Dead Luna
Chapter 37

Amelia's

POV

I'm scared to death when I see Jerome heading out of the room with Leo. If that door closes and they are both on the same side, I don't think I will ever see Leo alive, ever again.

But to my relief, as well as horror, Jerome manages to trick Leo into leaving, and he slams the door and locks it with Leo outside in the hallway.

Then Jerome walks reverently towards the bed where I am still curled up in a ball. The tears have stopped, though. I'm too scared at this point to feel anything at all but the adrenaline pumping thru my veins. "There, there, my love." Jerome says soothingly. He climbs into the bed beside me, and wraps his arms around me gently. "It's just you and me, now. I'll protect you. Just relax."

"You hurt me!" I whine, hoping he takes pity on me.

"I know, my love." He says, crooning softly in my ear and kisses my cheek. "I had to be sure of your fidelity to me. I think Gamma Jordan wants you for himself. I've seen how he lusts after you. But I'm going to kill him, for you, my love. He won't ever come between us again."

I close my eyes so Jerome doesn't realize what I'm doing, and mind link to Leo that Jerome plans to kill him, and to get away from here immediately.

"That stupid Gamma will never come near me again", I say, hoping that somehow playing into Jerome's delusions will keep me safe for a while. Maybe I can come up with a plan to get out of here, and join Leo wherever he's gone to. "That's right, Shantae!" Jerome sighs in happiness, fully immersed into his delusions. "And now we are going to mate and mark each other like I should have done when I took your virginity. We will be so happy together." "But I'm still sore. You hurt me!"

"I know, but it always hurts the first time," He insisted, and quickly unzips his pants. "I promise to be quick, and I'll make it up to you next time. Next time will be amazing!"

His pants are now tossed onto the floor, and I'm running out of ideas. I can feel his huge member pressing against me, and I don't know what to do. I even ask Ambrosia if she can intervene somehow. Worth a try! Me and Jet go way back.

"Jet! Get yourself out here!" Ambrosia suddenly comes forward, calling out to Jerome's wolf. I'm thrown back into my head, and hoping against hope that the wolves can work something out.

"Hey, baby! Long time, no see!" The Alpha wolf replies with a sultry purr.

"Can't you talk any sense into that numbskull Alpha of yours? He's got my human scared shitless."

"Nah, baby. I've been trying for years to talk sense into him. He's done gone round the bend, he has. He planning to kill off all the men folk of the pack, and keep you locked away in here. Somebody needs to put this human DOWN like a rabid dog!"

"Don't tell her all our plans, you stupid mutt!" Jerome returns suddenly with a growl, and argues with his wolf. I've never seen anything like it before, and I suspect he has gone completely insane. "I don't want anyone else having lust filled thoughts about my mate!" "Don't listen to him, sweetheart." Jerome croons. "I'm starting to think he might be a little bit crazy, he he he."

"Now, Shantae, why don't you get onto your hands and knees. I'll take you from the backside like the big ole stallion that I am. I'll be able to drive into you so hard and deep, and I'll get our first pup planted into your belly today." Jerome tries sweet talking to me into doing what he wants. "And I also want another look at your virgin blood dripping outta your sweet little snatch. It's such a turn on just thinking about it!"

"But I told you, I'm still sore!"

"Turn over now and do as I say, or I'll turn you over myself and smack your bottom until it bleeds even more!" Jerome demands quietly, but deadly.

I don't know what possessed me to defy the terrifying Alpha, I was honestly scared to death, and I knew I was unlikely to leave this room unscathed at this point. But I did. I refused him, with a loud and clear "NO!"

He slapped me hard across the face with a frustrated yell. I could feel the sting of that slap to my very core. Then I see his fangs elongating, but whether to mark me or kill me, I'm uncertain as this point. And the next thing I know Jerome has been pulled off of the bed by a huge dark grey wolf with sapphire eyes. Lance!

Now I'm terrified! I had asked Leo to leave, to save himself, but now he's somehow here and putting his own life in danger. How in the heck did he even get in here?

Jerome shifts into his supersized black werewolf, Jet, and they begin to circle each other in the close confines of the Luna suite. Both looking for an opening. Jet suddenly lunges at Lance, but Lance is very quick and easily maneuvers out of the way, Jet being too large to easily move about the room. They tousle for only a minute or two, when suddenly the door of the Luna suite bursts open and several members of the pack burst in, distracting Jet. Lance immediately goes in for the kill, biting into his neck and ripping it out efficiently.

The alpha falls to the ground, hard, causing almost half the building to shake from the impact. The dead body automatically shifts back to human form, gruesome looking with the throat almost completely gone.

I let loose my breath, which I had been holding, apparently. I'm so very relieved, I can hardly contain my joy. But I start crying instead, and call out to Leo, wanting him to hold me as I break down in tears.

Lance shifts back into Leo, and is instantly by my side and crawling under the covers to hide his nakedness. We are wrapped up in each others arms, crying with relief, joy, and perhaps just a little bit of hysteria in my case.

"Oh goddess, I was so sure Jerome was going to kill you!" I sob uncontrollably. "He seemed to be confusing you and his old Gamma Jordan, and he kept calling me Shantae. At one point Ambrosia called forth his wolf Jet, and he claimed Jerome was insane and planning to kill all the men of the pack!"

I hear several people in the room gasp out loud at that. Leo and I look at each other, and then look around the room. We had nearly forgotten that we had an audience.

"So Jerome was even more insane than we suspected," Beta Raghuram says with a shake of his head as he steps forward. "What would you like us to do with the body, Alpha Leo?" Leo and I look at each other. "Alpha?"