Even after a decade had passed, every time he closed his eyes, those demons from the past would never seize to come. It would always feel like it just happened yesterday. The fall of the Howling Wolf pack.
Cane rubbed his face roughly and then got off the bed. Life was a nightmare and he dared not to wish even for a peaceful wink of sleep.
Probably because this room was initially Gerald’s bedroom, the place where he had committed most of his crimes and did his dirty deeds, he couldn’t escape the clutches of the nightmares.
He needed to speed up their move to the Howling Wolf’s pack house if that was the problem.
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Aria dressed beautifully, knowing today would be the day that the king would arrive. For a lowborn like her, a chance to be in the same room as the king was close to nil, especially when the king had never participated in any parties that alpha Gerald or Mason threw.
“Which one do you think suits me better?” Aria asked, she raised two different sets of earrings and asked Bian and Dalia.
“The blue ones, I think the blue ones will suit you better,” Dalia said.
“But, the black ones are in the same color as our crest.” Bian pointed out. The Howling Wolf pack’s crest was a black wolf and that was enough for Aria to choose the black ones, since she was almost desperate to show that she was an important figure in this pack.
“I will take this one.” Aria looked in the mirror and smiled brightly, the color of her dress complimented her sun- kissed skin. She looked exceptionally beautiful today and when she went to the alpha’s chamber, she wanted him to praise her.
But she forgot that Cane was not a man who would say something like that.
“I am very nervous to meet the king,” Aria said cheerfully, as she walked beside Cane, when the royal carriage was seen entering the territory of the Blue Moon pack.
Cane spared her a nonchalant glance. “Just act naturally.”
“Will the queen be here as well?”
“Yes.”
“I will go and walk with the queen, while you talk with the king.”
“Sure, if that’s what she wants.” There was no respect whatsoever when he talked about the king and queen, but Cane had to curb it down in the presence of the two royals.
Aria smiled brightly, she had never thought that she would be in the presence of the royal family.
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“The king and the queen came to visit today.” Hanna watched the commotion from afar. She looked excited.
Meanwhile, the security was tightened around the pack, as they went back and forth to check on the situation there, to make sure that everything was alright, since they didn’t want to have any mishap. This was a critical moment for them to have a royal visit.
Iris watched the crowd and didn’t say anything.
“If you want to see the royals, go and see them, I can walk to the mine by myself,” she said gently.
She felt like she knew how to find those magic stones and was so impatient to prove her theory was right. More so, the warm soup and the slice of meat motivated her enough to dig around.
“This is the first time for me to see the king and the queen,” Hanna said excitedly.
As far as Iris could remember, the king visited the pack twice before and the last time was around eleven years ago, just a few months before her father decided to raze his neighboring pack and enslaved them.
But, the king’s visit the last time was a secret, Iris only knew it because she used to sneak out and roam around the pack house at night, since she would meet less people.
“You can go if you want to see them.”
“No, I will go with you to the mines first.” Hanna shook her head, but Iris could see in her eyes how she really wanted to see the royal family. After all it was not an everyday occasion for them to come to a pack. Most of the time, it would be the alpha who would be summoned to the palace.
“Go and see them, they will not be here for long, I guess.” Iris watched from afar that the people dressed so well. They wanted to look good in front of the royals and even though the Blue Moon pack had fallen, there was not much that had changed with the members of the pack, they lived their lives as usual. Hanna told her that.
At the very least, Cane was not like her father, even after everything that he had gone through in the hands of alpha Gerald.
“Come on, go. You can come back later.” Iris kept urging her and Hanna finally relented.
“I will see you in the evening, okay?” Hanna finally relented.
“Okay,” Iris laughed to see how Hanna’s eyes lit up as she dusted her dress to go to the people, who gathered together on the sides of the road.
Once Hanna was gone, Iris quickened her steps toward the mines, she went through all the motions quickly and changed her dress before she went to the site.
Probably, she was the only one who was so excited to go to the mines today.
When she was there, she felt it again. The same restless and strange feeling she couldn’t describe. And this time, she followed her instinct and started digging immediately.
Iris couldn’t hide her curiosity at the palm size rock in her hand, she felt that nagging feeling again, the same feeling that enveloped her when she found her first magic stone.
Would this rock contain a magic stone as well?
Iris had never been to the mine site before this, therefore, she was shocked and overwhelmed by the knowledge that she could find it quite easily. She felt that intuition everywhere around this area.
Some were easy to find and they had a weak pull and the others were so hard, being buried deep down in the ground, or inside the mountain rock, you needed to dig deeper into the mountain to find them.
She was amazed by this new knowledge and was thrilled to know why she had this tingling feeling whenever she touched the magic stone.
Therefore, when she found a magic stone without anyone seeing, she hid it inside her rag-like dress. Her heart was thumping wildly. She could feel the cold stone against her stomach.
Magic stones had no use for a shifter like her, but then she was born as a runt, probably there was finally something useful that she could do with this useless body.
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