084 The Alpha Lost His Memory

"So, why are you taking such an interest in that girl?" With a light tone, Killian leaned on the wall with one foot pressed against it, making small chats as they waited for James, "she drugged you, you know? Sarah tricked her."

 

The best and fastest way to track down a werewolf is through their mindlink. The mages created a spell for that in the war -- for a much darker and brutal purpose of course. But it came in handy today.

 

Neither the truth about the drug incident, nor the fact that Killian knew so much about it surprised Raymond.

 

"Didn't you give her to me as my mate?" Raymond snorted coldly, folding his arms in front of his chest, taunting with a flat tone, "To us, mate is the person who interests you the most."

 

"Speaking of," Killian gave Raymond the annoying smirk, "why are you the 'mateless' Alpha? I mean, you wouldn't get such a name if you have lost your mate, or just haven't found her yet, right?"

 

[I'm NOT mateless!] Sisyphus growled, getting frustrated. Mate was the bleeding wound of Sisyphus that not even Raymond dared to touch ever since two years ago.

 

"Cause I actually don't sleep around," Raymond shrugged off the topic, focusing on calming Sisyphus in his mind, "if anyone still cares."

 

Killian let out a light laugh.

 

But it wasn't like that. Werewolves find their mate with a soul bond, a pull on your soul that will always exist, pulling the fated mate toward each other until they become one, and then the bond is completed when the mate marks are exchanged.

 

A werewolf would travel out of their ordinary life circle to meet their mate, guided by only a faint intuition, and the humans would call that the sixth sense, or -- karma. But they knew it was guided by the soul bond.

 

Raymond lost that.

 

He knew he had it once -- when he turned 18. The soul bond would surface when a werewolf grows into adulthood, and he felt it. He felt that he got a mate out there. And that was how he knew he had lost it.

 

He could no longer feel the faint pull. It was like the origin of that pull was lost, and he was left alone in the world.

 

He got the name "mateless Alpha" because he doesn't sleep around, but he actually truly WAS -- became mateless, and rumors didn't know how right they were.

 

"I have heard about a spell that can cut the mate bond," Killian kept his eyes on the ground, the glimmering eyes hid in shadow where no one could read, "a spell that uses the mate bond of a werewolf as a sacrifice."

 

"What?!" Raymond couldn't help but gasped, "Tell me more about it!"

 

"But it should not be your case, no?" Killian curved his lips, taunting eyes fell on Raymond, "Who would dare -- AND successfully -- cast a spell on an Alpha? Have you ever encountered any mages that might do such a BOLD thing?"

 

Killian knew perfectly that the spell sacrificed the mate bond to save a life, but he kept that part from Raymond -- if it really was the case, that Raymond lost his mate bond to save a life, then Raymond would have lost his memory about that.

 

And Killian didn't want to risk hurting the spell by indicting anything about the truth of the spell -- If Raymond really lost his mate bond to that spell, he did it to save a life. And though they serve the benefit of two different groups, Killian admired Raymond for that.

 

"Tell me about that spell." Raymond approached Killian, his Alpha Aura spouting out dangerously. He was not in a joking mood.

 

"Maybe you should ask your pack witch about it," Killian let Raymond grab his collar with no resistance, "it's not my place to tell."

 

Raymond pulled Killian's face close to his, his hands shaking on Killian's collar, but in the end, he just let go lightly and backed off: "My apology, High Priest."

 

Killian was right. It wasn't his place to talk about it if anyone dared cast a spell on him without his knowledge. And it was actually a very amicable and peaceful gesture that Killian allowed his aggressive move with no counterattack.

 

Raymond turned away in sullen silence.

 

"My advice is that you don't look too hard into it," Killian suddenly said, picking up the topic, "and don't ask me why."

 

Any pack witch would offer the same advice, and Killian told himself that he did so to get on the good side of the Alpha, instead of the truth--

 

He actually wanted a friend out of Raymond.

 

"Raymond! I'm here, what have you got?" James pulled his car right by the side of them before he jumped off in a swift move.

 

Killian froze where he was, staring at James with utter horror in his eyes.

 

"What's with him?" James tilted his head at Killian, eying Raymond before he took a sniff of Killian, "A mage? Ohh, he's the High Priest??"

 

Killian stared at James as if at a ghost -- he knew who James was!

 

"He's gonna help us looking for Evelyn, but he would need to link into your mindlink web," Raymond gestured at Killian, "if you would allow it, that is."

 

Linking into an Alpha's mindlink with a spell is basically opening up the pack to a mage, and usually, it would be a pack witch's job. But James didn't have one -- Scarlett left abruptly.

 

James squinted his eyes at Killian, apparently hating that idea, especially when Killian was still staring at him with a weird look.

 

"I'm Killian Dunn," Killian held out his hand, staring at James so tensely that James frowned in confusion, "High Priest of the Triskaideka Coven. Nice to meet you, Alpha James."

 

"You, too," James answered simply, glancing at Raymond with a weird look about Killian's abnormal reaction.

 

Raymond was confused, too.

 

It seemed that they didn't know each other, but Killian's reaction definitely said the opposite. So he knew about James, and that knowledge shocked him somehow?

 

Killian had never met James, and it was vice versa for James as well, apart from that one time on the grand opening, but at that time, James didn't know he was a mage. But Killian knew about James --

 

Killian knew that their traitor, one of their golden gemini sisters, Scarlett, was the pack witch of the pack Abysmol!

 

Actually, Scarlett BECAME a traitor when she fell in love with William Black, James's father, and ran away with him. The coven found her eight years ago and went to carry out their death sentence. In the end, William Black died in the battle for the life of his wife.

 

The pack was almost broken and went into hiding. James was too young to take over the crown, and he had to hand over the title to one of his father's beta in exchange for asylum for himself and his widowed mom.

 

So he took quite a shock when James appeared in front of him so indifferently at seeing him, when he was waiting for "Evelyn's brother" with Raymond.

 

"I understand how sensitive it is to let an outsider link into the mindlink web, of an Alpha's no less," Killian tried to keep his voice calm and flat, hiding the huge shock in his chest, "so if you would prefer to let your own pack witch do the honor, I can show her the tracking spell with pleasure."

 

Killian eyed James nervously, waiting for his reaction at the mention of Scarlett. He needed that to confirm his suspicion--

 

"I don't have a pack witch," James frowned with a heavy look, and after a split second of hesitation, James took one step up with utter sincerity, "and there is no time to waste. I'd be forever grateful if you can help me find my sister, High Priest."

 

Killian stared at James with his mind twirling in shock --

 

James made a HUGE fuss about the Triskaideka after he came to age. It was the coven that took his father's life! The coven that he had sworn to wipe off the face of the earth! James was the one who called out the coven for revenge two years ago and caused a bloodbath in the end!

 

How could he just talk about his "pack witch" so lightly with his sworn arch nemesis?!

 

"Killian?" Raymond urged with a soft voice.

 

"Yes, of course..." Killian closed his eyes shut and took a deep breath to calm himself before he rose his cane, and a light ocean blue halo spouted out instantly, "forgive me, Alpha."

 

Trying hard to focus on the spell, Killian couldn't help but entangled his mind in one shocking realization--

 

James Black stopped coming after his coven two years ago not because of the brutal bloodbath, but because he lost his memory?!