28. Deal

**Narrator’s POV.**

Desiree let out a gasp as she released her mother’s hand, the energy that had been taking from her body was enough to make her pass out but she knew she had to be strong for her mother whose eyes had just opened for the first time in months,

“Mother?”, Desiree’s voice was soft and barely audible as she watched the color come back to her mother’s skin,

“Desiree”, the luna queen’s voice was raspy, it was obvious that she had not spoken in quite a while,

“Goddess I praise, Daphne!”, Sarah watched as her best friend woke up with tears in her eyes, she was so surprised with how things played out- how did whatever Desiree did work? Sarah’s first instinct was to give her Luna water to heal her groggy vocal cords.

“Thank you”, Daphne smiled at the woman before turning to her daughter and taking her hand, “I know what happened to me”, she whispered to her,

“You do?”, Desiree asked in surprise, she was curious to know how her mother who had been completely fine had suddenly gone into an untriggered comatose state,

“Yes, I know I will sound crazy but a spirit showed me exactly what happened”, the look on Daphne’s face was heartbreaking, she looked scared and extremely sad.

“Trust me, I do not think you sound crazy”, Desiree said to her mother before standing heavily on her feet,

“You are pregnant?”, the shock in Daphne’s voice was evident in her face and features, “Since when? How? What the hell happened? How long was I gone for? Does your father know about this? Is your mate still alive?”, the questions came out all at once, she did not even skip a beat to let her daughter reply,

“Yes, I am pregnant. About a month ago, I did the deed and got knocked up- purposely to trigger all the other men in my life, Harrison and I mated during my heat. About three and a half months. Yes he does and as you guessed, he was not happy about it and yes, my mate is still alive but I fear that I will lose him soon if we do not leave now”, Desiree answered but she failed to miss the distant look on her mother’s face after the last words left her lips, “Mum are you okay?”,

Daphne tried to push back the tears, “I do not understand what I did to him that he would do this kind of thing. He still wants to fight in this war knowing my life is at stake”, a few traitor tears fell down her cheeks but she wiped them away with her wrist,

“What do you mean?”, Desiree knew the next thing that would leave her mother’s mouth would be strong enough to knock her off her feet so she sat down on the chair once again, “What do you mean, mum? Tell me what you meant by that?”, she pushed,

“The- the spirit, it showed me something, a flashback to about three months ago, I think. Your father was with the witch head and…”, a loud sob left her lips but Desiree was having none of it, she wanted to know what exactly was going on. She hated being left in the dark and that was how it had been for such a long time.

“What happened with the witch head?”,

“Desiree!”, Sarah said in a tone that stated that she should not pressure her mother into a relapse,

“What happened with the witch head?”, compassion had been thrown out of the window as Desiree completely ignored the woman and continued to put more pressure on her mother who did not want to expose one of her mate’s darkest secrets, “I will not ask too nicely again mother, what happened with the witch head?”, was her father screwing around with another woman while her mother was unconscious? If he was, he was a dead man!

“It is not like that Desiree, he did not have an affair with her”, she tried to clear things up, “Your father went to the witch head to seek spiritual help after the doctor could not say anything about me loosing my consciousness. She told him something which he failed to announce to both you and your brother. Where is your brother by the way?”, she looked around the room, hoping she could catch a glimpse of her son,

“You would see him later. Proceed”.

“The witch head said a whole lot but the main explanation is that, the more werewolves die, the more I lose my strength and if more are born, my strength increases- vice versa for your father. If more die than necessary without the same amount being born, my strength would eventually fade away and it can lead to-”,

“Death”, Daphne nodded making Desiree shoot up from her seat, “This is even worse than I thought! Why the hell are we still here when we need to be there? This just proves that we should not let this war happen!”.

“Please Daphne”, Sarah was sobbing profusely as she listened to the talk between mother and daughter, “Nothing must happen to you, we need to go now before we are too late”,

“Yes, I know”, Daphne confirmed as she sat up and swung her legs over the bed, “We have to leave now”.

“How would we get past the guards though?”, Sarah asked in worry,

“Leave that to me”, Daphne said before leading them out of she and Dwayne’s shared bedroom.