Chapter 146
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[SAMANTHA’s Point of View],
I filled my lungs with the musky and fresh scent of the forest trees, and a deep sigh escaped from my lips the second a cold, soft breeze brushed my bare skin. My husband took half an hour to recover. As we dragged ourselves out of the cave, we realized time had stopped when we entered the place—like we had gone into a strange dimension, and the glowing butterfly I saw when I went to the cave was still there, fluttering around in front of it. I knew it because of the position of the huge, silver moon.
“What happened?” Dominic asked, his brows deep in a frown. “It should be around noon.”
“I don’t know exactly,” I answered softly as I looked around. “But it seems like time stops inside that place. Like it’s being protected by something dark and ancient. I just don’t know why it allowed us inside.”
“Perhaps it knows you are looking for something and wants to stop you, believing that it can kill you inside that place,” Dominic answered with a slight grunt as he felt a sharp pin on his left rib. “Or perhaps the Moon Goddess wants you to see all that is happening in this forest. Who are the real enemies are. I am not sure, my love, but at least we know who their real targets are. And we have to find the kids as soon as we can.”
That’s when I worried more. “What do you mean? They are in Liam’s house, right?”
His face turned grave as he locked his darkened eyes on me. His jaw stiffened, and his shoulders were stiff. “As soon as we got outside, Liam’s mind linked into my head immediately.”
My eyes widened in terror. I took off his arms around my shoulder and breathed fast and shallow as panic struck my head. “Stop making me scared, Dominic! What happened to the kids!”
He dropped his gaze with fear and guilt and then looked at me as he hissed. “He said the kids are gone.”
“No…” I muttered as I flinched away from him, throwing my hands to my head, my nails on my scalp. “What the f*ck does he mean they are gone?! He promised us he would protect them, Dominic! We have to find the—”
“Hey, hey, love.” Dominic’s hands grabbed and cupped my face and forced me to look into his hazel eyes. “Samantha, look at me.” He was panting as he tried to compose himself, despite the panic spreading across his face. “We have to calm down and work together. You know Devon and Diana. We were separated from them for weeks, and I am sure they sneaked out to look for us again. Liam is already doing his best to find them. I just need you to calm down, okay?”
He was right. It wasn’t the right time to let the panic consume me. I had to think clearly! I had to calm down to find the kids!
“We need to split up to find them. I’ll go around the forest. You go back to Liam and send patrols and trackers to find them.”
His eyes widened with anger as he disagreed with my plan. “No, you are not going to the forest alone, Samantha!”
“I have to, Dominic!” I almost yelled at him, my hands on my forehead as I paced away, not wanting to snarl or blame him for what happened because I knew it wouldn’t help the situation. “You have to trust me that I can take care of myself! I need to find them and make sure they are safe!”
“You know they are also after you, love.” Dominic remained adamant as he glared at me. “How am I supposed to think straight and focus knowing you are out there, in danger, and looking for the kids?”
“But—”
“We will find them. Together.” Dominic closed the gap between us and kissed me on the lips. “Let’s go back to Silver Crescent and do it together. I know they are both just around the area. They can’t go far from the forest.”
I hesitated, but Dominic was right. Our enemies were after me and the kids, and without him, I don’t know if I would have ever survived the cave. I had to stick with him. I had to trust my husband that he got this…that he could get the kids back to me.
As soon as we got to the Pack house, Liam was already there waiting for us. His face was so pale, and his eyes were wide and scared when he looked at me.
To my anger, I marched straight to him, but Dominic stopped me. “Let’s hear his explanation first before you kill him, love,” he uttered as he gave Liam an anxious look and then nodded for his friend to explain what happened and how the twins got out of his house.
He explained to us that he became so busy giving instructions on dealing with the enemies at the eastern gates that he didn’t notice Devon and Diana were no longer in the house.
“Believe me, I did everything to find them. I went to the forest myself, but we can’t find any trace of them, Dominic! I am really sorry—”
“If something happens to them, I swear I will cut your throat, Liam!” I snarled at him and then at Dominic. I saw how my husband swallowed hard.
“Look at what happened. I told you she is not good at anything. She can’t even protect the children of the Alpha! How can she be a Luna if she is unable to perform even a simple task?”
My eyes darkened as I watched Olivia walking down the grand staircase with her hand on the railing and her lips tugged in a taunting grin. She was wearing her fighting gear with her giant bodyguards behind her.
“Are you behind this?!” I snarled at her. “Where did you hide my twins, Olivia!?”
“I have no idea what you are talking about!” She winced and gave me a disgusted look while scanning me with her squinting eyes from head to toe. “How dare you accuse me of something that is your fault! You failed your duty to the Alpha, and then suddenly you blame it on me?! What are you, Samantha? A huge moron?”
“Be careful with your words, Oliviia! That is my wife you are talking to! Your Luna!” Dominic snarled at her with a threatening look.
Olivia’s eyes shot to Dominic, then to me, filled with pure hatred. “What if those children are already in the hands of those freaks!? That’s on her! She should be safeguarding the Silver Crescent’s future, but where was she? She was somewhere running away with the Alpha of the Moonstone pack! She’s supposed to be arrested already for being a traitor to the pack! Why haven’t you locked her in the dungeons yet?”
“You shut your f*cking mouth, Olivia!” Liam warned her. “You are not helping here!”
She scoffed with a mocking grin. “For all we know, those kids are already dead.”
I thought something had snapped in my head.
My vision darkened, and before I could realize what was happening, I found myself in mid-air, lunging toward Olivia and knocking her down to the floor. As our bodies collided with the wall during the struggle, she grabbed my hair, but I seized her neck and quickly pushed myself up to straddle her stomach, my fingers wrapped around her small, pretty neck.
“You don’t shut your f*cking mouth, Olivia.” I snarled at her through gritted teeth. “One more ugly word about my kids and I will break your neck.”
“F*cking let go of me, Samantha!” she screamed as she gasped for air, her eyes turning red as I tightened my grip. “Get off me!”
Her bodyguards moved to rescue their master, but Liam and Dominic blocked their way as they threatened the two giant werewolves. Olivia’s eyes grew terrified as she tried to pull my hands away from her neck. But I was stronger than her. Much way stronger than her now.
“Where are they, Olivia!?” I asked her with my eyes wide, letting her see that I won’t hesitate to kill her if she doesn’t answer me. “Where are Devon and Diana!?”
“I told you I have—”
I pushed my palm on her throat and she choked with her eyes bulging. Dominic and Liam witnessed my attempt to kill Olivia and tried to separate us, but I shot them a deadly glare and halted before they could grab me away from her.
“Samantha, stop! She’s not even worth it!” Dominic snarled at me sounding scared and nervous. But I was so angry I barely understood the rest of what he said. All my focus was on Olivia. How I wanted to rip that beautiful face from her head.
“I ask you again, Olivia.” I hissed at her as I leaned closer to her face so close that my lips almost brushed her cheek. “Where are Devon and Diana?!”
“F*ck!” she spat and then uttered in her hoarse, choking voice, “They are both brought in an old mine! You will find them there!”
“Old mine!?” As I looked at her, my eyes fluttered and my grip loosened slightly, allowing her to breathe more easily. Before I could even ask more questions, Olivia had already flipped me down the floor and got up to her feet as fast as she could… Her eyes were fixed on Dominic, and her face displayed both guilt and fear as she ran away from the main hall of the pack house and straight into the forest.
“We have to go there,” I begged Dominic with teary eyes.
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