Chapter 65
Chapter 65
Chapter 65 Howling at the Moon
The triplets felt the cold spot where Thea should have been.
“Thea!” Conri yelled out. “Where are you?”
No one responded. Something was on the ground beyond the foot of the bed, growling violently.
The door burst open, and four Delta team members rushed in. Garrin turned on the light when he entered.
The sight before them shocked them all. A wolf stuck in mid-shift, growling instead of screaming in pain. The Delta team members looked at the triplets in bed to the mound of misshapen fur on the floor.
“Who is it?” Garrin said. “Where’s the Luna? I don’t feel her anymore.”
“I still feel her, but she’s fading,” Conri said. “Is that, is it Thea?”
“I think so,” Kai said. “I felt her pain when I woke up before she started fading. Relax, darling. Just let go. Let it happen.”
“Why does it feel like she’s disappearing?” Alaric said. “Thea!”
He was answered with a violent growl and the sound of popping joints and breaking bones.
Suddenly, with a final roar, the mound of fur seemed to explode, Thea’s presence disappeared completely, and a huge wolf stood before them. It shook out its silver-white coat. There were patches where the undercoat was black, right where the white patches were on the triplets’ wolves-the paws, tail, and chest. The eyes were black, not turquoise. Thea wasn’t in there.
“Thea?” Conri said even though he knew he didn’t feel her anymore.
The wolf jumped up onto the bed and towered over the sitting triplets. She sniffed Alaric. Pushed his face up with her snout. Licked his neck. She turned to Conrí, sniffed and licked him, then turned to Kai and sniffed him.
“Is Thea in there?” Kai said to the white wolf in mind link.
She pushed his chest with her paw until he was flat on his back on the bed. She brought her head close to Kai’s, looking him in the eye like she was trying to push her thoughts into him. The wolf couldn’t use words, and Thea wasn’t in there to talk.
“Where’s Thea?” Kai said out loud.
The wolf growled in frustration, jumped off the bed, and padded out of the room. Everyone followed her. Maverick mind linked the rest of Delta team, woke them up, and told them to follow. The triplets mind linked their parents.
The wolf was outside in no time, running through the woods, flanked by Delta team and the triplets in wolf form.
“What’s going on?” Conri mind linked everyone.
“No idea,” Garrin replied.
“The wolf isn’t talking. I don’t know if she can. Thea’s not in there,” Kai said. “Why isn’t she in there?”
No one knew
The white wolf stopped in a clearing. She looked up at the full moon and howled.
Alpha Ulric and Luna Ada caught up with the group a few minutes later. The white wolf was still howling like she was yelling at the moon, trying to get the moon goddess to hear her. Alpha Ulric shifted to his
human form and tried an Alpha command to get her to shift. The white wolf didn’t stop howling, and she didn’t shift.
“Dad, I don’t think she has a human form to shift to,” kai said over mind link
“What happened?” Alpha Ulric said,
“I’m not sure. We were sleeping,” Alaric said in mind link to everyone. “We woke up to this wolf shifting in our room. Thea was gone. We felt her less and less as the wolf was trying to shift. When she finished her shift, I couldn’t feel Thea at all anymore.”
“I think this is Thea’s wolf, but Thea’s gone,”
Conri said in mind link.
“I don’t think she can mind link,” Kai said. “She tried in our room, but I got nothing. Maybe they need their humans to use language.”
“Her markings match yours,” Alpha Ulric said. “She feels like your mate, but she doesn’t feel like Thea.”
“What is she howling for?” Luna Ada said.
Kai, in wolf form, approached the silver-white wolf. Conri’s and Alaric’s wolves followed. They sat surrounding her and started howling along with her. As their voices united, their connection strengthened. Even though the wolf couldn’t use words, they knew she was calling out for Thea. They felt it. Delta team joined in, then Alpha Ulric and Luna Ada.
It wasn’t long before the entire pack was awake. Whether the noise itself woke them, or the need to call Thea back, everyone was awake and missing Thea. Everyone called out for her.
Something started happening. Everyone felt it. The people in the clearing saw a bright light descending on the white wolf. It merged with her, then seemed to explode, sending the light throughout the pack lands. Everyone inside the pack lands felt and saw the light go through them. Suddenly they felt Thea again.
The white wolf stopped howling and collapsed.
Axel, Caleb, and Damon approached the white wolf. They sniffed her, then nudged her with their snouts. She didn’t wake. They shifted back to their human forms and knelt beside her. Conri stroked her back soothingly.
“Come on, baby,” Conri said. “Wake up.” He dug his fingers into her fur and shook her gently.
Alaric caressed the wolf’s snout. “Thea? Are you in there, my love? It’s time to wake up.”
Kai placed his hand on her paw. He knew wolves found that annoying. He hoped it would wake her up. It didn’t.
“Please, darling,” Kai said. He squeezed her paw in his hands. “Why won’t she wake up?”
Alpha Ulric and Luna Ada joined them in their human forms.
“I feel Thea in there,” Conri said.
“Me too,” Alaric and Kai said.
“Yes,” Alpha Ulric said. “She’s in there.”
The white wolf started to ripple, and suddenly it was Thea lying on the ground, naked.
“Oh, thank goddess,” Luna Ada said.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
“Does anyone have clothes?” Alaric said.
Delta team wolves ran off into the woods to find something. A few came back with shorts. Anders came back with a shirt.
The triplets put the clothes on the unconscious Thea. Then Kai picked her up in his arms and carried her through the woods toward the pack house, Alaric and Conri on either side of him. Luna Ada and Alpha Ulric shifted back to their wolf form and trotted ahead, leading the way. Delta team surrounded Thea and the triplets, guarding their Luna in her vulnerable state.
Several of them mind linked the pack doctor.
“I’ll be in the infirmary in five minutes,” Dr. Boman mind linked back.
Kai kept whispering, “Please be okay. Please be okay. Please, Thea. Please be okay.”
When they reached the infirmary, the doctor met them at the door.Belongs to (N)ôvel/Drama.Org.