I Refuse to Be Your Luna - Chapter (191)
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Chapter 191 Come Find Me
Alpha Damian’s POV
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The call ended before Flourish could answer, and the silence that followed felt more dangerous than the woman’s voice had been. My wolf was already pushing against my skin, reacting to the fear in Flourish’s scent and the distant trace of Mira’s blood that still lingered through the phone connection.
Flourish lowered the phone slowly. “She has Mira.”
“I heard.”
“She wants me alone.”
“No.”
Her eyes snapped toward me. “Damian.”
“You are not going alone.”
“She’ll kill Mira if you follow me.”
I stepped closer and lowered my voice. “Then we find another
way.”
Her hands trembled despite the determination in her face. “She knows exactly how to control me.”
I reached for her hand. “Then let me help you control the situation.”
Her fingers tightened around mine. “I can’t lose Mira.”
“You won’t.”
“You don’t know that.”
“No,” I admitted, lifting her hand to my mouth. “But I know I’m not letting Lydia decide who lives and who dies.”
My wolf settled slightly when Flourish leaned closer, though the tension never left her body. She looked toward Caelan, Phina, and Harold, all of whom had gone quiet after hearing Lydia’s demand.
Caelan stepped forward. “She wants you frightened.”
Flourish looked at him. “She has every reason to believe I’ll come.”
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“That’s exactly what she wants.”
“Then what do you suggest?”
His expression hardened. “We find the facility first.”
My phone rang. Rhys. I answered immediately. “Talk.”
His voice was rushed. “We traced the number Lydia used.”
“Where?”
“An old Voss property.”
I looked at Caelan. “The archive facility?”
“Most likely.”
“There’s something else,” Rhys said.
“What?”
“The security system was activated twelve minutes ago.”
My wolf rose sharply. “By whom?”
“Flourish.”
She looked at me, and I put the phone on speaker so she could hear the rest.
“The system recognized her biological signature,” Rhys said.
Flourish’s face tightened. “How?”
“We don’t know.”
Caelan answered quietly instead. “Because the facility was built for her bloodline.”
I stared at him. “You knew?”
“I suspected.”
Flourish stepped toward him. “You’ve known more than you’ve told me.”
“I’ve spent years trying to keep you alive.”
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“Then start telling me everything.”
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Caelan looked at her for several long seconds. “Lydia cannot activate the deepest part of the archive without you.”
My wolf reacted at once. “Then why did she activate it?”
“Because she has Mira.”
Flourish’s expression changed. “She’s going to force me to open it.”
Caelan nodded. “And once you do, she will try to take what belongs to your wolf.”
I looked at Flourish. “You’re not going.”
She shook her head. “I’m going.”
“Flourish.”
“I’ll go,” she said, her voice steady now. “But I won’t
I understood immediately. “You mean us.”
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alone.”
She nodded. “We’ll make Lydia believe I’m following her instructions.”
Caelan’s eyes narrowed. “And then?”
“We turn her trap against her,” I answered.
Phina stepped closer. “I know the facility.”
I looked at her. “You’ll lead us.”
“I can get us inside without triggering the outer defenses,” she said.
Harold moved forward. “I’ll stay with Rhys and coordinate the security teams.”
Flourish looked at him. “Don’t let anyone from Stonehedge enter without confirmation.”
“I won’t.”
I turned back to Flourish. “Come here.”
She stepped toward me, and I placed both hands around her face. “If anything happens, you
run.”
She frowned. “I’m not leaving you.”
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“That’s not what I said.” I held her gaze steady. “If Lydia separates us, you run.”
She swallowed hard. “Damian.”
“I need you to promise me.”
She looked into my eyes for a long moment before she answered. “I promise.”
I kissed her forehead, then her lips. It was brief, but her wolf pressed against mine through the bond, and for the first time since Lydia’s call, I felt something close to certainty settle over me.
We would get Mira back. We would survive this. And Lydia would answer for everything she had done.
We reached the Voss facility forty minutes later.
The building was buried beneath an old estate, protected by thick iron gates and several layers of security. Phina entered the first code, then the second, and the heavy doors finally opened before us.
My wolf immediately caught Mira’s scent tangled with blood and fear, and underneath it, faint but unmistakable, the scent of Lydia herself.
Flourish moved forward, but I caught her wrist. “Wait.”
She looked at me, and I pointed toward the corridor ahead. A faint sound came from somewhere inside, a low growl, then another. Not human.
“Wolves,” I said. “A lot of them.”
Phina’s face changed. “They’re awake.”
“Who?”
“The Voss guardians.”
The lights around us suddenly turned red, and a voice echoed through the facility. Lydia.
“Welcome, Flourish.”
Flourish’s wolf growled low in response.
“I knew you’d come,” Lydia continued.
The doors behind us slammed shut without warning. My claws came out on instinct, and then every security gate ahead of us opened at once.
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Dozens of wolves stepped into the corridor, filling the space with their low, threatening
presence.
At the very end of it all stood Lydia, and she smiled the moment her eyes found Flourish.
“Come to your mother.”
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