"Why would Selene send us away?" Helia looked at Olivia's face for answers. She took a look at the rest. They were as confused as she was.They were happy to see Selene but Selene had sent them away from her palace and now she was in Olivia's place, sitting with Brient and Rendall at her table while they pondered upon the reason for Selene's reaction."I still can't believe that it was Selene standing there at the time." Brient shook his head vigorously. "It can't be her. It can't be my Selene. The woman we saw isn't Selene. She must have been her look-alike.""That bitch," Olivia cursed. "She drove us away without even thinking twice. Just a little power and she is misbehaving.""Brient is right. This does not look like something Selene would do," Helia said thoughtfully."I totally agree," Rendall said and it got Olivia thinking."This place is really strange. A spirit medium is treated like royalty," Rendall commented and shook his head."And this has gotten to that fool's head. Yo
"Do you think he'd be able to bring her here?" Helia asked Rendall who was pacing in front of her. They were at the city gate of the spirituals of Ocean Ville."Selene! Brient!" Rendall shrieked excitedly. He stopped pacing as soon as he saw Brient and Selene running toward them."Run!" Selene screamed. "They'd soon be here. Run!""We're running behind you," Brient added. "Run!"Rendall took Helia's hand and they both ran out of the gate. They checked back at Selene and Rendall at intervals. They all ran as fast as their feet could carry them until they got to the beach."Stop!" Rendall and Helia stopped running to catch their breath as they heard Selene's instruction to stop."Selene," Helia beamed as she raised her head. Selene took her hand out of Brient's and ran into Helia's widely opened arms."Helia," Selene whispered as they both hugged. "I've missed you.""Me too," Helia said in a brittle voice as they disengaged from the hug. A few tears flowed from their eyes down their chi
"So Nyx is my mother and Alpha Leander's mate?" Helia pinched her chin. "Oh my goodness! I'm dreaming, right?""This is reality," Brient muttered. "Alpha Leander slept with Nyx and this led to you.""How many people know this?" Helia asked."Before Nyx's death, four people knew. After her death, it was reduced to three. Now, it has increased to six.""So just you, my dad, and the Luna knew of this.""Right."**"I don't think Alpha Leander would kill Nyx if she was his mate," Selene remarked."Alpha Leander did not kill Nyx. It is not in his character," Brient affirmed Selene's words."Then who did? And why did she curse the werewolves?" Rendall asked and Brient shook his head."They are things that are just too hard to figure out. I was still in the human world when Nyx died and I don't understand how Nyx's death is related to the werewolves.""So she cursed the werewolves for nothing?" Rendall snapped and Helia's eyes produced more tears."My biological mother made the lives of so ma
"What did you just say?" Selene asked. She was stunned at what age has heard Rendall mutter.Rendall glanced at her, pointing in the direction he had seen the man."I— I saw my father," Rendall cried out. Selene looked in the direction in which he had pointed."Where?" Rendall looked back and froze. The man was nowhere to be found. It was like he had disappeared into thin air all of a sudden."But I thought I saw him," Rendall muttered with a confused expression on his face."Forget it," Selene hissed. "It must have been an illusion. Seems like you're beginning to miss your father.""Miss my father my foot," Rendall scoffed. "No normal person can ever miss my father. I can never miss that man.""Perhaps, you had seen someone that looked like him.""I guess so," Rendall droned and he looked around to see if he could still see the man."Just forget it," Selene said casually. He looked away and turned back to her."So," Rendall set out to change the topic. "Do you know how I can change
"They've seriously made up?" Brient looked on in shock. Rendall and Helia were hand in hand with each other as they walked into the room Brient and Selene booked."You booked just one room?" Rendall asked and took a sit on the edge of the king-sized bed."Not one room. Two rooms," Selene answered. She was seated mid-way on the bed with Brient. A chess board with chess pieces decorated all over it was between Selene and Brient. "This room belongs to Helia and me while the other belongs to you and Brient.""Oh! But Selene," Rendall looked at Helia, "can't Helia and I share one room? You and Brient can share one room.""Naughty boy," Selene scoffed and Rendall turned to her. "Your relationship with Helia should better be kept innocent."Brient chuckled. "Are you seriously asking a wolf to keep his relationship with his mate innocent? I've you ever heard of an innocent wolf?""Exactly, so Helia will stay with me while you'd stay with him," Selene stated with an air of finality and Rendall
"War?" Rendall and Helia asked in unison."Darn it!" Rendall hit the table hard with his palm. He stood up and began to pace around the room. "I told the old man. War shouldn't be an option. The lives of the low-ranked were-creatures are being threatened.""This is a disaster," Helia said, digging her hands deep into her hair. "How did the war begin?""Both kingdoms had begun a search for their heirs since both of you disappeared. A Few weeks after your departure, a letter from Brient was sent to Alpha Leander, assuring him of the safety of Helia. Alpha Leander's mind was put to rest but there was nobody to reassure Alpha Janus of his heir's safety. Later on, Alpha Janus somehow got to know that the heir of Khron had disappeared too. So, Alpha Janus began a war against Khron. He claimed that the heir of Khron was conjured up by a witch and had bewitched his heir and trapped him.""It's all a facade," Rendall snorted. "He had always wanted to war with Khron." Helia remembered what sh
Rendall stomped on the road of Wulfe which led to the Alpha's court. The citizens of Wulfe just stared on in wonder as he strode. None had the guts to say a word to him. Greeting him was hard too. They had not forgotten the last time Rendall was heard of. He had run off with a werelioness after shifting into his wolf form when it wasn't a full moon night.He got to the Alpha's court and guards that were meant to guard the gate made way for him as they all cowered in fear."Alpha Janus," Rendall called out curtly as he stood in front of the Alpha's throne room.With his silver spear in hand, Alpha Janus, who had gotten infuriated, left his throne room in fury to see who had called his name with so much disrespect.Raising his silver spear, Alpha Janus was ready to kill whoever had been disrespectful to him but he was stopped in his tracks after he came out and saw that it was his only son and heir who had called his name rudely."Rendall. My son." Alpha Janus' grip on the silver spear
Helia stared through her window at the starry sky, expecting her mood to be lifted like it always does whenever she stared at it.Her face was wet with tears. She was mourning her mother's death— her mother's undeserved death. Helia sighed. Who would have thought that the woman she had hated all her life was her mother? Who would have thought she would mourn Nyx's death like she was doing? Who would have thought that Nyx was the victim in the whole plot? The person was not Helia.Looking at the starry sky, she still found it hard to believe that it was all true. Perhaps, everything was a weird and scary dream that she would wake from one day. She hoped that the day was soon. She had always seen Luna Ariela as her mother. She treated her like a daughter too and was very good at it. Helia wondered if the love she had received from the woman was fake too.‘What a weird twist of fate,’ Helia thought to herself. The woman she had loved so much was the one she hated so much now and she had