Chapter 1

Her eyes fluttered open slowly. Rayne woke up with a huge headache. She looked around the room, groggily.

'What happened?'

She slowly sat up on the bed and looked around once again. She was in her room, but she couldn't immediately remember what happened before this. Everything was blurry. When she tried to think hard enough to remember, the headache intensified so she stopped. It was strange. Just as she sat on her bed feeling lost, there was a small knock on the door and it opened. A middle aged woman walked into the room, quietly but briskly and elegantly.

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"Oh my goodness!", she exclaimed when she noticed Rayne sitting on the bed.

"You gave me a scare", she muttered as she held her chest.

Rayne watched her quietly.

"My Luna, you are awake?", the woman asked after a small pause as if just realizing that Rayne was actually awake.

"Yes, Rosa", Rayne answered softly.

"Oh my! Thank the moon goddess!", the woman immediately exclaimed and hurried over to the bedside.

"How are you feeling now, Luna? Are you ok? Are you in pain?", Rosa asked.

Rayne smiled softly and shook her head.

"No, I'm fine. I feel very fine Rosa"

"Oh, that's wonderful", Rosa said happily.

Rayne smiled at her. Rosa was her head maid and had been around since she was a child. After her mother died, Rosa was the one who looked after her as her father was mostly always busy with Alpha duties.

"Oh really, thank the moon goddess. I was so worried", Rosa said as she gently grabbed Rayne's hands.

"It's ok now Rosa", Rayne assured her and patted her hands.

"But Rosa, what happened?", Rayne asked her.

"You don't remember?", Rosa asked back and Rayne shook her head slowly.

"You were out riding when you had an accident. You were thrown off your horse and you hit your head badly", Rosa explained.

'An accident?'

"How long have I been unconscious?", Rayne asked.

"Three days", Rosa replied.

'Three days....', Rayne muttered.

Rayne tried to remember. She saw a very brief flash of her on a horse but her memories felt like it was being blocked like it was overshadowed by something else, something else she had to remember but she couldn't. Her headache intensified again and she couldn't help but groan in pain.

"My Luna, are you in pain? Are you hurt? Should I call the royal doctor?", Rosa immediately panicked.

"No, no, I'm fine", Rayne immediately refused when the headache subsided a bit.

"Are you sure?", Rosa asked, looking at her doubtfully.

"Yes, I'm sure", Rayne answered and smiled softly at her.

"Ok, if you say so. Are you hungry? I'll tell the kitchen to prepare something for you", Rosa offered.

"Ok, thank you", Rayne responded.

Rosa smiled in response and patted her hands once more before walking to the door.

"Rosa...", Rayne called after her before she could leave.

"Yes, my Luna?"

"Who did I go riding with?", Rayne asked.

"No one, my queen. You went alone", Rosa answered.

"I did? So how did you know..."

"Oh yes! About that, how forgetful of me, it was a young man that found you and carried you all the way back", Rosa explained.

"A young man?", Rayne asked.

"Yes and he insisted on staying here all the time the doctor was treating you. He has also been visiting constantly to ask how you are for the past three days'', Rosa told her.

"Really?"

"Yes"

"Alright, if he comes again, bring him in. I would love to thank him myself", Rayne told her.

"Ok, my queen", Rosa replied and bowed a little before leaving the room.

After Rosa left the room, Rayne got down and walked around the room, touching some of her things as she did. She finally stopped in front of the full length mirror in the room and stared at her reflection. It was her room, it was her things but everything felt so unreal. Something felt wrong, so out of place, she couldn't describe it and she didn't understand it either.

Knock knock

"Come in", Rayne answered and the door opened to show Rosa walking in.

"My queen", Rosa said and bowed.

"The young man who helped you is here, should I bring him in here?", Rosa asked.

"Yes", Rayne answered.

Rosa nodded and backed out of the room. After Rosa left, Rayne reached for her robe. She threw it over her night dress and tied it securely.

Knock knock

"Come in"

"My queen, this is the young man who helped you", Rosa introduced.

Rayne nodded and looked at the man who was following behind Rosa, he had his head bowed.

"It is an honor to meet you, my Luna", the man said in a rich masculine voice.

"It's ok", Rayne said and the man slowly raised his head. 

When Rayne saw his face, she felt her headache intensify and there was a flash of white light in her mind. Rayne massaged her temples as the headache got worse, it was like something was trying to force its way into her mind.

"My queen, are you alright?", she heard Rosa ask with concern in her voice.

"Yes, I'm fine. Just a little headache", Rayne replied.

Rosa eyed her doubtfully but didn't say anything more.

"Ah, yes....", Rayne began to speak and looked at the man who was staring at her.

"What is your name?", she asked him.

"Anthony", he replied.

Rayne stared at him. He was about 6ft tall in height and was very handsome. His eyebrows were bushy and he had doe shaped eyes that were a clear blue in color. He had an aquiline nose, arched cheekbones and a lantern jaw that was firm and square.

All these features were what made him very handsome and no doubt drew a lot of women to him. But when Rayne looked at him, she felt a sense of apprehension and fear. She also felt pain, pain of what is what she didn't know.

"Anthony, thank you for helping me", Rayne thanked him.

"It was an honor my queen", Anthony replied.

"My father always said to do a good deed whenever you can", he added.

'Do a good deed....'

Rayne's head began to hurt again. The white light flashed in her mind again but this time it was much brighter and her head felt like it had exploded.

'My father always said to do a good deed whenever you can.....', those words replayed in her head.

Then the images flashed in her head. They were blurry and brief but she could make sense of them. In one of the images a man was squatting next to her, grinning evilly. She could hear his laughter before she was pulled back.

She heard Rosa say something but she didn't hear what she said. What were those images? Was it a dream? But it felt too real. And the man in the images why did he look somewhat like...., she looked at Anthony. Before Rayne could say anything else, the pain hit her with her full force, the images replayed but this time they were more vivid and they all rushed into her head, painfully.

When she came to, Rosa was looking at her with worry but Rayne didn't pay attention to her. She finally understood why everything felt so unreal. Why she felt something was wrong and out of place. She remembered the important thing that she was supposed to remember, she had died.

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