Moonlit Sins - Chapter 87: Son & Mother In Law

Chapter 87: Son & Mother In Law

The night was not getting any younger.

They were running out of time. 

Michael had freed Marsha from her cell as it was in their deal, she was going to help him confront Stella. Not that he needed to beg her too much to do so. Maleva was in danger after all and she wished to save her. The two of them might have some differences and are on opposite sides, but she still loved her daughter dearly. 

“Look at us. The both of us are working together to save Cherry Wood,” Marsha hugged the wolfman tight as they sneaked their way across town. 

In the hope of attracting as little attention as possible, none of them turned into their werewolf forms just yet.

In their human forms, they were much smaller and there was a lot less chance that Stella would pick up on their scents.

“This isn’t supposed to be any fun, Marsha,” he pointed out to her.

“If a hunt isn’t any fun, it’s not even worth doing.” 

“This isn’t a hunt. We are trying to save people. I’m trying to save your daughter.” 

“Don’t get excited now, Hunter. I want to save my daughter just as much as you do,” she said as she aggressively pulled on his left cheek.

“Aghn!”     

“Quiet, Redheart. This is a hunt, whether you want it or not.” 

Marsha was right.

This was, indeed, a serious hunt. 

However, to have a real hunt, you had to find your prey first.

Thankfully for Michael, he had Marsha with him, and she was an expert at tracking prey. 

Internally, she was known as the tracker in the secret pack she was originally from with her mother and her daughter.

Now, the pack was still the same, except it had changed quite a bit since Michael joined him and was soon pulled into becoming the new center of it. Something he didn’t want to happen in the first place. Hunter generally didn’t like to have attention on him, yet, that was exactly what happened when he became the only male in the pack. 

“I heard that you supposedly have impressive tracking abilities, but is there any truth to that really?” he dared ask her.

“Here… We… Go…” she then surprised him by suddenly grabbing his coat. 

“What’s wrong?”

“There we are.”

“You mean we found them?”

“Right ahead,” Marsha indicated to him. 

“Where are they supposed to be?”

“They are in that house… Ugh… This can’t be… Why did Stella go there…” Marsha wondered, looking surprised and uneasy for the first time since this new hunt had begun. 

“What’s wrong? You don’t look too good…” Michael asked her, worried about her.   

The house they were looking at was one with a red door… 

Michael had never seen that house before. 

Cherry Wood was the smallest of towns, but still, Hunter couldn’t remember ever seeing that one small house. He sure can’t remember that red door.

Something’s wrong,  but I can't quite put my finger on it…

“Tell me what’s happening,” he asked her.

“It’s nothing…” she said.

She’s lying to me… 

“Well, there’s no time to waste! If Maleva and the others are in there, we have to rescue them now!” Hunter Redheart had no intention of wasting any more time. 

The hunter rushed for the red door.

“Hunter! Wait!” Marsha meant to shout at him to warn him not to do anything too reckless (such as rushing at that door without any solid plan in mind), but she couldn’t shout, at all, the only thing she could do was whisper.

But it was too late… 

Thump! 

The red door was blasted away as it was busted wide open! 

On the other side, Michael quickly discovered that he had just interrupted a diner. 

Stella, the beautiful and mysterious brunette was sitting at the head of this long wooden table. 

Stella was not alone.

At the table with her, everyone was gathered around, Maleva, Aurora, Catherine, and even Lycanna. Everyone was there. Everyone was forced to sit around the elegant table. Everyone was forced to have dinner. 

“Hunter,” Stella called his name as he burst the door open and stood at the entrance, panting.   

Stella stood up. 

It was almost as if she expected him. 

“Michael…” Maleva whispered his name, alarmed, scared, but glad to see him. 

Everyone was.

“Hunter…” Catherine called him.

“Michael…” Aurora was unable to smile at that moment. She knew it was pretty bad for him to be here.

“There he is…” Lycanna was overjoyed.

Still, none of them seemed to be able to stand up. 

Everyone was stuck.

“Glad you’re finally here, Hunter. I must say… You are not late, at all,” Stella greeted him.

“I better hope not.” 

“I’m reassured that you’re still alive. I thought that you had perished.” 

It surely looked like that.

Michael came alone into the house.

Marsha wasn’t with him all of a sudden, and while this was something that the wolf surely noticed, this wasn’t something that bothered him, at all. He had too much on his plate right now to worry about all of that right now. 

“Sorry to disappoint.”

“No, you are not. Like I said, glad to learn that you’re still around. Um… Tell me, do you have any idea what this house is?” 

“Why does it matter? Let them go.”  

“Sure. That’s not a problem. We were hoping you would join our little dinner. It only makes sense that we wait for you before starting to eat since this is your home,” Stella revealed to him.

…

Her words cut through the air in the room.

“What did you just say?” Michael asked her.

“This house is yours. You don’t remember?”

“...” Michael didn’t know what to say. 

She took him by surprise.

For a short moment, he thought that she was pulling his leg and trying to confuse him.

But to his shock, she was not doing any of that.

“It’s a shame no one ever told you that this was where you used to live. I mean, this house was vacant all those years. They could have given it back to you. I wonder why they didn’t…” Stella wondered. 

“You’re kidding, right?”

Stella shook her head.

Communicating to him that she was not kidding.

…

Then, the next moment, Marsha mysteriously appeared in the room right next to Stella, surprising her. 

Her wolf claws under her throat.

“Don’t move, Stella,” Marsha warned her.

“Marsha…”