Page 121 of Losing My Siren Luna
Right before lunch time, Cedric came into my room, looking tired and the most unkempt I’ve seen him since his arrival here.
“There you are,” I complained. “Where did you go?”
“I had to talk to your father, Ela,” he tells me, collapsing on the bed beside me.
“Her father? You said you were going to see your king?” Cherum looks at him accusingly.
I stared at him in question, wanting a clear answer.
“He does call you his princess,”Val reminded me, almost as a joke. “Maybe both answers are correct.”
“That can’t be. Why would my mother have been with the Siren King? I thought only his officials visited my uncle’s pack. I didn’t think anyone had seen the Siren King in quite some time.”
“Hey, maybe that’s why we could never find any information about him. Maybe he was acting as an official or representative and not the king.”
I thought for a few moments. “That’s a fanciful thought, but I doubt I am the daughter of a Siren King. If I was, I’m sure Lachlan or Cedric would have told me about it.”
Even as I say it, though, I’m not entirely sure they would. Lachlan didn’t even tell me he knew my father. I had to ask him about it. Cedric tells me things when I ask, but sometimes he tells me cryptic answers like, you’ll find out some day, or, when your magic comes, you will know.
“Cherum,” Cedric looked up at him with an exhausted expression. “Would you give us some time alone? I need to speak to Ela about something?”
Cherum stares at him for a while, then says, “I’ll be right outside. I won’t be far. Alpha’s orders.”
“Sure, sure,” Cedric waved a hand dismissively.
I stared at him, waiting for some sort of an explanation. When he doesn’t start talking right away, I nudge him with my elbow and ask, “Where did you go? To see my father or your king?”
He turned to stare up at me, a nervous expression on his face.
“Both, I guess.” He sits up, taking both my hands in his. “I went to ask your father, the Siren King, King Brennus, to speak freely with you. Elelira, I want to talk with you about your first life.”
I stared at him in shock. My heart dropped to the pit of my stomach. “What?”
Chapter 39
Lachlan POV
“Did you do it?” I asked Nilo as the sun began to rise.
“Yes, Alpha. The warriors are stationed around the visitor dorms, ready to capture the men as they begin filtering out.” He yawns, tired from the full night of preparations we had. I'm tired too, but my adrenaline is pumping, keeping me awake and on edge.
“Good,” I told him, waiting by the armory to witness the first men being taken down.
When I left Lira last night, I came out and actually witnessed some of the men harassing one of my omegas to come with them to bed. I quickly interfered and sent her back home, telling them to leave my staff alone. Witnessing their antics just hardened my resolve to take these men out.
I sent a mass mind link out to everyone in my pack to protect their women and children until this threat is neutralized, making sure that Cherum knew to keep Lira in our room today. As my men capture Alpha Wayne's, we will be incapacitating them with wolfsbane and sending them to the dungeons to hold them until we can organize for the ship they came in on to be taken out to sea. I plan on killing every last one of these men if they don’t give me the information I want about what they did to my wife’s mother and what Alpha Wayne really wants from this marriage alliance. After that, I will sink them and their boat to the bottom of the ocean.
I will never give up my wife, but the more I think about it, the more I realize that Alpha Wayne really did have ulterior motives for agreeing to this alliance the way he did. I have been thinking more about the attacks from the north that will happen, and something isn’t adding up. The threat was neutralized almost as soon as Alpha Wayne’s forces came to our aid.
And that man, Isaac…..
He is going to die. No matter what he tells me or what information he offers, I could tell by Lira’s response that he hurt her in some way, and I will not stand for his life to extend past today.
“Alpha, I just got a mind link from the docks. Our men that were sent to get information on the Luna’s previous pack and her life there just got back. They want to meet with you.”
“Not now,” I said, moving to peer out the window as one of the men exited the dorms and started pissing on the side of the building. “Tell the commander that I’ll meet with him later tonight or tomorrow. We need to take care of this first.”
Alpha Wayne’s man who is groggily peeing on the side of my building is taken down quickly and quietly with a blow to the back of the head, falling face first against the building, sliding down and covering his front with his own urine. My men inject wolfsbane in his neck then slide him away to toss him into the dungeons before another man can come out.
