Chapter 86 - No

Adea

I listened with bated breath as it rang and rang. I swallowed when his voicemail played.

Fuck.

Fuck. Fuck.

I dialed Beta Odis and he answered on the second ring.

Thank Goddess.

“Beta?” I cry.

“Luna? Luna, what’s wrong?” His voice comes through the line, his voice laced with nerves.

“I-I,” I stutter.

“Olivia,” I rasped.

“Liv? What happened to her?” He asked. “Is she okay?”

I can’t seem to form the words.

“She-,” I trail off.

“Luna! I need you to get a grip and tell me what’s going on,” He says firmly.

I shake my head. I need to get myself together.

“Olivia stabbed Gabe, he’s… hurt and she fled,” I gulp. “I need, he needs help but I also need her caught. I need someone to go after her. She can’t get away,” I cry, as I look down at Gabe.

A relieved breath comes through the line. Is he relieved? I don’t have time to think.

“I’ll send my most trusted Deltas your way, I’ll go after Liv myself,” he says.

“Please don’t let her get away, Odis,” I plead. “We need to find out what she’s shared with Shane. We need her to tell us what he’s got planned. I shouldn’t have let her go but…,” I trail off.

“It’s okay, you stay with Gabe. I’ll find her. We need to have the Luna ceremony soon. This not being able to link you when shit goes down the drain isn’t convenient. Where are you?

“I’m-I’m in their room.”

“Stay still. I just linked two of the Deltas they’re coming your way,” he tells me. “Don’t worry.”

“Odis?” I ask before he hangs up.

“Yes, Luna?”

“Don’t let your guard down. She’s not the same person anymore,” I tell him.

I hear silence on the other end for a few seconds before he responds.

“I won’t,” he says before hanging up.

I don’t know how long I sat next to Gabe. I focused on the tick tick-ticking of the clock coming from somewhere in their room. The blood was slowly oozing out and staining his shirt. I held his hand and rocked back and forth as I prayed to the Goddess, pleading with her not to take him.

When the door slammed open, I felt like I could finally breathe. I turned around, hurriedly letting the Deltas and the pack doctor through.

Doctor James stands in the doorway, he’s wearing one of those white coats and his abs peek out between the opening of his coat. He’s wearing the coat over sweats. He was probably resting when Odis linked him.

I laid my two bloody hands on the floor beside Gabe, shutting my eyes and calling on Korra to lend me some of her strength. Doctor James turned to me and his brown eyes filled with pity as he took in my blood-covered hands and tear-stained face.

“Luna,” he said quietly as he reaches out and touches my arm. “We will take care of Gamma Gabe, are you injured?” He asks as his eyes look over my body.

I shake my head.

“Good,” he says and his eyes turn a milky white. My eyes focus on the back of the Deltas as they tend to Gabe.

“I’ve updated Alpha on what’s going on. I suggest you go to your room and wash up. Take a bath and try to relax,” he tells me.

I shake my head. “No, I’m not leaving him. I’ll follow you to the clinic, I need to stay with Gabe,” I choke out. “He doesn’t have much time and he’s too young to die here. The Moon Goddess was bloodthirsty and callous, taking him like this when all he’d wanted was to find his mate and make a family of his own.”

“Luna, I will do everything in my power for him and I need to focus on him but I can’t do that with you here,” he says. “Do you hear me?”

“Yes, Doctor, I hear you.”

“Okay, I will reach out to you with updates,” he says warmly.

“Okay,” I mumble, defeated.

“Do you need me to send one of the Deltas with you?” The Doctor asks.

“No Doc, it’s okay. Just focus on Gabe,” I say before heading out of Gabe’s room. I don’t pay attention to where I’m going but my feet lead me back to my room.

I was in my bathroom staring at Gabe’s blood on my hands. So I stood in front of the shower, washing it away as best I could, trying to ignore the worry that threatened to strangle me.

I turned the dial on scalding hot and breathed deeply as the steam surrounded me. I’m so stupid. Why did I think it was a good idea to give a traitor a chance to stay? I step into the shower not even bothering to take off my clothes.

The water pressed against my skin like tiny red fire ants. I fell to my knees and closed my eyes and leaned into the water as it hit my head and cascaded down my skin. My shoulders slump with exhaustion from today’s events.

I tried to chase away the awful thoughts and fears as I scrubbed my body and tried to scrub away the feeling of Olivia’s betrayal from my skin.

I stared at the pool of water around me and made up my mind. Olivia made her choice and the finality of her choice when given a way out.

She chose Shane over Gabe, over her pack, over her future here. She chose wrong but she chose. It was too late for her, she couldn’t come back now. We would treat her like a traitor regardless of Gabe’s wishes.

She is a traitor and will be treated as such. I have no more fucks to give and I refuse to be lenient. I will deal with her as the Luna of the largest pack. I wasn’t going to let her get out of being punished.

Olivia will pay.