**Faith's POV**
"If you are truly the Luna of Jermany as you claim, then call the Alpha."
The pack healer asked for the umpteenth time. I glanced down at my phone. The Alpha's call still wasn't going through.
A vampire invasion attack had taken place at Jermany's far end border market and a lot of people were injured trying to escape. None was bitten as the vampires didn't mean to hurt anyone but scare the security of Jermany but wolves were injured, especially pups and motherpups.
The injured were rushed to the healing house, and there was no space for those who arrived without their mates.
By right, the title of Luna of Jermany should have secured a place for me and my daughter. But few knew their Alpha was mated to someone like me—wolfless and scentless.
I was afraid, no doubt.
Not just because I had no wolf to heal myself, but because my heart felt hollow in a way no wound could explain.
Would anyone even notice if I died today?
"Must I repeat myself?" the healer snapped.
I straightened back to reality.
I cleared my throat, speaking with utter respect even if it hurt to speak with a broken lip. "Pack healer, you know how it is, don't you? The Alpha is… always busy. I mean, he is the Alpha of Jermany after all. Can I get a spot for healing in my own name? At least for my daughter."
"There are a lot of she-wolves who come here claiming to be the Alpha's mate or the Luna of Jermany just to get free healing. But with a pup? Now, that's new. So you're telling me the Alpha has a pup and no one knows this?"
He looked me over with thinly veiled disdain. "If you can't heal yourself as a werewolf, why can't you pay to be healed? Sorry, you have to come with the Alpha or come with your ACTUAL mate and a fee."
I sighed heavily, pouting my lips. He was literally calling me a scam.
But the fee was never the issue.
The issue was, I am the Luna of Jermany. And my mate is also the alpha of Jermany.
"Then let me try calling him again," I said quietly.
I stepped away, leaving my daughter in the stretcher bed.
I was pacing by the hallway, trying to reach my mate. It didn't matter, today for my daughter I was going to take the risk to tell him about Lena—my daughter. Our daughter! I will no longer keep her a secret from him, it's for the best.
I was still pacing when I accidentally shouldered a junior pack healer. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry."
"It's fine, just don't cover the hall way," he said and went on with his second tailing him.
As they walked, they talked. And I happened to hear what they were saying. "Bless us moon goddess, you will not believe who is in the reservoir room of this healing house?"
"A victim?"
"Of course a victim! But it's the moonsinger! Like the actual moonsinger blessed by the moon goddess; Oregana!"
"Oh my goddess! Oregana, the blessed gamma? How'd she end up being a victim?"
"I heard she had heard about the vampire attack and had gone there to call on the moon goddess to save our people. Bless moon goddess, who had heard her call because no victim was bitten!"
"And you wouldn't believe who had brought her here. That face… they say it is her mate."
I stopped in my pace.
Oregana didn't have a mate.
Or rather, she had, but he died in a rogue war even before he could claim her.
"Did his face seem familiar to you?"
"It definitely did. I was thinking he looked like our Alpha. But no way will our Alpha be here. And if he was, wouldn't that make Oregana his Luna and mate? Because he way be brought her in here in his arms… with weary eyes and troubled breathing."
"Right. If Oregana was our Luna we would have known by now. It probably wasn't the Alpha…."
Their voices faded down the hall, as they walked farther.
My gripped tightened around my phone.
I quickly found my way to the hall towards the special reservoir floor. And I froze on getting to the door to the first room.
Right there in front of the room was my mate—Alpha Gustav of Jermany—speaking to Oregana's brother who was a beta. His cellphone was right in his hand.
Although I couldn't hear what he was saying to him because of the distance but the way his brows furrowed like he was so so worried, it was obvious he was asking how the hell Oregana got hurt.
I felt a sting of pain in my heart.
But my eyes were set on the phone in his hand.
I took out my phone and dialed his number again.
Alpha Gustav who was interrupted by his ringing cellphone paused, glanced at it, and his already furrowed brows furrowed even deeper. In a frown.
He stared at the phone for some time then answered it.
"Do you truly have to summon me at this hour?" His impatient voice came from the other end.
I held my breath, speaking like I would break with any harsh word, "I want to know where you are."
I was looking right at him as he said coldly, "Where else would I be, if not where I work in the TribeHouse?"
"You don't have to lie you know. Aren't you in the healing house?"
I watched as Alpha Gustav's face darkened.
"It amuses me how you think you can simply secretly watch me because you have no wolf's scent," he said coldly. "Tell me, what corner of the healing house are you watching me from?"
I let out a dry laugh as tears filled my eyes. My own mate just mocked me for being scentless.
"Oh Alpha, I don't dare stalk you," I retorted, then added, "Every wolf is talking about the vampire attack and how the moonsinger Oregana was brave and got hurt. I guessed as a caring Alpha, you'd go to see your subjects."
"If you possess such knowledge, then you should also know better not to disturb me when I am with my subjects," he coldly said then hung up and went into the room.
I lost my breath, tears falling from my eyes but a smile still found its way to my lips.
"Disturb," I whispered. "Yeah… disturb."