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“I’m going out-to get fresh air,” I announced and I suddenly felt pairs of eyes on
me.
We just finished having lunch and sat in the living room. Giselle was reading a book and Rolan was playing with stones, trying unsuccessfully to start a conversation with me.
Eve and Norman were talking slowly to themselves and I assume that they had settled after that little stunt pulled by Rolan.
“Are you serious right now?” Eve’s head shot up to meet mine.
“I am.”
And I really was, I had been cooped up in the house for almost a week now and it was even more hectic than I thought.
Giselle wasn’t talking to me and I still had my suspicions about Norman and Rolan.
“You can’t go out!” Eve said firmly and I scoffed.
“You can’t stop me.”
“You’re a wanted person! even I,that left a long time before you did, I’m still wary about going out,” she stated and I shrugged.
“That’s you. I will be careful. Staying in this house is making me go crazy! I don’t know what you’re saying, but I have to go out.”
Giselle was engrossed in a book or pretended to not be interested in our conversation.
Rolan chuckled. “You want to go out? fine,do caught you don’t eat us out.”
kout but make sure if you get
I hissed. I don’t know why they thought I’d get caught. I have always been careful and would still be. After all, if I get caught, there’ll be no chance of me ever finding my children or even Selene.
Norman didn’t say anything but just glanced at me briefly and continued what he was doing.
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“Don’t go out,” Eve warned. I rolled my eyes, daring her to try and stop me. I didn’t know why she was so worried for nothing.
I sighed as I held the bottle of vodka to my lips and let the harsh taste burn my throat.
I had stubbornly left the house, despite Eve’s refusal.
She was just unnecessarily worried. I could swear I saw a look of fear on Giselle’s face as she watched me leave.
I had time to study my environment now as the first and last time I was out was the night I arrived and as it was dark, I couldn’t see my environment clearly. It was a quiet environment, with just a few houses and since I came out, I’ve only seen one
person.
I let my hair obscure some parts of my face as a way of disguising myself. I didn’t even know where I was, it didn’t seem like Silverpine, but I knew it was pack territory, because of the smell.
I had to quickly get my plans in motion, in order to get back Kai. it won’t be long before the blood moon now, and every day wasted was a risk I couldn’t take. I would talk to Rolan again and if he doesn’t agree to help me, I’d go to Greyvine, surely I’ll find someone or I’ll just have to find my way to her new pack and hope I don’t get killed before meeting her.
I was so lost in thought as I kept gulping the vodka directly from the bottle that I was unaware of the presence of someone behind me.
Nova suddenly picked up a familiar scent and my ears shot up. I sniffed and turned around, glancing around to find the source of the smell.
It couldn’t be-maybe I was wrong, maybe the scent belonged to someone else. My heart began to race and Nova growled. I couldn’t get caught right now, I had to find
Selene.
I began to walk quickly, with nowhere in mind, just the thought of not getting caught, but it was as if everywhere I went, he was there.
I was breathing heavily now as beads of sweat appeared on my forehead. Suddenly, I saw the wolf in front of me and I swallowed hard, it was the first time I had seen
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his wolf. It was big and had grey fur. Its eyes were black and I realized he was angry, it might have taken a lot before he could find me and that must’ve annoyed him.
I shuddered, knowing I couldn’t fight him and there was no way I could run away from this. Nova growled, berating me for wanting to give up so soon. She wanted us to at least fight back, to not go down without a fight.
I decided to let Nova take over and she growled at him, he had that murderous glint in his eye and I began to think that maybe Rielle had realized that my being alive was too much of a risk and sent him to finish me off.
We circled each other and he lunged forward, scratching me and I was determined to not go down like that, so I fought back, kicking and scratching with all the strength I had.
I moved backward, trying to find my stance. I glanced at my body to see that my wounds had healed. He saw it too and I could see the surprised look on his face.
He suddenly lunged forward, sinking his teeth into my body I felt something liquid seep into my veins–wolfsbane.
My vision blurred as my body suddenly became weak, I quickly transformed as Nova was too weak. I stag gered up but fell back on the ground, just how much wolfsbane did he use?
He quickly transformed and removed the artificial wolfsbane-laced teeth he had
worn.
I had never felt the effect of wolfsbane and now I realize how it was. It was either
wolfsbane was the only thing that could affect me or he had used too much because I knew that even the smallest wolfsbane would affect us.
But how did he know to use wolfsbane on me?, perhaps, Rielle had told him about my power and that was why he risked himself by lacing his teeth with wolfsbane.
“Greyson,” I called out weakly as I felt the darkness enveloping me, the wolfsbane, taking effect.