Filed To Story: Goddess's Design His Fated Mate (Willow & Reuben)
“This coincidence is really odd. If Dark’s power was truly used to switch Ella and me years ago, then that means that Dark was in power at the time as well, which would be highly unusual because a man in his late twenties should have been a toddler or only one or two years old at that time,”
he pointed out. “So either Alpha Adam is lying or Dark is really not in his late twenties.
That’s when I recalled Willow telling me about her nightmare and the remembered fragment of her past where she saw Dark. “What if he never aged?”
I stated, gazing at his surprised expression directed towards me.
“That’s insane if that’s really the case! He is turning out to be even more dangerous than we originally imagined him to be. I bet he’s coming for us!”
Bix remarked.
“I agree, but I have something even more thrilling than this,”
Oran entered through the door with an ancient book in his hand.
His eyes first locked with Bix, who immediately looked away, but Bix’s ears were red. I looked between two of them for a moment before I asked, “What did you find?”
I raised an eyebrow.
“I went through the ancient books like you had instructed and discovered a possible explanation for powers that are similar to Dark!”
he exclaimed.
“Show me!”
I took the book from him and started reading the line that really explained the inhuman and insane strength, the control over fire, and controlling the surrounding by some anonymous energies. Everything explained in that book mirrored Dark’s energy.
“Okay, but what is so thrilling about this?”
Bix murmured momentarily, forgetting about things between him and Oran as he read alongside me.
“Actually the thing is, not everyone can have such powers but only ”
Oran paused and glanced at me.
My eyes got stuck on the book when I read the words, royal family!
My mind instantly went blank.
“How is this possible?”
Bix gasped and looked at me. “Does this mean that this Dark person is connected to that royal family?”
Oran and Bix both looked at me together as I nearly crushed the book in his hand.
Willow
“Why are you helping me?”
Ella, curled up in the corner of the guest room, asked me in despair.
“It’s not wise to willingly leap into a well,”
I murmured, seated across from her, my back against the wall. Yesterday when Walter brought her back to the packhouse, he waited until I returned with Reuben and then he pushed Ella in my arms and left without looking back. I did not let Ella leave the packhouse. I talked to Reuben about her stay in our pack and he left the decision up to me.
No matter what our relationship was with Ella now, as a woman I could not let her be violated by those monsters outside, “Predators await you outside. Don’t sacrifice your life to punish yourself,”
I advised.
She slowly raised her eyes where tears had long gone dry yet her nose and cheeks were still reddened from crying. “
Don’t you hate me?”
she murmured.
“I’m simply trying to repay the kindness you showed me by becoming my friend when I was alone at a new school,”
I replied softly and the mention of that time surprised her. “I want to repay you for informing Reuben about Dark when I was in danger, despite our differences. I want to repay you for revealing everything that happened six years ago and being honest with me when others kept the truth from me,”
I explained. Despite her efforts to hold them back, a tear escaped from her eyes. “But I also hate you for everything you’ve done,”
I added, knowing she expected to hear it.
“That makes sense,”
she replied, a sad smile appearing on her lips as she wiped her tears away. She didn’t attempt to defend herself against the accusation, daying that she had been influenced by the spell that had been cast on the marriage contract that Bix had mentioned earlier. She simply accepted her actions without any argument.
“I hate you for betraying our friendship, for betraying my trust, and for attempting to steal Reuben away from me,”
I continued, my voice tinged with bitterness. “But above all, I hate you the most and can never forgive you for lying six years ago about Reuben bringing a fiancée home with him. Because of your lie, I ”
my voice trailed off, the weight of my unfinished sentence hanging heavily in the air as Ella interrupted me.
“What are you talking about?”
Ella frowned at my last statement. “I never lied to you about Reuben having a fiancée,”
she asserted firmly.
“Why are you lying to my face?”
I retorted sharply. “Six years ago, the day I left the Emerald Bright Pack, it was a full moon. As I was about to approach Reuben, you intercepted me on the way before joining the others in shifting and running. You explicitly told me that Reuben had brought an Alpha’s daughter home as his fiancée!”
I insisted.
“How would it even be possible for me to meet you on a full moon and lie to you when you know very well that I celebrate every full moon night with the Opal Moon pack members? Don’t you remember?”
Ella pointed out.
I sat there, stunned and speechless. Ella did indeed attend her pack’s gatherings on every full moon. Why hadn’t I noticed that particular day? “Then how come you said the same thing about Reuben’s fiancée at the Thanksgiving party too?”
I demanded.
“Me? I never said any such thing,”
she claimed, never looking away from me.
A slight sense of panic rose in my heart in confusion. Could it be that she unconsciously said those things and never realized? “Then was it not you who sent the pictures of Reuben and I to Alpha Louis while we were in college to make us break up? Were you not the one who had been secretly spying on me since I returned a month ago, giving me a creepy feeling?”
“What kind exactly are you accusing me of?”
New Book: Returned To Make Them Pay
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