The Beast's Possession
79: Where is Luna?

**Zion pov**

Bane's kitchen looked like a murder scene.

As I barged inside, the men and the doctor followed me right on my heels.

Bane was lying on the floor and Aife was lying on top of him, clutching the phone in her hand so hard, I could see her knuckles turning white.

To my surprise, she was crying. Her cheeks were a deep shade of red, covered in ugly stains left by the tears and her eyes were puffy.

I felt like someone had forced their hand inside my chest and grabbed my heart, squeezing the life out of me. I was worried about my best friend, possibly dying, but I also knew Bane. He was a fighter. Men like him didn't give up easily.

Aife, however, looked like she was on the verge of a mental breakdown. The mere seconds I spent taking in the scene were enough for me to silently plead with the Moon Goddess to make it possible to save Bane.

Not from losing his life. No. I needed her to save him from something so evil and sinister, I feared the frail woman crying for him was the only one who could really do it. Shaking my head, I came back to my senses and noticed the men surrounding Bane.

I instantly broke through them and started barking out the commands. "Let the doctors approach him, stop swarming like damn bees. They need space to work, damn it!"

Some of the men willingly stepped aside, but some refused to. I made sure those who remained close were of good use to doctors and helped.

"He's alive, in a bad shape, but alive. We need to get him to the main house first. Once he's there, we can bring him to the hospital wing and look at the blood supply we have. The Alpha should be as good as new by tomorrow," the doctor explained.

Hearing his words felt as if a massive weight fell from everyone's shoulders. I wasn't the only one who was worried about Bane's health. Everyone around the pack loved him - as vicious as he was, Bane was fair.

"We will need to run some tests to check why the Alpha isn't healing, but that too, can be done only in the hospital." The doctor muttered.

I tore my gaze away from my best friend's pale face and glared at the doctor. "We know why he isn't healing, there's no need to bring this up in front of everyone here." Glaring at the men around us, I made sure to add a threatening growl to my words, "am I clear?"

Everyone instantly nodded their heads.

Letting out a sigh of relief, I tried to ground myself. Perhaps that was what I really needed because now, I noticed the sudden absence of Aife. She was just lying on his chest, wasn't she?

Looking around, I couldn't see her anywhere, probably because the men took up too much space for me to notice her.

"Where is Luna?" I asked loud enough for everyone to hear me.

The men exchanged glances, but none spoke up, so I repeated myself. "Where is Luna?"

"What are you talking about? We don't have a Luna," one of the youngest men spoke up.

I recognized him as the lead of the patrol. He had arrived home yesterday, after spending six months in the forests, missing every single thing that happened around here in time of his absence. Although I knew I shouldn't be angry at him since the kid didn't know anything, the fact that he didn't wouldn't rid him of responsibility if he did anything.

The growl that tore out of me shook the windows. "The woman lying on his chest is Luna, you moron! Where is she?" I shouted so loud, my throat felt as if it was ripping apart.

His eyes widened in realization. I could see how his hands started shaking as he attempted to speak, "I - I," was all he could say.

I shot up to my feet and stomped towards him. Just as I was in front of him, I grabbed his throat and roared, "what did you do?"

His face turned just as pale as Bane's. But unlike my best friend, who was literally dying, this guy was scared shitless.

"I yanked her off Alpha, I- I didn't know."

I released my hold on him and frantically looked around the kitchen. There was this feeling in the pit of my stomach that something bad had happened and god damn it, I was right.

Aife was in the furthest corner of the kitchen, sitting against the wall, eyes closed.

I instantly rushed to her side and sank to my knees. Carefully placing a hand on her cheek, I tilted her head to see if she would react. Then, I gently tapped my hand against her other cheek, but she didn't wake up.

Seeing my struggle, the doctor appeared next to me and took over. He promised she was fine, just got a bad hit to her head and it would be better if she rested.

When he reluctantly glanced at me, I already knew what would come next before the words spilled over his lips. "Rex is in trouble for this, is he?"

A bitter chuckle left me. "Don't ask me. Ask your Alpha when he wakes up and you explain to him how one of your boys yanked his Luna off him and literally threw her against the wall. What do you think fucking will happen? Bane will give him a fucking medal for his heroic actions?"

The doctor looked away in shame, his shoulders dropped. "The boy didn't know."

"That's something you'll have to explain to Alpha, not me. Pray the gods there are no consequences and she wakes up as good as new."

"We should get them both to the hospital wing then. The men are carrying Alpha out the door right now, do you need any help with Luna?" He muttered, still looking away. "No," I barked and scooped Aife in my arms.

I couldn't help but feel guilty. Just hours ago, she looked so happy and free, but now, once again, she was hurt because of our pack.

No matter how hard we tried, accidents kept happening and she wasn't the only one who was suffering.

Sometimes, I felt like the Goddess enjoyed watching our misery. We really tried being better, we tried to change and give the women in our pack the best lives possible.

Deep down, I knew it sounded ridiculous. Knowing how women came to our pack, what Bane and many of us had done, my statements sounded like bullshit, but they really weren't. Every time this pack managed to take one step forward, the mistakes from the past that weren't even ours threw us two steps back. That was why I hoped that Aife was the key.

Once upon a time, I hoped the same thing about Milly, but she proved us all otherwise. I didn't have much hope in anything changing, but I still held onto the bit we had with all my might. One person couldn't change and fix generations of never ending issues and desperation, but seeing the person Aife was, I wished she could.

Unlike Milly, Aife was pure, and it wasn't only about her body. Aife wasn't ruined by the ugly truths of the word, she was selfless, empathetic and overall a good person.

She was everything we weren't.

Everything we wanted to be.