Chapter Two Hundred and Twenty Four
I recalled the strange dream I had, where a familiar voice kept on calling out my name, pleading for my help. Why did it feel like it had something to do with these bruises?
“Are you alright in there?” Axel asked.
“Yes, I am fine.” I said, quickly putting on my clothes and walking back into the room to join him. “I’m ready.”
“Hand me your clothes; I’ll keep them safe for our return.” Axel says.
My hands wrapped around my naked chest; it was an attempt to hide my bruises, the one to my hip had almost completely healed. “We don’t want to go butt naked into the pack, do we?” I questioned with a smile.
He chuckled at that; his eyes trailed down my body before looking away quickly. “I was checking you out, sorry.”
“Nothing you haven’t already seen.” I say, grateful he didn’t see the bruise on my ankle.
He transformed into his wolf form, waiting on me. I tried, but… it wasn’t working. Instead, my wings sprouted out of my back. I willed them in before trying again; this time nothing happened. A wave of panic hit me.
“I can’t… I can’t transform.”
I picked up my clothes, putting them back on.
Axel’s wolf circled around me, blocking my path before he transformed back into his human form. “Riley, what is wrong?”
“It’s the… ritual“, I said, my voice sounded panicked, that’s exactly what I was feeling right
now. Panic.
Axel quickly put on his own clothes, easily catching up with me.
“Hey, you just need to give it some time; you gave up too fast.”
“No, it won’t work; I couldn’t reach her; not even Thane can compel me to transform this time.
“I’ve lost it, Axel.” I muttered, holding back my tears. I had only gotten my wolf, and now I had lost it.
We were back in our room. Axel didn’t think my wolf was gone just yet; he thought all I needed
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to do was push a bit harder, but he couldn’t understand. When I tried reaching out to my wolf. I was met with this emptiness, this void,.
“I guess Nick didn’t tell you about this either.”
“The sorceress warned me. She said my wolf could be overcomed; It had been a possibility, not a fact, and it slipped my mind; I hadn’t thought to try until today.”
“Riley,
you’ve lived the most of your life without your wolf; you would be fine.”
“But this changes everything, Axel; Not having my wolf makes me feel different, and I don’t want that. I made a lot of stupid decisions; I don’t know what exactly I was thinking.
“Your wolf part might be dormant, but it’s not gone; I would know if you aren’t a werewolf.” Axel’s attention shifted, and I noticed he stared at my weist. “Are you hurt?” he questioned.
“No, I’m fine.” I followed his gaze to see the sleeves of my top had been stained with blood.”
“How did that happen?” he questioned.
The problem was that I didn’t know how I got that, and I didn’t want him getting worried over -nothing. “It had been a clumsy accident.” I lied; only hoped he believed that.
I had spent the most of my life without my wolf, this shouldn’t be hard, yet it was. It was harder because all those years I didn’t know what it felt like, and now that I’ve gotten a taste, it wasn’t as easy to let go.
A part of me still felt betrayed by Nick and all the things he hid from me.
“Something is wrong.” Axel said after a moment of silence and that snapped me out of my trail of thoughts.
“What?”
“Something is wrong with Thane; I feel his fury. He’s angry at something.”
“We need to find him.”
“It is not him in danger.”
Just then, I heard footsteps approaching. No doubt it was Thane.
He walked in.
“Axel, I need to talk to you.”
“No, you would talk to us both.” I insisted.
His gaze met mine, and damn was he furious. “Bailey had escaped.”
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