The Lunar Queen (Lyric and Mason) novel Chapter 58

Chapter 58

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I’ve had this pressure on my chest, and I haven’t been able to shake it. Not the kind that comes from stress or lack of sleep either. This feels heavier, meaner, like something is already wrong and I’m the last one catching up to it. “Maybe something happened to Lyric,” Zeus says. I pick up my phone and call her, but it just rings. I try again, and still no answer. She always answers my calls Even when she’s confused, even when she’s overwhelmed, she answers. That alone makes the pressure in my chest turn sharp. I go to dial again before Dom bursts through the door, and the look on his face tells me it’s my princess. He doesn’t even have to speak. I know before he opens his mouth that whatever he says next is going to change something. “What happened?” I ask just as my brother’s and Mira walk in, followed by Caleb and my parents. “It’s Lyric,” he says softly. “Who is Lyric?” my mom asks. “The girl connected to the eyes Selene showed me in her visions,” I grit out. The words come rough, dragged over something raw, because right now claiming her out loud feels less like relief and more like helplessness. “OMG honey, you actually found her-that’s great. Why didn’t you bring her back?” she asks. “Mother, not now,” I say, trying to keep Zeus under control. “Alpha,” Dom says. “Tell me, Not telling me is only making it harder to control him,” I say through clenched teeth, claws scratching the desk. My hands are already shifting, nails biting into the wood, and I can feel Zeus pressing harder and harder against my control. “They found her this morning at their border,” he says, pausing before telling me what they did to her. “No, why would they do that to her I say tears streaming down my face. “Oh dear goddess,” my mother says. “Who would do that to a pup?” she asks, crying. “Today was her graduation,” I say, tears flowing freely. That thought hits me in a place the others didn’t. She was supposed to be wearing a cap and gown. Smiling. Celebrated. Not this. Never this. “I need to go to her,” I insist. “Cole, you need a reason to show up there,” my father

says. “I have one. One of their pack members was attacked twice and left within inches of her life twice, and she’s not even 18 yet.

She’s been getting abused her whole life in that damn pack, and everyone was blind to it,” I growl. “And where the hell was her

mate when this was happening?” I growl at Dom. The question tears out of me before I can stop it, because right now I need

somewhere to put all of this rage and there are too many targets. “I don’t know, Alpha. I only know what Winter told me,” he

replies. “Wait, I’m confused. I thought she was your mate” my mom asks. “Caleb I need you to call Lyric’s brother, Hunter. He will

give you all the information,” I say, writing his number down. I turn to my mom. “I’m not her mate Selene just said she was

important to me. Her mate is the future Alpha of Moonveil,” I explain. “Oh my God, who did this to her?” she asks. “Her twin

sister,” I growl. Her hands cover her mouth. “Why would she do that?” she asks. I look at my father, and he nods. “She is Eloise

reborn,” I say. “No, I thought we had more time,” she says. “How? He is behind the rogue attacks. He knows she’s been born, but she

hasn’t shifted yet,” I explain. “The moment she shifts and someone sees her wolf, they will know who she is,” Elias adds. “I know. I

need to find a way to be there for that,” I say. Because now protecting her isn’t just about wanting to. It’s bigger than that. It’s

survival-for her, for all of us. “Can I see her?” my mother asks. I open my phone and show her my home screen. “Oh my goddess,

she is beautiful,” she says, “Yes, she is,” I reply. “Oh, poor child,” she says. Caleb comes back into the room. “Don’t leave anything

out,” I command. “Well, you know what they did to her, but a warrior who was part of the first attack tried to help her this time,

and they killed him,” he says, pausing to let us process that information.. The room goes dead silent after that, the kind of silence

that only comes when everybody is thinking the same thing and nobody wants to say it first. “He left them enough evidence to lock

all four of them up,” he says. Mira gasps, “They finally have the proof they need,” she says with tears in her eyes. Xavier pulls her

into his lap to calm her down. “They have the four people involved in the cells right now,” he says. “Good, now she will suffer at my

hands. She needs to be kept alive until after Lyric’s birthday. If she is as powerful as it seems, she will have her own punishments

for all of them,” I say. And I mean every word, I want them breathing long enough to understand exactly what they did before

anything ends for them. “What about Lyric?” I ask, “The doctor put her in a medically induced coma. They started transfusions to

replace the blood she lost while flushing the silver and wolfsbane from her system. After that, it will be completely up to her.” He

says. “He also said Lyric led them to the cabin where they held her. The idiots left the warrior’s body there, and he had the tape

recorder with him. He recorded the whole thing and left a note leading them to the rest of his evidence. He knew he was going to

die,” he says softly. We all sit in silence, taking in all the information just given. My mother is crying in my father’s arms, while he

sheds his own tears. Zeus howls endlessly in my head, sorrowful for our mate. There is no calming him now because there is no

calming me. All I can do is sit here and feel every second of not being there for her.

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hony to if they are waiting for her birthday, when it was her birthday in the humpital the first time they were going he sung happy burthday to her?

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