Chapter 87

Chapter 87 Lola’s POV Everyb*dy shushed when I entered and my nerves increased. Uh-oh, why is everyone staring at me? Did my clothes tear somewhere? Did I smear my makeup? Is something wrong with my hair? A thousand and ten questions ran through my head and I felt like turning back and running away.

The wheels in my head stopped turning when I made eye contact with my very handsome mate. “Ouuuuuu, has he always looked this edible?” Jasmine asked in my head. “Girllll, he seems to amaze me more everytime I see him. It’s like he gets more handsome everyday”, I replied back to her.

He looked so amazing standing there in his black three pieces suit. Everyone faded to the background and all I saw was him. He looked regal and majestic, he was the Alpha King after all.

I felt him trying to get in my head and opened our mindlink. “You look breath-taking, baby”, his voice rang loud and clear in my head, almost making my legs jelly. “You look totally amazing too”, I replied to him and saw a ghost of a smile on his face. “It’s so obvious on your face that you think I am”, he said co ckily and I scoffed. The nerves of that man!

“But everyone is waiting for you to keep moving forward”, I didn’t even realize I was standing still until he said so. My face became red and I hurriedly walked as fast as my gown would allow me.

When I finally reached the makeshift stage, he held my hand to help me up the stage, sending waves of pleasure through my b*dy. We faced each other and that was when I saw the tears in his eyes.

“You cried? Thank goddess. Rose said the mating ceremony won’t hold if you don’t cry”, I told him and he chuckled. “Good thing your elegance and aura made me cry then”, he joked and I laughed behind my palm.

Someone cleared their throat behind us and we both turned to look at the person, Adrian seemed calm while I was startled. We were faced with Elder Simon. He was one of the people I met with before today so I recognized him.

“Well now begin the ceremony”, he said with an authoritative tone and. the whole yard listened attentively. “Today is a 2 in 1 celebration for Crescent moon pack. The next Alpha is going to introduce his Luna to all of us and we’re also going to crown them the new King and Queen of the Alpha world”, he spoke and everyone started clapping. “Now, our next King is going to take the stage”, he bowed to Adrian as he moved forward to take the stage.

He cleared his throat before taking the addresser. “Thank you, Simon”, he bowed to him slightly too.

“Thank you all for coming here to witness this today, not like you have a choice”, he joked and everyone laughed. “Yeah, but I really appreciate everyone that put effort into this one way or the other, it wouldn’t have been possible without you guys”. Everyb*dy had a peaceful and serene look on their faces and it was so obvious that they all liked him, even though he barely related with them.

“I’m sure everyone here knows how long I’ve been searching for my mate, in fact I had lost all hope and picked a chosen mate before I finally met her”, I looked through the crowd, searching for Fay’s but I couldn’t find her.

She must be too ashamed to come to the ceremony.

“Well, after I found her. I made grave mistakes that almost cost me her life but thank goddess that she pulled through and eventually accepted me back even though I have a lifetime of apologizing to do”, he said and the crowd went solemn.

“Let me formally introduce my mate and the new Luna of Crescent moon pack to everyone”, he held out his hand to me and I took it before nervously walking forward. “Meet your new Luna, Lola Ashton, the daughter of the former Alpha of Moonlit pack”, he said and everyone started clapping, some even hooted and whistled.

“Say something. baby”. he said to me and I nodded. I cleared my throat before I started speaking. “Uhm, it’s so nice to finally meet everyone. I promise that I’m going to do my best to rule alongside Adrian. I hope we get along”. I finished my speech and another round of applause. rang from the crowd.

“Now, we have to connect you to the pack. Step forward, Alpha Jayden”. Elder Simon said and Jayden stepped forward. Another person brought a dagger that was placed on a white clothes and I became frightened.

Adrian took my hand in his and squeezed it assuringly. “It will be over before you know it”, he said through our mindlink and I nodded.

I stretched my left hand and so did Jayden. Elder Simon made a cut on Jayden’s palm and on mine too. “Now, put your palms together”, he instructed and we both did as he said.

All of a sudden, I felt a thousand voices in my head and I would have fallen down if it wasn’t for Adrian that held me up by my waist.

“Ma-make it sto-op-p-p-p”, I groaned. “It will be over before you know it, just hang on for a little while baby”, Adrian whispered as the voices grew louder in my head. I tried to remove my palm from Jayden’s but I was unable to.

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1289/Vouchers When I was finally able to remove my hands, the voices didn’t stop. “It, it keeps getting louder, Adrian. Please make it stop”, I pleaded while holding onto my head. “Try to block it out. Block it out the same way you block me out of your head”, he said gently. I did exactly what he said and eventually I was able to block all voices out completely.

“Good girl, you did it”, he praised me and I smiled at him before turning to the crowd with a big smile. My eyes met with the girls’ own where they sat and it became wider. They gave me a thumbs up before I looked away from them.

“Welcome to the pack. Luna Lola”, Elder Simon said and the rest of the pack took it up. The chants became louder and my smile became wider.

This went on for a while until I saw another spec of red in the crowd. I was the only one supposed to wear red because it represents respect for me but a woman in the crowd was also wearing red. I looked closely at the woman and it turned out to be Fay, wearing exactly the same clothes as mine, nothing changed.

I saw her point something at me but before I could process what was going on, a loud bang sounded. I waited for the bullet to hit me but I heard someone fall beside me instead.

I looked down and saw my mate groaning in pain on the ground. Adrian had been shot!

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