The Lycan's Soul Mate
chapter 12 The Change

Lucian had been in the woods that night and had witnessed his niecechange. He had stayed hidden as he did not want to draw attention tohimself. He only observed to see how she handled the change and fromwhat he saw; she did quite well if you were to consider the fact thatshe'd had no guidance from anyone.

He didn't want to reveal himself to her just yet since he'd given herparents a chance to come clean. But happiness filled his heart as hecame to the realization that he'd finally found his long-lost niece and asan added bonus it looks like she'd inherited her grandmother's giftafter all. Yes, undoubtedly, she was the ultimate werewolf, morepowerful than an alpha, even a Lycan and she was of their pack. Shebelonged to the Crescent moon Pack. Lucian felt proud as though Lunawas his very own daughter. She might as well be. All they had wereeach other. For now, they were alone, separate, until the truth isrevealed to her.

Luna will definitely need his guidance as she would have to join thepack in order to choose a mate. But she wouldn't want to join the packknowing what the last alpha had done to her family. Although Lucianhad wanted to fight the alpha, he didn’t want the burden of running thepack. It did help when he finally came to his senses and put out acommand to hunt down the witch who he finally believed poisonedhim after being informed by a half witch in the tribe. He always wantedthe freedom to come and go in the pack as he pleased allowing him tohave ample time to search for his family and the witch who hadbrought death to them.

Someday he would replace the witch who broke up his family all for thelove of an Alpha who didn’t choose to love her. He'd been robbed of alife with his niece and robbed his brother of his life. She must haveknown that his brother was searching for proof that she framed his wifeand he must have found something. That is why he is dead. Lately thealpha of crescent moon pack had been leaning on Lucian as he did inthe old days before all this ugliness. He hoped that they wouldwelcome his niece into the pack and at least he would have an ally tohelp him replace the truth. Luna did look like she had a good head on hershoulders and had proven to be quite strong; a survivor at that. Helooked forward to seeing her at school. The goddess had blessed himand placed her in his path. Now more than ever, he believed that thegoddess had not deserted him.

He had given them an ultimatum and the clock was ticking. He actuallygave them the easy way out. He would not make trouble. He would notfile a kidnapping charge thus keeping them out of jail, allowing Michaelto keep his job at the police station and allowing all those involved tostay out of prison because what those people had done was downrightcruel. She could have allowed him to see his niece, to be a part of herlife but no she wanted to keep her all to herself causing her more harmthough they had no idea how much harm they had caused Luna.

Time was of the essence and she needed to know. She was old enoughto make her own decisions. She needed to make the right decision. Sheneeded to come home with him. He had no doubt that she would. Sheis very confused right now and needs answers that only he couldprovide. Luna would have a long journey ahead of her but with theproper guidance she would be just fine.

He looked at her in wolf form and marveled. She was so much like hismother. It was almost as if she had been reborn into Luna. She was trulya special wolf. She needed to train with the other wolves and mostimportantly she needed to prepare for the ritual to replace a mate. Thesooner a ware wolf replaces his or her mate the better. The packs need toincrease their numbers. Since his brother and sister-in-law were castout it was as if the moon goddess had cursed the pack. Not manycouples were blessed with children and their numbers had beendwindling. Hopefully when Luna returns to the pack the curse will breakand things would get better. The night was young and Luna wasexploring the woods, running and howling away. Lucian saw that shewas alright and ran off as he didn't want to be around when shechanged back. He didn’t need to see her shift in order to respect herprivacy. He took off at the speed of light up the mountain. He ranenjoying the feel of the wind on his fur and stopped when he came toan old hut that seemed deserted on the top of the hill. Lucian wentaround the hut and found a faint scent. He entered the hut and in themidst of the dirt and broken furniture he found a bottle with the samepoison used to frame his sister-in-law. How rare is that. In Attica hisbrother was stabbed in the chest with a silver knife laced withwolfsbane. The very same poison found in this hut.

It was no coincidence that he had stumbled upon this. He explored thehut closer only to replace a witch's grimoire partially burned. But he couldstill make out the emblem on it. He could not believe it. This belongedto his sister in law's best friend's family. She was the witch that framedher. What was she doing in those parts? She was gone but no doubtthat she followed them here and he was almost sure that she wasresponsible for his brother's death.

After all these years, things were actually starting to come together.He'd found his brother although dead he’s found him. Years later he'dfound his niece and to add icing to the cake he was blessed with ascent for the Witch who killed his family. He left immediately for hispack to report his replaceings and evidence to his Alpha in order to trackdown the murderer faster. He needed the help of the pack. They wouldhave to search to replace her and he would not be able to on his own ashe needed to keep an eye on Luna now more than ever. If this Witchknew that Luna was alive, she may try to harm her out of spite. Nowthat the protection her mother had cast was wearing off, she would beeasily found for such a powerful witch. He would not lose her. He wouldprotect her at all cost.