this would have happened had you not kidnapped hundreds of humans and turned them into super-rogues to attack my pack!"

"NONE OF THIS WOULD HAVE HAPPENED HAD YOU JUST ACCEPTED ME AS YOUR MATE!"

"God, this again! You rejected me first! REMEMBER!?"

"YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO ACCEPT IT!"

"Are you for real right now, Ash!? After all of the s**t you and your family put me through for all those years, did you honestly expect me to accept you as my mate!? I told you that even if you hadn't rejected me, I never would have accepted you as my mate! Even if it wasn't you, I was planning on leaving Halfmoon after your Alpha ceremony!"

"You what?"

"You heard me. I would have rather been a rogue than been your mate, or anyone's mate in that pack for that matter. The only thing that stopped me from becoming a rogue was Wyatt and my bond to him." "YOU WERE MINE FIRST!!!"

"Get over yourself, Ash! I wasn't yours first. I'm pretty sure that Wyatt already told you countless times that he and I were mated to each other long before I ever went to Halfmoon. He wasn't lying. Wyatt knew I was his mate when he was 18, and I was only ten. He knew about it before your dad challenged my dad. Or, I should say murdered my dad."

"YOU'RE LYING!"

"No, I'm not. You see, Ash, unlike you, Wyatt and I are both pure-blooded Alphas, and we both come from a long line of pure-blooded Alphas. That is what allowed both of us to be drawn to each other, even though I was only a child back then. I was in love with Wyatt before I even knew what love was. But after suffering through what your family did to me, I thought he was a figment of my imagination or someone I dreamed of as a child."

"It's true," Kendrick chimed in. Ash and I both looked in his direction. "When Wyatt took over Blue Lake and chose me as Beta and Jason as Gamma, respectively, he told both of us that we had a Luna already, but she wasn't of age and that we would have to wait several years. Unfortunately, we all thought she died in the Silver Lake slaughter."

"Well, none of that matters anymore! We're already ten steps ahead of him and the other Alphas. Did you honestly think that they could use multiple clones to try and trick us? If there's one thing I learned about Wyatt is that he's a creature of habit," Ash spat at us. I had to admit that he was right about that. Wyatt was a creature of habit. "Figuring out what he was going to do was too easy."

"Figure what out?" Kendrick retorted. "We all know that you had moles in all of the packs. Some banished pack members who went rogue, and some who were still actual pack members. Wyatt may be a creature of habit, but you and your sorry excuse of a father are just as predictable. We know that there is someone else on the inside of one of the packs. That's how you knew the Alphas meeting was a sham and that there would be clones. Someone tipped you off, and it's someone that knew of our plans. That's the only way that your witch b***h here could pull off the tornados." Ash started to clap slowly and obnoxiously.

"I guess you figured it all out, huh?" Ash mocked. "You're right. We did have more moles in the packs."

"What kind of leverage do you have over them!?" I shouted.

"Leverage? What leverage? They're doing this out of their own free will." My eyes widened because I knew for a fact that he wasn't lying.

"What?" Kendrick gaped at him. "Are you saying that these people are willingly betraying their packs!?"

"Yup."

"WHY!?" Kendrick and I both exclaimed.

"Why else? They hate their Alphas. They're tired of only being second or third best or at the bottom of the food chain. They think their pack hierarchies are weak, so when we came a-callin', they came a-walkin' with no strings attached." Kendrick and I looked at each other in shock. "Ken, you know what this means, right?" I asked him.

"Yeah, whoever told Pippi Longstocking here about our plans did it because they wanted to."

"Well, all of this information is nice and all, but I have some spells and potions to work on," Morgan announced and walked away.

"And I have some things to take care of with my father. Even though we're in a very special hiding place, it doesn't mean that your stupid mate won't eventually find us. But by the time he does, he's not going to want you anymore." "What are you talking about?" I demanded.

"By the time that pathetic Wyatt Valencia finds you, you'll be pregnant with my pup. He may have been the one to take your virginity, but I doubt that he knows your body the way I do. I watched you grow up. I watched as your body filled out in all of the right places, even though you were starved half of the time. I know everything about you, Rylee. Or should I call you Ryan?" I glared at him as he licked his lips while checking me out. I had goosebumps all over my body, and Kaleigh made hacking noises in the back of my mind. "If you even think about touching her ..." Kendrick growled.

"Oh, and what are you going to do about it, Beta?"

"It's not him you have to worry about..." Ash turned to face me. Kaleigh had pushed to the surface, and my eyes were pitch black and probably had swirls of silver.

"What the f**k?" Ash stepped back when he saw our eyes.

"If you touch us, I will rip your heart out of your chest and make you eat it!" Kaleigh snarled while gripping the bars and shaking the cell. I could instantly smell fear on Ash. "What do you know about us or our body? You're weak. Your wolf is weak. And we would rather die than let you touch us. Go ahead and run to your daddy, Ash. Without an official Alpha title, you're no longer an Alpha. You're lower than an Omega. You're lower than dirt. You are a rogue." Kaleigh and I said in our voices together. Ash scowled and slowly turned away before running out of wherever the hell we were. After I heard a door close, I let out a deep breath and turned back to face Kendrick. He was staring at me with wide eyes, his brows furrowed, and his lips in the shape of an O. "Why are you looking at me like that?"

"What the f**k was that?" he replied.

"What was what?"

"That! What you just did. How the hell did you and your wolf both speak at the same time!?"

"Doesn't everyone do that?" I asked.

"No, Rylee! Not everyone can do that! I've never seen that!" he walked up to me as close as he could. I met him halfway. "Something tells me that only you can do that because of who you are," he whispered. My eyes widened, and Kaleigh whimpered. "Ah f**k." {Third Person P.O.V.}

As Ash slammed the door behind him, he finally let out the breath he had been holding in out of fear. What Rylee had just done was something he never witnessed before in his entire life. He had never seen or heard a wolf and their human counterpart speak at the same time. It was as if both Rylee and her wolf loathed him so much that they both had to tell him at the same time. If that were the case, then Ash would leave Rylee no choice but to love him. "Wow, she must really hate you," Emma quipped as she stood next to him.

"You were listening!?"

"Listening? No. Watching? Yes. I mean, after all, the cells are under 24-hour surveillance. Just sucks that there's no sound."

"Then how can you possibly know she hates me? What if she was proclaiming her love to me!?"

"IN YOUR f*****g DREAMS, LITTLE BROTHER!" Emma spat at Ash. "Even a deaf man could tell she hates your guts and then some. Her facial expressions were nothing but pure unadulterated hate." "f**k off, Emma!" Ash shouted.

"You sound like a f*****g kid. Grow a f*****g pair and get over her. She's not that great anyway. I mean, okay, fine, she has Alpha blood and is some freaky color wolf that is faster than most wolves. But other than that, what makes her so f*****g special?" she countered with nothing but jealousy in her voice. Ash knew that Emma didn't see or hear what had just happened.

"What does it matter to you anyway? The only thing that matters is that I want her. And I will have her!"

"How?"

"Simple. I'm going to take a page out of Layla's playbook."

"What!? You can't be serious!?"

"Oh, but I am. But, I'm not going to take away her memories."

"If you're not going to take away her memories, what are you going to do?" Emma asked cautiously.

"I'm going to swap them."