Chapter 50: The Aftermath.
The silence was deadly and Gideon stood up, leaning over the car next to him. He looked around,
trying toprehend what was going on, and realised that he was the only person standing. Right next
to him, Reid and Maya were still confused, lying on the floor and trying to get up.
Gradually, he started to hear the sounds of the car rms which had all been triggered by the
explosion.
Explosion! He missed a breath, looking at the shattered hotel in front of him and seeing pieces of ss
that used to be its exterior everywhere.
Gideon ran as fast as he could to where he had left her. His mate, his Riannon. The woman who was
his whole life now. The woman he had just announced as his and then so carelessly left alone.
He was back at the entrance in no time, but he couldn’t see her in the clouds of dust and smoke. The
fear seized him for the first time in his life. Primitive animalistic fear.
He couldn’t lose her like that. Not when all the obstacles were finally gone.
Just then, he saw something white on the ground next to the entrance and recognised her tinum
blonde hair as well. The relief washed over him.
Riannon had her head pounding from the fall and the noise made her temporarily deaf. The first thing
that she recognised was Brayden’s scent. He was lying on top of her and breathing heavily.
The hearing wasing back slowly as he rolled off her and then tried to help her get up.
“Are you okay?” she heard her ex-husband through muffled noises. But she could only nod.
“Ria!” Gideon appeared out of nowhere and lifted her into his arms in less than a second,
“Oh, goddess! Thank goddess that you… I…”
“I know,” she wrapped her arms around his neck, allowing herself a few moments of weakness. A few
moments of being cuddled against his chest and breathing in his scent to calm down. A few moments
of feeling safe.
“You are wee, you know,” Brayden said through clenched teeth, and Gideon red at him for
daring to speak to them now. But then he noticed that the Alpha was bleeding heavily and realised that
he had actually covered his mate during the explosion with his body.
“Put me down,” Riannon tapped his shoulder and turned to face her unexpected saviour, “ Thank you.”
but he smiled painfully.
“Whatever happens, I will always protect you, Ri,” he stepped towards her, making Gideon growl, and
then let out a little groan, turning his backs to them slowly and demonstrating several big pieces of
ss stuck in his flesh. His suit jacket was soaking from the blood.
The lycan king had to take himself under control. He hated that man, but he would hate it more if one of
those ss shards was now in Riannon’s face instead.
He had responsibilities before his people. He had to go inside and check on them, see who was injured
and who survived.
Reid and Maya were running their way, the girl throwing herself in his mate’s arms. His Beta and the
king exchanged nces. They both knew what they had to do.
“GO,” Riannon told him, and he was relieved that she understood everything as well, “I will help
Brayden to get the ss out and join you.”
“No,” the king protested, “Stay here.”
“Yeah, sure!” Maya snorted, rolling her eyes.
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“We’ll be there helping the survivors as soon as we are done here,” his mate said calmly, “There are
people who need our help there and we are not sitting this one out.”
“Ria,” Gideon wanted to say something, but seeing the determination in her eyes, he gave up. The
Moon Goddess sent him a Luna who wouldn’t be hiding in a situation like that and would want to help
their people. He had to learn to ept it, even if his instinct was to hide her from the cruel world around
them. “See you there,” he said and rushed inside. They couldn’t waste any more time.
Riannon traced him with her gaze and then returned to the back of her ex-husband, who was waiting
patiently. She took off her belt and started using it for soaking blood as she removed piece after piece.
Luckily, he was an Alpha and she could see that he was healing fast.
“He doesn’t know you the way I do,” Brayden hissed as she got a big shard out of him,”No one does.”
“That’s questionable,” she stated inly, keeping up her work, “Sometimes I wonder if you knew me at
all.”
“Of course, I did,” he sighed, “It’s just… The mate bond, Ri. It’s stronger than anything.”
“I can agree with that,” his ex-wife seemed preupied with what she was doing, “I can”
His whole body shuddered at the mention of the lycan king.
“But I would still choose to handle the matter differently,” Ria confessed, “I wouldn’t expect you two to
live together, share me and be happy about it.”
“I was only thinking about you,” Brayden tried to turn his head to look at his now ex-Luna but Maya
stepped in closer with a menacing expression on her face.
“Oh, look! I see one!” she dered and grabbed one of the bigger shards, twisting it in his flesh and
only then getting it out, “There. We are wasting a lot of time here!”
The Alpha winced from pain but said nothing.
“There is only one thing that bothers me, Bray,” Riannon said when she was done with him, “You talk
so much about your mate and this bond of yours. But right now there was an explosion in the hotel we
were all in and you are here, talking to me and not out there – looking for her. How does that work?”
His mouth parted slightly. As if he had remembered something important.
“I’ll see youter,” he muttered, and ran inside of the hotel.
Maya and Ria looked at each other and followed him.
Inside of the foyer that was sparkling and shining just seconds ago was messy and dark, because now
all of the lights were down. They could still see properly thanks to the werewolf vision though. And
Riannon did not like what she was seeing.
Disoriented people walking here and there, a familiar Alpha clenching his Luna in his arms while the
woman did not seem to respond. And a few dead bodies…
It was a disaster. And someone nned it.
From the corner of her eye, she noticed a woman dragging another woman from where the restaurant
was located. She recognised the Alpha of the werecats, Ramina and went to help her.
“How are you?” she asked.
“What will happen to me? I am a cat,” the woman snorted, “I have nine lives. Well, eight now. Six if I am
honest. But I was lucky that your ex caused a scene and I went to check on my Luna. I didn’t get there
in time for the second explosion.”
“The second explosion?” Ria looked at the werecat in shock. “Yes,” Ramina gritted through her teeth,
“Whoever did this, arranged one attack for the that couldn’t be said about the Lunas.”.
Riannon and Maya looked at each other and went inside the restaurant where, less than an hour ago,
she was meeting with her friends. And they both gasped at the sight before their eyes…