The Abused Luna

chapter 28

Third Person Pov:

“I have a surprise for you guys?”, Zara said excitedly, while grabbing the attention of everyone present in the dinning room at once.

“What is that, the so called surprise? “, Clint asked suspiciously, as he vaguely guessed that something terrible was going to happen, that too mainly to him.

His foodie radar antenna was getting red danger alert signals very sharply.

“Here… ta… da… SURPRISE !!!! “, Zara yelled out excitedly, and displayed her surprise.

Looking at the “surprise “ given to them by Zara, everyone had different expressions on their faces. And out of all of them, the expressions on the guys' faces were note worthy.

Clint had an horrific expression, as if someone had killed his favorite little puppy, while Zander, and Kevin had a helpless, and a wary look on their faces, as if someone was going to torture them to the depths of self misery.

“this is not a surprise!!!. It is more like a new method to torture us, without killing, dude “, Zander aka Zan leaned towards Kevin, and whispered very lowly, so that the words said by him can not be heard by Zara, who had exceptional hearing senses.

“damn true, man. I feel sorry for all of us. More to so that guy aka Clint. Just Take a look at Clint’s face though “, Kevin whispered back very lowly, while trying to stifle his laughter, so hard.

“yeah, man. His face looks like he had come face to face with his worst nightmare, that had come true”, Zan mumbled back so excitedly.

The surprise, that Zara talked about so excitedly was, none other than the food that she had cooked by her own hands. More so like the food that she had brutally murdered by her hands.

The surprise was like a terrifying horror. It was all because, Zara was the worst cook one could ever find for themselves.

She can not cook a single thing nicely, even for saving herself from hunger.

Like, who can spoil, and mess things up even if it was just boiling a few eggs, and some leafy greens that can be made in a few minutes.

Zara made some bread toast, which looked as black as like the back of a well used pot, and fried eggs, which was more like scrambled eggs just by looking at it, which did not look like it could be an edible item at all in the very least way. And on top of it, You can not guarantee the taste of those foods though.

“It really is his worst nightmare, man. His weakness is the love he have for food. He was such a foodie guy.

Giving him these burnt foods, and telling him to eat them was really his worst nightmare coming true“, Kevin retorted, while looking down tactical so as not to get caught by either Zara, or by Clint.

“what the hell was that??!!!. Why did you put that black nasty looking thing on the dinning table, and trying to ruin my appetite here??. Where was the surprise you so proudly bragged about? “, Clint yelled in an exasperated tone.

“do not spout non sense in here, you blind man. Open your eyes nicely, and take a good look. This is my surprise. I made all these foods for breakfast for everyone. I spent almost an hour, and a half, for making all these food items”, Zara said happily, but she forgot to notice the horrific look that formed on the guys’ faces, especially the one on Clint’s face.

He looked like he went through a great emotional damage, when he heard those words, “breakfast for you” that came out from Zara’s mouth.

Because everyone clearly knows how far apart cooking skills, and Zara were like. They can not even put those two words in the same sentence, for the sake of the moon goddess.

“Well…I forgot to tell you something. I got some very important work to do right now. So I will see you guys later “, Clint gulped down nervously, and reacted quickly the next second, as if he was running for his life.

“I have to make a very urgent call. Excuse me guys… . “, Kevin said the very next moment Clint made his excuse.

When both of his buddies put forth the same excuses that his dimwit brain had come up with to evade from the upcoming self torturing session before he could use it, Zander looked riled up as he racked his brain to come up with the another quick excuse.

Seeing the guys making up random excuses, and trying to get away from the dinning table, Zara being her sly self, quickly reached out to her guardian angels aka the elder couples.

“Uncles!!!!. Aunties!!!!. See these ungrateful guys. I worked very hard in the kitchen, for more than an hour to cook these delicious foods for them, yet they are not even taking a bite. No one loves me… .. “, Zara squeezed her eyes out intentionally, trying to bring out some fake tears, while whining like a little girl.

“Get your stupid selfs' right back here. Right this instance!!”, Uncle Kenny said seeing his little sweet heart whining, and making a fuss.

Hearing the ex beta c*m their trainer commanding them to come back, Clint, and Kevin had no other choice than to come back, and resume their previous position on the dinning table.

Seeing that her act was successful, Zara happily served her so called surprise breakfast to the guys.

She left out the elders, and Casey from her crazy cooking though.

Zander, who was trying to come up with an excuse, was delighted when he saw his friends coming back to eat along with him.

“Don’t you dare smile, you knuckle head “, Clint gritted out looking at the happy looking Zander.

“you too are going to have that black piece of thing as your breakfast “, Kevin added after Clint, looking at Zander.

“no problem. I am not the only one, who is going to go through this tragic event. You guys are going to give me company!!. It's fine for me now“, Zander replied in a sing a song manner, making the other two guys to huff, and puff in annoyance.

You see, suffering alone was a torture. But dragging your friends along with you to suffer that same torture, will give you a streak of pleasure. And that was what exactly Zander for feeling at that moment.

“If you guys do not start eating it, in a minute, then you will be having a sparing match with me”, the ex gamma, Ronny gave out a threat, when Zara went into the kitchen to fetch more of her surprise aka torture foods.

Hearing the threat from him, the next second, the guys gulped down the little over barbecued black colored bread, and the burnt foods as quickly as possible, just so they could avoid feeling the taste of it on their tongues.

They literally gulped down the foods placed on their plates in front of them, and gave a grave smile to Zara, who was looking at them very expectedly.

“Little brat. Be ready tomorrow morning. I will take you to go shopping. It is the return gift from me, for your surprise”, Clint gritted out through his teeth, as he can still taste the burnt flavor of the food in his mouth.

“are you crazy, or what??!!. Why in the freaking hell, are you encouraging that crazy brat??. Do you want to eat her hand made foods daily, and want to poison yourself to death, or what?“, Zander gritted out lowly at Clint.

“ Nope…the gift I am talking about is more like a gift that I am gifting for ourselves. I am doing a great favor for us. Her gift will benefit us more. I am going to buy her, all sorts of books based on basic cooking skills. To avoid getting killed by her toxic cooking in the future“, Clint whispered back.

Hearing that Clint had proposed to bring her to shopping, Zara was so excited that she dragged Casey with her to make a list of things, that she was going to buy on tomorrow’s shopping spree of hers.

After Zara went out of the dinning room, the guys quickly pushed away their plates, and drank a mouth full of water hastily.

Then everyone had a nice breakfast, which was cooked by Mrs. Jimmie.

Clint even kissed her on her cheeks, to express his happiness for getting a good breakfast.

~*~

In alpha office.

Zion arranged a quick meeting with the guys, and with uncle Kenny, and uncle Ronny to discuss about the rogue attack that happened in the morning.

“we still do not know why these rogue wolves were attacking our pack???. That is what you guys were going to talk about, right? “, Kenny, the ex beta asked as, he was in a deep thought.

“Yes, uncle Kenny. We can not find the reason for their constant attacks, and they are becoming a huge headache for us “, Zion said, as he was truly annoyed that this rogue wolves problem was being more mysterious as time pass by.

“We have tortured the captured rogue wolves, and tried every other possible means to make the rogue wolves that were in our prisons to talk, but it was all vain. it is either they really do not know anything about their leader, and his future attack plans, as they claim to be, Or they are being tight lipped, and messing with us”, Zander answered to no one in particular.

“Shall we, try to tortured them using the foods cooked by Zara?. Like, it could come in handy, and help us out.

Let me tell you. For the moon goddess sake, that girl really have a great talent to mess with the foods rightly, in a very wrong way”, Clint suggested, as he really could still feel the burnt after taste of the foods in his mouth.

“Shut up. Back to the main topic”, uncle Kenny chastised his son.

“I am planning to do a deep investigation on it, uncle Kenny. As I really do not believe that these rogue wolves attacking us, doesn’t have any deep hidden reasons, and all that had happened in the past were a mere coincidence”, Zion said, and had a serious expression on his face.

“okay then. We will ask all of our sources, and old friends, about this incident, and try go get a clue about these attacks”, Uncle Ronny said, and went out with his friend Kenny.

“come on. Let’s go too. We have a long mission of writing reports “, Clint whined, while dragging Zander along with him.

“Bye bro”, “ bye buddy “, both Zander, and Clint yelled out respectively, and went out to do their own works.

“ Take care of the rogue wolves bodies, and make sure to assign more trackers to find out about the place, from where these rogue wolves were coming from. We have to find it soon“, Zion said to Kevin, who stayed back, and waited for his Alpha's orders.

“Sure, Zion. I will go, and see to it”, Kevin too bid his farewell, and went to the pack's border, where they were burying the dead rogue wolves bodies.

Even though the Night howlers pack was rumoured to be the deadliest pack with ruthless pack members, they were originally not so ruthless as they were described to be.

Zion, their pack’s Alpha respected the dead rogue wolves, and even made arrangements for the proper burial of the dead rogue wolves in the neutral lands outside the pack’s territory.

Zion knew, and respected the fact that even his enemies should be given a proper burial, as the dead should be always given respect for the life they had lost.

On the other hand, in the Alpha’s office, Zion stood near the large windows that faced the east side of the pack.

Through the open window, he could get a clear view of the forest that surrounded his pack, and it’s territories.

The Night howlers pack was surrounded by forest that was filled with lush green plantation that made it look majestic.

The sun rays that reached the ground from the gaps of the thick trees made it look so surreal, and enchanted.

Somehow his muscular, and strongly built body that always looked majestic, somewhat seemed lonely today. His broad shoulders were sagged a little too, telling the onlookers a different story.

Zion was lost in the memories of his past, and those past memories were all about his dear mother Elizabeth Xavier, whom he had lost in his early childhood years.

For some strange reason, he particularly missed his mom, and reminisced the happy times that he had spent with his mom, when he was a kid.

After standing there for an unknown period of time, Zion finally came out of his memory lane.

He did not know why all of a sudden he thought about his mom. Then he just shook his head helplessly.

Then he came back to his large office table, that was made of teak wood, and buried himself in the loads of paperwork that was piled in front of him.

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