Chapter 14
“The Three Bandits were a group of rogues you could call upon when you wanted to eliminate a target hut didn’t want to get your hands dirty. Most alphas wanted to eliminate them ourselves since they caused so much destruction in their wake, but nothing had been done about them because there was no proof left behind that this were the ones that did it, and two, they had never been caught to even interngate. The fact that you guys even saw them before they attacked, and lived to tell the tale, is impressive,” Alpha Alex finished, staring straight at us. We were seated around the kitchen table waiting for supper, and Alpha Alex wasted no time in telling us what happened.
“I have never heard of them, but I guess I haven’t been part of any pack business before, I stated, trying to rack my brains if my dad ever said anything about them. I remembered, like maybe five years ago, my dad coming home and saying something about three Togues on a killing spree, but I didn’t think much of it. Maybe should have paid more attention.
“What are your tanks in the pack? You serm young but capable?” Lana Laina asked quieth
Glancing over to Zach, I hesitated for a second befuce answering. “My father was lieta This is Zach, who is also a warrior”
“Was Alpha Alex asked. Damm, he caught that.
I started fidgeting in my s
alone the day after 1
nd my mother was a warrior. I was trained to fight since the age of five.
seat, I did not want to talk about this. “I, um, see there was a rogue attack a week or so ago, and both my parents were killed, leaving me
turned eighteen. I decided some traveling would do me some good, so Zach, bring a good friend, decided to tag along so I wouldn’t be alone.” I wi
contact
“But that’s not the whole truth, is it?” Alpha Alex asked, lifting an eyebrow at me. “I can tell when people are lying,”
“I can do that too, However, I am not lying. I rather not talk about my love life though.”
“And you don’t have to?” Luna Laura said, giving Alpha Alex a look. I gave her a silent thank you and.
“I won’t have people in my pack that are keeping secrets, Laura!“
Fine, I found out that my boyfriend of years was the mate to my best friend, and then a couple hours later the rogues attacked, so I lost my boyfriend, best friend, parents in a matter of hours. Se, excuse me if I don’t feel like sharing my personal life to people who I don’t know,” I stated angrily, with my eyes shining a brilliant emerald green, and I was gripping the table. Taking a deep breath, I reigned in my anger and retracted my claws that slipped out.
“Interesting. Well, I do apologize for bringing up bad memories and for the loss of your parents. That must be very hard for you.” Alpha Alex said softly.
“I’d rather just move on, please.”
“Given that you have climinated the bandits, I will give you the benefit of a doubt with the disrespect towards my table. I will allow you two to stay the night and let you pass in the morning. I will see that my omegas give you each a coons to sleep in Zach, if you would please go with my beta to retrieve your vehicle, then you can take off in the morning”
I knew we feally didn’t have a choice, so I said thank you and watched Zach leave with Beta Al, and Alpha Alex left to go to his office. Luna Laura stayed behind and gave the a motherly look
am sorry about his abrativeness. We are working on that…” Lima Laura said quietly. “I do want to extend our consolences to your recent events. May I ask you a
*Thank you of course you can,
“Where did you get
Frowning. I had absent–mindlessly been twirling it around my finger, which was on top of the table. It was an annoying habit of misse. “It was a gift from my mother un ing sorterith birthday. She gut it from a woman who was selling things on the side of the street. She said she made jewelry, and my mum got it because it
“Hoom, did your mother tell you who the woman was?”
“I don’t thank
though either =
“Come with ane, please,” Lama Lauta said She handed user Axel to her nanny and walked down the hallway to a staircase Ging up the flights of stairs, we made at fie a doodle doserd room. Opening the doors showed a huge room with floor to ceiling bookshelves. A ladder on wheels was ached to each wall, and a large Trathri sola was sitting in the middle of the room with arm bains um either side, ul a wooden end table communs Ling each fumiture piece with one lampon top
“Your library is impressive,
in awe. I had always liked to trad.
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Chapter 14
“Thank you, this is my personal library. Please do not talk about what I am about to tell you to I rather think he is like your protector.”
“Okay, I promise…” I said, wondering where this was going
anyone outside of this room. You may tell Zach, but only him, since
“Please sit. No one is allowed in this room besides me and my husband unless I am with them. You see, I am part witch, and even though I do not practice the art, I still have knowledge and instincts in me.” She pulled out a book and brought it over to me and sat down. She opened the book, and it showed a list of artifacts and a picture of them. Some said what the artifact did, and some did not. “This is my mother’s book. She passed away last year, but she kept a record of all her makings. She would make artifacts, or in some cases jewelry, that had abilities of their own. That ring is an artifact. She often had visions and would make artifacts that would help someone, and she would conveniently be present in said person’s life to give them that artifact without their knowledge.”
My mind was reeling. “She made things for people that had magic abilities, and would sell them to people who she saw needed them? Why didn’t she just tell people what she was and why she made them?” I asked. My mom didn’t even know she bought a magic ring!
“If a woman walked up to you and said, “I saw you in a vision and this happened, so I made this ring to help you would you take it?” Luna Laura asked in a skeptical voice.
“Fair enough.” I said quietly.
Flipping the pages, she found the page with my ring on it. It was written in a script that was hard to read, but it looked like it said. The one who will be chased by many but will only
know heartbreak until the time is right. Below it w
“I don’t have a necklace,” I said, confused
was a necklace that looked just like my ring but on a chain.
“Actually, before my mother died, she told me of a young woman who would need information and guidance. She would have known pain but sought a better future. A girl with emerald green eyes to match the stone. I believe she was talking about you.” Pulling out a bag, she slipped the necklace out and put it in my hand.
It was a single emerald stone in a circle with a silver band around it, and with a vine pattern on the sides. It was connected to a dainty chain that would make the emerald land at the base of my throat between my collarbones.
“So, what do they do?” I asked quietly. I just felt like I was connected to them somehow.
“Unfortunately, it doesn’t say, and my mom said that you will know when the time is right. I do have a feeling you know what the ring does though,” she said, with a hint of amusement.
“L…“1 struggled to think of what it could be.
“We are not affected by the alpha’s aura,” Raven finally said, after being quiet this whole time.
“I am not affected by an alpha’s aura. I do not have to follow command if I do not want to,” I said with hesitation. “Is that it?
“Hmm, I feel like that is correct. I am not sure what or why that will be needed, but if my mom made it so, then it must be important. The necklace will show you its ability in time. It is
getting late. Let me show you to your room. Supper will be brought up to you and Zach,” Luna Laura said, in a tone that left me knowing my questions were over. Although we knew she couldn’t command me to do anything, I would not be intentionally disrespectful. I followed her to the second floor and to my room.
