Chosen By The Moon

Go with him? How was | supposed to go with Lewis without getting us both killed? Not that | made any effort in

showing him | had heard him, | just stared straight ahead of me, relishing in the warmth Lewis's top gave me.

“Shit!” He sounded exasperated, and with it can unexpected emotion. | suddenly felt a small slap to my

cheek causingto blink rapidly trying to cto terms with the new pain, it was nowhere near what the king

usually dishes out though. My sight quickly cback toand as clear as day Lewis stared into my eyes,

blood coated his newly swollen face, as he cupped my cheek. “There she is...” | was utterly humiliated by the

events that just took place but | had to shake them off.

I really didn’t know how much more | could take. “Con, we need to leave.” He hauledonto my feet and

enveloped my hand in his before hightailing out of the room and down the stairs draggingalong with him. My

footing wasn’t great and | kept falling to my knees which in turn slowed us down tically.

“SHIT!” He suddenly flung my tired body over his shoulder and began to run faster, we made it down one more

flight of stairs before couldn't loud roar sounded throughout the castle and I quickly realized the king was awake

once again and had clearly noticed my absence. Lewis was too slow with me.

“Stop!” My voice was sore and horse from the screaming I'd done, and my body wasn’t much better. “You need

to go!”

“Like hell am I leaving you here after that!” He was so sure about himself. As he turned the corner and finally

made it to the grand entrance.

“You don’t have a choice! Lewis... if you keep going one of us is going to die.” It was true, | was far to weak to

survive on the road if we left and Lewis was going to get killed on sight if he stayed, that much was evident. So

either way we were screwed. Just leave me.” He knew | was night, and so he satdown gently on the tiled

floor, with my back against the wall and shook his head, tears formed in his eyes which was a shock to say the

least.

“What he did... I... | shook my head and winced, before looking at the door we just walked in through.

“I'm ok.” | wasn’t, | would never be again, but he didn’t need to know that. I liked Lewis, and | knew | couldn't

see him die.

“You're not...” | knew | wasn’t but he couldn't know that He knew he had to go, and | did too, but For some

reason he wasn't leaving-

‘lan... L... | promise | am. You have to go, please, | can’t loose you, | just can’t.” | admitted to him. I'm not sure

he expectedto say something like

that.

“Dylan... I...” He shook his head, as if stopping himself from saying something, and leaned in quickly, placing a

small kiss on my forehead before cupping my bleeding cheek in his hand. “I'll cback. I'll cback for you,

| swear it. I'll cback for you and kill him... Ill kill him!” | shook my bead at the betas words, he wasn’t strong

enough to kill the king, no one was. | was stuck in this life, completely and utterly stuck

“LEWIS!” Both mine and the beta turned our heads to the angry gamma, he took one look at the pair of us. | was

still barely dressed and blood trickled down my legs slightly after the kings abuse, meanwhile Lewis wasn't any

better his face swelling more and more as twent on. The gammas eyes widened at my state then looked at

Lewis and smiled sadly. “I understand.” Huh? What did that mean? What did he understand? | looked between

the two men before another thunderous growl came, it was much closer than we all thought. Just go, Lew!”

The beta nodded his head then gave one last look at me. He very gently pushed one stray piece of my unruly

hair out of my face and behind my ear placing another kiss on my forehead. Treatingas if | was made out of

glass. “Don’t show him any weakness, Dylan, you are so much stronger than you will ever know.” My dads final

words were very similar, this man had managed to steal a little piece of me, and | found myself longing for him

to stay, for him to hugand holdclose, longing for him to protectagainst the king and his world. |

don’t know why, | just know I didn’t want him to go, | wanted him to takeaway from all this.

He stepped back and allowed his bones to pop and shift. A loud gasp of pure wonder left my mouth instantly as |

gazed at the large wolf in front of me.

The kings wolf was terrifying, but Lewis's was beautiful, his Sandy fur looked so soft and shiny, all | wanted to do

was run my fingers through it and find comfort in the betas warmth, but it wasn’t possible.

He was the ssize as the king near enough, but his wolf looked so soft and majestic, more so than Josh's ever

did. His wolf head turned toone last tand nodded, he then charged at the large wooden front doors of

the palace, knocking them open with his large head, his wolf then ran down every single step without another

look back and completely out of sight.

| tried to stand but my shaky legs failedjust as the king entered the room. | let out a large gasp the second

he cinto view. His face was beaten worse than Lewis's as his pitch black eyes locked on mine.

“You stupid bitch! You're lucky I can’t kill you!” His rage was immense and | knew with Lewis gone it was going to «

be taken out on me.