Heart of the Unknown Alpha by Rae Scott Page A

at the restaurant was part of it but it was much more than that.”
                  Sensing that Aryana wasn’t telling him everything and wasn’t about to he let it go for the time being. He would get his answers in time. Looking outside he saw the sun was now low in the sky. “Get some rest, I will take you home in the morning.”
                  Aryana woke in the middle of the night. Not sure what woke her she slowly sat up in the bed. Pleased she didn’t become ill she finally looked around. Her eyes froze on the windows of the room. There in the moonlight stood the barista from the coffee shop. Only this time she looked different, more ethereal.
                  “Hello Aryana. I am glad to see you are recovering well.” Her voice was just as musical as Aryana remembered.
                  “Who are you? I saw you at the coffee shop but you’re not a barista are you?”
                  “No my child I am not. I am Lluna, your guardian. You called for me to help you last night and I have. Your life is going to change in ways you cannot imagine.”
                  “ I don’t understand. Why would you help me? How are things going to change?”
                  “Oh my darling daughter, how I wish I could tell you. You are at the beginning of an amazing journey and you cannot imagine what’s in store for you.”
                  Aryana narrowed her gaze at the woman. Darian had said she had drowned last night. “Did you cause me to die last night? Was that you that put me in the lake to drown?”
                  “Yes it was. I am sorry darling but it had to be done. For the good of your future you had to die and be brought back. It will not make sense now but soon it will.”
                  Aryana watched as the woman shimmered and vanished into the moonlight. She wondered if drowning cause hallucinations or if she had just had a very real dream. Laying back down she pulled the covers up to her chin and soon fell into a deep slumber.
                  Darian heard low voices coming from his guest room. He peeked in the door and his eyes widened. At the same time his wolf went from sleepy to wide awake and alert. What was Lluna doing with Aryana? He listened intently using his sensitive hearing to grasp the conversation. Lluna was Aryana’s guardian? How was that even possible? And WHY had Lluna put Aryana in the lake and caused her to drown? She said it had to be done but why? What was going on?
                  Darian padded silently downstairs grabbing his cell phone from his room as he went. He tapped a couple of buttons and was immediately connected with his father. “dad I need some answers.”
                  On the other end of the line the man sighed. “Son, things are a bit frantic here right now but I will do what I can.”
                  Darian’s eyes narrowed. Things were only frantic at the Alpha House when something was wrong. “What’s wrong?”
                  The rely was rather terse. “Are you ready to step up and claim Supreme Alpha?” At the answering silence the voice continued “I didn’t think so. Until you are ready to do your duty what happens here is none of your business. Now what are your questions?”
                  Tamping down his frustrations at his father’s insistence on keeping him in the dark he focused on what he needed to know. “Why would Lluna be guardian to a human? And why would she drown her only to have her be saved?”
                  “Son I don’t know. Lluna is only guardian to our people as far as I know. I guess it’s conceivable she was made guardian of a fae child but it’s not something I have heard of. As to why she would kill someone, she wouldn’t. Everything the books say about her show it is not in her nature to kill anyone. She is a