His Reluctant Luna

I tried to keep my eyes open, as Stuart droned on and on about his scientific advancements. I had lost track of what he had been rambling long back, but just nodded and smiled at certain intervals to look interested.

'Come on, Lucian,' I said into the void.

"So, these human women failed to get pregnant, it's not because my experiment failed. They were just weak. Weak and useless. Even my army of men was not the breakthrough I had been hoping for. So, I started seeking alternatives. The best approach was to go natural. Create my hybrid children. "

He crossed his legs and folded his hands, placing his chin on his knuckles.

"So, that's why you attacked the mated Alpha females?"

"Yeah, lost quite a few of my men. I don't care about them, though. They were lab rats.....totally disposable." He shrugged.

"And I am your next big experiment?" I was feeling squeamish.

"You are special, Alice."

I winced, my name rolling off his tongue made me sick.

"I am sorry, I need to use the bathroom." I suddenly said. I couldn't hold myself anymore. I spotted a basin in a corner and dumped whatever meal I had previously.

"Are you ok?" Stuart said, stroking my back.

"Don't touch me!" I shouted and moved away.

He chuckled, showing a row of yellow teeth.

"You are tired, we'll talk again. Don't even think of escaping because you cannot."

He left the room and I curled up on the bed, suddenly feeling fragile.

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I woke up to the sound of scrapping. Feeling adventurous, I left my room and walked towards the tunnel through which Stuart had entered. That was the way out, I believe. I realized I was being followed. Alarms rang through my mind and my wolf growled at the impending danger. I decided to run and bolted quickly.

Suddenly, I was tackled to the ground and pinned beneath a large, black wolf. Stuart. No matter how much I struggled, he didn't get off, just kept me pinned to the ground and growled. My wolf screamed in my mind and I partially shifted. I was now desperately punching, clawing, and trying to get him off. Nothing worked. Finally, Stuart forced his jaws around my neck. I could feel blood dripping down my neck into my hair. I stopped moving, and it was stupid to fight anyway. As much as I wanted to fight this, I couldn't. My wolf and I recognized that we would die if we continued.

Stuart removed his jaws and shifted above me. He licked up some of my blood from the right side of my neck. He was inches from my face.

"Now, are you going to walk with me? Or do I have to carry you?"

"I'll walk," I said, defeated, and kept my eyes away.

Stuart got it from me.

We finally reached a door being guarded by two rogues. They opened the door, and we entered a larger underground chamber. My mouth fell open in surprise. It was a state-of-the-art lab. Several machines were mounted along the correct wall. In the centre, there was a huge light above and a bed like they have in operation theatres.

I also saw 2 jail-like cells, one of them was occupied with -

"Max!" I screamed.

He came to the front of his cell to look at me. He was badly battered. I ran towards

his cell and clutched at the iron rods, ugly bruises covered his face. Half of his face was swollen.

"Mam," he croaked.

"Max, you'll be fine. I will get you out of here. Ok ?"

He seemed disoriented.

"They.....they are monsters. I don't know what they want." He seemed disoriented.

"I know, Max, I know," I said.

"How touching!" The unfamiliar voice drew my attention.

There was another man in the room. And I knew who he was, Gregory's brother.

Somehow, I wasn't as surprised as I should have been.

"Why am I not surprised to see you here ?" I said.

I checked for Stuart from my peripheral vision. He seemed unfazed and was busy looking at his laptop screen.

"What to say, I am glad we meet again." He grinned.

"I don't recall meeting you, Jordan. But if you are referring to the whipping you got

in the woods which made you run away. Yeah, that was fun." I retorted.

Jordan growled in anger.

"How does it feel to lose your pack and turn rogue?"

Jordan lunged at me only to be restrained by several rouge henchmen.

"You are not allowed to touch her!" Stuart walked over. "Our deal is complete. You may leave now!"

"So currently you will drive me out of my pack land?" Jordan growled.noveldrama

So, I was in the Black Stone pack land? I wondered how Jordan had managed to hide here, right under our noses.

"Yeah, I will if you disturb my work," Stuart argued back.

"Our deal is not yet complete, the deal said. You would impregnate her. That would kill her mate. Then I will get back my pack. We are not done yet!"

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So, that was their plan. While Stuart and Jordan argued. My eyes fell on a surgical knife, and I stealthily slipped it into my pocket. I would use it when required. I sniffed the air to determine if there were othe captives. I couldn't smell any other human apart from Max, which was a good thing. They had probably stopped picking up human women. I could scent several rogues. Too many for me to fight myself.

"Excuse me! But how exactly are you going to impregnate me? I am not going in

the heat for several months and as a mated female, I can only get pregnant by my mate." I interrupted their argument.

Stuart looked at me and gave me a sly grin.

"I would have preferred the old-fashioned way, but I don't have the time. The answer is science. I will inject you with hormones to bring you in heat. Then I would artificially inseminate you with my seed.'

"Clever! And to think I had my honeymoon here, right above these dungeons." I said wryly, his plan had a flaw. It would take months to achieve whatever he wanted, and Lucian would find me before that. I just needed to escape and contact him once.

"What are you waiting for? Do your science thing! If she gets pregnant by any other male, her mate bond would break and Lucian would die of heartbreak. Do it!" Jordan yelled eagerly and I felt a sudden panic.

"As soon as we get her blood test reports. It's not your mumbo jumbo. I need to run some tests before going ahead." Stuart chided him as if he was explaining a five-year-old.

"Alpha, you have to see this?" One of his minions arrived with some papers.

"Ah! The blood reports!" Stuart exclaimed.

"When did you draw my blood?" I asked surprised.

"While you were knocked out, of course!" He replied, staring at the papers.

I felt a sick feeling in my stomach, imagining what else they would have done while I was sleeping.

"WTF! How is that possible?" Stuart suddenly yelled while his minion cowered in fear.

Curious, I clutched my pocket, which held the concealed knife.

"She is pregnant!" Stuart announced.

It was odd to be shocked and happy at the same time. I had been praying for this day, but it wasn't supposed to be like this. I was supposed share this moment with Lucian see his handsome face light@p with joy. My hand instinctively went to be the belly. There was a tiny baby in there. It felt surreal.

"You stupid assholes!" I blurted out. "You ruined the moment for me, this is not

how I had imagined this to be." My hands shifted to claws and I shattered the nearest reachable equipment.

"Wow! She is already hormonal," Jordan commented.

"Grab her!" Stuart commanded.

I backhanded and threw off the first minion who tried to grab me, but it was

difficult to fight off so many as they arrived in waves.

"Let me go, you assholes!" I growled in anger.

"What are you going to do now?" Jordan asked Stuart, ignoring my outburst.

"This hampers the plan, I can't impregnate her any time soon," Stuart said.

"Why not? Just get rid of her baby and do it!"

I lashed out at his words, I would kill them if they tried to hurt my baby.

"It's not that simple, even if I abort. Her body will need time to recover and be ready for impregnation. That would take at least a month. Besides, I have no plans to get rid of her baby. A hybrid Alpha baby. Do you know how beneficial it would be

for my research? " Stuart's eyes glowed with madness.

"It can solve my problem of unstable shifters. This is wonderful!" He said gleefully

rubbing his hands.

I felt a rush of relief, my baby was safe for now but I wasnt going to let him

become a guinea pig for Stuart. I would escape.