Chapter 47 - The unbinding

**Hopes pov**

I stand up and slowly start moving against the stage. This is it..this is when I leave my human life behind me for good. I can feel Luna stirring inside me, impatient to be free.
As I climb the stage, Callum takes my hand, pulling me close. There are just a few whispers in the otherwise silent air. I turn around and look out over the tables. My mother has tears in her eyes, Maya is holding Reeces hand, Reece is looking very happy starring at their hands, Cathy is back at her table, sipping on something that isn't wine..it looks stronger. Jesse is back to, a frown on his face but he still whispers with Kevin who has a big smile on his lips. Tinas eyes are darker than ever, her mother is starting to look a little bit to tipsy. Olivia is standing with her arms crossed, searching the crowd for any kind of threat before landing her eyes at me, winks and give me a smile.

“I don't think any of you have missed that a while back this beautiful woman came into my life” Callum turned to me and held both my hands. He looked me in the eyes while still speaking to his pack.
“ She is the strongest, kindest and most loving person I have ever met, and I am the luckiest man alive to have her as my mate” He kissed my hand before he continued and I felt my eyes get wet and my chest swell.
“ I was selfish, taking her away from all and everyone she loved without thinking, blinded by my love for her..but I will make it right. Yesterday her friend Maya and her mother Cecilia joined us” Callum smiles and the pack members looks att the two women blushing from the attention.
“I want you all to show them what a great pack we are and make them feel welcomed. My beautiful Hope, I know you miss the children at your job but there goes my limit, I can’t bring them here but I can promise you that when you want to visit them i will drive you there myself” he runs circles on my hands with his thumbs and a few tears of happiness leaves my eyes. He again speaks to the pack, not letting go of my hands or eyes.
“I know you all feel the bond to your future Luna, there is an explanation and soon it will become clear. Her connection to nature and to our kind is stronger than any of us can imagine. She proved that to me the first time I met her, when she, without fear jumped in to a pack of grey wolfs because she could feel that they needed her. Tonight Hope will be connected to the pack as our Luna. “ Callum smiled at me, his eyes full of love., he give me a small kiss.

**Callums pov**

Zandra is chanting something in the distant but all I can see is Hope, standing in front of me. She is beaming with happiness. I kiss her again, tasting her and everything around us falls away, in this moment nothing but her exist. I kiss her jaw and trail down her neck, pressing her body against my own. When I come to the crook of her neck I inhale deep, her scent reaching every cell in my body. She leans her head more to the side to give me access and I feel my teeth elongate.
“I love you Callum” I hear her whisper before I bite down.
I feel my teeth pierce her skin, her muscle and I bite harder pushing trough..and then I feel the most powerful feeling..I connect with her soul, with Luna.
I felt Luna before, short episodes of authority or arouse..but this..this is something different, this is raw power of the purest kind. I can feel the unbinding in every nerve as Luna connects to me and Beacon. I pull out and licks and kiss Hopes neck, I kiss away the tears running down her cheeks all the way up to her closed eyes. I kiss her eyelids, her nose and then her lips again.
“Are you okay?” I whisper
She opens her eyes and they are even more beautiful then before.
“I’m better than okay” She whispers back and starts unbuttoning my shirt.
At first I feel a bit confused. As much as I want to get naked and pound in to her for several hours I don't know if this is the place..in front of the guests and the whole pack none the less.. Beacon disagrees, he wants her now and my dick has been rock hard since she walked up the stage. But when I feel the burning pain in my neck followed by pure euphoria I understand that this wasn't about making love, Hope and Luna was marking me as theirs. I grab her hair and press her closer, raveling in the feeling of her teeth’s hitting my soul. Beacon is to, he and Lunas spirits is being weaved together and he is howling in my head.
After she pulled out and licked my neck I kiss her deep, not wanting us to be an inch apart.
I see the joy in her eyes as she smiles up at me and I chuckle feeling like a lovesick puppy.
Suddenly Hopes face contort in pain..first I see surprise in her eyes, then questioning and then fear..she starts panting and sweating. I try to calm her, telling her I am here and that everything is going to be okay.
She falls to the floor twisting and turning in pain, crying and screaming.
Maya and Cecilia comes running up
“What happened? What did you do to her? They both screams.
Zandra steppes in between Hope and the women.
“There there, everything is ok, she is going through her first shift..lets give her some space” she speaks calm but determined and takes them to the side. Reece, Olivia, Kevin and a few others also came running up, making a wall between Hope and anyone who would dare to approach us. I try to calm her, stroking her back, whisper how much I love her and that everything is going to be alright, it will soon be over and I am right here. I repeat the words over and over and my heart aches seeing her in pain, seeing her tears rolling down her cheeks and hearing her painful screams.
Suddenly they stop and everything is quiet. She is still panting when she comes up on her knees and hands. She turns her head up and look at the sky and with a voice unknown to me she roars
“SEEELLEENEEE!!!” and a lightning cracks over the sky, lasting several seconds.

**Hopes pov**

I’m in the backseat of my own body. I can feel the soft green surface under my feet when I walk over the grass, but it is not me walking, its not me controlling my legs. I come up to a half circle of beautiful bushes filled with red roses. I see my hand is stroking them, and feel myself bending down to smell them. I see a tall woman, hair like blond silk, skin smooth like a baby’s. She hums on a melody while pulling away dead leaves from the bushes. A little fox in stroking itself against her legs, like a house-cat begging for attention. She turns around and looks at me and I know who she is. Those eyes with so many colors that you cant even pick one. My body walks up to her. The little fox puts its snout in the air and then runs off.
“Luna..” Selene says smiling, reaching her arms to me and pull me into her embrace. My eyes closes and I can feel Luna finding something familiar in Selenes arms. Then my body takes a step back, looking in to those deep pools of color.
“Selene..we need to talk” I hear Luna say.
“Of course my child”
“I know it was Aaylas wish and I will always love and miss her..but it needs to stop..you have to make it stop..I cant go on like this, I am meant to die with my human. I am meant to only have one mate..do you know how many mates I had to feel die? Three Selene! I have lost three mates before I was bound to sleep again..by you..You cant bind me again, this time, I want to stay with Hope..I want to die with Hope.”
“ What about Ambrogio?”
“ Ambrogio..I will push him back, like I always do and given the opportunity, I will kill him. But I need to speak with your brother.”
“ Luna...you know that’s not possible..”
“ Ok, fine, then you speak to him for me..I want Ambrogio to be able to see me.”
“ What? You want to be in his sight? Why?”
“ I have my reasons..” I could tell Luna didn't want to trust Selene completely. I could feel her love for the Goddess, but also how hurt she was and at some level how betrayed she felt. Selene bound her, for long periods of time, her life only to be lived in war. My heart ached for her. I know it was Aaylas wish..but Selene could have stopped it so many times over all those years.
“ I will talk to him..I promise..and I will never bind you again..now, will you sit with me for a little while?”