Chapter 9

Council Member Ethan’s POV   

I followed Alpha Vance into his office along with his Beta, Reed and a warrior who stands beside the Alpha’s desk. I am introduced to Beta Colt. Alpha Vance does not know why Nix had a banishment over him. Seeing as he removed the banishment order immediately, I believe what he is telling me. Then he asks “Why are we all here? The phone call from the Wolf Council was vague, to say the least.”    

“Nix.” I told him. “His mom raised him in a human town. We didn’t know either of them were there. Nix told us he has lived there all of his life.” Alpha Vance will not like what I have to tell him next, so I plan on starting slowly.    

“What has that got to do with the Mountain Creek Pack?” Alpha Vance asks.    

“Rogues killed his mom a while ago and he is not coping very well. In fact, he has shown some unique abilities considering he is wolf less.”    

“He can’t be wolf less, otherwise the banishment effects would not affect him,” Alpha Vance interrupts.    

“Regardless, he is wolf less. But he is strong. His body is strong and his aura is strong. If he is not managed before he gets his wolf, he could be dangerous.”    

“So, you think you’re sending an unstable kid into my pack? I don’t think so.” He says, looking at his Beta. 

“There is a girl here. She has a 50% DNA match with Nix. They are either half siblings or full cousins. We need to know what makes him so special? The girl is a child herself, so we need to speak to her parents.”    

“Why do I feel you are not telling me everything?” The Alpha questions.   

“The girl I am talking about is Melissa Blackwolf.”     

“As in my Melissa. I don’t think so. You must be wrong.” He stands and starts raising his voice    

“I am not wrong, Alpha Vance. Nix is either Melissa’s half sibling or cousin. We have her DNA on our database.”     

“I don’t think so. My mate and I are only children.” He is still shouting    

“Well then, one of you is his parent!”     

“I think we would know if that was the case, don’t you?” The Alpha says, folding his arms in front of him.    

“Obviously not!” He growls at me. “The Wolf Council has triple checked the records. He is a 50% match to Melissa. Or her blood work is wrong in our system.”    

“Get him up here right now. Let’s sort this out.” Alpha Vance demands. He is seething right now. Reed walked to the door. “Hey Nix, you’re wanted upstairs.”    

Nix walks in. He is standing tall and looks dubiously at the men in the room. I offered him a seat next to me.    

“The Council Member here tells me you’re related to my Melissa? Is that true?” Alpha Vance says, in a demanding tone.    

“No idea. My mom never told me anything about her life before me. She just said she couldn’t go back, and I was her future.” Nix looked at me, confused. “How am I related to Melissa? Is she my cousin or something?”    

Alpha Vance’s eyes glaze over, he is mind linking someone. “I have asked my mate to join us. You are only related to her through one of us. She should be here to listen to this.”    

The Luna walks in a few seconds later. She smiles at Nix as she walks past him to stand by her mate. She was dressed more like someone who had been training, not really for a meeting like this. But she has been summoned. I guess she could have been doing anything.    

“To catch you up, love. The Council Member there believes that Nix is a 50% DNA match to Melissa.” She looks confused. “As neither of us has any siblings, one of us is his parent.” She smirks, “Well, it isn’t me. I would know if I grew a boy that size in my body. I think you may have noticed as well. Where have you been sowing your seed, love?” She asks him jokingly.

    

“As you know, my love, I was 18 when we discovered we were mates and I have never been unfaithful to you. So that leaves the mystery of how young Nix is related to Melissa?” The Alpha asks Luna, who shrugs her shoulders.    

“What was your mom’s name, Nix?” The Luna asked.    

“Tia Bird.”    

The Luna gasps, “Not Natalia Bird?” She looked like she had just been punched in the gut and leans on the desk in front of her. Alpha Vance turned pale.    

“Natalia Bird was part of this pack a long time ago.” He is breathing heavily now. The Luna was looking at him, then at Nix.    

“Well, yes, that was her full name, but she only ever went by Tia.”    

The guard by the desk smirks “She was a right slut if ever I saw one.”     

I saw Nix grit his teeth and go to stand up. He may be wolf less but he is far from powerless. But it was Luna that punched the guard in the face. Not a weak, womanly punch, but a full-on punch. A punch that sent him flying to the ground, with his blood splattering the wall on the way. “Don’t you ever, ever say that about Natalia.” She screamed at him. Beta Colt grabbed her around the waist to stop her from attacking the guard further. “She was the kindest person anyone could ever meet. I will not stand here and allow anyone to tarnish her memory.”     

“Get out.” the Alpha yells at the guard. “Before I throw you out of the window.” He runs out of the room. I don’t know what is going on, but something has just happened. Nix was on the edge of his seat but relaxed once he was gone. The Alpha hugs his mate while stroking her hair to calm her down.    

He looks at Nix. “Natalia and I dated a long time ago. I loved her so much. I was her ‘always’ and I was her ‘forever’. I was planning on officially naming her my Luna when her wolf appeared. Even if she wasn’t my fated mate, I would have chosen her. I couldn’t have found a better person. She was a gift from the goddess. But she disappeared on her 18th birthday.”    

“She was my best friend,” The Luna says. “Me and Vance grieved and mourned her for a long time. But when I turned 18, I discovered Vance was my mate. We never heard from her again. Are you sure it is the same woman, Council Member?”     

I say nothing, but Nix reaches to his neck and pulls out a chain, yanking it from around his neck. He throws it at the desk. The Luna picks it up and shows the Alpha, who flips the amulet over before dropping into his chair, nodding. Looking at his mate.    

She runs over to Nix, hugging him, crying, “Welcome home.” She says to him. “Welcome home. I wished you’d have brought her with you. I miss her so much.”    

It’s a really touching moment, the Alpha realizing he has a son from a previous relationship. The Luna accepting him immediately. Which is unusual, as they want their offspring to ascend. But I have one question. “Who banished Natalia, then?”    

They all looked at me. “Well, Nix wasn’t banished. So, it must have been his mother while she was pregnant with him. So, who did it and why?”