Luna Aleksa's Escape
Luna Aleksa’s Escape Chapter 59

*Aleksa POV*

Our search of the communications room was fruitless. Nothing we found was able to transmit. It looked like we were truly on our own here. We had no idea who we were up against. We just suspected that Lachlan was behind it all and he was being helped by a dark witch.

We knew that the pack seemed to be surrounded by some massive energy-bound forcefield so we couldn’t get out either. We also knew that it was only a matter of time before whoever was behind all of this realized that I wasn’t where I should be.

While my heart ached for my mate, I couldn’t feel anything through our bond, but I didn’t feel our bond break so that gave me hope that he was still out there, maybe he was under the enchantment spell, I sure hoped that was the case.

Abbey said that assuming that this was orchestrated by Lachlan and he was he for me the best thing to do would be to elude him for as long as possible.

Meanwhile, she will focus on trying to wake some of the pack up a few at a time.

Sam suggested we keep moving because it would only be a matter of time before they tracked back to the packhouse.

Abbey asked for suggestions as to who she should wake first. Jackson implied the stronger the wolf the better right now as they were likely to be able to defend themselves rather than hold us back, everyone was in agreement with that.

I voiced that I didn’t recall seeing any of the alphas at the training grounds, to which Kai replied that the night before the summit festival it was tradition for the attending alphas to have a late-night whiskey at the lake house.

“Lakehouse?” I replied with a confused look on my face,

“Uh, yeah, it belonged to the previous alpha and luna, it’s in the middle of the woods on the southern boundary. Chances are they were there when the enchantment spell hit. It’s worth a try anyway. I can show you the way.” Kai called out.

We all followed Kai out through the woods as quietly and quickly as possible. It took about twenty minutes to get there in our human form. It was a large wooden cabin just sitting here on the outskirts of the wood overlooking a small lake.

As expected, there were bodies of the visiting alpha’s lounged out on chairs, by the lake, and on the deck. They all looked so peaceful, a contrast from the intimidating alphas they usually are. But this wasn’t the time to reflect, we had work to do.

“Caleb, Sam, Bryant with me, let’s get them all next to each other and line them up. Lily and Aleska, you can help Abbey set up. Abbey – are you ready for this?”

Abbey looked at Jackson and smiled. “You’re just a big softy aren’t you?”

Jackson huffed and walked off.

Abbey looked at me smirking, “I think we are going to be great friends, Jackson and I,”

I smiled at her knowingly. Because I thought so too.

***

Abbey had begun healing the alphas. When they woke up they were disorientated initially but after about ten minutes or so they seemed to be back to their usual selves. While some wanted to spring into action immediately, we managed to convince them that we had to tread carefully since we didn’t actually know what we were up against.

Abbey seemed to be holding up well despite using mass amounts of energy, there were about a dozen of us now, and still, another dozen alphas yet to be healed.

Jackson suggested that some of us would need to stay back with Abbey while she healed the other alpha’s and the rest of us needed to continue onwards.

Caleb and Kai naturally refused to leave my side, I guess it was the gamma band at play. Sam and Lily said that they would stay back with Abbey, Bryant also offered to protect her while she helped us to gather more backup.

Jackson, myself, Caleb, and Kai, as well as some of the attending alphas, decided to move out and see if we could see any movement around the pack grounds. We hadn’t seen anyone yet, but they must be somewhere.

***

As we were about a hundred yards away from the entrance to the packhouse, we saw movement. We halted behind Jackson and waited. My jaw dropped as I took in the huge army of wolves that were descending upon the packhouse.

The foul stench of these rogue wolves invaded my nostrils. I fought the urge to vomit. We all looked at one another. Well, this complicates things a little I thought to myself. I wasn’t quite expecting that we would have that many opponents to fight.

I looked at Caleb instantly in fear. We had left Kali behind sleeping there. Caleb let out a huge growl and ran forward shifting into his wolf, he ran as fast as his legs would carry him toward the packhouse.

“f**k!” Jackson yelled. He also runs forward, shifting into Gray following Caleb’s lead. If we don’t follow him, both he, Kali, and their unborn baby are dead, so we all shifted and followed them through the packhouse, taking out wolves as we moved through the crowd.

Kai and a few of the other alpha’s flanked my sides and front and behind and pushed through the rogues, their bodies flying all over the place, b***d spurting out all over the place.

We ran down the corridor and then skidded to a sudden halt, Caleb had shifted and was holding a sleeping Kali in his arms. We formed a circle around him and I nodded my head towards the back entrance swiftly, rogues descending on us from behind, we all pushed forward some of the alpha’s fending off the rogues as we made our way through the packhouse.

“Take Aleksa and Kali to safety, I’ll keep the rogues busy!” Jackson yelled as he slowed down and turned to fight the rogues.

Four of the alpha’s followed Caleb and Kali and me. Once we made it to the bush. I turned around.

“Get your mate and baby to safety!” I called out and I ran off.

I ran towards the packhouse to join Jackson and half a dozen alphas fight.

Jackson growled.

“What the f**k are you doing? Run! Now!” He yelled at me followed by a growl.

“No. I’m here to fight for my friends and my pack!” I yelled as I fought two small dirty brown rogues.

“Aleksa, concentrate, like before. We can use our powers. Visualize. Then focus our energy!” Amber encouraged me.

I take a breath and close my eyes. I think of the danger my friends and my pack are in. I use my anger against those who have come to destroy my pack. I feel myself heat up again. I feel like I am being surrounded by a whirlwind of heat and then I release. I feel a huge gust of energy disperse, and when I open my eyes the rogues that were surrounding us were no more.

I look further afield and I see the remaining rogues retreat. I see movement in the woods to the north of the pack grounds, and for some reason, I know that is where the witch is hiding. I could feel a pull toward her. I could feel her dark energy.

I lunge forward and run like the wind in her direction. When I get there I can sense that she is still there. I see a figure move out from behind a large tree.

“Hello, Aleksa,” she called out.

“Why are you doing this?” I asked her aggressively.

“Why do we do anything? For power, for money, for control.” She spat out shaking her head.

“My, you really are naive aren’t you?” She mocked me.

“I can see why that brute of an alpha wants you. So pretty and yet so clueless.” She laughed again.

Then she went quiet and looked at me as if she was looking into my mind.

“He doesn’t know, does he?” the witch asked me. Then she starts laughing again.

“Oh, this is brilliant!” She called out trying to suppress further laughter.

“Who? Know about what?” I asked the witch, having no actual clue as to who or what she was referring to.

“What are you talking about, Who are you…” I asked. I stopped mid-sentence as I was distracted by a shuffle in the bushes to the witch’s left.

“My sweet Aleska, did you like the rose I sent you?” Lachlan said, striding towards me with a smirk on his face.

“Lachlan,” I said shakily, trying not to show my fear but failing miserably.

“You have caused a lot of trouble my little mate,” Lachlan said, shaking his head disapprovingly at me.

“Nevermind, you have the rest of your life to make it up to me!” He added, laughing evilly.

I slowly started to back away from Lachlan and the witch, as I did I could sense movement behind me. As I turned my head I saw two of Evergreen’s warriors behind me in their wolf forms. I knew that I wouldn’t be getting out of this situation without a fight.

“Well, my job here is done! You have your she-wolf. Now I will have my payment, Wolf!” the witch demanded eagerly.

“Don’t dare disrespect me, Witch!” Lachlan declared to the witch.

However, she didn’t appear to be affected by his menacing aura. She looked more impatient than anything else.

Lachlan pulled a small hessian sack out of his pocket and dumped it in the witch’s hand. She quickly poured the gold out and looked over it, then she chucked it back in the sack happily and stowed it away in the inside of her gown.

“I’d watch this one if I were you. There’s more to her than meets the eye,” the witch said as she winked at me knowingly.

Lachlan huffed, and dismissed the witch.

“I have a feeling this isn’t the last we shall see of one another Aleksa.” the witch added and with that, she vanished in a big puff of smoke.