Chasing My Rejected Luna
Chapter 119

TEGAN'S P.O.V

I won't lie, I was a little nervous. Do I trust the woman who saved my life when we first met or is she too far gone to be trusted? It's a sad ordeal to have to contemplate. I just have to hope that she is true to her word by being on our side. It seemed like hours had passed before I could sense Lucy was here. She was right, had I been paying more attention, I would've known I could sense her all this time.

I looked over to Ezra who still had no idea that she had arrived.

"She is here."

That was all I said before he jumped up from his spot.

"Time to start putting the plan into action." He said as he grabbed the tranquilizer gun from off the table.

"No, remember it is a last resort. If she attacks me, then you tranquilize her, but not before. Do you understand?"

"What if her attack is fatal, what if we are too late?" He began to ask in a panic.

"I'm stronger than I appear, Ezra. I can handle myself just fine." I replied defensively.

"Even against a trained assassin?" He asked, now more concerned about the situation.

"I can do this," I said reassuringly.

"But then there is your mother who has more than 20 years on you in this department. What if she mastered her abilities far better than we could have imagined?"

"We can only try to handle one person at a time. At the moment Lucy is the only one here. Not my mother." I said as I placed my hand on his shoulder to try and calm him down.

A knock on my door had me looking over, praying it wasn't her. But as if fate was laughing in my face as soon as the door opened her face was on the other side.

"Hey," I said as I opened the door to let her in.

"I know you saw the document." She said, cutting right to the point.

"I did."

"We all did." Ezra corrected.

"And I know what you must think," Lucy said as she sat down in a nearby chair.

"You agreed to kill my mate," Ezra said with a hateful tone.

"I did. But because I needed to be able to help. I couldn't help you if I exposed what I knew." She said looking over at Ezra.

"I don't know if we can trust you," Ezra said as I sat in a chair across from her.

"I don't expect you to, but that's not why I'm bringing this up," Lucy said as she looked between us. "Tegan, I don't think you realize how deadly your mother is. How well trained her mind is at killing." She continued on saying. The topic made me a little uncomfortable. But I continued to listen anyway.

"She took out a group of men with the swish of her hand. The tree limbs came out of the ground stabbing them all at once, thorns protruded out in every direction. She has no mercy, no moral sense. The woman you think she is supposed to be is no longer her." "How would you know, you barely even spoke to her," I replied defensively.

"He tortured her mind for years to become what she is. You're not listening. Her brain is far from what it was when she birthed you. The memories you heard over the years, they aren't her."

"Let me guess, you're trying to get Tegan to let her guard down to you but put it up against her mom so that you can swoop in and seal the deal of getting room one," Ezra said, anger laced in his tone.

"I could care less about what rank I am," Lucy replied with the same amount of anger.

"That's not how you were acting." He then said.

"If I acted like his deal wasn't gold he would suspect something and I may not have made it out." She said as she stood up.

"Look, I stuck around, scouted out. Watched her. As my competition, I needed to know what she was capable of. Something Sovereign, or Iblis, or whatever his name is would expect me to do. I asked around and the stories I heard, the graphics they explained were downright unholy." She said, looking directly at me.

"Isn't that what you crave though, the kill?" I asked.

"Yeah, but not like that. I may have this terrible darkness that lusts for blood but I have to have a reason to kill someone. She never even cared for the whys, only the who's." She said while closing her eyes and grabbing her face.

"So what do you suggest?" I asked, not sure how to handle the news.

"Run? Hide? Fuck I don't know. All I know is she won't stop until the job is done." Lucy said as she opened her eyes to look at me.

"She isn't right in the head, Tegan. She has a darkness far greater than even mine. Not much sends me into a panic but the blood l**t in her eyes while staring at your chart was far more scary than I had ever imagined it being." "It's poetic, isn't it?" I asked with a laugh.

"What do you mean?" Ezra asked, confused.

"She gave up her life as my mom to work for Iblis in order to save me from him, just to turn around 20 years later to be the one person he requests to kill me. Some dark poetic shit." I said with a sorrowful voice.

"She isn't going to kill you," Lucy said with certainty. "I won't allow it." She then said as she plopped back down.

"How are we expected to heal her brain?" I asked next.

"I don't know if we can. After years of whatever it was that she went through to become who she is today, I don't know if there is returning from that." Lucy said, her voice low as she processed her words.

"There has to be a way. I can't lose her again. Not when I only just discovered she has been alive all this time." I said with sadness lurking in my heart.

"Look at it this way, you can't miss what you never knew. Who she is now will only disappoint you. She isn't the nurturing mother you worked her up to possibly being in your mind. She is a cold-blooded killer." Lucy replied as if that made it any easier to accept.

"I have to try. The least I could do is try to save her, if not from Iblis then from herself. She gave her life to protect mine, I need to do my best to return the favor." I said just as a scream in the foyer grabbed our attention.

"Fuck, she is here. She must've followed me!" Lucy hollered. "Take Elias and get into the safe room, don't come out for any reason, do you hear me?" She said as she was shoving me toward the safe room in our wing. "No, I won't leave you to fight my battle. Not again." I said as I pulled free of her grasp and pushed past her.

"Tegan, she isn't who you want her to be. Please listen to me." She begged me. But it was too late, I had already made up my mind.

"Let's go officially meet Mommy dearest," I said as I opened the door.