Luna Aleksa's Escape
Luna Aleksa’s Escape Chapter 58

*Aleska POV*

Once it dawned on us that Lachlan was most likely behind all of this, we had to figure out what to do next. Abbey believed that the reason that Jackson and I could mind-link was due to our Crescent Moon wolf bond. Kai tested the theory by trying to mind-link and was unsuccessful. Although Jackson could mind-link his warriors which seemed strange. Although. it become clearer once he had explained that the two warriors he had brought with him weren’t ordinary wolves. Apparently, they had met one another at a training camp that he had been sent to by his father in his early teens and they had bonded. They had recognized Jackson as their alpha early on, and submitted to him, despite the fact that they all shared the same rank.

Abbey believed that if there was a dark witch involved then her enchantment spell would have applied to regular pack wolves, but most likely not affect special wolves, hence why we were all unaffected.

While Abbey couldn’t currently reach any of her contacts due to distance and the presence of a supernatural barrier, she could call them, so we started to make our way to the nearest phone.

Unfortunately, all methods of communication seemed to be out of order. For now, we were on our own. At least we had the advantage of the witch not knowing that we were special wolves. The witch would assume we were under the spell for now. But that would mean that they would be most likely looking for us.

Abbey suggested that we all hide our scents to be on the safe side. She was able to manage this with a simple cloaking spell.

If we were right and Lachlan was behind this, then he was looking for me. Jackson wanted to get me out of Rocky Mountain and to safety, but I insisted on staying. We needed to face this Witch and Lachlan, and break the spell she had placed on my pack.

Abbey believed that the key to breaking the spell was either capturing the witch involved and convincing her to reverse the spell, or killing her. Abbey didn’t feel that comfortable taking a life, but said if it came to it she would. She too wanted to replace her mate.

Jackson advised that we would need some more backup if we were to pull this off, and suggested we replace Sam and Caleb, and a few other ranked members to help us on our mission.

“Do you think you are up for some more healing Abbey?” He asked her respectfully.

I looked at him in shock, it appeared that he might be softening in his attitude toward her and realizing she is an ally, not a threat.

“Yes, as long as I have a little break in between, I should be fine,” Abbey replied confidently.

With that, we made our way back to the packhouse stealthily. Caleb’s room would be our first stop. I sure hoped that Kali and her unborn baby would be ok. I asked Abbey about healing Kali now, she said Kali was safer sleeping for now, and shouldn’t be put at further risk. I agreed with her reasoning, at least she would be out of harm’s way for now.

***

We made our way to Caleb’s designated room. Jackson had to break down the door as it was locked. We found Kali asleep on the couch and Caleb on the ground in the kitchen. It didn’t take long for Abbey to work her magic on him. When Caleb came to he demanded that Abbey wake Kali, but then she explained that by doing so Kali would be at more risk because she would want to fight, thus putting her and her unborn baby at risk. Caleb realized that she was right and dropped the subject. Once we had brought Caleb up to speed with the events of the night we were ready to replace Sam.

Since Sam was the only attendee from Evergreen that was actually allowed to stay at Rocky Mountain he and Lily were sharing a cottage to themselves. They were on the far west side of the pack, so it was a bit of a hike to get there. We didn’t want to run into anyone so we exited the back of the packhouse and made our way through the woods. Kai was the only one of us that actually knew this place inside out, so we were lucky we had him with us to show us a shortcut.

Cutting through the woods meant we reached the cabin pretty quickly. Kai pushed the door open, it was unlocked luckily, Sam and Lily were laying face down on the table. They must have been having a hot drink when the spell took over because their cups had tipped over and had run onto the wooden floor.

Caleb and Kai went straight to Sam and moved him from his chair to the floor. Jackson picked Lily up carefully and placed her on the couch. As he was laying her down Abbey called out to him, “Jackson could you bring Lily here and lay her beside Sam, I wanna try something,” Abbey stated.

Before anyone could ask, Abbey had closed her eyes and began to focus on Sam and Lily, she did the same as before and placed her hands directly above both their bodies. After a minute or so they both started to come to.

We all looked at Abbey gobsmacked.

“You did it!” I called out happily.

“You healed them both at the same time!” I said to her with a look of astonishment on my face.

Abbey smiled and seemed to wilt a little. Caleb held her from behind, and she took a moment to steady herself.

“Thank you. I haven’t done two people at a time before. It just takes a bit out of me. I’m not that long out of my witch training” Abbey clarified with a slight blush on her face.

“Sam!” Caleb called out, helping his friend up.

“What happened?” Sam said, rubbing his eyes.

“Lily!” I called out. “Are you okay?” I said helping her sit up.

“Aleksa! What are you doing here?” Lily called out confused.

“Wait, Sam?” Lily questioned, looking to the right side of her.

Lily and Sam pulled each other into an embrace and then pulled apart again.

“Ah, what’s going on?” Sam asked looking around at us all with a puzzled look on his face.

***

We didn’t have time to spare. There wasn’t a lot of darkness left before sunrise, and we needed to use the cover of darkness to our advantage right now.

Jackson gave Sam and Lily a rundown of the night’s events as we made our way to the old log cabin. Kai had suggested that since it was on the far side of the pack boundaries. He had a theory that it might not have had its communications systems affected. We might be able to get some help or contact someone with knowledge of this sort of thing, and then we could make our way back to the pack before sunrise.

As we were almost at the old log cabin we walked into something. We tried to advance but we couldn’t seem to move any further.

“I can feel a strong energy,” I declared to my friends.

“So can I,” Jackson responded.

“Uh oh,” Abbey commented.

“It’s a forcefield,” a voice came from behind us, it was one of Jackson’s warriors from earlier tonight.

“The witch has imposed a forcefield, we can’t leave and no one else can come in,” He replied.

“Nice of you to join us, Bryant,” Jackson replied.

“Everyone, this is my good friend Bryant,” Jackson called out.

Everyone acknowledged and greeted him. Once the pleasantries were over we had to figure out where we were going now and what our new plan would be.

“Comms!” Kai declared.

“We could try the backup equipment in the Communications room, back at the packhouse,” Kai reiterated.

“Worth a try,” Jackson replied.

“Let’s go then,” Sam said.

***

Just as we made it up the steps to the rear entrance of the packhouse the sun started to come up. At least we had made it back safely. Hopefully, we could replace something of use in the communications room.

The communications room was located in the loft at the top of the packhouse. I had no idea it was even here, although that isn’t surprising as I was still orienting to the pack.

We made our way up to the room and started looking around. Caleb and Sam tried to get the computers and communication systems working, while Jackson took a look around for a backup generator, and Caleb checked the cupboards, while doing so he stumbled across a secret compartment in the ceiling for alternative means of communication.

After about thirty minutes we had made no progress.

“s**t!” Jackson called out.

“I can’t get through to Elijah.” Jackson declared.

“We have to assume that Ezra has escaped, we also need to assume he may be in on whatever is going on here, so be on your guard! If you see him, don’t kill him, we need to replace out what he knows first,” Jackson ordered.