From Monday night to now, it has been non stop planning. Titus hasn't come home at night and he's been in his office the whole time. I bring him food and drinks but he still doesn't leave.

I've been writing notes to everyone and leaving them in my drawer so Titus could find them. Tomorrow I may never see them again. I can't put everyone I love through what I had to go through.

So, everything Titus is doing is useless but it distracted him from my plans.

We all sit in Titus office now while Charlotte watched Tala. Titus grumbled as he broke his pen in half and threw it into the trash. There was a map of the pack territory was spread on top of his desk.

He grabbed another pen from out of his desk drawer and stood up.

"This is where the pack house is," he said marking it with two X's. "This is where Sophia's and I's house is."

"Pack town is 5 miles from the pack house," Brody said marking it with his pen. "And 20 miles away from the border."

"And pack border stretches 31 miles away from the pack house in the other direction," Jacob points out.

"That's a lot of territory to cover," I mumble. And a lot of people wasting their time to protect me when I'm going to turn myself in. I let out a huff and walk to the door.

"I'm going to take a walk to clear my head," I mumble to them. Titus lets out a grunt and I walk out. I let out a sigh of relief that he didn't send anyone to come with me. I walk outside and into the forest. His peering red eyes stared straight at me.

"I'm surprised that you didn't tackle me to the ground and asked me if I was followed," I say to him. He let out a deep chuckle and came out of the shadows.

"You just walked into the invisibility cloak. No one can here you or see you or help you in here, but we were ordered to not lay a hand on you until midnight, Thursday," he said with a devilish grin. 4 hours.

"We?" I ask.

"Delphine's somewhere around here just in case you tried anything," he says. I roll my eyes and back away from him.

"Say your last goodbyes, Luna," he sneers. "At midnight, you will block any contact with your pack and you'll come right back here and that'll be the last time you'll see you pack," he said walking in circles around me.

"You're not as scared as I thought you would be," he lets out a small chuckle. To be honest, I was fucking scared but I had to hide it. "I want you to tremble in fear."

A sharp pain went through my head and I grabbed my head and fell to my knees. I let out a muffled scream and Delphine came out of the trees.

"Delphine we were ordered not not to hurt her," Joshua growled at her. She rolled her eyes and lets her hands fall. The pain in my head release and my hands fell to the ground.

"You have roughly about 4 hours so go," he growls and I pick myself of the dirt and walk through whatever spell they put around us. I looked back at where we were standing and they were gone.

"Charlotte?" I call her through the link.

"Yes Luna Sophia?" She answers back.

"Bring Tala back to our house I'll put her to sleep," I tell her.

"Yes Luna," she said. I walked back to Titus' office and see them still working on the map.

"I'm going to go to sleep," I tell him. He gives me a nod. He pulls himself away from the deck and gives me a hug.

"Goodnight angel," he whispers and kisses me on my forehead.

"Take a break for a few hours," I mumble. "Go to sleep and get some rest." He nods and looks back at his desk.

"Give me a few more minutes and I promise I'll be back before you fall asleep," he whispers. I nod and make my way to our house. I see Tala waiting on the couch and she runs into my arms.

"Thank you for watching her," I told Charlotte. She nods and leaves. "Have you gotten ready for bed?" She gives me a smile and a nod. We sit down on the bed and I turn the lamp on.

"Remember I love you," I whisper to her. "And no matter what happens, you have to remember that I'll always love you."

She nods and I plant a kiss on her forehead and let her fall asleep. I got ready for bed. I lay down getting ready to turn the lamp off but Titus walks in.

"Hi," he whispers as he lays down next to me. "You can sleep now." He turns off the lamp and I get my last few hours of good sleep.

I watch her fall asleep and I sit up and go take a quick shower. It was about 3 hours to midnight and I really needed sleep. I've been working with Brody and Jacob for a way to protect Sophia.

Tomorrow is Thursday and we're prepared for anything. All our warriors are stationed all around the pack and border.

I let out a sigh of content as I lay down on our bed. Tala's light snores mixed with Sophia's heavy breathing let me know they were both asleep.

I try and force myself to stay awake a bit longer but I couldn't. I had been sleep deprived for 2 days already.

I woke up to Tala's crying. I looked outside and it was dark outside.

"What's wrong?" I ask her. She muffled her sniffing in the blanket.

"Mo-momma left," she says. I looked over to her side and Sophia was missing. Her scent was fresh but she was no longer in the house. I look at the time and it was 12:02.

"Charlotte come watch Tala for a bit. She's in the room," I order. "Stay here Tala Charlotte will come watch you for a little bit." She nods and I take off.

I follow her scent out of the house and into the woods. I entered the forest and saw Sophia being held by a rouge. I let out a growl and tried to run and attack him but my feet couldn't move.

Vines grew out of the forest grown trapping me in my position. The vines grew up my legs and forced me to fall to my knees. It wrapped around my arms and chest.

A lady came out of the forest holding her hands out at me as the vines continued to constrict me. I struggled against them to try and get out but they were to tight. The lady started chanting and her eyes began to glow a bright blue. A witch.

"Aw how cute the big bad Alpha is kneeling before us," the rouge laughed. Sophia wasn't struggling. She stood there being held with silver ropes.

"Let her go," I growl. I heard one of the vines snap under my struggling and witch closed her fists and the vines stuck to my body like glue.

"Say goodbye Alpha this will be the last time you see your mate," he laughed. He dragged Sophia back a bit and a ring of fire grew around them as the witch continued to chant.

"Sophia," I growled. She had sorrow written across her face.

"I'm sorry," she whispered and they disappeared in a flash. The vines around me dropped and the ring of fire died down.

She was gone.

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