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Lisa

Throughout the night, I'm unable to sleep with the pull of the blood moon growing stronger. I lay here in bed tossing and turning until I finally just give up on trying to sleep.

I get out of bed, feeling this rush from the blood moon. I look down at my trembling hands, looking at my elongated claws as my inner beast pushes forward. I take in a deep breath, slowly exhaling, trying to calm myself. I look down at my hands again, forcing my claws to retreat back into their nail beds.

I leave the room, needing a cold glass of water hoping to help cool down my body.

I look around at all the nice paintings on the walls as I make my way through the quiet halls of the castle. Durn the day the castle is always busy with people moving around, but durn the night its quiet as if the castle is empty.

I think it's very nice of father to open his home up to anyone who's in need of a place to stay.

Here it doesn't matter who you are. Here it doesn't matter if you're apart of a pack or a rogue, everyone is allowed and gets along here.

Once I get down to the kitchen, I walk through the kitchen doors to find BJ standing at the refrigerator.

"I guess you can't sleep either," BJ says looking over at me, taking out the things he'll need to make a sandwich.

"You're getting a late-night snack? The last thing I can think about is eating right now." I grab a cold bottle of water and take a seat on the countertop. I look over next to me at the meat and other things he has taken out. I haven't had much of an appetite for the past few days.

"It's for Alia. Now that she's pregnant she wakes up hungry in the middle of the night, so I make sure she has food waiting for her when she wakes up." He says, opening the stuff.

"You're really about to be a father. How does it feel?" I smile over at him as I twist the cap off the water bottle, taking a sip of the cold water. It's surprising to know that BJ is having a baby.

After taking a few sips of the cold water, I twist the cap back on and place the cold bottle against the side of my neck, to help cool my body.

"It hasn't really hit me yet, I'm sure it will once the baby is here." He tells me.

As he talks, I see that his teeth are slightly elongated. I look at his hands as he began to fix the sandwich, and see that his claws are also elongated, but it doesn't seem to be bothering him. He seems fine while I feel like I'm burning up right now.

"You seem to be dealing with the effects of the blood moon quite well." I frown a little, watching him make the sandwich.

He looks over at me, seeing me holding the cold water bottle to my neck. "When I get that sudden rush from the blood moon, I don't fight it. I just let it pass. I feel what you're feeling now. This on edge feels that causes the slightest thing to send your inner beast over the edge. The hotness and racing heart. I feel it all. Stop focusing on what you're feeling and stop fighting against your inner beast, just relax. It'll make things easier for you." BJ tells me.

Listen to what BJ said, I stop fighting the beast and try to relax. I feel the beast push forward and I don't fight it back. I feel my teeth and claws elongate the way BJ teeth and claws are elongated right now.

"Better?" He asks.

"Yeah," I say, looking down at my black claws. Now that I've allowed the beast to come forward, I no longer have to fight to keep it back every second I'm feeling this sudden rush that seems to last longer now.

"Once the rush from the blood moon passes, your beast will relax and your elongated teeth and claws will retreat."  He says, seeing me looking at my hands.

I take in a calming breath, feeling a bit more relaxed now. I guess I should be getting used to this. In one more day the blood moon will arrive and father said what I'm feeling now will be much more intense, and there's no letting the feeling pass like now. I will be feeling this way the whole day of the blood moon.

After talking with BJ for a while longer, I head back up to the room.

I stand here at the window, looking out into the cold snowy night. I let out a sigh as thoughts of Lucious fill my head. I don't miss being there, but I do miss Lucious.

I miss waking up next to him. I miss seeing that look in his eyes when he stares and watches me. I was pissed with him before I left there. I'm still is upset with him, but I still miss him.

I let out a sigh and head back over to the bed to try to get some sleep.

After having breakfast the next morning with the others in the dining hall, I make my way through the castle to find Andy after hearing that he's back here at the castle.

As I'm heading to the hospital wing where uncle Fred said I should find Andy, I'm stopped by this male.

"I just want to thank you for saving my life princess." He bows to me, leaving me confused about what he's talking about.

"Do I know you?" I look at him with a raised brow. If I do know him, I don't remember meeting him anywhere. But I have smelt his scent somewhere that I can't recall.

"I was one of those two wolves who was trying to pass across that pack land the other day." Now I remember him. He's the guy that managed to get away from Lucious pack warriors. "Is Jimmy dead?" He asks about the other guy that was with him.

"I'm sorry." I give him a nod. I tried to save him, but I couldn't. He let out a sigh, hearing the bad news. "Who was he to you?" I ask. Whoever the guy was, he didn't deserve to die. He seemed like a decent guy.

"Just a really good friend. We were heading here to escape the cold winter. This is the first time in years that we would've had somewhere warm to spend the cold winter days, but I guess things didn't go as planned." I can see the hurt in his eyes over the loss of his friend.

"I'm sorry for your lost." I wish I could've done more to help his friend.

He gives me a nod. "Thank you again." He bows his head to me, before walking away.

Once I get to the hospital wing of the castle, I see a few males and pregnant females sitting in the chairs, waiting.

I speak to them as they slightly bow their heads to me. I look over towards the room and smile when I hear Andy's voice.

I walk into the room where Andy's attending to a young boy with a nice size cut of his forehead. The young boy's mother looks over at me, and slightly bow her head to me as she stands there watching Andy Look at the boy.

Watching Andy clean the wound, brings back memories of all the times he patched up all the wounds that we managed to get as kids.

"It's not too bad," Andy says, looking at the wound after cleaning it. Andy walks over into a room with shelves, that's filled with jars of herb on them.

"He'll be fine. Just crush these herbs up and add water to make a paste, then apply it to the cut once a day." Andy tells the mother, bring her a small jar of herbs. "And you, try to avoid running into any more walls." Andy ruffles the boy's hair, before helping him down from the exam table.

Andy smile over at me as the boy and his mother leave. "I've missed you kiddo."

I smile, walking over giving him a hug. "I'm sorry about how things ended for you and mother." I pull away, looking at him feeling bad for him. I know how much he loved mother. Andy spent many years loving mother. We all became a family, but now mother has gone back to father, leaving Andy behind.

"It's okay kiddo." He gives me a smile that doesn't spread far. I can see that he's hurt after losing mother to Father. "Everything happens for a reason. We may not understand why, but I know the goddess makes no mistakes." He says.

I give him a nod, deciding not to continue with this conversation to save him the pain of having to talk about it.

"I see that you've been treating people around here." Andy is the best healer most have ever come across. It's not a common thing for an alpha male to take on the practice of a healer, but Andy has a gift for this.

"Just for now. BJ asked if I would come join him and his pack, seeing that he'll need a healer to help deliver his baby, so I'll be leaving with BJ and his pack soon." I'm sure Andy leaving with BJ will make things easier for him, instead of being here and seeing mother with father.

"I'm sure Adam is happy about that. Now he'll be able to spend a lot of time at BJ's pack, with all the new friends he has made." Adam didn't really have any friends his age before all of this. But he has made many friends here and most of the kids here are apart of BJ's pack. So he'll get to see them all the time when he's with Andy. I'm sure Adam will be going back and forth a lot, spending time here with mother and at BJ's pack with Andy.

Andy let out a low chuckle as he walks over, getting the machine ready for those pregnant females. "Yeah, he was pretty excited to hear that I'll be joining  BJ's pack."

"I bet," I say laughing a little. "Well, I don't want to keep your patients waiting out there," I say, looking over towards the door.

"Once I'm done here, I'll come to see you so we can talk more." He walks over, giving me another hug before I leave the room.

As the day slowly passes, the effects of the blood moon grow stronger and stronger. The day is nearly over and the blood moon will be here soon.

I have locked myself in my room, losing trust in myself to be around everyone else.

I've been feeling that strong aggression that father warned me about. Out of instinct, I've growled and flashed teeth at people here for simply looking at me too long.

I've been pacing back and forth in my room for over two hours, waiting for this feeling to pass, but it hasn't and it doesn't feel like it will this time.

It's not like before when the beast would only pushing forward, now it's fighting for control, fighting to be let out.

I take in slow deep breaths, pacing the floor, trying to calm myself.

Hearing a knock at the door, causing me to jump. Out of instinct, my guard goes up and a deep growl vibrant my chest, glaring over at the door.

"Open the door, Lisa." I hear father's voice on the other side of the door, causing me to let my guard down.

I walk over and open the door, seeing father, mother, and BJ standing there.

"The blood moon will be here soon, I need to get you to the cells," Father tells me.

Following father through the quiet castle, he leads us down a long dark flight of stairs that seems to lead underneath the castle somewhere. Once we get to the bottom of the stairs, father turns on the lights, revealing what looks like a dungeon.

"These cells will be strong enough to hold you." Father walks over and opens the thick metal door to three of the cells. "Once the blood moon has come, what you're feeling now will quickly grow. Just try to relax and stay calm. It'll all be over before you know it." Father tells us as we all walk into a cell, letting him lock us inside the cells.

I spend the next few hours moving around the cell, trying to keep calm, but that's easier said than done.

The effects of the blood moon have grown. My body has been burning up for hours now and all I can hear is the sound of my own racing heart beating loudly. I've been fighting against the beast for control, stopping myself from shifting and losing control.

I haven't heard anything from BJ or mother, are they not feeling what I'm feeling.

It's all becoming too much and I'm starting to think that maybe it'll be easier if I just give the beast complete control and rest in the back of my mind until its all over.

Hearing father's feet steps coming down the flight of stairs, I walk over to the thick metal door, looking out the opening on the door, watching as he walks over to my cell.

"How are you holding up Princess?" Father asks, looking at me through the opening in the metal door.

"I don't thin-"

"Father let me out of this cell!" BJ's voice boom through the room. I look over at the cell that BJ's in, seeing him glaring through the opening with pitch-black eyes.

"Calm down BJ." Father walks over to BJ cells.

"I can't calm down! This cell is going to drive me crazy! Let me out now!" I can feel the power coming from BJ, filling the room.

"You're just being affected by the blood moon. You'll be fine once it passes." Father says, trying to keep BJ calm.

"Let me out of here!" A deep growl comes from BJ as he slams his fist against the metal door. "Now!" His voice comes out animalistic, showing that his beast is at the surface.

BJ starts to roar out as he continues to punch the metal door, trying to get out the cell.

"Stop it BJ." Mother says from her cell as BJ continues to slam his fist against the metal door, causing the loud sound to echo through the room.

I start to hear the sound of bones snapping as BJ shift and start to ram his large body up against the metal door, trying to break it down.

The twin bond that I share with BJ and his beast is causing my beast to react to him, wanting to get out of this cell also. I cover my ears and squeeze my eyes shut as I slide down to the ground, taking in deep breaths, trying to stop myself from losing control as BJ has.

My jaws clench as my body jump at the loud sound of BJ ramming up against the metal door over and over again. A deep growl vibrant my chest as the beast fight for control.

"Stop BJ!" I hear father's voice as I continue to hold my hands against my ears, trying to block out everything around me.

"Let me in there with him. I can calm him down." Mother says.

"No, he has lost control, he's all beast right now," Father says.

"I have dealt with his beast many times, it won't harm me." Mother tells him. Whenever BJ and I would lose control back when we had a hard time with controlling the beast, mother would stop the beast, making it give us back control. Even when the beast wouldn't listen to us, it would still listen to mother. It never had a problem with submitting to her.

I hear the sound of the metal doors opening and After a few seconds pass, the loud banging of BJ ramming up against the door stop. I continue to hold my hands against my ears, taking in slow deep breaths, fighting the beast back.

Hearing the thick metal door to my cell opens, I look up and see father.

"You're going to go to the cell with your mother and brother." Father walks over, helping me up from the ground.

Walking into the cell, father closes the metal door behind me.

I watch mother standing in front of BJ's large growling beast. "It's okay." Mother reaches out taking the beast large claws into her small hand. "It's okay." She says again, placing her other had on top of the beast large claws.

After a minute passes, BJ's body slowly shrinks back down as he shifts back, breathing heavily.

Mother looks back at me and hold her hand out for me to take.

She brings BJ and I down to the floor with her, wrapping her arms around us, laying our head down on her shoulders.

"I know its hard being locked inside this cell, but it's the safest place for us and everyone else here right now." Mother tells us, gently run her fingers through my hair.

Mother starts to lowly sing to us the way she did when we were kids. I take in a calming breath as I close my eyes, listening to the sound of her soothing voice, feeling it calming me.

The day passes slowly, feeling like it would never end.

The next morning I feel myself being shaken awake, not remembering falling asleep.

"Goodmorning princess," Father says as I slowly sit up, rubbing my eyes.

"It's over?" I look at my hands, not feeling the effects of the blood moon anymore.

"Yes, it's all over." Father wake mother, then BJ.

"That wasn't so bad was it Mr badass." Father smirk at BJ, handing him a pair of shorts.

"Whatever." BJ takes the shorts from father as he stands to his feet, sliding them on.

Father let out a low chuckle. "Let's go get you guys something to eat." I didn't notice until now that I didn't eat anything yesterday during the blood moon. With the way I was feeling, food was the last thing on my mind.

After having breakfast with my family, I head up to my room with mixed feelings, knowing Lucious will be here to pick me up soon. I don't want to leave my family again. I like being here where I feel loved and wanted, but I also want to be with Lucious, which means I have to leave here.

I let out a sigh as I walk into my room to pack my bag.

As I put my things inside the bag, I freeze when I feel the pull of the mate bond, letting me know Lucious is here. I couldn't stop the small smile that tugged at the corners of my lips as I continue to pack the rest of my things, wanting to see Lucious

After hugging my family bye, BJ, Freddy, Frank, and Fin walk me out front where I see Lucious waiting for me. I hug them all one last time, before walking over to the car, putting my bag in the back, before getting in the car.

I look over at Lucious to see him glaring through the front windshield. I follow his glare over to BJ whos glaring back at Lucious. As Lucious starts to back away, still glaring at BJ. BJ's top lip pulls back, flashing sharp teeth at Lucious.

A growl vibrant Lucious chest as he hit the brakes, opening the door to get out. I quickly reach over, grabbing his arm.

"No Lucious." I keep a tight hold on his arm, not letting him get out of the car as he continues to glare over at BJ. "Let's go home Lucious," I say, not letting him go.

He glares over at BJ for a second longer, before closing the car door, driving away.

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