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Herald chuckled.
Luna sighed, turning her head to the junior enforcers.
“All right. If you all want to fight me at once, the deal still stands. Whoever can subdue me, I’ll put a special word in with the alpha. Deal?”
They looked among themselves as though counting their numbers.
“Charge!” one of them cried out, and soon they were all dashing toward her at once. She wasn’t sure if misplaced chivalry held them back, but none of them came even remotely close to grazing her. They were all easy to dodge and anticipate.
Eventually, she sat off to the side, rescinding the offer, and just watched the junior enforcers fighting their senior instructors. It brought back memories as she recollected sitting on this same log just after she had met Adrian. Even though it had only been mere days ago, it felt like it had been so much longer.
“Nice job out there,” Herald said, sitting on the log across from her. “You know, if you ever wanted to join the enforcers, we might have a spot open for you.”
Luna laughed. “I thought you had closed yourselves off to women?”
“Yeah, well, we’d make an exception in your case,” Herald said.
Luna yawned, looking at the bright night sky. “I don’t think so, Herald,” Luna said. “But thanks for the offer.”
“Well, either way,” he said, “we’re glad to have you on our side.”
Later, in Adrian’s cabin, the shower doors clouded around Luna, water running over her dirt-covered body. She had not been scratched even once by the enforcers, but she could still feel the tightness in her muscles as she lathered soap over her form.
She turned the water off, grabbed a towel, and shook her feet over the shower floor before stepping onto the bathroom tile. Though she had moved out of the guest cabin to stay with Adrian, as they both deemed it safer considering the threat Victor posed, she still sometimes felt like an intruder in his home.
It had been several days since she had run into Victor in a council meeting and then convinced Adrian to join her cause. She could still see his jagged smile in her mind, his cold gray eyes staring into her soul.
Whatever he was planning, waiting was the worst part. She knew he hadn’t resigned himself to Luna being his ruling alpha mate. He was the threat in the corners of her imagination. A couple of times, she had even started to doubt his existence.
She couldn’t seek out the bastard, or she would end up killing him, and that would go against Adrian’s wishes. And she didn’t want to make him look bad in front of his pack.
Wrapping the towel around her body, she began drying her hair.
But over the hairdryer, she thought she heard something … a steady knock on wood. Was somebody here? It was far too late in the evening. Since Adrian was away on pack business, she bet Sasha had brought over a couple bottles of wine for the two of them.
Going to the door in a towel, she unlocked it, then opened it partway, seeing the gaunt face of Victor standing in the doorway.
“Hello, Luna,” he said, his yellowing teeth fully bared in what he might construe as a smile. With how unnatural it seemed, it reminded her more of the threatening look a chimpanzee gets right before it attacks.
“Fancy a chat?” Victor asked.
Luna shook her head. “Why don’t you go bug your council?” Luna asked before moving to shut the door.
But Victor stuck his foot out before she could close it, forcing his way in.
“You know, it’s a funny thing,” Victor said, moving further inside. “Your good mate Adrian had said he was invoking that formality, but almost a week later, we still haven’t reconvened.”
“We decided in private that I would accept the role,” Luna replied. “You know, not long before I decided to move in here with Adrian? You’d know that since you tracked me down here.”
“Right,” Victor replied. “I’d just hate for you to feel out of place. I said some wonderful things about you in the council meeting, but it occurs to me that not all of them were so …”
Victor paused, turning to stare her dead in the eyes. “True?”
“Is that so?” Luna asked, trying to sound unaffected.
“Oh, absolutely.” Victor moved into the kitchen, gesturing wildly.
“Like I said, you’d make a wonderful addition to the pack, and you could defend the pack from all manners of threats,” Victor said. “But then I remembered you were too chicken shit to defend your honor and that you tucked your tail between your legs and ran at the first sign of trouble.”
