Lacking Humanity|Crescent Moon

Chapter Twenty

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Arriving at one of the trees with a cache of clothes, Sage leaned up on her hind legs in an attempt to grab some clothes. Remus, however, held no shame in showing his skin with his mate. So he was able to reach a set of clothes for both himself and his little mate.

Only for her to huff in annoyance.

His intention was to get her to wear his clothes, and the she-wolf had no prior knowledge of just how much his scent would affect her.

Remus helped get her wolf head into the shirt to protect her decency, allowing her to shift underneath without the male getting a peek of her skin. The intimate exchange of watching each other shift had been checked off the box.

Her eyes were now such a wild feature. There is so much pain and suffering swirling around with childlike excitement that Remus was starting to feel the rush in his heart.

Leo was right. He should be kissing the ground she's walking on.

And he would be. From here on out

His shirt went well past her thighs and hid her from any glances from the males back at the Elwood house. What he wasn't prepared for, however, is seeing the group standing in the same spots they had left them in.

Concern was written on all of their faces.

When the two finally returned, Sage looked with wide eyes at all those around her, but Luke took one look at her neck and sighed in relief.

"Goddess, I'm not going to force a mark on her." He growled in defense, and Luke glared at his Alpha.

"Yeah, but you have no problem kicking her out last week...You okay, Sage?" Her bright smile just concluded as to how she felt, and Camilla separated the two newly found mates as she suggested that they tell the Alpha everything about Sage while she gets the she-wolf cleaned up.

Just on the second floor, Sage had managed to hear everything from her place in the tub. It caused her to flinch at every yell and swearing-in damnation that Remus brought to the table.

His mate was born in hell and crawled out to a new territory, that was her story.

And on top of all that, those bastards tried to get his mate impregnant with some ill-fitting male's pup.

All this tension and yelling had Sage begin to cry, she was scared, and the pain Remus was not helping her at all. It all stilled when Remus heard his mate's pain and demanded to see her, but after all that happened, it would be best for them to part ways for the night.

The family needed to discuss the fate of their Luna.

And Remus, along with his Beta and Delta, were present for this as well.

"I don't know if Sage can handle being Luna," Luke spoke, taking the lead of this conversation as his sister was resting upstairs. Unknowing to everyone except Camilia that she was still in Remus' T-shirt.

"She took out Kelly no problem." Jack chuckled, and it earned him a snarl from Remus.

"Yeah, she almost took you out too." Liam joked back, and now came time for the Alpha's turn.

"Sage attacked me out in sector five..." Leo laughed, a hard gut filled one as he couldn't manage. The young Alpha pup looked completely taken back for being attacked as well as being the center of a joke.

"Yeah? How'd that go?"

"Has she ever heard of a tie?" Luke shook his head. "The way the facility worked is if we didn't keep fighting, we'd get zapped. She's on the mentality of going until she can't go any further." Remus took a calming breath, but it still didn't aid how the girl was treated.