My Miracle Luna
Their Gemini Wolves Chapter 34

[Rylee's P.O.V.}

I was flabbergasted-I think that's the word I want to use-and speechless. The traffickers knew about me; they knew I was rare. But thankfully, it seemed like they weren't aware that Sam, or William, were Primordials as well. I felt bombarded by the sheer amount of information I had to process in such a short span of time as we all sat in the Golden Moon conference room. It was full of werewolves, on top of a light witch, and it looked as if the walls were going to collapse because there were so many of us packed inside. Dorian finished explaining everything his pack member, Albert, had told him over the phone, and Wyatt was angry. No, scratch that, Wyatt was livid. The entire time Dorian was talking, Wyatt released a massive amount of bloodlust, and I was afraid he would shift and kill everyone just out of pure anger. I did my best to keep him calm, but it wasn't working; I felt like it had to do with the fact we weren't fully bonded. There was no doubt in my mind that we needed to return home and undo all of the damage I had done. We needed to be at our best, and we needed to protect our pack. I was really curious to know how the traffickers even found out about me and the Desert Moon females.

"If you're wondering who could have blabbed about all of us to the bad guys, I'm pretty certain it was your outcast pack member, Sierra," Allie said as if she had read my mind. "What?!" Wyatt and I exclaimed.

"I wonder if that's why she's been wandering the pack grounds?" Melody pondered. Wyatt and I looked at her like she was insane.

"Dot, what the hell are you talking about?" Wyatt asked her.

"Wyatt." We turned our attention to Kendrick. "The Luna of Desert Moon was sensing that Sierra had spied on us the other night at the hospital when we were all arguing. She sensed her spying on us as we were packing up this morning too. Somehow she's been getting past all the security measures in place around the pack grounds. She's going unnoticed."

"That's not f*****g possible, Ken!" Wyatt shouted at him.

"Allie, how do you even know about Sierra?" I asked, but instead of answering, she c****d her head to the side and stared at me. Then she looked at Lanie before she moved onto Lexie, and did the same thing. She repeated this over and over, and I grew increasingly frustrated because she didn't seem to take the threat seriously. "Allie! Did you not hear what I just asked!?" I yelled at her.

"Hmm... Oh no, I did, but I'm too busy trying to figure out the relationship between you three," she finally responded.

"What?"

"The three of you have very similar auras, did you know that?" she mentioned as her eyes darted between the three of us again. What was up with this Luna? Her mind was somewhere else completely. "Allie, what do you mean that they're similar?" Wyatt asked.

"Similar, as in related." The room fell silent, and everyone focused on us.

"What?" Lexie, Lanie, and I said in unison.

"Allie, that's not possible. I'm a Primordial, they're not," I notified her. She was out of her mind.

"What makes a Primordial?" she asked.

"Being born to two pure-blooded Alphas," I answered.

"Okay, but that doesn't mean you can't be related to them. It just means someone in your family"-she stared directly at me before deliberately looking at the twins-"is part of their family."

"That can't be, we're direct descendants from the moon god-Ow!" Lanie started to say but Lexie swiftly elbowed her. I surveyed the room full of people, and everyone's eyes were bulging out of their heads. "You're what to the who now!?" Amber asked.

"Oops." Those of us who already knew their backstory hung our heads.

"Wow." I heard Leah say.

"Okay, how does that work?" Sin asked. We sighed and I gave Lanie the death glare.

"Rylee." I shifted my gaze to William; all he did was nod his head. "No more secrets. Secrets are how we got into so many of our messes." He was right. I nodded my head and exhaled deeply before diving into a lengthy explanation of everything we knew. Though I felt that we didn't have enough time for storytelling, being upfront and honest would be good for everyone in the long run. I even went as far as to include Kendrick's lineage.

By the time I was done, everyone's mouths were hanging open, and I swore I could see saliva spilling from one of the guard's mouths. I think he said his name was Derek.

“I ... Uh... Whoa... Hmm... I guess that's why these two have such powerful auras about them. That's probably why Lanie shocked me when I shook her hand. I literally felt the power of the moon from her," Allie said, shaking her head in disbelief. "Selene has a lot of explaining to do, but before I get into that. Rylee, are you also ..."

"No, I'm not," I replied before she could finish.

"If you're not a descendant like them, then how can Allie feel that you guys are related?" Sin asked. I just shrugged my shoulders. I looked at the girls and they looked at me. Could we really be related? Could that be why I felt so drawn to them? "Have you guys done any blood work to see if there is a familial match? Dorian asked.

"No, we haven't," Wyatt answered.

"There's no better time than the present!" Allie said, her voice full of glee.

"We don't have ..." I wanted to object, but William stopped me.

"Rylee, we can make time. You have been dying to know why you're so drawn to them. Now we can figure it out."

"Luna, we have a doctor here who can run the test. We can request rapid results," Chad informed me. I didn't know what to say to all of this.

"Rylee?" I glanced over at the twins who were pleading with me and giving me puppy-dog eyes. They wanted to know as much as I did. Just then, Kaleigh spoke to me.

Rylee, we need to know. If they are family, we need to know.

What if Allie is wrong?

I have spoken to her wolf, Mercury. They share their gift, just like we share ours. She too believes that we are connected to Lexie and Lanie. I also feel that I am connected to Atlanta and Brooklyn.

Kaleigh, I don't know if I can go through with this.

Rylee, they are not wrong. They are just not sure how close the relation is. It is important that we find out.

"Dearest?" I looked up at Wyatt who gave me a warm smile and nodded his head. He wanted to know too. "We have time to prep for the wars. Why don't you, the girls, and Allie go to Golden Moon's hospital and get the answers that you seek." "Are you sure?" I asked him.

"I am. The ranked men need to come up with our game plans anyways, we have time to get you three answers. Go," he said genuinely. I let out a deep breath and nodded.

As Wyatt suggested, Allie, Lexie, Lanie, and I went down to Golden Moon's pack hospital, where their pack doctor was waiting for us. Thankfully, we were in and out of there pretty quickly.

"Lunas and Beta Lexie, please allow the technician an hour to get the results. As soon as he has them, we will call you to my office to review them," the pack doctor told us and we all nodded. An hour would take a while, so we decided to go to the waiting room and I figured we might as well get to know Allie better.

"So, Allie, how long have you been Luna of Desert Moon?" I asked.

"Just under four years, you?"

"Officially, one; unofficially, two," I answered.

"I haven't actually started yet," Lanie chimed in, making us smile at her. "I'm nervous, but I'm sure Rylee can teach me a lot."

"I doubt that, Lanie. I haven't been the best Luna. I mean, I'm not technically a Luna, from what I just found out," I said truthfully and looked down in shame. I still couldn't believe all this time, the distance I felt from pack members and Wyatt had to do with the fact that I forgot to take back my rejection and request my title back.

"Rylee, how old were you when all of that happened?" Allie asked.

"18."

"Yeah, I think you can cut yourself some slack then. You were practically still a child when all that s**t happened to you. And from what I've heard, you were a child slave?" I nodded my head. "Rylee, you were young, you're still young. I'm not much older, but I still have a few years on you. I was named Luna at 22 and while still human. I can't even imagine the s**t you went through being a child slave, becoming Luna and getting pregnant at 18, then having to leave it all behind because a psycho b***h teamed up with a dark witch to f**k with your mate's head."

"Geez, when you put it that way, you make it seem like nothing at all."

"You know that's not what I meant," she snapped back. "Rylee, stop beating yourself up for what you did in the past. Leave your past in the past and concentrate on your future."

"That's easy for you to say! You didn't go through what I went through! Did you lose your parents at the same time!? Did you become a child slave!? Did someone try to kill you on more than one occasion because they wanted what rightfully belonged to you!? Have you ever lost everything important in your life because of someone else!?" I shouted at her. She couldn't possibly know what I was feeling.

"Yes, yes, yes, and yes," she said. "We can also add on the fact that I've technically died four times." My eyes widened and I looked back at her. Lanie and Lexie were silent but also very attentive. "Granted, everything that happened to me happened over a period of 20 years, but still. I know what that feels like." I gulped and bit the inside of my cheek with remorse.

"What happened?" Lanie asked.

"Lanie!" Lexie shouted.

"What? I'm curious! She claims to understand, so I want to know," Lanie defended.

"I'm so sorry about my sister, Luna Allie," Lexie said. Allie just smiled and shook it off.

"It's fine, Lexie, and please, call me Allie," Allie replied. "I have nothing to hide. What happened in my past is what makes me who I am today. As I mentioned, I was once human. My parents were immigrants and died in a car accident when I was two. I was an orphan and grew up in the foster system. A place where unwanted children are bounced from home to home to people who only want money from the government. Some homes were better than others, but the ones that were bad were very bad. I may not have grown up as a slave or in a cage, but when you grow up being a government paycheck for someone and have to clean for them and are told to be grateful to have a roof over your head, I would like to think that it's similar. Either way, I went to school, got good grades, and then when I was 17, I met my first and only boyfriend before Dorian."

"You had a mate before Dorian?" Lexie asked.

"Humph, I'm glad you asked that. So, at first, because I was human, I didn't know what a mate was, obviously. My then-boyfriend, Devin, was strong and fit. Things were good at first, but when I refused to give up my virginity to him because I wanted to wait until marriage, he started to hit me. And I don't just mean slap me, he would beat me."

"Oh my god," I winced.

"Yeah. It went on for about nine months. Then, one night, after I graduated high school and was getting ready for college, I went to go see Devin in his college dorm. He was fed up with me not putting out, and he well ... took it." My jaw dropped and the girls gasped. "What happened after that?" I asked without realizing how emotionally invested I was in her story.

"I woke up covered in blood and found my way to a hospital. I got him sent to prison for what he did. He threatened to kill me for turning him in. So, that's how I ended up in Las Vegas. Four years later, I met Dorian, and at the same time, Devin had found me. Devin then conspired with Dorian's ex-girlfriend and tried to have me killed. But before that, Jessica, Dorian's ex, beat me so bad when I first showed up at the packhouse, I was in a coma for a month." "Please tell me they're dead," I said.

"They are, but here's the kicker. Devin turned out to be a werewolf, and I never knew. And I was his mate apparently." "WHAT?!?!" we shouted.

"Yeahhhh..."

"Wait, you said you died four times. When?" Lexie asked this time.

"Oh, according to the moon goddess, I died in the car accident, I died when Devin, you know, I coded on the table during surgery after Jessica beat the s**t out of me, and most recently, I died for ten minutes after fighting a deadly poison that my arch-nemesis tried to use on my husband," she said nonchalantly. Did Allie not care that she just gave us her entire life story?

"How are you not mad at the world?" Lanie asked.

"Who says that I'm not?" Allie countered. We didn't know what to say to that.

"Wait, you said that you've had everything taken from you. How?" I asked curiously.

"When I was three months pregnant with my first pup, she was murdered by a bomb. And that bomb was built by a pack member we all trusted." A very awkward silence took over because none of us could respond to that. I don't think I could even imagine how painful that must have been. "That was the most excruciating pain I had ever felt in my life."

"I... I can't imagine," I said sympathetically.

"It's actually why I'm so engrossed in my pack member's pregnancies, no matter who they are. I never want anyone I know to ever feel that kind of pain. Losing my baby that way really changed my perspective on life. Being a Luna, I feel like the mother of my pack. A den mother if you will. I care about all of my pack members even if that doesn't seem like it. I can't cater to everyone one by one, because that's impossible with almost 500 pack members. But, I do what I can to make them feel important and appreciated. During a battle a couple of years ago, we lost a lot of good pack members. I was relieved it wasn't anyone close to me, but I did what I could to make up for the loss of their lives. Dorian and I paid for all of the funeral costs. Caskets, memorials, floral arrangements, what have you. I also invested in a small pond and had koi fish put in to honor each pack member. The fish are named after them."

"Fish?" Lanie asked.

"I know it sounds strange, but Koi live to be about 20 or 25 years old, so I like to see it as giving their spirits a second life. Family members of the fallen go feed the fish on the regular, and some have gotten really big over the last few years. I even had one put in that was a pinkish purple hue to honor the daughter I lost." We sat in silence a little longer, but Allie broke it. "I know what I went through is different from what you all went through. I'm also not saying that either one of us went through something more traumatic than the other, because it's not a contest who had it worse. Our lives are all different, and we all were dealt shitty cards. But, I believe that it's how we bounce back from that trauma that makes us who we are as individuals." I nodded my head.

"I agree with you. I admit that I didn't handle things all that well when it came to Wyatt. But I had to protect my pup who I was pregnant with at the time. I would do it all again if I had to. I can't do what you do, Allie, I can't insert myself into other's lives the way you do and try to give advice all the time. I've never been that way, and I don't think I ever could be. But, I do think that doing something for the pack to let them know that I appreciate them is something I can do," I said to her. "Personally, I don't think screaming at people is the best way to get people to do what you want either," I chided her. She looked at me and lifted a brow.

"Who told you?" she asked and smirked.

"I read Kendrick's mind."

"Pfft, you're just like Sin. That skank can never turn off her powers."

"Yeah, but, what I'm trying to say is that maybe being so authoritative isn't the best solution. At least, not all of the time. I mean, a Luna is supposed to be loving and level-headed. You don't want your pack members to be afraid of you. You want respect, yes, but you can't demand it by putting fear into the hearts of the ones you're supposed to look at after." Allie blinked a few times and just stared at me. She didn't say anything, so I figured she wanted me to continue. "I know that you've been hurt in the past by a pack member, and maybe that's why you have this hard exterior about you, but that's not how you should always be. I mean, I think it's great that you did things for your pack members who died, but saying stuff like, they weren't close to you is kind of harsh, and well, makes you sound like a bitch." She lifted a brow and gave me this look like she wanted to slap me. But she didn't.

"Humph, you got balls, Rylee. You got some big a*s brass balls. No one has ever said that to my face," she said to me. I swear I thought I had pissed off and that she was going to tear into me as well. Given what Wyatt said about the moon goddess giving her power, I was slightly intimidated by her. But instead of yelling at me, she just smiled. "Luna Rylee, you've earned my respect, and my friendship." She put her hand out and smiled big. I smiled back and shook her hand. "Also, I think you're more than qualified to teach Lanie how to be a Luna. I'll take what you said to heart and try to emulate it." Lanie and Lexie smiled as well. We all basked in our newfound camaraderie before the doctor came into the waiting room.

"Ah, Lunas and Beta, forgive me for the delay," he said to us.

"No problem at all," I responded.

"Please, if you will follow me, I have the results in my office," he motioned to us. We got up and followed him. Once we were situated in his office, he turned on his computer. Lanie, Lexie, and I sat in the three chairs directly in front of him, while Allie said in a guest chair by the sidewall. "I have to say, the results are shocking, to say the least, but exciting at the same time. I'm ecstatic to know that I am the one who is able to announce this," he said while grinning ear to ear. "What are the results, doctor?" I asked him.

"Luna Rylee, it appears that you and our Luna and Beta female have a 25% DNA match," he said excitedly. The three of us looked at him confused. I didn't know what that meant, and neither did Lexie and Lanie. "Half-sisters?" Allie said.

"Yes, Luna Shaw, that's correct. They are half-sisters!" the doctor gleamed.

"What does that mean?" Lexie asked.

"Oh, right, you guys grew up differently. Ummm... You guys are half-sisters. Meaning that you either share a mom or a dad," Allie explained. My eyes widened.

"W... Wh... What!?" I exclaimed. "Are you saying one of my parents had an affair!?"

"Yeah... It seems that way. Based on your ages, it obviously happened after you were born, but when you were only a toddler."

"But my parents were still together. They died together!" I shouted.

"I don't know what to tell you, Rylee. The results are right there. 25% DNA match," she said and pointed to the computer.

"No! There is a mistake! Neither one of my parents would do that to each other! They loved each other too much! They wouldn't destroy the mate bond that way!" I cried out, standing to my feet. "That's wrong! Your technician made a mistake! Take our blood again and run it again! Bring him in here!" I demanded. It couldn't be true. My parents always told me how sacred the bond was. Even if I broke mine with Wyatt, it wasn't from infidelity. I didn't even realize I was crying. "Rylee, are you ashamed of us?" I looked at Lexie and Lanie.

"No, of course not, but this is wrong. I know it is. This can't be why I'm drawn to you two. There has to be a different reason." A few minutes later, the technician walked in, but before I could even get one word out to him, Allie stood to her feet. "LUTHER!?!"