Chapter 760 – Hidden Desires of the Werewolf King Novel

Filed To Story: Veiled Desires of the Alpha King Novel

“Have faith in the Moon Goddess, Dayson. She gives us what we need, when we need it the most. I am confident you have an ability, and it’s fantastic. She gave you Sapa when you needed guidance.”

Dayson smiled a little. “She gave me you when I was on the verge of giving up.”

Talia nodded in agreement. “And she gave me you, when I hit an all-time low, and I thought all hope was lost. As for my powers… I didn’t know I could heal until you were hurt. I didn’t know I could put up a shield until I needed one. I guess what I’m trying to say is, when your power is needed, it will manifest itself.”

Dayson smiled dreamily. Her words made sense, and her confidence told him that his kitten had grown again. How much more magnificent can she get? “What would I do without you?”

Talia pressed her lips into a line. What would he do without her? “You would have fewer problems.”

“Don’t say that, kitten. Nothing related to you is a problem. You are the best thing that ever happened to me.”

Talia could feel he meant it, and it was all it mattered at that moment.

…

Talia and Dayson were back in a lab with Cassandra and a chest of ancient relics.

Seeing that Cassandra was arranging her colorful crystals on the stone table, Talia asked Cassandra to leave in case something else blew up.

Cassandra refused. “I spent a lot of time on these relics without results. Your ability to affect them is a breakthrough I was waiting for. Please, let me stay and observe. If anything happens to me, I won’t blame you.”

“I am only concerned about your safety,” Talia said.

Cassandra smiled. “Your concern is noted and appreciated, Alpha. But I choose to stay.”

“Suit yourself,” Talia said, and she turned to Dayson.

“I’m not going anywhere,” Dayson said stiffly.

“I know,” Talia responded. “But please don’t throw stuff away unless Cassandra gives you a sign that something explosive is about to happen.”

Dayson threw a side-glance at Cassandra, and then he looked at Talia.

“I don’t trust her.” Dayson didn’t bother using the mind-link.

Talia didn’t trust Cassandra either, but… “You should trust in her self-preserving skills. If things are taking a wrong turn, she won’t sit still and wait for death.”

With that, Talia squatted to pick a relic from the chest. None of them stood out. “Cassandra? Do you have a suggestion with which one to start?”

“What are you trying to accomplish?” Cassandra asked.

“I was thinking about this. It doesn’t make sense that only people with powers like mine could use these items. There are too many of them, and if there were many people with powers like mine, we would hear about them.”

Cassandra nodded at Talia’s words. “The necklace your guard used worked on its own.”

“Did it?” Talia asked. “You said you carried it with you, but it never worked. If not for your visions, you wouldn’t know it can repel magic. Only when Keith faced the Guardian, the necklace was activated to break the restriction.”

Dayson thought Talia was onto something. “Do you think some strong energy is needed to activate them?”

Talia confirmed. “Either strong energy or a specific type of energy. But the fact is that all these are sitting here because no one knows how to use them, yet I can easily make one blow.”

“Others carrying them for emergency would make sense for defensive items, but it would make offensive ones useless,” Dayson mused.

“I doubt these are offensive items,” Cassandra said before explaining, “Alpha took a long time to charge that necklace. Assuming that the necklace was designed to explode, even a human could escape when they saw Alpha charging it.”

Well, that made sense also.

‘Why is she talking like she knows everything?’ Liseli growled at Cassandra’s words. She didn’t like that the Oracle was underestimating them. ‘We just went slowly because it was the first time.’

‘We can do it faster?’ Talia asked.

‘Hmph! Pick one, and let me show you.’

Talia took a golden necklace with little red stones embedded in it. “Let’s start with this one.”

After throwing an assuring gaze at Dayson, Talia took a deep breath and started channeling energy into the necklace.

Dayson’s frown deepened as he saw Talia’s hand lighting up.

In about a second, Talia’s hair turned silver, and the necklace in her hand started pulsating in silvery light.

‘ZZZzzzZZZzzzZZZ’

Dayson blinked, and his stomach dropped when Talia disappeared.

“TALIA!”

Dayson turned around frantically, searching for Talia, but the only one in sight was Cassandra who was bent at an awkward angle under the pressure of Dayson’s aura.

‘Talia!’ Dayson called through their private mind-link.

‘Woah!’ Talia’s voice sounded in Dayson’s head.

‘Where are you!?’

‘I think I’m in one of the adjacent labs,’ Talia responded. ‘Let me get into the hallway and see…’

Dayson rushed to the door to open it, and he nearly bumped into Talia.

A flood of curses was at the tip of his tongue, but first, he pulled Talia into his embrace. His heart was beating so strongly that he was confident Talia could feel it smacking into her cheek.

“Damn it, kitten,” Dayson spoke under his breath while pressing her into him.

Dayson never cared for anyone so deeply, and since he met Talia, it was just one thing after another. Even before he knew her name, Talia demonstrated her ability to give him the slip, and the more time they spent together, the more dangers around them grew. There were conceited she-wolves, power-hungry Alphas, rogues, Guardians, and now there were exploding necklaces and random teleportation. At this rate, he will die from stress.

Talia looked up at Dayson. “I am OK. I think this necklace has teleporting abilities.”

“You think?” Dayson asked sarcastically. “What if it teleported you into the ground? Into the wall? Inside a volcano? On another planet? So many things could go wrong.”

“But it didn’t.”

“Do you think you can control the distance and destination?” It was Cassandra asking.

Dayson stiffened as another wave of rage swelled inside him. How dares that woman interrupt his time with Talia?

Talia and Dayson looked that way to see Cassandra wiping the sweat from her forehead. Her body was recovering from the attack of Dayson’s aura, but her spirit was not shaken. Cassandra was too excited by recent developments to care about matters of the flesh.

Talia could feel Dayson’s hostility rising, and she guessed that Cassandra’s sorry state was because of Dayson.

Talia quickly put her hands on his cheeks to make him focus on her.

“I’m not going to stop at this one, Dayson. If you react like this every time, maybe you should sit this one out.”

Dayson scowled. “And leave you alone with the treacherous Oracle and that chest of trinkets from Hell?”

Talia bit her lower lip. She would laugh if she couldn’t sense Dayson’s distress. He was worried about her, and she didn’t want to be the cause of his worries, but this was something she needed to do. She was the only one who could do it, and Dayson knew it.

“We could find something useful, Dayson. We could find things that will protect us from rogues and Guardians. Maybe one of these can allow us to open and close portals with ease.”

“And maybe we could get ourselves killed. You could…” He was unable to finish this, but Talia knew. There was no point in talking about it.

“You put your life on the line many times, Dayson.”

Dayson couldn’t deny that, but… “I can’t bear the thought of you getting harmed. The tiniest scratch on your body feels like someone stabbed me a hundred times over.”

Talia smiled. “I feel the same about you, Dayson. You are the source of my happiness. But the fact is that others are set on getting between us, and unless we get a bit braver, I fear they will succeed. So… how about we protect each other?”

Dayson pulled her into his chest and breathed into her hair. “That’s why I’m here, kitten.”

Dayson spoke bravely, but the truth was that he felt useless. Talia was doing everything and putting herself in danger, yet he was stuck watching and worrying. How was he an Alpha if he was left on the sidelines?

Talia took Dayson calming down as a sign that it was OK to proceed. She waited for his heartbeats to stabilize before pulling away.

Cassandra was writing things into her notepad.

“You can mark this necklace as a teleporting aid,” Talia said. “I don’t want to spend more time on this as our goal today is to identify what they do. Let’s try another one.”

Talia’s real goal was to figure out how to activate these relics. Once she gained confidence, she would try to activate the necklace her parents left behind, but she didn’t want to do that in front of Cassandra.

…

Dayson and Talia had dinner in the main house. Also present were Axel, Yasmin, Meg, Kai, Tyler, Sandy, Amelia, Liam, Pierce, Daria, Cornelia, Keith, and Caleb.

Varya and Grady didn’t leave their room yet, and no one wanted to disturb them, so Yasmin arranged for their meal to be left in front of their door. Talia suspected the newly mated couple will stay in their room for a few more days, and since Talia and Dayson couldn’t wait so long for them to come out, she left instructions to Axel, Yasmin, Betas, and Gammas to take care of newcomers, show them around, and include them in daily activities. It was important for Varya and Grady to feel welcome and accepted; otherwise, they will be looking for a way out of there.

While Dayson and Talia were busy with relics in the lab, Pierce, Daria, Keith, and Caleb were training with the warriors of the Midnight Guardians pack. Keith was impressed with their improvement when comparing performance from the last time they visited, and Kai, Tyler, and Sandy were happy to hear Keith praising the results of their work in front of Alpha Talia and Alpha Dayson.

Tyler was never into training; he was more into electronics and modern science. However, that changed when Sandy became his mate. She was Alpha Talia’s personal guard, one of the top warriors in the Shadow Fang pack, and Tyler didn’t want to lag behind his mate, so he attended morning drills regularly.

Talia listened to them talking about training and updated patrol schedules, and she happily accepted all food that Dayson offered. She was hungry. Those few hours of charging ancient relics with energies contributed to working out a good appetite.

Other than the necklace that can teleport people, she also identified items that can create a force field, turn into a magnet, and heat up to the point of cutting through stone like it was butter while Talia thought of them as warm to touch. Most of the things barely affected Talia, so they concluded that the one who activated the relic was immune to its effects.

There was also a bunch of items that Talia charged, and nothing happened. Or maybe it did, but Talia, Dayson, and Cassandra didn’t notice.

Dayson was pleased that nothing exploded, and Talia didn’t disappear again. But the whole session was super-stressful, and he was sure his lifespan was shortened by a decade with every next relic Talia charged.

There were more items that needed testing and also to see if the ones that were tested could be controlled with precision. It all required time Talia didn’t have. Dayson and Talia had many things to do, and she wanted to return to the Shadow Fang pack and deal with matters she left behind, like meeting Lulu’s father.

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Talia was hoping that Cornelia and Amelia could provide some assistance. They were both witches, sensitive to energies, and they also got a boost in their abilities after being marked. Considering that Cornelia and Amelia were making progress in their research on activating dormant portals, Talia thought that maybe two witches could figure out how a normal person can use those relics.

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