His Luna’s Already A Luna
Chapter 93

Nick POV

His heart was cold, as he watched her scream in agony, as pain coursed through her beautiful body. W killed that she-wolf, got a quicker death than she deserved, he thought absently. As he watched her te Rip was standing inside his mind, still as can be. As they watched their Mate run. Flee from their pack Reached out and turned the screen off.

His whole body was filled with rage, he was seething. He stood and walked outside, knew his Beta was her right now. Actually felt sorry for any rogues she came across out there. They would not survive he He walked all the way to the road at the front of the pack-house and stood, closed his eyes and used and watch or not. He did not really care who came or not. Didn't care if no-one showed up to see the He could hear her with his wolfs hearing her struggling and crying, begging for her life. It was not goin Nick knew that his eyes were red for all to see. Probably looked like a monster and today he was going He watched as people started walking up towards the pack-house. They were here to see who had bro doing anything so vital ever again. Now one of them had, and others had helped her to do it.

A lot of wolves came, he noted, no children thankfully. Some came in wolf form but most in human. Th not all did. Today he would show just how an Alpha displayed fear and power all at once. Today, his re Nick held a hand out to his people, bringing the prisoners, traitors. The lot of them "Not her." he state He stood and just let them take in what their punishment was going to be. That they had broken rule assisted in the crime against him, and their Luna.

Kevin was holding Lacey, two warriors were holding Richard and Carol. "Who gave my Mate's blood? Th still had Lucinda's dried blood on her, evidence to her crime.

The older woman, Lacey, was pushed forward "Kneel." he did not give her the option, flooded her with and when she didn't, his eyes actually moved to her.

as his own pack member, kicked her to the ground and laughed at her pain. Seemed to really enjoy it. He watched as Ky'ra ripped out of her in a blur and that lifeless body, destroying it completely and then run from his pack.

ing he had betrayed her, how could she not? After what she had felt, what Valerie had done to her. Done to him. Done to them.

g directly behind him. Did not blame the man for not going after his Mate, she had been in a full blood-l**t rage, nothing and no-one was going to survive ng would right now. Likely including him.

wide mind-link to call his pack to come to him for its first ever public execution. It was not an order but a statement. They would have the option to come that would happen today.

appen, it would not save her. He stood there on the road, his hands were fisted at his side, every muscle in his body was taught. Rip was right there with him.

le number one in the pack. It was the only rule that he had established, with such a harsh penalty, that he had hoped it would deter all his wolves from

ed the other side of the road, to wait for it to begin. He had turned this pack around and thought everyone appreciated and respected him, but it appears ng wolves would realise he would treat anyone who tried to harm their bonds in the harshest way possible. but even so much as looking at them. His voice was devoid of all emotions. She would suffer today.

r one and invoked its punishment in full. He waited until he saw no-one else coming to this execution. Then he turned his eyes to the three who had

a's blood. To her?" the last word was snarled out of him and his and pointed right at Valerie, he didn't need to see her to know where she was, she currently

pha Aura, forcing her to kneel before him and knew her neck would stretch and bare before him in submission "Your crime?" he demanded she answer him,

The very large crowd that had gathered before him were all quiet, "you broke rule number 1. interfered with another wolfs Bond. Your Alpha and Luna's bond at that." Nick heard half the crowd gasp, they had known what this was about, but they had no idea of who's bond had been interfered with, or ruined, and now they understood completely, that these people before them had done something terrible and not just to anyone. To their own Alpha.

"Your punishment is death." he was watching her. She said nothing at all, resigned to her fate. It seemed "Why did you?" he grated out. "Frosts, don't deserve happiness." she spat out at him.

Nick nodded, he knew what she was talking about. Liam, who had forcibly mated her and then Marked her right over the top of her Mates Mark, killing him. Then he'd rejected her once her Mate had died. The man had been a brute, relished in severing others Bonds. Why? Who knows!

"I will make your death quick," he stated, and snapped her neck, heard both her son and daughter cry out in agony as they felt her be severed from them, pain he once had felt. Knew it hurt.

"Bring him." he stated "Right here." he pointed to the ground next to Richard's mother's lifeless corpse.

He was forced to kneel by Kevin, with a boot to the back of his knee. The man fell face first on to the road and Kevin yanked him back up on to his knees. It seemed one of his unit had taken to the man. He was already black and blue, one eye swollen shut, he was wearing a simple pair of shorts and he had many wounds across his chest, a wolf tore into him, he supposed.

Looked at Kevin with a raised eyebrow, at the man's state. "Coop, this is that bastard that tried to kill Braidy."

Nick nodded, fair enough.

"Your crime?" he asked

"I'm sorry, I was wrong."

"Your crime?" Nick repeated.

"Assisting to break rule number 1." he answered.

"Why?"

"I...I don't know...Valerie said it would be okay. Once you marked her. No-one could interfere with her and your bond. Not even you. You would be bound by rule number 1 yourself. Would have to accept it...could protect us from you, once she was the Luna." he blabbed everything, clearly trying to gain some favour and maybe Nick would be lenient with him.

"Did she?"

"Yes Alpha, I'm sorry."

"It's too late...Do you see my Luna by my side?"

"No." he heard the man whisper.

Nick nodded, looked at the crowd and could see it really dawn on them. She was not beside him, no longer here in the pack to be their Luna. He snapped the man's neck and watched as his body fell right next to his dead mother.

Turned and looked at the man's Mate, could see the filigree fading off of her neck already, burning away from her with the death of her Mate. There were tears pouring down her face, her eyes on the lifeless corpse at his feet.

Nick took a single step to his left, "Bring her." he said, pointing to the spot right next to her dead Mate.

She fell to the ground, he noted she was not wearing handcuffs, she was sobbing with the pain of losing her Mate, too much to bare. He stood and watched her as she knelt next to him, a hand on his lifeless corpse and sobbed uncontrollably. Broken it seemed "Do you have children?" he asked her.

She shook her head, no.

Nick's head tilted slightly to the side as he looked down at her, hunkered down right in front of her. "You're not from here originally, are you?"

"No," she whispered.

He could hear it, Rip too. Their Alpha hearing picked it up. Now she was right in front of him. A tiny fluttering heart beat inside her womb. He wanted to end her life as much as the others. But found he could not while she was carrying a pup inside of her. Thought about it long and hard, what to do with her. She was a traitor to him, to his pack.

"I will banish you. Go back to your old pack. I will inform your old Alpha, of your crimes and, while I am being lenient with you, for the sake of the pup growing in your womb. What he does with you? Is not my problem."

Her eyes turned up to his very wide in shock, a hand shot to her belly. She didn't know yet, it was clear to him. He had just imparted the news to her. She was hearing it for the very first time.

"Take her back to the cells, till transport is arranged," he stated and stood up.

She was taken away, now quiet, in shock at the news he had just imparted about the pup she was carrying. Nick looked out at his pack. They were all looking at him. They had never before seen him seethe with rage. Well, not like this. He had raged a war against Liam and his unit and all those loyal to him, but it had been very loud and very aggressive for all to hear.

They were all quiet, had heard the charges, heard not one of them deny it. Heard that his Luna was not by his side. What they made of that itself, he didn't know. Whether they thought she was dead he had no idea.

They, however, did not look afraid of him, he noted. Some of them just looked sad. Some were leaning into their Mate, holding on to them, some were even crying, he noted. Many of them looked angry, but he knew it wasn't directed at him. Those that were angry were all looking at the only one left to be dealt with.

"Braidy," he finally said, pointing to the ground next to the two already dead before him "Un-cuff her."

"Why?" his Delta asked.

"Because if she runs. She is Rips."

He heard Valerie start to struggle and fight. The whole way over, saw her being forced down on the ground by Braidy. The Mate she had rejected on the spot. A man who deserved a she-wolf a hundred times her calibre, the cuffs were removed and she turned her eyes up to meet Nicks. She had some nerve, he thought. Looking at us like that.

Rip snarled with all he had, and she was forced by his aura all the way down to the ground, not just to kneel and bare before them, but to put her head on the ground, the most painful thing in the wolfen society, to be forced by your Alpha to bare all the way to the ground, to be forced so low.

"Your Crimes?" he snarled. Rip wanted out and he wanted his pound of flesh. Nick was barely in control of his beast now.

"I didn't..." she stuttered.

"What was that?" His claw were suddenly out, Rip pushing past his control in a small way. Nearly all the way out.

"I just...you were mine first." she gasped

"I...was...never...yours." both he and Rip spoke together.

Seeing as she wasn't about to state her crimes, he would do it for her, for all to hear.

"Your Crime. You drugged, kidnapped and tried to have my Delta killed" he stated loudly for all to hear. He could not kill her without them knowing her crime. As much as he wanted to just let Rip out to have her, "Alive he is to attest to your crime against him." Nicks eyes moved to Braidy.

"Yes Alpha, she did drug me. Had her brother leave me for dead, to drown in a river at the height of high tide."

"It was my brother," she pleaded.

Nick turned his eyes back to her, the most disgusting creature he had seen in a very long time. "Did you ask him too?" It was an Alpha order not a question.

"Yes." he heard the pain it caused her to answer him honestly, pain because she had wanted to lie about it.

"Your other crime?"

"I...I just wanted...to be with you." she gasped out the words.

"I have a Mate... Now gone. Because you drugged me. Tried to use my Luna's blood, to make me think, make me believe you were here. Tried to Mate me." he heard the entire crowd gasp now "Tried to have me Mark you, while I was drugged." "I...I love you Nick." she sobbed.

Love, he thought, as pain ripped at his heart. He'd had love, just gotten it, in fact, struggled to get his Luna to trust him, to love him and it was gone now. She was gone. He kicked Valerie so hard, Rip flooded him with the power to make her go flying threw the air, she screamed in pain and went rolling across the road when she landed, just lay there holding her abdomen, blood coming from her mouth.

He stalked after her, reached down and picked her up, his large hand around her already bruised neck. Already been choked, it seemed, and by the look of her bruised and battered face, had a run in with,...Jeremy.

Braidy had been missing and he'd seen in the security footage, that it had been Jeremy who'd been the one to rip her off his body and go after her. Had gone ahead and tortured the information about Braidy out of her, and who had helped her with her plan to try and be his Luna. Nick approved. He would have done no less himself.

Her feet were barely touching the ground and she had both her filthy disgusting hands on his, trying to pry him loose. She had no hope it was Rip who had her and his claws were out and digging into her skin.

"Your crime! You broke rule number 1. Invoked the law of public execution for yourself and all who helped you."

He saw her eyes move from him, to over his left shoulder. Turned to look and see Braidy standing there. The man looked impassive and uncaring to Nick. This she-wolf had once been his Mate. It crossed Nicks' mind as to how he was feeling.

Put the woman on her feet but Rip did not let go. Would not relinquish her, allowed her to take a breath. Did not look at her. His eyes were on his Delta, he said nothing. Was standing there with his arms folded across his chest. Didn't seem to care. But that didn't mean that he did not.

"Braidy, please... I am your Mate." she begged him, the man she had rejected years ago, then asked her brother to kill him just yesterday.

The way she had looked at Braidy, Nick had known it was coming, it's why he allowed her to breath, to plead for her worthless life to a man she also drugged and tried to kill, one of the Alpha Unit at that.

She had waged a fight she could not win. Even if she had gotten all she wanted. He would have killed her. If Jeremy hadn't done it first.

Nick's eyes were still on his Delta, watching him, waiting for the man to reply. It only took 15 seconds, and the words he spoke Nick believed the time he took to answer. All he was trying to do was give the she-wolf a sense of hope when there was none. "You are not my Mate. Never were." He told her, looking right at her. Then his eyes moved right to Nicks "Invoke the law. Alpha Nicholas." he stated very formally, his tone uncaring and emotionless.

Nick nodded. Felt Valerie really start to struggle now, as she realised she could not be saved. Though why she would think that she could, in the first place, was beyond him. Even if Braidy had wanted to save her, he could not. She had to die, was going to die. His eyes moved to her, Rip was furiously clawing at his mind. "Your punishment is death," he informed her and let go of her, watched as she turned and took her first step to run for her life. Let go of his grip on Rip and felt the first c***k of his shift. She ran screaming in terror as Rip burst out of him with all his Alpha rage pouring out of him.

Shot after her, his claws dragging her down in seconds to the ground, stood right on her back, his massive jaws around her neck, 'you wanted me to bite you Valerie.' Nick shot through the mind-link at her 'So I will.' his words were cold and resolute, the last thing she would ever hear, his voice.

Rip pushed his claws into her shoulders, holding her down and then, with all his strength he had as an Alpha wolf, pulled ferociously on her neck, severing her head from her body completely in one swift motion. Then just dropped her head next to her lifeless corpse and stood snarling down at her body. Before turning and stalking away, back towards the pack-house, every one stepped aside and let his wolf pass.

His pack had watched as he'd killed three of his own pack members, remorselessly for their treasonous acts. His self-control had been uncompromising. All of his Alpha authority was displayed before them. He would not tolerate traitors. He would not tolerate his 1st law being broken and now they all knew it.

He'd never had to invoke it. Had never wanted to, the threat alone, should have been enough to scare most wolves straight. Now they knew with unwavering certainty. It was not to be messed with. That their Alpha, would in fact follow through with the laws he'd put in place.

He was shifted back half way down the Alpha floor, knew Jeremy and Samantha were both following him, could feel his mother's nervousness, Jeremy appeared to be calm, to him. Nick pushed into his suite and banged the door closed, shutting them out. They could not be in here with him for this.

He took a ragged breath in, and let go of all his control. Felt instantly pain and rage flood him, not just his but Rips as well, and they destroyed everything in their rage. Smashed and ripped. Pulled furniture apart with his bare hands, threw everything at the walls. Rip snarling and howling in his rage and pain. Right there with him, he punched and kicked and ripped the plaster off the walls, the doors of their hinges, the mantle off of the fireplace, till there was nothing left to destroy.

Stood in what remained of his living room, breathing heavily, tears burning his eyes as he walked into the bedroom, turned away from their bed and walked into the walk-in. It was all that was left of her. He fell down on to his knees and sobbed like a child. After a while, he sank down and just stared at her belongings. He would never take another. If he could not replace her, he'd live the rest of his life alone. Reached out to touch that pretty purple dress, the one she'd worn just for him, because he'd asked her to. Their first date. His fingers touched it, his hand stilled, the Alpha Oath still on his wrist, he turned it over and looked at it.

His oath was still, in effect, shot to his feet, she was still alive out there somewhere and here he was wallowing in self-pity. There were only two places she would go. To the twins. Or to her home.

Nick yanked on clothes, looked at that dress. He would see her wear it again. Marched himself right out of his suite, Jeremy he found was standing right there in the hallway apparently just waiting on him to pull himself together.

"Did you call Alpha Corey and ask if she's there?"

Jeremy shook his head. "No. I didn't want to start a war."

Nick thought about it as they walked down the hall. " The war would already be on us." She didn't go there then. "She went home. It's the only other place she would go."

"We'll need Kevin, Nick."

"Then get him." he stalked right into his office and picked up the phone, found the number and dialled it just in case.

Beta Adam answered the phone "Half Moon Pack."

"Is Lucinda there?" Nick rapped out, not being around the bush.

"No, Nick?"

Not there. He hung up. Looked at Jeremy. "Get my car, we're going to the White Lotus Pack."

"Yes Nick." he nodded and left the office.

His phone was ringing, he knew it was either Beta Adam or Alpha Corey calling back to replace out what was going on. He had bigger things to deal with. Braidy could call them and explain it. Nick wouldn't be coherent any way, doubted he'd be able to actually get the words out.

He saw the USB drives Jeremy had used to show him what had happened and picked them up, grabbed his laptop and left his office. It was the only way he had of proving his innocence. Though replaceing Lucinda and getting her to come with him to watch it, was likely not going to be easy.

Ky'ra was likely going to be in full control, he thought.

'Won't hurt our Mate.

'Neither will I.' Nick agreed. She had been through enough. Whatever the outcome, it would end her way. He would not fight her physically, she was already in too much pain.

His car was out the front, Jeremy was waiting, Kevin appeared to be having a serious discussion with Phoebe, she didn't want him to go, it seemed, worried for his safety. "I'll send him back Phoebe. Alive I promise." he told her "I need him to come."

She was looking right at him, "Yes Alpha." she nodded and hugged him. Told him he'd better come back to her or she'd hunt him down and kill him herself.

Made Kevin laugh softly, he kissed her and got in the back seat.

"I'll drive." Nick snapped, shoving his laptop and USBs at Jeremy.

He could use the distraction. Sitting in the passenger seat just thinking about it would not bode well for anyone.

"I've told Braidy he's in charge", Jeremy, in formed him as he drove them away from the pack-house.

"Good, I know he can handle it."