Chapter 239: To threaten a man to love you
Selene POV
In the end, I had to push to go.
It was one of the toughest decisions I’ve ever made but the whole point of ending the cycle is all about sacrifice, right? Beta Reid prepared for my evacuation because Kurtis had said firmly that he wanted nothing to do with it and he didn’t want to be a party after stalking out of the room with anger.
The good news was, I would be going alone and not with the girls. Secretly, I longed to be alone and see if there was a way, I could communicate with either Kragen or the moon goddess but especially Kragen. He would know what to do.
The journey to the mountain sanctuary was tense and hurried. I was bundled in a heavy cloak to conceal my identity and rode in a nondescript car surrounded by a mall but elite group of guards mostly Kurtis’s men. Noah had wanted to accompany me but we both knew he was needed to coordinate the pack’s defenses.
But I’ve been keeping in touch with Reid since I left the pack and there was no threat yet. The Foxes had suddenly stopped about five miles from Moon Whisper and were snarling and barking. They couldn’t move past some sort of barrier and as for the rogues rumoured to be coming from the South, no one had spotted them yet. But they had a drone checking the area every five minutes.
As we wound our way up the difficult mountain path, my mind raced with worry. For Noah, for our pack and for the future that seemed to grow more uncertain with each passing moment. If we go through this storm unscathed, I’m going to insist on going for the vacation we’ve been talking about for so long. Two days from today, I’ll be 6 months old and be left with three months to live. So, I should make the most of it.
If we continued to put it off because of what seemed to be happening anytime we wanted to put our feet up, then we would never go, that was for certain.
A sudden jolt nearly threw me from my seat. The car came to an abrupt halt and I heard the muffled sounds of a scuffle outside.