Bella: Warrior Luna

Chapter 2

Bella

As I sobbed into my knees, I felt a sudden spike of pain along my right arm.

Oh no... not now, please. No...

My body started shaking involuntarily. Spikes of pain raced up my arms, my lips burning and a painful ache tugged my heart. After a while, I couldn't hold it in anymore and screamed while tears raced down my face.

The door pushed open, Ellie and Rue were at my side in a second and started to hug me.

"Omg Bels... Come on, let's get you up. It'll be ok, it'll be ok."

I cowered away from their touch, my mind confusing their touch with the pain poking along my nerves. My wolf howling non-stop in my head.

Rue ran to the bathroom to fill up the bathtub with hot water. Ellie went around me to hug me, pat my head and hum a song to calm me down. When the bath was ready, they brought me to the bathtub and helped me out of my clothes.

As I sat in the bathtub, the pain lifted a little and my wolf started to whimper, curled in a tight ball. Both of us doing our best to endure the torment. Ellie and Rue were busy beside me when Ellie came to me with a syringe.

"Bels, are you sure you want this? It'll be detrimental to your health in the long run and this is the second time this week already."

I nodded, tears streaming down my face, unable to look at her but she understood. She could see how much pain I was in. She couldn't bear it either. She poked the syringe in my arm gently and pushed. In a moment, my head started to spin and I submerged into the blissful darkness. My wolf howled in sadness and in pain.

This is the consequences I have to face when Laxton, my fated mate, my beloved who marked me on my 17th birthday, decided to have affairs behind my back. Well, not really behind my back since I can feel every sensual touch, every kiss, every thrust of his hips.

Our mate-bond is a little defective. Although we were fated to be mates and enjoyed everything that comes with the mate-bond, our touch to each other is not as pleasurable compared to other fated mates and we couldn't feel the mate link beyond the usual mind link our pack members have with each other. I guess what we have is the usual description of chosen mates.

But does it mean that what we have isn't as precious? Does it mean that he can treat me like this? Why am I not enough?

As it is, even the pain I am feeling isn't as intense as what fated mates would have felt. Fated mates would have found it hard to do this to the other. The disloyal one would have felt pain while doing those s****l acts. Are they masochists? Or are they just desperate?

But due to our defective mate-bond, Laxton only felt a tiny bit of the pain, lesser than I do. I know this because I overheard his conversation with his beta before.

Meanwhile, the counterpart mate would have crumbled by the first few times this happened. Some of them driven to madness, some driven to commit suicide, and some aware and brave enough to reject their disloyal, cruel mate.

But I still love Laxton. I've loved him before knowing we were fated mates. I'd have continued to love him even without it and even if I found another as my mate. I am sure of it. So the pain I've felt is more than physical pain, it's the heartache of his actions and confusion with his words and feelings to me.

I woke up an hour later in my bed soaked with my sweat. Ellie and Rue beside me with a small table between them, looking at paperwork. I groaned.

"How're you feeling, Bels? You are out longer than usual today," Ellie asked, her face frowned in worry.

"Here, drink some water," Rue pressed a glass of water on my lips while helping me to sit up.

I drank some water and thanked her.

"How's the planning going?" I asked, looking at the paperwork.

Ellie and Rue kept all the documents and sat beside me. Their faces stern. I was surprised because they know I don't usually talk about this and they usually follow my flow.

"Bella, we need to talk," they said in unison.

I put down my glass of water on the side table. Sat up straighter and gestured for them to go on.

"Bella, you've been mated to Laxton for three years now. He's never been faithful to you, f*****g anything that walks. Every time he does, it hurts you and the pain has increased to the point of you collapsing now and resorting to this infernal drug to help you!" Ellie said in frustration.

"You know that it hurts more when he does it with Elaine and he has never stayed with one girl for this long before. You know what it means, Bella! Please, we beg you, reject him now. We can't stand seeing you like this anymore," Rue was tearing up as she said it. She's always the soft hearted one between us three.

I leaned forward and thumbed her tears away. Thinking of what to say.

"I love him. I know it's hard to understand how I feel for him. I've loved him almost all my life. I can't stop and I know it looks like he's being really cruel to me. But he has his soft side and he does take care of me too."

I sighed and leaned back on my bed's headboard.

"Everyone has their own battles and their path to take. This is my path I have to take and see where it brings me to. That is his path and his demons he has to battle it out. I can only hope that at the end of this phase he's in, it'll lead him back to me," I said softly. My heart truly believes in what I've said.

Ellie and Rue huddled together and leaned on me. We stayed in the group hug for a while. I knew that they couldn't understand me fully since Ellie has a loving mate by her side with a big heart, so big that he even felt for me and is on my side of things while Rue is still waiting for her mate but every guy she's went out with has always been kind and considerate towards her, I mean who wouldn't? She's such a sweetie.

But they stand by me. That's all that matters right now.

When we broke the group hug, we were all in tears and suddenly giggled at our condition. What would our pack members think if they saw three of the top commands in this condition? We left for my office and let the maids fix up my room. We spent the entire day planning for the Lycan gathering next week.

We are part of the Blood Diamond pack. Laxton just took over the Alpha role last summer but hasn't been fulfilling his duties entirely. I was a warrior in training and took over the role of Luna with Laxton. Due to his incompetence, I have also been filling up the gaps in duty left by the Alpha.

Laxton's parents have moved to the suburban area of town for their retirement. Before they left, they had impressed on me to take care of their son and the pack. Knowing full well that Laxton isn't as capable as they initially thought. They thought he was ready to take over. But soon realised that it was I who had helped him over the years.

We are now in the middle of a war though many of our pack members were unaware of it. Werewolves had loved harmoniously for two generations until now. Packs were still forming larger alliances to pit against each other.

Our pack has been trying to stay out of it as we are one of the founding packs and work directly under the Lycans. However, it seems that the war between werewolves isn't ending as quickly as we thought they would and spreading further still. Therefore, it is necessary to have a meeting with the commanding officers of the Lycans to look for a solution and end the war before it spreads further. The meeting is set for next week and we still have tons to do.