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6. Twisted American version of Hogwarts

" Ever fallen in love with someone you shouldn't even like?" Xavier asked.

"The Jacob sisters are easy to fall in love with." His brother replied, torching the man they called father to protect the girls they loved.

Chapter 6

Twisted American version of Hogwarts

Sierra's POV

The inside of his house was warmer. It represented the outside just the same, the house had old wooden floors and walls an there wasn't much of furniture. There were a few witches and warlocks, dressed in all black as usual walking about the house.

Some carried candles and others crystal balls. I shuddered. It was like some twisted American version of Hogwarts.

"So. What did you call me for?" I asked.

After Xavier had killed his father, he had distanced himself from me, so it made no sense that he called me out of the blue to talk to me. It wasn't that I didn't trust him. It was just that all of this was very shady.

"Look. I'll come straight to the point. I need an alliance with Jake." He said, gently taking my hands and leading me up the staircase.

The house didn't give off homely feels. The paint was old, and I didn't know if the paint was green before or if that was moss on the wall. Despite my opinion I realized, the other witches felt this was their home. Looking around there were people on old leather couches sitting around a small table and laughing. This was their version of a pack house.

Witches had a life span longer than humans and shorter than wolves. They aged differently and I didn't quite understand it.

Xavier pulled me into a large room that looked like an office. This was the nicer part of the house. Clearly.

The wood was clean and fresh, there was a fire place, huge windows looking out into the forest and a few tables with random stuff pushed up against the dark wooden walls.

It was messy but clean.

"What do mean an alliance? Riverdale doesn't deal with witches Xavier. Most wolf packs don't. Especially the legit ones." I said.

So remember I said 12 packs? They were the legal packs, with council members and rules and territory and heaps of money. There were also smaller, unrecognized packs. We didn't necessarily mess with them. Our population exceeding close to a thousand and theirs mere hundreds.

"I saved the Beta's daughter's life. You know you sister. I think that calls for an exception." He said glaring at me.

Honestly that surprised me. But I glared right back at him from where he stood behind his large mahogany table.

"That was the right thing to do. Not to forget it wasn't my pack member that made you save her. It was the fact that she's mated to your brother!" I yelled.

Que to the fight..

"I saved her because she's your sister!"

"Well your father tried to kill me before I was born!"

"I'm not my father!"

"Then don't demand the same things he did!"

"You know maybe I shouldn't have saved your sister! You guys certainly deserved what my father did!"

"You're not you father? Could've fooled me! That sounded awful lot like him. I think being the high warlock is getting to you head!" I yelled and walked to the door.

It was a mistake coming here.

"No! Wait. Sierra stop." Xavier said desperately.

"What Xavier?" I said rolling my eyes at him.

"There's a coup in the coven." He said running his fingers through his black hair.

"What?" I asked him flabbergasted.

"After my father's death word got around that his sons killed him. The younger members are on my side, but a few of the older members are planning to overthrow me. They think I'm incapable of leading. If I can get this alliance... Sierra please."

He said giving me a pleading look.

I sighed and ran my palm across my face, just to feel the ice cold touch on my face.

"Fine. I'll see what I can do." I said

He nodded at me and went behind the desk to grab a file and handed it to me.

"Give that to Jake. Those are the terms." He said

"Don't you mean Alpha Peter?" I asked with a raised brow.

"Sierra. Jake's turning 20 in a few days. A year after that Alpha Peters is moving to Blackpaw to help his mate run it. Jake is taking up Riverdale. I need his Alliance, not Alpha Peter's."

He said. Now I knew he was serious about wanting the alliance. Xavier would never ask Jake for anything if he had a choice.

"That's not common knowledge." I told him.

"No one outside the pack knew Jake was taking over the pack next year.

" I have my ways." He said leading the way out.

"Can you get back to me before Jake's birthday?" he asked me once we were outside.

"I can try." I said looking up at him.

Xavier, the cool and calm Xavier looked exhausted and distracted. Taking up so much responsibility was a lot for him. He learned his father killed his mother, his father tried to kill me and his brother's mate, he killed his father to save everyone and the only family he had didn't want anything to do with him, Xander wanted a normal life with my sister. And his own coven was shunning him for being incapable.

I let out a breath and pecked him on his cheek.

"Everything is going to work out Xavier. You just need to give things sometimes." I said.

He pulled me in for a hug and gave me a sad smile. As if to say I didn't know what he knew.

"I'll see you later Sierra." He said opening my door for me.

I placed the file in the seat next to me and watched him go disappear in the rear view mirror.

A feeling of dread settling in my chest.

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