Dead Luna
Chapter 7

Amelia's POV

After everything that has happened today, it felt great to be alive. I was naturally very tired after my ordeal, but hadn't felt so at peace with myself in a long time, and I slept better than I had in years. Everyone was behaving strangely around me at first, but I suppose that was only to be expected. It had taken a while to convince Leo to let go of my hand, as if he believed I'd die again if he didn't hang on to me tight enough. Thankfully he had ahold of my left hand, since I needed my right one to eat with.

First thing in the morning I had several tasks I needed to get out of the way before I did anything else. I placed a call the diner and told them that I would no longer be able to work there, giving only a vague version of the events that happened the evening before. Then I called mom, again only giving the barest details I could get away with, and informed her that I might be busy during the next few weeks so she shouldn't expect regular calls for a while. But I was able to satisfy her with the promise that I would be home in a few weeks for a long overdue visit.

Dr. Lyndon came in to give me a final checkup while I was finishing up breakfast. And Luna Leann arrived with some clothes for me to borrow, since a blood stained shirt and blue jeans was hardly considered appropriate attire to address an alpha meeting. "Well, I don't understand how this came about, but somehow you arrived here last night on the verge of death and without a wolf to help you heal, and as far as I could tell, you actually died. But half an hour later, you were not only alive but had gained your wolf and have the ability to heal yourself faster than any wolf healing I've seen before. I'm quite amazed, to be perfectly honest!" The good doctor couldn't help but say more than once, with little variation.

Luna Leann also expressed her amazement. It seems I had become the talk of the pack. Everyone had either an opinion or a theory, it seems.

Well, soon enough it was time to head over to the pack house to address the Alpha meeting.

I was led to a spacious well appointed room on the ground floor of the pack house, where the 10 alphas awaited me. I thought I would be nervous or frightened, but I felt nothing of the kind. Only the rightness of what I needed to do and say on behalf of Selene. Looking around at all the alphas scattered about, I decided I needed to rearrange them for ease of addressing the crowd. I requested that the unmated alphas should be grouped to my right, and that all of their unmated officers should be present in the room, although they were welcome to include all of their officers regardless of relationship status, if they do chose. I mention that I only left them out so the room doesn't overflow with so much testosterone, which made a few of them chuckle. "So, without any further ado, let me introduce you to my wolf, Ambrosia!" Ambrosia POV

"Welcome all you Alphas, and your trusted officers!" I start off once I've come forward, Amelia's soft green eyes being replaced with my bright emerald ones, and my voice lower, a bit gravely, and far sexier in my humble opinion. "I've got some fabulous news from our goddess Selene to share with you today."

"You see, moon goddess done realized she messed up. Well, I'm paraphrasing. But yeah, your packs have all got too many unmated wolves. And that's a big problem for you all. Me and my human Amelia are gonna fix that for you in the next few months. That's why she brought Amelia back from the dead and paired us up. Because, me and Selene? We are good friends. Almost besties, in fact. And yes, that girl was dead as a door nail. But she is back, and better than ever!"

"So, you all probably want the deets, am I right? First, we gonna deal with these alphas here to my right. Amelia and I are gonna spend the next month living on each of these guys territories in order to pick the very best possible Lunas for each of them, and to get to know their unmated pack members. One of these lucky gents will even be chosen to be Amelia's fated mate, as her reward for helping you all. Moon goddess herself assures you all that Amelia will be the PERFECT Luna for whichever Alpha she chooses. You just gotta convince Amelia (and me) that YOU are the perfect Alpha for her!"

"In the following month, we will come visit the rest of the packs for a couple day to meet all your unmated wolves, in order to help moon goddess to match up everyone else. And at the end of 2 months on the next full moon, we gonna have a big ole mating ball! It'll be hosted by the Alpha who wins Amelia's heart. And by the end of it, nearly everyone should have found their mates, unless they ain't old enough."

Nearly everyone present seemed pleased with the announcement, although I saw one who looked downcast.

"I almost forgot! Leonard, get your a*s up here!" I shout at him, and beckon him to come stand next to me, a fearful look on his face. "See, Selene got a special punishment for Gamma Leonard here. He done rejected Amelia because she was a lowly omega, which made Selene very sad. And she's tired of making all these wonderful mate pairings, only to have people going around thinking they know better than her and rejecting their fated mates left, right, and center. And Amelia, she gonna need more than just my help for the task ahead. So Moon goddess gonna give him a chance to redeem his sorry self by helping us out in the next few months. And if Amelia thinks he is worthy, he will be granted a second chance mate!"

Leo looked equal parts alarmed and relieved at his roll in all this.

I dismiss all the alphas except for my 4 potential mates. Oh, my, what a sexy group of beasts I have to choose from! I can hardly wait to get things rolling.