His Missing Luna

Chapter Seven

Peyton's Point of View

"Remove it?" I echoed, completely dumbfounded. "Remove the shield?"

"Yes," she replied. "Also, we might get through this conversation a little quicker if you stopped repeating my every word."

Dice chuckled. 'She's got you pegged.'

'Like your any less confused.' I bit back snidely.

The Omega that Finn had summoned came in with snacks and drinks designed for a toddler. I opened my mouth to explain that our guest was older than she seemed, but Bethany picked up a juice box and started drinking from the straw. Until my dying day, I didn't think I would be able to get my head around what was happening.

"So," my new friend started. "As soon as I take the shield down you will be able to approach her. But so will everybody else. And there might be others looking for her. So you'll need to be with her tomorrow in order to protect her."

"And how exactly do I do that?" I asked. "My best trackers haven't been able to find her so far."

"They only track on scent." Bethany answered slowly. "So of course they haven't found her." She was talking to me like I was the child. It really sucked being the stupidest person in the room.

There was a long pause whilst the Winter Witch finished her drink, making loud slurping noises as the remainder of the liquid was sucked through the straw.

"So how would I go about finding her?" I asked, hoping that this wasn't another stupid question.

"Amelia is hungry so she'll need something to eat soon. She doesn't have a home and her money ran out a few months back. She hasn't learned to hunt as a wolf. Recently she has taken to stealing groceries."

"Why hasn't she learned to hunt? Where has she been living? Good Goddess, why has no one stepped in to look after her?" The thought of Amelia being out there on her own, alone and vulnerable, made me want to tear the world apart.

My visitor sighed heavily. "These are all questions for her to answer, not me. I don't know everything - I am only five, you know."

Whether she was five or fifty-five, my patience was now starting to wear thin. I started to rub my temples, I needed to keep my anger in check.

"So I'll let you know tomorrow where she'll be." Bethany continued matter of factly. "I'll give the signal and you can go and see her. But if she doesn't want to come with you, then you can't make her."

I wondered what the signal would be. Some sort of bat signal, in the shape of a witch? A witch-phone? And then my mind settled on the second part of her sentence. How the hell was I going to get Amelia to agree to come to the pack which she and her mother fled from so many years ago? A new thought occurred to me - did Amelia even know that her mother was dead? How was I going to explain that I was probably the last person to see her alive? That I lead my father straight to her? How were we going to overcome all this when she didn't even know my name?

A loud throat-clearing sound took me out of my own thoughts and back into the room.

"It seems like you have a lot of work to do," Bethany said, right before yawning loudly. "I need to go home, it's almost my bedtime you know."

Shit! I'd been so caught up in my own thoughts that I hadn't given the Winter Witch the respect that she deserved. Still there was nothing I could do about that now, our meeting was clearly over. "I'll see you out."

The adorable five-year-old jumped up on to the chair and held her arms out to me. "Will you carry me?"

"Of course." I smiled at her indulgently. She really was the most beautiful child I'd ever seen. Except for one, of course. When I was young, I thought that Amelia was an enchanting little girl.

She cuddled her face into my neck as I carried her out to our main hall. There were a couple of workers staring at the gargantuan sized hole in the building, sucking air through their teeth and shaking their heads. "What a total mess! This is going to take hours to sort out, Alpha."

I sighed half-heartedly, perhaps they could do a quick repair job and look at it again in the morning. After what I'd learned from Bethany, I really didn't have the capacity to think about anything else today. I just wanted to have a few drinks, pass out and start again tomorrow.

Bethany turned away from my shoulder and addressed the room. "Would you step to the side please. I don't want anyone getting hurt."

Everyone present looked at the bundle of cuteness in my arms and decided that she didn't know what she was talking about. They continued their conversations as if she hadn't spoken. She looked at me with pleading eyes.

Given how much force it would have taken to blast the door open in the first place, I, for one, wasn't going to take any chances with what she was about to do next. "Where do you want us?" I asked as I placed her down gently on the floor.

"Over by the stairs."

"You heard her. Now move!"

With very little enthusiasm, everyone moved towards the staircase. I could feel several sets of eyes locked on to me questioning my sanity. As if a little girl was going to hurt a set of grown wolves. I could hear there grumbles tumbling around in my head as they flooded the pack link.

"Fari Bonon." Bethany whispered, as she raised her hand towards the front of the building.

The door from the back wall sailed through the air and landed with a colossal smack back into its original place. Despite having some idea of what she was about to do, I jumped at least six inches into the air.

Low growls started to erupt out of my pack members. I silenced them all with an Alpha snarl that brought their heads down respectfully.

"REPARI!" Bethany cried and a light brighter than I had ever seen flashed through the room, causing me to screw my eyes shut against its glare. When the light dimmed to a low enough level that it wouldn't burn my retinas, I gingerly looked around the room, everything was back to its original state. Bethany was standing next to the door with her thumb in her mouth, waving at me with her fingers.

I waved back at her in awe before she disappeared right in front of me.

"Well, there's something you don't see every day," Finn commented as the guys crept towards the door to double-check that it was real.

"Indeed," I replied, shrugging. Now that our house was back in order, I felt I had enough energy for what was coming next.

"Mind link Nathan and get him to meet us in my office," I barked at my Beta. "And cancel your dinner plans. We've got a s**t load of arrangements to make.

I watched as disappointment settled over his features. It would only be temporary. When he found out what we were doing tomorrow, he'd be all smiles again. I'd been both miserable and angry for the last six months. If we found Amelia, I'd be much easier to deal with.