Filed To Story: Falling for the Alpha As a Student Novel
I finished for him.
Selene gasped upon hearing this.
“Sarah is dying?”
She asked and I saw the remorse in her eyes.
I nodded.
“Looks that way,”
I answered.
“Why was she cursed?”
“She was cursed by a witch when she was an infant,”
Bastien explained. “I think it’s because Jonathan did something to this witch, but he didn’t elaborate.”
“It wouldn’t surprise me,”
Selene said, folding her arms across her chest. “So, do you think Jazzy promised him that she would save his daughter if he helped her?”
We were silent for another moment longer; I feel like it’s more than that. I feel like Jonathan is more involved than we are thinking. I didn’t trust that guy from the very beginning, and now I really don’t trust him.
“Lila went missing in his packhouse,”
I muttered. “He’s definitely more involved than we think.”
“I agree with Enzo,”
Bastien said, nodding his head at me. “Jonathan is supposedly searching with the other warriors for Lila. But I hadn’t seen him since we left for the search.”
“That bastard,”
I growled, clutching my desk, and trying desperately to keep my wolf inside. But he was throwing himself against me; he wanted Alpha Jonatha’s blood on his claws and in his teeth. He was desperate to rip that Alpha’s throat out and tear him apart until there was nothing left.
I hadn’t even realized I was growling in fury until Bastien placed a firm hand on my shoulder to keep me in place.
“We need to have clear heads. We don’t know where this war is going to break out and I’d like us to be in the right spot. If Jonathan is involved in this, we might need to return to Higala.”
Finally!I didn’t want to stick around here if Lila was back there.
“The strongest Volana will either be the uprise or the downfall of the nation,”
Xander breathed like he was reciting something. We all looked at him with frowns. “When the Volana dies… the vessel will rise.”
“What?”
Selene asked, narrowing her eyes at him.
“It was the prophet Eloise had told us. Long ago she had a vision about the uprising and downfall of the nation. The strongest Volana to exist was the cause for both. I never understood how it was possible. But now I understand that the Volana being born from darkness will be the downfall and Lila, who was born from light and love, will be the uprise,”
Xander said, meeting Selene’s eyes.
We were all silent, allowing that to process.
“When the Volana dies… the vessel will rise,”
Selene breathed as if she just understood something. “Volana born from darkness must be the vessel. And in order for this vessel to rise, the Volana made from light and love has to die.”
“Yes, we already know. They are going to try to kill Lila to create this vessel,”
Bastien growled, annoyed. “Repeating ourselves isn’t going to help.”
Xander went to open his mouth to speak again, but my words cut him off.
“Sarah,”
I said quickly; Xander met my eyes and we both shared a look of understanding.
“Want to share your thoughts?”
Bastien asked, sounding even more annoyed.
“Sarah is the vessel,”
I said, looking at him. “That’s what Alpha Jonathan wanted. He wants to turn Sarah into the strongest Volana. He wants to turn her into Lila. It would save Sarah’s life and make her powerful.”
“It would make her a vessel,”
Bastien said, shaking his head. “It would hardly save her life. She wouldn’t be able to think for herself. She would be under their control.”
I fell silent again.
“But what if Jonathan doesn’t know that?”
Selene asked, staring around the room. “What if he’s blindly helping Jazzy under the assumption that he’s saving his daughter? Maybe he hasn’t been given all the information. He might only know that by killing Lila and using her as a sacrifice, he could turn his daughter into a new Volana. But why would Jazzy want to make a new Volana when she hates them? We already know that Jazzy has a vendetta to rid the world of all the Volana wolves. This could just be part of her plan and she could be using Jonathan to accomplish that.”
“You think he has no idea he’s actually killing them both?”
Bastien asked.
I didn’t want to think about Jonathan being the victim of all of this, so I remained silent beside the occasional growling of my wolf.
“I think the young Alpha is right,”
Xander said, standing up straight. “We are wasting time standing here. We need to get to Higala and prepare for this war.”
“It might help if we actually knew we were waiting in the right spot,”
Bastien said. “Once this war breaks out, we don’t have time to travel from one region to another.”
“Our priority is to keep Lila alive,”
Xander said, determination on his face.
I nodded in agreement.
Then, Selene’s eyes lit up.
“Hazel,”
she gasped. “And the other Volana’s… they might be able to help us.”
“I don’t want to involve my mother,”
I growled.
“She’s right though; Hazel might be able to get some intel on where Jazzy is hiding. She sensed darkness being conjured; she’s powerful,”
Bastien agreed.
“Who’s Hazel?”
Xander asked, looking between all of us.It was Selene who answered, “Jazzy’s sister.”
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Lila’s POV
I stared up at Alpha Jonathan feeling paralyzed. This couldn’t be real; he had to be fake. I knew Alpha Jonathan was an asshole and I certainly never trusted him, but was he seriously involved n all of this?
“It’s no personal Lila,”
Jonathan said, staring down at my stunned face. “I hope you know that.”
“I… I don’t understand,”
I stammered, shaking my head at him. “You were the one who’s doing this? But why? What did I do to you??”
I felt tears prickling the corner of my eyes, but I fought to keep them away. I wasn’t going to let this man see me cry. I chewed on the insides of my cheeks and glared at him like I was trying to burn a hole in his face.
“It’s not you, I assure you that,”
he said, waving me away in dismissal. “But as you know, my daughter was cursed as an infant. There isn’t much I can do for her, but I do know if I turn her into a Volana wolf, she won’t die from the curse.”
I furrowed my brows together.