Chapter 2

Luciano Pavoretti

At: Inferno's

Time: 10:00p.m

Two Years Later

December 30th

Luciano sat with her legs crossed, she watched Mineka and her friends dance with their mates, they looked so happy while Luci wore a scowl on her face like a mask. Her eyes wandered and scanned the scene for any intruders.

"I knew I'd find you here Luna" a soft voice spoke, Luciano slowly turned her head and came face to face with her bestfriend Tahli. "Hey T," A little smile appeared on Luci's face as she saw her. Its been awhile since the two had last seen each other.

[Flashback]

Luciano now sat in an antisocial people lounge, her legs crossed. She watched a girl dancing on the dancefloor. Her short stature and curves moving to the beat of Simon Curtis' 'Beat Drop' as she swayed her hips and sang along, not having a care in the world at that time. Luciano watched as a man walked up to a younger Tahli and tried to dance on her, Tahli spun around and backed up "Leave me alone creep!" She squeaked out as Luciano stood up, she wore a white T-shirt, black jeans, a large grey sweater that pooled below her hips and white and gold Nike's. Her lips pined down to form a scowl "Something wrong, Henson?" She glared at the man, her words dripping with venom.  "No Lucky" he gritted out "I was just trying to show her a good time but she's being difficult" he said rolling his eyes. Luciano's eyes glossed over.

"Toby get here now before I do something I regret" she mind linked Tahli's mate.

"Yes Luna" he responded

"That's because she's taken" Luciano said simply, wrapping her arms around Tahli and kissing her cheek gently, Tahli giggled and hugged Luciano. Henson grinned "That's so hot, mind if I get a little" he slapped Luciano's ass, hard at that. Luciano jumped slightly and her eyes darkened a little. She let go of Tahli and slapped Henson across the face so hard he staggered back and fell. Henson yowled in pain as a purple handprint was on his cheek from where Luci slapped him, she stalked over to his fallen form and growled lowly. Everyone in the lounge stiffened as they hadn't seen their Luna growl before, Henson looked up at her appalled that she'd slap him. Luciano glared daggers at him and snapped her fingers and two bodyguards came into the lounge "Yes Luna?" They asked and she turned to them "Take that flea ridden mutt out of here before I personally give him a detoxing" she said to them, her voice held anger and venom. Their eyes widened a little and nodded, they dragged him out and tossed him out of the club.

Luciano opted to dance with Tahli until her mate got there. Toby soon arrived and started dancing with Tahli and Luciano went to dance with someone else "Hey Micah!" She smiled, her mood lightened up as she saw her twin brother. They exchanged a few words with each other before starting to dance with one another. As the song was nearing it's end a pair of strong arms pulled the two siblings apart and tossed Luciano onto their shoulders like she weighed nothing, Luciano's nose was filled with the scent of her mate. She tried to get off his shoulders but decided against it. She didn't want to fall off the 6'4 1\2 inch giant and crack her skull so she stayed put. His smell danced around in her nostrils. "What the fuck do you think you're doing with MY mate?" Luciano's mate snapped at Micah who just stared at him blankly "Last time I checked she isn't a trophy to be held in such a way" Micah said, smirking at the enraged Alpha. Luciano found this amusing until her mate Jackriel dropped her onto her feet and snarled at her "You are my mate! Mine! Understood? Mine, no one else's. You will not dance with another man" he said to her, harshly grabbing her arm.

"We were just having fun! Its not like I was fucking him. You were supposed to be here three hours ago to keep me company. Yet here you are! You probably fucked that bitch Hannah!" She yelled at him, Jackriel got quiet "You did....Didn't you..." She muttered and ripped her arm out of his grasp, Jackriel's eyes held guilt. Luciano could smell the slut on him as her breath hitched and she stormed out of the lounge.

Tahli looked to her mate, who nodded "Go ahead babe" he said and she ran out after Luciano "Luci wait! Luci!" She yelled after her.

"Luci? Luci! Luciano!" Tahli said loudly, Luciano snapped her head up at her "Huh? Yeah?" She said. Tahli sighed "Yeah I know it was bad but we miss you... I miss you, Jackriel misses you" she said sadly.

Luciano's eyes harden and she looked to Tahli with a cold gaze "I'm never coming back Tahli and you know that. He is a liar and a cheater." Luciano spat, her face turning red as she got angry that she would even suggest her coming back to the pack. "But.... Its Cierra's birthday tomorrow, she misses you so much" Tahli says to her, Luciano sighed as she recalls the ten year-old that's quite fond of her "I can't miss that kid's birthday anymore. She's gonna be heartbroken if I miss it again" she thought and nodded "Let's go but I need to make a phone call first" Tahli nodded and went outside, Luciano followed suit and leaned against her black Dodge Charger with gold rims. "Quinn's birthday is on Saturday... It's Thursday. It takes a couple hours for me to drive there and back. I'm going to have to leave that night after CC goes to bed to get back here to be able to keep Quinn busy so they can set up"  She pulled her phone from her back pocket and scrolled through her contacts, pressing one and then holding her phone to her ear

"Hey Dr Quinn~zel"