Lucian shot up as the knocking became more insistent. He put his one hand up to tell my mother to sit down and the other to put a finger over his mouth so that everyone would stay quiet. “Tessa?! Honey! I know you’re in there with them. I can smell you.” The door opened cautiously to a very distraught Luke’s mom. She’s been like a second mother to me. “Tessa!! Oh dear Moon Goddess it’s good to see your lovely face. Warms my heart. I’m sorry to barge in like this.” She nodded in respect to Grant as the Beta and went to hug me but Lucian stepped in between us. “I mean no harm Alpha.” She covered her mouth and started crying. “I… I don’t know… please don’t tell the Alpha. He’s already planning on beheading my son when the moon is at its apex.” It wasn’t easy to understand her through h