Page 49 of True Luna: The Unknown Magic

“Of course you are,” Lex said angrily. “He threatened your mate and your child. I would have killed him.”

I squeezed Lex’s hand. He was always very protective of our family. It was a value our parents taught us. Family and mates always came first.

“What happened next?” I asked, making my parents and uncle look back at me.

My dad looked at my mom and smiled.

“Your badass mom found her magic and saved Daisy,” dad said proudly.

“That’s how you found your magic?” I asked, raising my eyebrows.

“Yes,” my mom nodded. “Anna said that I would get my magic only after I was marked by my Goddess-given mate, but I guess the anger I felt unlocked it.”

“She was amazing, but she almost gave me a heart attack,” my uncle chuckled, looking at my mom.

My uncle was incredibly protective of my mom. He practically raised her because my grandparents were working a lot. Sometimes he acted more like her dad than her brother.

“Why?” I asked.

“I fought Nathan using my magic, but it was still so new and I didn’t really have control over it, so he almost won a couple of times,” mom said, chuckling and shaking her head.

“It wasn’t funny, Emma,” uncle Andrew said sternly. “I thought that you were dead.”

I gasped.

“Dead?” Lex growled.

“I blasted us both with magic,” mom explained. “I don’t know how, but we passed out and talked to the Moon Goddess. The curse broke in the blast and after we woke up, we weren’t mates anymore.”

My head was going to explode.

My mom talked to the Moon Goddess?

“You talked to the Moon Goddess?” Lex mumbled.

“We did,” my mom nodded.

My brain felt like it was going to explode. Lex shook his head and took a deep breath.

“Why didn’t you kill Alpha Nathan?” Lex asked angrily. “Why did you let the fucker live? I would have killed him. I want to kill him.”

“Oh, believe me, bud, I wanted to kill him,” dad said. “Your uncle wanted to kill him.”

“But?” Lex asked.

“But he is an Alpha,” our dad sighed. “If we killed him, his father would have a very good reason to attack our pack. We did everything we could to avoid a war. Your aunt Daisy was pregnant. Your mom and I were finally mated for the second time. None of us wanted to risk our happiness for some crazy fucker.”

Lex gulped and tightened his jaw.

“I made Alpha Nathan promise to cut ties with his father,” my mom said. “I made him promise to listen to his wolf more. As far as I am aware, he did all of that. He exiled his father and he became a great Alpha.”

“And now you know everything,” my dad said quietly.

I looked at him and my heart clenched. He looked so sad and worried.

“Why didn’t you tell us sooner?” I asked, making my dad look at me. “Why now?”

“Well, this is the first time in 18 years that the Alpha of the Blood Moon Pack will attend the Alpha gathering at our pack,” dad said. “We forbade Alpha Nathan from coming to our pack, but his son took over and your mom and I believe that it wouldn't be okay if we forbade his son from attending.”

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