My Miracle Luna
Their Gemini Wolves Chapter 72

{Wyatt's

P.O.V.}

It didn't take very long to get ahold of Svetlana to ask for her help again. She was more than happy to lend her assistance, but I knew that calling her would ultimately upset Selene. However, I couldn't help but replay everything that Lanie had said over the phone. In a way, she was right. There were a lot of things that could have been avoided had Selene gotten involved at the beginning of it all. But I couldn't dwell on that right now. I needed to replace Rylee. There was no telling what Ash and Eric had planned for her and everyone else. "So, when do we start?" Svetlana asked.

"Before we do anything, I need you to try and track down Morgan. You said that you could use her magic as a homing beacon, right?"

"Yes. That is why I'm asking when you want me to start?"

"Right now!" I shouted, my patience already wearing thin.

"Okay, okay. You do not need to shout at me, Alpha Wyatt," she fussed and got to work. As I sat and watched her, Keaton, Jason, Angelo, and Maddox were going over places on the map they had already searched. I was about to join them on the map to see their progress when my phone rang.

"Hello?"

"Wyatt, we may have something. How soon can you get here?" Chad sounded rather serious.

"What? What's going on?"

"We think we know who sold us out."

"What?"

"I don't want to discuss this over the phone. How fast can you get here?"

"It's going to take me a few hours if I drive. What's going on, Chad?"

"I'll tell you when you get here. Just be careful, and make sure that you're not followed." He hung up without waiting for my reply.

"What's going on?" Jason asked when he saw my confused expression.

"That was Chad. He needs me to get there ASAP. He said he thinks he may know who sold us out."

"What are we waiting for? Let's go then!" Keaton shouted.

"Jace, I need you to stay-"

"f**k THAT!" he cut me off. "I'm not staying here, Wyatt. My mom is out there!"

"Don't even think about telling me to stay either! My brother is out there too!" Keaton objected before I could even say anything to him.

"We can't all leave!" I told them.

"If you're worried about leaving the pack unprotected, don't be. Our parents can hold down the fort while we get our pack members back," Jason reassured me. I wanted to protest, but the look on everyone's faces was already telling me that I was fighting a losing battle. So, I just nodded in agreement.

"Okay, my wolfies, let's go then!" Svetlana said a little too cheerfully while standing from her seat. We all just looked at her and furrowed our brows. "What?"

"I thought you were going to work on replaceing the dark witch helping the Pattersons," Maddox pointed out.

"I will, but if Chad knows something, then it may help give me a starting point. I mean, it's possible to do it on my own, but it will take longer," she replied. "No time for arguments, come! I will teleport us to Golden Moon!" she announced with almost too much enthusiasm in her voice.

"Why are you so eager to go there?" Keaton asked her.

"And don't tell us it's because you're eager to help," I argued while eyeing her. She pursed her lips together and just shrugged.

"You wolves are so nosy. If you must know, there is a handsome silver wolf I want to see again," she admitted.

"What? Are you saying that you have a crush on one of the older wolves at Golden Moon?" Angelo asked.

"Yes. Now come! We must hurry. Alpha Chad said it was urgent, no?"

"Her urgency is because she wants to get laid," Keaton muttered. I smacked him upside the head. "OW!"

"Grow up. You have a pup on the way." He rubbed his head and glared at me. "Are you glaring at your Alpha?"

"No, sir," he quickly replied and fixed his gaze.

"I didn't think so." After that was situated, I linked my father to let him know of the potential development and that we were going to Golden Moon. Of course, he was more than happy to be in charge. Sometimes I wonder if all fathers regret giving up their titles to their sons. Dylan and Felix wanted to come along as well, but with Keaton and Jason coming, it was even more crucial for them to stay behind. They were disappointed but understood.

We didn't waste any more time, and Svetlana quickly teleported all of us to Golden Moon. I had made sure to text Chad to let him know of the slight change in plans. He said that he would be prepared for us to arrive, and when we did, he was ready. It wasn't hard to read the room when I saw everyone's faces-dark, sad, and angry. Especially Brent and Richard.

"I'm here, Chad. What's going on?" I asked while trying to assess everyone's somber expressions.

"Not here. Follow us," he replied. We all nodded, and he led the way. I noticed right away that we were heading towards their pack hospital.

"Chad, why are we going to your hospital?" I questioned him. He barely looked back but didn't say anything. No one did, for that matter. It was eerily silent. I looked at Jason, who just shrugged his shoulders. We continued to follow him and the others, and we stopped in front of a hospital room.

"Beyond this door is the mole that betrayed us," Chad announced, looking at the door.

"Okay? Are you going to tell us who it is?" Jason asked.

"It's someone that we all know very well. And before you ask, Wyatt, yes, we did verify this accusation, and he's been placed under arrest. I just have to ask that you refrain from trying to kill him. We need him alive."

"What?"

"You'll see." Chad turned to Richard, who nodded, and they opened the door. The individual I saw lying in the hospital bed, handcuffed with silver, made all of the hair on my body stand up.

"What the f**k?!" Jason exclaimed when he too saw who it was. "Yo, isn't that Jackson, the former Beta!?" I just nodded. Jackson's head immediately turned to face us, and he only rolled his eyes before turning his head in the other direction. I was about to charge in when Chad closed the door.

"Open the door, Chad!" I shouted.

"Wyatt, this is my pack. Do not command me; I'm an Alpha too. I asked you to refrain from killing him because we need him alive. I will not repeat myself."

"I don't understand. Why did your former Beta betray your pack!?" Keaton asked.

"Was he leveraged?" Angelo suggested.

"Not by Eric if that's what you're asking," Lanie replied. I snapped my head towards her. "Yes, we leveraged him into telling us what we wanted to know." "What did you leverage?" Maddox asked.

"His mate."

"LANIE!" I exclaimed.

"Hey, it's his own fault. He's the one who decided to get into bed with Eric. He betrayed us. We tried to do it the easier way, which was to have Lexie send Chad and Brent back in time to see where Eric had supposedly escaped from. But that didn't work, so we came down here and demanded answers."

"He refused to give them," Lexie interjected.

"So, you leveraged him by using his mate against him?" I asked.

"Not really. She leveraged herself technically," Lanie responded. "When we told her what we were thinking, she didn't want to believe us at first. But, then we explained why we thought what we did, she decided to get to the bottom of it herself. It was all her after that."

"What did she say? Or do, for that matter?" Keaton asked.

"Since they're mates, she can obviously tell when he's lying. It also didn't help that she asked the same questions we did, but he gave slightly different answers than what he had told us. That's how we knew for sure that he wasn't a victim but rather a participating party. Nina threatened to reject him and tell their kids if he didn't come clean. If he admitted to what he did, then she wouldn't reject him or tell. But she did tell him that they were done as mates. Even if she didn't reject him completely, she would never accept him again," Richard explained.

"So, he's the mole?" I asked to be sure. Chad and Richard nodded.

"What did he tell his mate?" Jason asked.

"He told her that he was approached by Eric a couple of months ago. Not too long after the attempted attack that should have taken place during the ceremony. Jackson said that Eric offered him a large sum of money and said that if he helped kill Richard and me, then he would give Golden Moon to him."

"Wait, are you saying that he did all of this for power?" Keaton asked.

"You told me that he was happy to retire," I said.

"That's what he told us, and it was partially true. But as soon as he did, he realized that he was no longer needed and was completely cast aside while Richard was training to become an Elder."

"Jealousy? Are you serious right now?" I griped.

"It's what he told Nina," Chad answered.

"What else did he say? Did he tell her or you all where everyone is being held?" Maddox questioned.

"When we had asked him again, he told us he didn't know. Naturally, we thought he was lying, but he said that before he escaped, or rather, was released to come back here, he was given a potion by the dark witch working with the Pattersons."

"A mind-wiping potion, no doubt," Svetlana chimed in and came forward.

"That's what we're thinking," Brent replied.

"It's obvious that's what it was. Patterson made him take it so that he wouldn't be able to tell anyone where they were hiding on the off chance he was figured out. You were right, Wyatt; Patterson is not stupid."

"If his memory has been wiped, then how are we supposed to replace everyone?!" Keaton shouted.

"Calm yourself, young Beta. Morgan's potions are no match for mine. The potion she gave him can actually be countered with another potion. Think of it as an antidote. It will counteract the herbs that cause the resulting short-term amnesia, and he will soon be, how do you say, singing like a cardinal!"

"It's canary-singing like a canary," I corrected her.

"Chto by ni," she said and waved me off.

"What?"

"She said whatever," Richard answered. We all looked at him in shock.

"You speak Russian?" Svetlana asked and lifted her brows, looking impressed and what appeared to be turned on.

"My grandmother immigrated from Ukraine. I used to speak to her in Russian. I remember the small things, krasivaya zhenshchina." We had no idea what Richard had just said, but Svetlana literally turned beet red, and the smell of her arousal was palpable. "Are they flirting?" Jason asked in a whisper only I could hear. "I thought he had a mate?"

"Who died over 20 years ago," I whispered back.

"You don't think ... Could she be his second chance?" I looked at him like he was insane. "What? William is mated to a witch."

"Olivia is a light witch. Svetlana isn't."

"Chosen mate then?"

"Is an Elder allowed to choose a dark witch as a mate?"

"How the f**k am I supposed to know? You're the Alpha!" I just gave him a look of condemnation and then turned my attention back to the room.

"Svetlana, how long does it take to make the potion?"

"Oh, not long at all, Wyatt. An hour, two at most." She stole a glance at Richard again before leaving the hospital room.

"I wonder what Hailey would think if she found you making eyes at a dark witch, Richard!" Jackson shouted from the hospital room. "You want to judge me for betraying the pack! At least I would never betray my mate the way you are! Dead or not! To replace her with a dark witch! That's low even for you!" Without hesitation, Richard threw open the door and snarled at Jackson.

"I wouldn't be talking if I were you, you backstabbing son of a b***h! Betraying this pack means you automatically betrayed Nina! And don't you ever speak Hailey's name ever again! You don't have the right to speak her name. You say that she would feel betrayed by me; no, she wouldn't. Before Hailey died, she made me promise that I would not die alone. That if I found the chance at love again, whether it was with a second chance or a chosen mate, then I would go for it. Hailey would be happy for me. But I can't say the same for you. How are you going to explain to her what you've done!?"

"You never should have been Alpha of this pack! You're not even from this pack!" Jackson shouted.

"What?!" we all exclaimed. Richard stood up straight and faced all of us. "Richard, what is he talking about?" Chad asked.

"Tell them, Richard. Tell them how you only became Alpha because of Hailey!"

"It's true. As I mentioned, my grandmother is from Ukraine, and she immigrated here. But she didn't just come to the United States. She was in an arranged marriage to an Alpha. I do have Alpha blood in me, but not of this pack. I had three older brothers. So, naturally, my eldest brother became Alpha, and he chose his Beta and Gamma. My other brothers found their own mates, and they all happened to be Alpha females. None of which were purebloods. Regardless, they all became Alphas of their own packs that way, and that's how I too became Alpha."

"Your mate was the daughter of the Alpha here?" I asked him. He nodded his head.

"That's how I obtained the Alpha title."

"A title that should have gone to the oldest blood-related male to the Alpha!" Jackson shouted.

"Blood-related?" Keaton questioned.

"Jackson is Hailey's first cousin from her father's side," Richard answered.

"Hold up, Jackson is an Alpha by blood as well!?" Jason exclaimed.

"Yes, but his father was the Beta before him. Which was why when Hailey and I found out we were mates, and since I too have Alpha blood, her father gave the Alpha title to Hailey. That was the only stipulation he had for her. Her mate had to be an Alpha to be given the Alpha title from him. But since females aren't actually given the title Alpha, it was handed to me, and she became the Luna."

"Wait, wait, wait," Lanie said, waving her hands while trying to get an understanding. "You're telling us that you betrayed this entire pack, all because you were passed over as Alpha, thirty-plus years after the fact?" "Talk about holding a grudge," Lexie muttered.

"Hailey was never meant to lead this pack! You were never meant to lead this pack! I trained my entire life to take over after my uncle, but then you just had to come along and ruin everything!" Jackson wailed.

"You're a contradictive piece of s**t, Jackson!" Brent shouted at him. "You told me that being the Beta of this pack was the biggest honor you ever had, that you don't regret a day of it! But, now, all of a sudden, you hate Richard because he became Alpha instead of you!? Did you ever consider the fact that you were never meant to be Alpha!? That even if it weren't Richard, some other Alpha wolf would have been mated to Luna Hailey!?"

"It shouldn't have mattered. Werewolf law does not permit women to be Alphas of packs!"

"Where the hell did you read that?" I asked while stepping over to him. "I don't know who the f**k told you that cockamamie bullshit, Jackson, but there is no law stating that females can't be Alphas. If you haven't noticed, Rylee, my mate, she's also an Alpha by blood. Pureblood, to be exact. If she and I weren't mated and Silver Moon hadn't been destroyed, she would have been the next Alpha in line because Mitch and Megan didn't have a son. A werewolf pack cannot continue to exist without an Alpha to lead it, even if it means a female becomes the Alpha. Not only have you lost the respect of every person in this room, but I'm pretty sure you've lost the respect of everyone in your pack. You betrayed them and put their loved ones in danger. You want to know what it's like to be an Alpha," I growled while getting in his face. "Being an Alpha means putting your pack above yourself. Now, I may not be a perfect Alpha, and I may have made some stupid choices along the way, but I would never, EVER, betray my pack or my mate the way you have." "You better pray that Svetlana's potion can counteract the s**t that Morgan gave you," Chad said and got into his face. "Because if anyone from any of the packs dies due to your betrayal, I'm going to expose to you all of the other Alphas in the region. I'm sure they'll want a piece of the action when it comes to your punishment."

"You can't do that," Jackson gritted his teeth.

"Actually, he can. You would know that if you legitimately knew werewolf law. Your actions have put members of other packs in danger. The type of danger that easily could cost them their life. If Eric or anyone in his family or the dark witch kills any of them, not only will you be punished by our pack, but you will also be punished by theirs," Richard told him. Before he could reply, I grabbed the front of his hospital gown and pulled him to my face as I snarled.

"And if one of those happens to my mate, not only will you be punished for her life, but also the life of our unborn pup."