The Unclaimed Human Luna
Chapter 78

El POV

Breakfast with Conner’s unit and their mates was nice. Those girls were all smiles, Sage picked what she was right away and mind-linked right to her ‘Wow I only know one other Kitsune, she’s mean.’ Then laughed, ‘Well, not mean but super strict and you can’t put anything past that one, picks a lie in an instant.’

‘Her name wouldn’t happen to be Sloan now, would it?’ El asked her.

‘Yeah, you know her?’

‘She is my grandmother.’ El chuckled, ‘Can’t wait for her to meet Logan.’

‘Oh, he’s not going to like her at all.’ Sage told her. ‘The man needs to chill out, big time.’

El could only agree with her.

They sat and ate, and she noticed many of the pack members were looking at her sitting next to Conner, curious it seemed. Stood up with him when breakfast was over, looked about the dining room himself at all those looking at him and her, as his hand slid to small of her back, “El is the future of this pack. Your future Luna,” he turned and looked right at her, smiled “My Mate, cheeky as she is, and ran away from me as she did. Is Mine now.” His hand slid into her hair and he leaned down and kissed her for all to see.

Before they walked out of the dining room, heading for the pack hospital. It was a nice twenty-minute walk, she slipped her hand into his and he smiled right at her. It was really nice to know that he did not have any intention of hiding their relationship from anyone here. He’d just announced her to those in the dining room. She knew he or his father would do it at some point through a pack wide mind-link.

Everyone they saw smiled at him and her, addressed them as Alpha, Luna. Which was weird to her, considering she now understood her mother was actually the Luna of the pack. She was only the future Luna. Queried him on that as they walked.

“That is what your rank is. It’s that simple, they do not need to state future. You are a Luna ranked pack member because I am an Alpha Wolf.”

“How does that work? I’m Alpha-blooded as well?”

“Yes, you are, and you will likely have the choice to hold both titles, though in our world Alpha-blooded females usually become Luna’s to their Mates. Are still Alpha-blooded but not considered the leader of the pack. Unless her Mate is of lower rank, then she holds the Alpha title if she is to lead a pack, that is. It gets a bit complicated.”

“Sounds it.” she nodded “So I can be like Aunty Juliana, an Alpha Luna?”

“If you want to be, yes.” He smiled “Kind of like that about you.”

El shook her head. “You like everything.”

Saw him grinning now. “You just make me happy. I have never felt like this, even when I didn’t know what you were, I’d never felt anything like what you and I had.”

“Got around, didn’t you?”

“Hm, do you want to discuss it?” He sounded open to it.

“No. To be honest, I do not.”

“El, you have nothing to worry about. I only have eyes for you. Atlas only has eyes for you and Petal. We will never hurt you. Ever.”

She nodded as they walked into the hospital, found her mother sitting up in her bed. She looked much better, smiled right at her “You look better.”

“I feel better.” Was the answer. “the doctor told me the baby has stopped growing, she is hoping all together.”

“That would mean it’s due soon,” Conner stated.

“Yes, a day or two, maybe a week, I was told.”

“Mother.” El looked right at her “I don’t want you to do this to yourself again. What if you’d died and I wasn’t here.” She voiced the fear she’d had. Hadn’t been there when her father died, it had been sudden and unexpected. This would have been too, for her. Didn’t know how she would have coped with it.

“I agree, this was more than difficult for me. My age didn’t help either. So, no more, this one will be enough.” Her mother reached out for her hand. “You’re not human?”

“Not so much.” El nodded. “What are you? What was your father?”

“Dad was human, grandma Sloan not so much. She’s on her way here, by the way.”

“Okay. Is she going to play nice with Logan?”

“I don’t know, I guess that depends on if Logan is an a*s.”

“El, please don’t speak like that about Logan.”

Stared right at her mother, “I never liked him mother, he didn’t treat me nicely at all.” Saw her own mother look at Conner, he didn’t say anything at all. He knew how Logan had treated her.

“Honey, it’s just that he’s used to dealing with his pack in a certain way. Tried to treat you the same was all.”

“I’m not a member of his pack, never was. Didn’t even know it was a pack, so all I saw was a controlling a*****e.”

Saw her mother sigh, didn’t say anything for a long time. “Will you try and get along with him, now that you know he is not human, has reasons for being the way he is.”

El sighed herself “I guess I could try, but if he continues to treat me like that, I’m going back to Italy.” She told her mother.

“El, you’re mated to Conner, you can’t just leave him because you don’t like Logan.”

“Conner and his whole unit will be going with me.”

Watched her mother’s eyes go very wide, and turn to Conner, he just nodded “I want El to be happy, and father likely wants to control her, as he does everyone else here. Not all pack Alpha’s are like him, some, like the gypsy’s, are very laid back. Other packs I’ve been to their Alpha’s don’t rule with an iron fist. I get why she didn’t like it here.”

“Conner, that’s your father you’re talking about.” She frowned up at him, was the current Luna and didn’t like the way he was speaking so freely, it seemed.

“It is, ask that man about pack studies. Do the wolves here have a choice?”

“Of course, they do. I myself have talked to a few to try and help them with deciding on what they want to do.”

“Ah, you mean the omegas and warrior ranked. I bet not one highly ranked child.”

“What?”

El smiled, it seemed her mother didn’t know her Mate as well as she thought she did. Though now she did understand all his anger and aggression all the time. Why he got so quickly ticked off with her attitude and disrespect. Conner had assured her he wasn’t an abusive Mate towards her mother, that he’d actually never really seen his father so sweet and charming on occasion. Was smitten by her mother. Would never hurt her.

Now that she actually understood what he was and what her mother was to him, his human Mate, she did understand him a bit better. She also knew that her mother never got a shifter either, and was still human.

She didn’t want to talk about Logan, or anything that was going to bring about stress for her mother. “How about I agree not to antagonise him, if he lets me be who I am.”

“Alright.” Her mother smiled “Be the El I know.”

“Yes.” El nodded “Now about this brother or sister I am having.”

“It’s a girl.” Her mother smiled.

She heard Conner snort and both her and her mother looked right at him. “He’s not going to know how to handle a girl, can’t handle you.” he tugged El’s ear “That will be fun for us to watch.”

She shook her own head, sometimes Conner just completely surprised her, with who he was on the inside, not the man he’d been just a few months ago.

“Being Mated El, changes one sometimes.”

“For the better, I hope,” she murmured, looking back at her mother “Petal wants to say hello, if you’re up for it. Not a full shift.”

“Of course.” She actually saw her mother light up. “Am I the first here to see her other than Conner and the boys?”

“Yes, of her choosing, had a moment with Logan yesterday, she wants to say hello to you though.” El nodded, saw more excitement come from her mother and smiled, let Petal push forward and look right at her. She knew her mother would see Petal’s amber-coloured eyes. It was the only difference when one’s beast pushed forward in human form.

“Mother.” Petal’s slightly higher pitched gravelly voice addressed her.

She watched through Petal’s eyes as her mother’s hand moved to her mouth, and then reached out to touch her. “My goodness, look at your eyes, so beautiful Petal. I hope I get to see you soon.”

Petal chuckled softly and hugged her “When I want to, you have no idea how hard it is to stay in there and she does the weirdest things, mother.” Leaned back and shook her head “I don’t understand humans sometimes, odd creatures at the best of times, and wolves so pushy and needy, possessive creatures if ever there are any.” She was talking a mile a minute, just like she did inside of El’s mind.

There was no stopping her from talking about all the weird things she’d seen in the past few days, about the not-so nice flight over here, how she did not like to fly at all. How her Mate Atlas was her whole world, then just giggled about it. She went on to talk about flowers she liked to smell, that she loved when El ate chocolate or cake. El tried to rein her in but there was no stopping her. It seemed she wanted to talk to her mother about everything and anything. Could see her mother chuckling softly when Petal took a breath.

“You speak very fast, Petal.”

“Oh yes, Conner doesn’t like it, always asking El to shut me up for even just a minute, he’s boring to say the least.” Petal turned and looked right at him, poked her tongue out at him and then receded finally. Had been talking nonstop for nearly an hour with her mother.

“She’s quite the chatterbox.” Her mother laughed, “Not much like your quiet sullen moodiness El.”

“Makes up for all of it.” El chuckled, “I don’t mind, actually it’s nice to always have someone to talk to.”

Logan walked into the room and looked from her to Conner, to her mother and she stepped back so he could be with her. “I’ll let you have time with mother.” El commented.

“You don’t have to leave El,” he stated, “You are a part of this family. I told you when you were here last even.”

“Didn’t feel like it,” she muttered, and saw her mother’s disapproving look, headed for the door, didn’t know if she wanted to deal with him and his overbearing ways at that point. Still had reservations about the man, the way he treated his pack members. Made them study what he wanted them to, not let them be who they were. Controlled all of them, she’d seen just how much freedom the fox shifters had gotten, nothing was forbidden to them, they were never locked in or demanded to do this and that. Or not that she had seen anyhow, also knew they were allowed to study anywhere in the world they wanted to.

“El, you and I will have to talk at some point. I am the Alpha here.”

“I know that, but you are not my Alpha.” She looked right at him. “That would be my Grandma and her twin sister. I’m still a part of their pack. Just visiting at this point.”

“You are Conner’s Mate.”

“Yes I am.” She nodded, “But still not your pack member, may never be. If you’re going to just treat me like you did before.”

“Eliza, we obviously need to find some common ground.”

“Or perhaps, you need to apologise to me.” She said and stared right at him.

Saw him staring right back at her. She was not going to back down. He couldn’t order her to at this point either. Felt a hand slid across her back and looked at Conner. “Come on let’s go for a walk. No fighting now.”

“I’ll win it.” she smiled right at Logan “He just doesn’t realise it yet.” Then turned and walked out the door after she got a gentle nudge from Conner.

“Please play nice, I know he’s an a*s at times, been living with him my entire life, kind of have to pick your battles.”

“It’s not going to be a battle, Conner, and I would like an apology from him.” she sighed.

“Not likely to get it, not even I get that, or it’s a rare thing anyway. He’s also more grumpy than normal with your mother in the hospital and, worrying about her health, will likely calm down once the baby comes. And she and your mother are declared healthy and can go back to the Alpha Suite.”

“How about he apologises, and I’ll be nice to him,” she offered.