Of Wings And Claws

CHAPTER 25

There's something about gloomy days that I've always loved. It's always dark and lovely. But today, today is an exception. Something feels off, it hangs in the air like some dirty laundry.

I shake off the heavy feeling off my shoulders and breath in. Lycidas finally told me about his royal gift last night and what fascinates me is that it works on everyone except me, his mate. He can never hurt me with it, but he can enter my dreams knowingly or unknowingly. Which is why I had thought that I had a vision of him and Hebe having sex, while in actual sense it was Luic wanting me to wake up and go stop Lycidas from bedding that woman. Apparently Luic was never fond of the witch.

I'm in my and Lycidas' room, staring at the white ceiling. I should have been out of the room twenty minutes ago, but something's holding me back.

I'm in the middle of a train of thoughts when suddenly the door opens to reveal a sweaty Lycidas.

Eew. Yummy

"Like what you see Luna?" He asks and I blush, "I think I do Alpha" he moves swiftly into the room and stands at my feet looking at me with an unreadable expression.

I expected something way different than what he says next, "Hebe's here" I get off the bed so fast I can almost feel my guts trying to come out of my mouth.

"Where is she, did she do something to you, where's Anwar and Ariel. Is the pack okay, why are you so calm?." I ask looking out the windows.

"Shhh, everything is under control"

"Don't shush me Lycidas, where the hell is she!"

"Melody calm down and stop shouting, she doesn't know we've spotted her. She's near the south border and I have the whole perimeter surrounded, there's no way she can escape this time." I look at Lycidas like he's crazy, and he is.

"Have you forgetten Hebe's a witch who can blow the palm of her hand and disappear?"

"I have this under control, but you have to go somewhere safe, I have gut feeling something bad is about to happen."

"The perimeter is surrounded by who Lycidas, the same pack members that were under her spell and I healed yesterday. What gives you the assurance that this isn't a trap on its own, she wanted to be seen so you would send the stable pack members out and leave the whole pack vulnerable?." Something dawns on his face when I say this, "plus if you're fighting then I'm in it too, I'm not leaving you or the pack and going into hiding like a coward."

"Okay, just stay close to me okay"

A scream breaks outside and both Lycidas and I don't need to be told twice. We rush outside only to meet with the witch herself.

"Oh good, you're here" she says and drops the young girl she was strangling, except she doesn't look alive. She doesn't look like a person at all, her corpse is a dark shade of purplish blue, a sign that there isn't any drop of blood left in it, it's wrinkled and looks like it belongs to a eighty year old. I knew her, and her mother.

I make a move towards Hebe, ready to wipe that arrogant smirk off her oddly beautiful face but she raises her hand, "take one more step Luna and the mother is next, and then the dad and then everyone will come to me willingly and face death" she yells pointing at the little girl's mother who is just standing there staring off to space, she's one of the many packmembers who are still under Hebe's control.

"What do you want?" Lycidas growls out and Hebe gives a light evil chuckle. "Everything you've ever touched Alpha"

With that two figures emerge from the forest walking side by side, Tamora and U'ilani. Their white hair almost blinding in the morning sun.
While Tamora walks like a trained warrior, U'ilani is a little more fragile, soft features, small physic, almost like she isn't a hunter. Like she is a Fae in disguise and the more I look at her attractive features, the more I realise what attracted Lycidas to her, without looking at her face and complexion she's another me.