Just as promised here is the next chapter! It feels good to be on track and writing again. I'm sure you are all as busy with your lives as me. So, I hope you take a break and enjoy this chapter as well! Thank you for spending both your precious time and money on my book! Till we meet again! -Author, Sebby
The one-night cry ended up being several ones. It proved to her that one night was not enough to let out all she had accumulated inside her, and the happenings didn’t stop happening. Day after day there were meetings with several people from all over Glaham. However, they were all too busy fixing and managing the wrecked estate first before handling other things. They tended to the wounded and held funerals for those they had lost. The estate was painted black in mourning for the precious wolves they had lost. Noah and Luke were still sleeping since that night. Ophelia couldn’t blame them because if she was in their place, she wouldn’t want to wake up either. But she prayed for them to wake up for at least a minute to know they were alright. Sarah reassures her every day that their vitals are all good, and their wounds are healing well. There was no specific reason for their lack of consciousness for 3 days. “My Lady,” Ophelia snapped out of her trance to stare at her bedroom d
“So now first things first.” Alpha Everett started after the order was applied to the room. Ophelia took her seat on Bernard’s right as Lord Everett led the meeting as the council’s head. She could still feel Silas’s glare at her, but she ignored it along with the others. She reminded herself of Ryan’s words, she needn’t worry. All she has got to say is the truth. She did hope Bernard had prepared her for the type of questions awaiting her, she felt like she was running amid a battlefield with nothing but but her clothes to protect her.“We start with what happened six years ago,” Everett continued, shifting his gaze to Bernard. “How did the princess get here and was it before or after the night of the arson?”“It was the time of the arson,” Bernard answered, he required no time to think, the events were vivid to him as if it were yesterday. “Noah found the princess in the woods the night of the arson, that is when she started staying with Moonglade.”“Then how did you come to know a
“My Lady, it seems your brother has awakened.” Ophelia had to hold back herself from jolting to her feet amid the meetings, but she couldn’t help her shoulder from tensing up. Many things exploded in her mind at once. Relieve fear doubt and hesitation. Now when she stands in front of her brother, it won’t be with weapons in their hands but their scars. The old scars they both have. They were each other’s biggest scars. Ophelia hadn’t the slightest clue what happened to her brother when they separated six years ago. But, she was sure he wasn’t as fortunate as she was considering the way they met. All these years, he has been held captive. Now, she held him captive. “Ophelia?” Bernard whispered, extending his hand to lightly brush over hers. She snapped out of her trance recalling where she was. She held her head up to continue the conversation with Priscilla, the council was waiting for her next words. “I’ll leave you all to think of the answer to the question Lady Priscill
“You are to blame as much as them! Don’t you dare bring up our family!” Ophelia was still as she absorbed his words. Rather than disappointed or angry, she was curious. Luke has made sure to point out his hostility to Ophelia and label her a stranger to him. If she didn’t know better, she would’ve thought he had his memory wiped out. But that didn’t seem to be the case. She stared at his rage-filled eyes with caution. He had a fire in him that threatened to engulf her at any given moment. But if he remembered one thing about her, he should remember that she didn’t fear getting burned. “Luke, I understand that you have had a hard life these six years,” she said, breathing heavily. “ But I’ll not allow you to doubt or shame the way I’ve lived my life either.” “Oh, please,” he scoffed in mockery. “Don’t get it started.” “If I may remind you, it is you who started this,” Ophelia said, irritation finding its way to her. “You were the one who attacked us! It was exactly the same as th
“Carrying on,” Jone said, breaking the tension. “Let’s start with what happened six years ago first.” The council didn’t seem to be pleased that Jone was taking charge of how things would go, but they didn’t protest either. They wanted the whole truth even if it meant allowing a mortal within their circle. “Most of you wouldn’t know but,” Jone started, leaning back in his chair proudly. “I was among the few people who knew about the princess’s identity.” Ophelia shared a look with Jone. She never knew how Jone came to know about her. But she did recall the first time they met in the hallway and how carefully he studied her as if she were a diamond. Now that she thought about it, he must have known the moment he laid eyes on her. In some sense, she was indeed a diamond to him. A tool to grab the upper hand. Yet, he never betrayed the Alpha. Ophelia couldn't understand him. “And no,” he said, anticipating the question hanging in the air. “Back then I did not know about the Crescents
“Is E.V.I.L’s President’s family.”Jone’s words were the last to conclude the council meeting. The Alphas of Glahams weren’t pleased, to say the least. A few words from a mundane made their efforts for the past six years go to waste. Not only that but, his statement was the proof they needed to label E.V.I.L as the culprit for the arson.All it took was one human to figure out what they couldn’t find all these years, and this fact didn’t seem to be settling as well as it should have. But perhaps their shame held them back from denying or protesting with Jone. Jone did them a favor by unveiling the hidden truth. They hated to be proved lacking in this way.But Ophelia wasn’t worrying about their face before Jone. All she could think of were
The hot bath worked like magic to erase not only the dirt but also the worries of the day. Sarah filled in the bathtub for Ophelia the moment she got back. The water temperature was a little higher than what she usually preferred but it didn’t bother her. The sting of the hot water on her bare skin was pain she enjoyed, it took her mind off of things she rather not think about again. But, every now and then she saw images of her brother, the way he looked at her this morning. The feeling that he was going to jump at her at any given moment kept her on edge even now. She wondered how he was doing now and what he did after she left. Did he think about what she said to him? She wondered. She wasn’t bluffing about the truth serum, she hoped he believed her. If he wasn’t going to talk, the council would make him talk. They were already doing him a favor by waiting till now. Bernard was right about his words but, to what lengths? How much is Ophelia’s influence on her brother after all
The way to Noah’s room felt longer than it usually took. She halted by the door wondering if Noah was already up and around behind this door. She placed her hand over her chest to calm her beating heart. “Oh, Lady Claudia,” Ryan said, bringing Ophelia back to the present. She turned to look at the other end of the hall. The Omega, Claudia was as perfect as ever. The moment she saw Claudia she was flooded with the sweet smell of pheromones. She took a quick glance at Ryan and if he was feeling something, he was doing a good job at hiding it. “Good evening,” she said, bowing deeper than usual to Ophelia. Perhaps it’s because of Ophelia’s new title now, Princess of the Crescents. She couldn’t help but notice the way Claudia quickly scanned her at first glance. Ophelia was now a little…different from what Claudia was used to. Now that she thought of it, this was the first time she had run into Claudia since the night of the attack. She even forgot she was here and that she is suppo