The Unclaimed Human Luna
Chapter 57

Conner POV

Conner found himself with 31 of the gypsy wolves. Although most of them were children attached to their mothers, out of those 31, only 13 of them were adults with wolves. The rest were children, whose ages varied from 1 to 17. He smiled at them all, and welcomed them to the Wandering Moon Pack, explained to them that he was currently the Heir to the pack, and he was more than happy to have them accept his pack.

That his father would initiate each and every one of them when they got back, passed on his acceptance from his father, who had expressed his wishes to accept any and all from the New Moon Pack that would want to join his pack. That they were all welcome and homes would be provided for them along with security and protection. With permission for them to re-join their princess once again, when she called them back to her.

Asked them to go and collect any of their belongings that they wanted to take with them, and watched them all wander off to do so. He sent a few warriors with each one for security purposes and to make them feel safe. Asked Adam to go with the young woman behind him, he smiled at her and nodded, the she-wolf blushed bright red and practically bolted away from his Beta.

Which made Adam chuckle a little as he strolled along after her and the two little ones with her. They were calling her sister. She was the oldest left in her family, now responsible for the two of them. He watched on as Adam trailed her and she looked back at him a few times and was beet red each time. Smiled to himself and shook his head ‘I think she likes the look of you, Adam.’ he mind linked to the man.

‘I am dead sexy you know.’ He shot back, amused. ‘The young girls always fall over themselves where I’m concerned.’

Conner laughed but said no more, he had sent him with her on purpose, they were all waiting for the moon to set and he was pretty sure she was going to be Adam’s mate. The reaction to him this close to the full moon was near on a dead giveaway.

He felt an arm drop onto both shoulders and looked from his Gamma to his Dela, who were both grinning after Adam as well. “I don’t think he see’s it.” Brayden chuckled softly.

“Dumbass is blind.” Cameron laughed.

“So, it’s not just me?” Conner asked them.

“No, she got intermittently closer to him as the hours passed. She was also the first one to pick our pack.” Brayden smiled at him. “Didn’t get passed looking at him, I watched her stop and stare up at him, then just drop her eyes, grab her siblings and walk behind him though a fairway and sit down.”

“Seems to me that girls got some good senses.” Cameron nodded.

“It does.” Conner nodded “Though I’m likely in for a beating, he should have been here on the last full moon.”

“Oh, yes, definitely going to get an a*s kicking for that, missed his mate by 3 hours. Could have been loved up and well on his way to knocking her up by now.” Brayden burst out laughing.

“A bit crude.” Conner shook his head, but anything was possible.

“Instant family.” Cameron smiled “how you think he’s going to handle that?”

“Hmm, I think he’ll be fine. He has a younger sister and dotes on her. Just likely treat them like that. Though they are not all going to fit in his suite. Father may just have to let him move into his actual Beta Suite. It’s got what, four bedrooms?”

“Not even that will be big enough.” Brayden chuckled. “He’s gonna need a suite bigger than yours. Going to have three rooms filled right away without having his own yet.”

“Hmm, I guess remodelling is going to happen.” Conner nodded. He was not overly concerned if any of them needed a bigger suite than he had. They would all have however many children they wanted to have.

Felt the moon set as did everyone else here, and looked about. He knew he wouldn’t find anyone, but he was watching his wolves, for that moment, when they got up and went off to scent out their Mate. Saw six of them get up and leave to find what they scented, though not all of them were here. Some were like Adam off helping their new pack members collect their belongings.

Watched as Cameron shot off the mark and Brayden laughed, “Well something got him.”

“Nothing for you, Brayden?”

He saw the man shake his head. “No.” He didn’t seem concerned at all, the man was in no rush, it seemed. Got nudged “You might want to run boss. You got in coming.”

His head whipped around and Adam was running right at him, Conner was gone in a flash though he was smiling, none of them had been wrong obviously “I’m sorry Adam,” he laughed as his Beta chased him all over the place, “ I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry.” He was yelling at him, even Atlas was amused it seemed.

“You selfish bastard.” Adam roared at him and then was yelling at him about giving him a beating as he chased him all over the place. Several of their pack members were laughing at the two of them. Conner shot himself right behind the young she-wolf that was gifted to Adam as he saw her walking this way, picked her clean up and held her out to him “Here, she’s yours’ man.” She was only tiny, maybe 5ft 4inches if she was lucky, weighed nothing at all.

Saw Adam look right at her and practically melt, reached his arms out to take her and she giggled and leaned right into him, they were not marked yet but it was clear they were going to claim each other. It was a really nice sight to see. He got himself a tiny mate at that, he’d always gone on about wanting a teeny tiny wolf for a mate. Just something about towering over them tickled his fancy.

Conner honestly thought it was more because he would feel big and strong, to her he would seem the perfect protector. Watched Adam put her down and then look around “Who else?” he asked.

“Cameron shot off somewhere. And six others as well. We just gotta wait.”

So, wait they did, it took longer for Cameron to come back than any of them and it was irritating the hell out of him. He had tried to link to that man, got shut out damned fast and just knew he was Marking and Mating his Mate. Glanced up at the moon, they wouldn’t be able to run back, so it was going to take a few hours to get there. He didn’t particularly like the wait.

It took that man and his new Mate an hour to come out of the woods. Marked and Mated, he was all smiles as was she, a warrior of another pack, now coming to theirs. No one seemed overly concerned about sending their she-wolves to another pack. He only lost one to the Black Forest Pack. Everyone here had come together to defend a smaller pack. There were no enemies amongst them. no alliance deals needed to be sorted out at this time.

But he did make sure that all the Alpha’s had his home pack number to contact his father if they or the she-wolf in question’s, families had concerns or wanted to come by and check on her right away. The standard thing when one wasn’t attending a mating ball and it was expected their daughters would mate off to other packs.

Finally, they were under way and headed home, but that bloody ache in his chest wouldn’t settle. It was getting worse by the second, to the point when he actually stopped walking and near doubled over in pain.

Adam was right there “Conner?”

“Something is wrong.” He gasped, it felt like his chest was being ripped open, he was on the ground a minute later on all fours and didn’t care that everyone around him would see it.

“Conner, go. I’ll bring them back.” Adam told him and helped him up.

Atlas was ripped out of him a moment later and shot off through the woods towards their pack with all his wolfen speed. But even his wolf was in pain and agony, he was using that pain to push himself to get back to the pack, to her. Something was wrong with Eliza. It was the only explanation. They didn’t even make it to the packhouse.

Atlas stumbled mid run. His feet folded under him and fell as agony ripped right through the two of them and they were left in an uncontrollable roll, and were smashed into a tree a second later at full wolfen speed. His wolf howled in pain, as he tried to get up. Then there was just an ache that filled his wolf with utter sadness.

He was shifted back to his human form and Atlas was gone, he’d fled to the back of his mind, pain rolling off of his beast. Conner dragged himself up from the ground, even he knew what it meant. She was lost to them, something had happened to her, and she was gone from them.

He struggled to get up, was injured himself from the impact with the tree, knew he had broken ribs, and also knew Atlas was not in any fit state to heal him. Stood there trying to get control of himself, his body was shaking in not just physical pain, but from the severing they’d just felt from Eliza.

He was going to have to walk the rest of the way. Had no choice, he pulled himself together and tried to convince himself it wasn’t true, she wasn’t gone from him. Couldn’t be. His father hadn’t called and told him anything was wrong here. She was fine, she had to be.

Pushed into the packhouse and headed up the stairs to her room, uncaring of his father calling out to him, wanting to know what was going on, would have felt him coming at full wolfen speed, likely could see the injuries he was sporting as well, knew he still had open wounds, didn’t much care at all.

He got to her room and couldn’t smell her at all, nothing near the door, though without Atlas that delicateness of her natural scent would likely elude him, put his hand on the handle and it opened. It wasn’t even locked. He pushed the door open and stood there. His eyes moved about the room, it was neat and tidy. It had been cleaned but it didn’t smell like her either. He looked for the photos she kept in here, nothing, couldn’t see a single one of them. Walked into the room and looked at the walk-in, most of her things were gone.

Where the hell was she? His eyes moved to the floor. Her largest suitcase was gone, she’d packed it, turned and banged right out of that room, stalked down the stairs, to find his father was staring at him as he stalked his way over to him, anger was rolling off of him. His father had to have allowed her to leave, she’d packed her things.

“Where the hell is El?” he grabbed on to him. “Where is she?” he yelled with all he had.

“Son, calm down, she’s fine. With her grandma in California is all. What’s going on?”

“She’s not fine.” He glared at his father, then shook his head “She’s gone from me.”

Saw his father’s eyes widen “Conner?” he was not stupid, his son was standing here under the weight of a full moon yelling about a girl not being here, being gone from him.

“Why would you let her leave?” he gasped and lashed right out at his father, punched him with all he had “She was safe here.” He yelled at him “Now she’s gone.” He struck out at him and found himself set upon by his own father’s unit till he was down on the ground, didn’t take much with Atlas not with him.

“Calm down Conner, I just spoke to her a few hours ago. She was fine.”

“No, she’s not.” He shook his head “Atlas is gone, because she is gone.”

“Son, I’ll call her. Pick him up.”

He was hauled up off the ground, and walked to his father’s office. It didn’t matter if he could call her, she’d found a way to sever herself from him. He should have known she would, every single time words had come out of her mouth he’d known they would work. To end it between them, her natural instincts had won out, it seemed.

His eyes moved to his father as he put the call on speaker phone, “Hi Logan,”

“Hi El, are you alright? There is a concern for your safety.”

“I’m fine Logan.”

“That is not El.” Conner stated flatly. If it was El, his beast would be back from the depths of his mind trying to talk to her.

“Of course it is son.”

“No, it’s not. Atlas would know. Who are you?” he stood and yelled down the line.

“You’re not so dumb as your father are you Conner.” A female voice came down the line, then it just clicked off.

His eyes moved right to his father. “You let El leave with her grandma. All this time she wanted to get out of here, to run away and you were stupid enough to just let her pack a suitcase and leave. Think she would come back willingly.”

“A deal was struck.”

“With a human who doesn’t understand anything about us. And you think I’m stupid, you made a deal with a girl who doesn’t like you, doesn’t trust you, a man who took everything away from her and you think she was just going to honour it. You’re a fool father.” He grated out.

“Not so Goddess damned foolish as you, who left your unclaimed human Luna inside a pack with no one knowing what she was to you. Do you bloody think I would have let her leave, if I had known she was your Mate?”

“Where is Eliza?” It was Brittney. Her voice was soft and held a slight tremor to it.

They both looked at her, “Wherever her grandma sent her or took her to,” Conner stated flatly. “She is severed from me; I can’t feel her anymore.” He muttered, turned his eyes to his father “Explain that to your Luna. What that means, exactly? When one is severed from their Mate.”

“Conner, there could be more than one thing right this minute. I don’t believe you’ve claimed the girl correct?”

Glared right at his father “Not officially no.”

“Then it might not be what you think, son.”

“Then explain it to me.” He only knew of two reasons one would sever from you completely; death or rejection. She couldn’t technically issue a rejection he didn’t think. They were mated to each other, so he would need to be there, for that.”

Saw his father sigh, “Rejection, or…Claimed by another. If not death.”

“You think El is dead?” Brittney gasped.

“No.” he heard his father state firmly. “I’d be willing to bet Sloan handed her over to another pack and she was initiated into it or,” his eyes fell on Conner. “She went to her friend’s home pack and perhaps one of them has claimed her as their own. If she didn’t know what you were Conner to her, she wouldn’t know any better.”

He was staring right at his father now, claimed by another? Xavier was the only other he could think of that wanted to lay claim to her. It was the full moon if she was there, in California, as his father stated she was, he could well have just laid a claim on her, marked her, seeing as she’d left here to go to them.

Watched as Brittney shoved his father right out the way from behind his desk, had no fear of her Alpha Mate, and dialled a number.

“Yes Logan.” It was Sloan’s voice.

“Sloan, where is my daughter?”

“Where she belongs.” Came the answer.

“She belongs here, with me, her mother.”

“No, Brittney, she does not. My Kit never belonged there. She was very confused there, said so herself, wanted out, has been planning getting out the whole time she has been there, I helped her. It’s what I do. Save people from a fate they don’t want.”

“She’s my daughter. You had no right to take her away from me.”

“She’s an adult and your Alpha Wolf of a mate had no right to lock her in, take away all her rights, and make her stay there against her own will. So, I did what any good retrieval expert does. Get her out. Send her to where she belongs.”

“She’s not dead then?” Conner burst out, felt Atlas finally returning to him his wolf wanted to know.

“No, but I bet right now you don’t feel so good.” She laughed “Got her away from you, I did.”

He knew all eyes were on him, and he didn’t care right that minute “She is my Mate.”

“Hmm, well, I gave her to someone else that will treat her with respect, let her be who she wants to be, will give her the entire world. She doesn’t belong to you anymore.”

He could feel anger welling in him and not just his, but Atlas’s as well, “Where is she?” he roared right down the line, all his alpha wolf aura rolling at her.

Heard a snarl come right back at him “I’m not afraid of you or your father, and neither will El be when she gets her first shift. You can’t claim what doesn’t want to be claimed.” The line clicked closed.

He was staring at the phone, as was his father. He’d met Sloan before, and sensed nothing about her. Actually, when he thought about it, she didn’t really smell at all, just whatever soap she’d used to shower with, was all he’d picked up.

“She’s not human.” His eyes turned to Brittney. “What is she?”

“I don’t know.” She shook her head. “I never saw anything.”

Looked right at his father for help “Shifter of some sort, though that snarl, distinctive, too high pitched to be a wolf, and she’s not afraid of you, your aura did nothing to her, likely just amused her. She’s Alpha-blooded, whatever she is.”

“Find out, I’m not giving up on El. I want everyone on this.” he snarled and turned to leave the office.

“Conner, if Sloan is a retrieval specialist, that could take a very long time, you might not ever.”

“I will never stop looking for her.” He muttered and stalked off to his room, slammed the door and stared at the room. He’d been alone in here for years, could well be alone in here for many more. Could feel Atlas’s rage brewing, let him have at it, watched as his wolf near destroyed everything in that room before stalking their body down to El’s room, showered and climbed into her bed.

It was the last place they’d seen her, it was the only place they could feel close to her now.

She was gone, given to another, was going to get her first shift and he wasn’t even going to be there to see it. Where she belongs, that he didn’t understand. She belonged here with him. Who was Sloan really? What was her grandmother? She’d known that they were wolves, likely known it since the moment she opened the door to him and Adam.

Likely, bloody knew all Els friends were wolves, had she handed her over to Xavier and that man had claimed her? She was only human, his unclaimed human Luna, and she was out there in the world somewhere away from him, didn’t even know what he really was to her. She had accepted some other within days of being apart from him.