Chapter 94: We Stand And Fight

Chapter ninety-four: We Stand And Fight


Elena

I am not doing okay at all, I haven't seen or heard from Bernard since I left his house. I had barely slept last night, l couldn't find enough peace to rest, I was thinking about everything. I couldn't understand why people think that I am dating Jack. If anything, it made more sense for them to think I was with Bernard since people often saw me going to his house.

I told Veronica that I wasn't feeling well and needed to take a sick day last night. I knew she didn't believe me but she didn't push me. I was not okay at all, I was suffering and this separation from Bernard was killing me. I wanted nothing more than to walk back to his house and fix this mess that we were in but I knew he would only turn me away. I didn't understand why he had chosen to believe the rumors instead of talking it through with me. We were meant to be a team but he was flying slow right now.

I felt a sob leave my lips as I curled into myself on the bed. It was probably well past midday and I had yet to exit my room. Alisha and Jack had tried to convince me to leave my room at least to eat but I had refused. My appetite was gone and my heart felt like it was breaking. I didn't want to feel like this but I couldn't help it. I wished I could turn it off instead of having to feel everything all at once.

I heard a knocking sound on my door and I felt it was Alisha and Jack checking on me again. I loved them but they needed to lay off me a little bit, I just wanted to be left alone. I chose not to answer and continued to wallow in my own sadness. Another knock came and I ignored it as well, then another followed.

"Go away." I groaned, conversing my head with my sheet.

"Elena, it is me." A familiar voice came on the other side of the door.

"Doris, I am Nicholas's sister." Oh, that was why I recognized the voice.

She was a stranger but a nice person, she had been very intrusive on our first encounter, that was probably because she was also fascinated with the new rogue that had joined the Pack. I was in no mood to speak to her either. I just wanted to be left alone. I was tired already and I didn't need to be explaining my emotions.

"Please just go, Doris. I am not in the mood to speak to anyone."

"You don't understand, this is urgent. It is life and death."

Call me cruel but I didn't care if it was life and death for anyone else. My life felt like it was crumbling so everything else was like background noise would leave. I answered her with my silence thinking that she would eventually catch the hint and leave.

"It is about Bernard." She said, I immediately sat up.

"He is in danger."

I ripped away the sheet from my body and walked over to the door. I unlocked it and opened it revealing a worried Doris. Her eyes were wide and panicked and my heart dropped to the floor.

"Is he okay?" She shook her head and brushed past me to enter my room. I closed the door and rushed to where she stood in the center of my room. She was fidgeting with her hands and she looked like she was finding it hard to focus.

I grabbed her hands in mine to stop her from fidgeting, she looked at our hands and then looked at me with a terrified expression on her face. I felt the color drain from my face, whatever was going on was terrible and I could already feel my heartbreak.

"Doris?" My voice came out surprisingly calm even though I felt nothing at the moment.

"I need you to focus and tell me exactly what is going on. I need you to take a few deep breaths and then we can talk about it from the start. Can you do that for me?" She nodded and took three deep calming breaths and then started.

"Nicholas is trying to take over the Pack and take the Alpha position from Bernard."

My heart thudded hard in my chest, the only word that echoed in my mind at that point was treason. I knew there was something about Nicholas that I didn't like and now his true colors were finally showing.

"How did you know this?"

"I heard him talking to Alphas and asking them about you. So naturally, I got curious and I pretended to be interested in his plan and ever since then, he treated me as his second. I was with him to see the rogues, he told me about his encounter with you." I gulped, this is not good.

"He is going to call Alpha Richard and arrange a sort of arrangement. He will use Richard to help him take over the Pack and in exchange, he will give you over to Richard." I felt my soul leave my body at that moment.

Richard, the man I had run from for close to a decade. The man who had murdered my parents and left me orphaned. The man who had run me out of my home. Nicholas is aligning himself with him, he had finally found me. She kept talking but her voice seemed to fade away into the background. My mind swirled with so many things.

Bernard's safety was at the forefront, I needed to protect him. We may not have been on the best terms at the moment but I still love him and I needed to keep him safe and alive. It felt like everything was coming full circle, I had come into this world on the run and now it seemed I would leave his world on the run again.

"I need to leave." I voiced my thoughts out.

"What? No! That is a terrible idea, Elena. Leaving is the last thing you need to do now." I shook my head.

There is no other way, I need to keep you all safe. If I am not here then Nicholas has no leverage over Richard and then he won't come here. All of you will be safe." She grabbed my shoulder and shook me slightly.

"Listen to me, Elena. I need you to answer this question and I need you to be one hundred percent truthful with me. Do you understand?" I nodded.

"Is Bernard your mate?" My eyes widened slightly before I schooled my features. It seemed like everyone was picking up on our little secret.

"It is okay, I am on your side here." She smiled reassuringly.

"You can trust me, I am only here to help you. So, I will ask you again. Are you Bernard's mate? Are you truly my Luna?"

I contemplated whether or not I should spill the beans but then I realized there was no harm in telling her. She had already shared so much with me. I finally nodded my head.

"But none of that matters, Bernard and I are in a terrible situation right now. These pictures are circulating of me and Jack, they made it look like we were doing something wrong but we weren't. It was all innocent."

"You are not leaving, Elena. You need to stay right where you are because this is where you are needed the most." I shook my head.

"How can I stay? Richard will be on his way and the Pack will have a war all because of me." Her shoulders sagged in relief.

"It would still have a war even if you did rub. So running is the worst thing you can do, I know about the pictures and I know that they weren't true. I don't know you well but I don't believe you would ever intentionally hurt Bernard. You are a good person."

Her words warmed my heart but they did nothing to ease my anxiety and pain.

"We need you here, the Pack needs you and it may not seem like it but Bernard needs you here too. It is not my story to tell but there is a reason why Bernard reacted so badly to the pictures. Before you, there was another girl."

"Ivory?" She shook her head.

"No, her name was Liza. I am not comfortable going into details about it because it is not my story to tell but when you get the chance, ask him about Liza, maybe you will understand his insecurity and trust issues. He may not look like it but Bernard feels everything deeply and with him being an Alpha, that is only heightened further."

"But a fight would break loose if I stay."

"Then, we stand and fight together. You are our Luna, we need you, Elena. Don't abandon us when we need you the most."

I knew what I needed to do, I had done so much running for the majority of my life, it was time that I finally stopped and stood my ground. I am Luna and Lunas don't run, they stand with their people and fight.

"Yes, we stand and fight." I stared her dead in the eye so she knew I was serious.

"For our people."

"For our people." She echoed my words.

"Now, we need to figure out how we are going to tell Bernard. He doesn't want to hear anything from me at the moment and he seemed a bit out of it when I went to see him." She hummed in agreement.

"Why don't you leave that to me, you just keep an eye on Nicholas and make sure to stay out of his way."

"Okay." I muttered.

She was about to turn around and leave my room but I stopped her. She turned around and waited for me to speak.

"Would you happen to know who started these rumors about me and Jack?" She shook her head.

"No sorry, why did you ask, do you have any suspects?"

"I am not too sure because it could have been anyone. There were a bunch of people that day on the street, some from the gamma's house, some omegas were even in the store. I even saw Elizabeth outside the hardware store."

"Bernard's mother?" I nodded.

"We made eye contact, then she went on her way. Anyway, it is fine, the rumors were a lie. It will die down eventually."

"It will." She empathized with me.

"I will come and find you if I find anything else out. I will see you later Luna."

She left the room before I could correct her, I would be lying if I said I didn't like the sound of it now. I had learned to embrace my future with both arms open.

My name now is Elena Rosalie Williams, the Luna of Crescent Wolf Pack. It sounded good in my mind and that was when I knew I truly embraced who I was and who I am meant to be.