Chapter 99 – The Moon Wolf

“Alysia had always basked in the attention we received everytime in the coven, I was the shy and quiet one while she gained the hearts of the elders with her wits and outgoing behaviour”.

“The problem started when we turned 18”, she said and then paused. The room was so silent that if a pin had dropped, it would have caused a hell of a noise. It was almost like we all held our breaths while we waited for her to speak. Her eyes were unfocused and they shone with unshed tears.

“We were supposed to grow into our powers fully but the unexpected happened and that was where our problems began”, she breathed out, almost as if it physically pained her to talk about it.

“Let me guess”, Lyla spoke up, “you got the powers while your sister didn’t get any, which made her bitter and she tried to kill you”, she said and we all turned to give her a nasty look and she tried to make herself smaller in her chair, which turned out to be a very silly move because her protruding stomach couldn’t be hidden.

“I had my powers first and contrary to what everyone thought, I was a very powerful witch, almost as powerful as my mother was and my mother was the most powerful in our coven. When it was time for Alysia to get her power, nothing happened and that just have left a bad taste in her mouth”.

She breathed in and a cup of water appeared in front of her. She took the cup and downed half of its content. She looked at the source of the water and smiled slightly at her in appreciation. Avianca nodded in acknowledgement and went back to her seat.

Moon goddess bless her soul.

She continued after a while. “While we still hopeful that she would get her powers by the time she was 21, Alysia became bitter about not getting her powers before me”.

Yeah, I totally believed that. She looked like the type that would throw tantrum over the littlest things.

“She refused to talk to me because she believed that I stole her powers. The attention of the coven elders shifted from her to me and she became a shell of her former self. She withdrew herself from everyone and everything. Even mother could not get her to come out of her room, she just went silent on everyone.

“After a week or two of sulking, she finally came out of her hiding and was chipper once again which I found very strange. She avoided me completely but went about the village, acting like nothing happened. One night, I decided to enter her room and that was when I found out that she was using black magic”, she said and we all gaped at her in shock.

Everyb*dy knew that a witch caught using black magic in a coven is always killed with a stake dipped in poison.

“I confronted her but she begged me and promised to stop. She cried and pleaded with me not to tell mother about it. Her sob story was that she wanted to use it as a coping mechanism for not getting her power but she’s realized her mistake. I believed her and refrained from telling mother about it”.

“Day in, day out, she kept changing but I never caught her using black magic again so I assumed she actually stopped using the black magic”.

“On her 21st birthday, she showed her true colour. While mother and the elders were preparing the rituals to see if she’s gotten her powers, she did the unthinkable”. Her tears were falling freely at that point and we all hung onto her every word while also dreading her next words.

“She killed Mother in front of everyone”.

Lola’s POV

All air left me and I sat back in my chair with a sigh. I knew we were dealing with a psychopath but I did not know she was so unhinged that she killed her own mother.

“When I saw that she killed mother, I stabbed her through the heart with a poisonous stake and that was how I killed her”, she said and we all looked at her wide eyed. She must have thought we were judging her because she held her head and started muttering herself.

“I never wanted to hurt her, I swear I wasn’t going to kill her. I just couldn’t stop myself as I drove the stake through her heart. She fell before me,she did. I watched her take her last breath as her blood spurrted from her chest and drenched me. She looked me in the eyes and tried to wrench herself from me but I kept the stake inside her as her blood drained from her b*dy and pooled at our feet”, she hiccuped and tried to curl into herself like it could make her escape the memories plaguing her.

I moved closer and gently took her hands in mine, squeezing lightly to provide some form of support to her and she looked up at me. Her tear stricken face broke something in me and I pulled her to me. I hugged her tightly, she fisted my clothes and sobbed quietly in to my chest.

“And I thought she was a b itch”, Jasmine said in my head and I almost screamed out loud at her lack of sympathy. “She’s obviously going through something, so, shut your big mouth”, I snapped at her.

She huffed and mumbled something along the lines of “if she wasn’t a bit ch, I wouldn’t have said so”, but I ignored her and focused on Serena that was in front of me.

now she’d lo “That’s quite touching and all but did you bury her after killing her or what happened? It doesn’t just make any sense that she was staked and alive. Make it make sense”, Lyla said from where she was sitting and I almost lunged at her to whack her across the head but I refrained from doing so.

“She’s trying to get her thoughts together, Lyla”, I laid emphasis on the Lyla and she rolled her eyes at me.

“You don’t have to be mean about it”, I told her through our mindlink. “Her psychopathic sister died and came alive miraculously. She has some sort of connection to the psy cho that almost took you away from me, from us and you want us to be calm and wait for her to calm down. She should man the f uck up and let’s find solution to this right now”, she said angrily in my head.

I looked towards her but she refused to look at my face as she brewed with anger, her b*dy posture rigid and her face looked like she could explode at any point.

I sighed and just turned towards Serena that was hiccuping slightly. “It’s fine. She’s right, Lola. There’s no point crying over what had happened in the past. What matters now is getting a solution to what happened”, she said, her voice scratchy from crying too much.

“So what happened to her b*dy?” Avianca asked softly.

“She dissipated. She turned into air and I thought it was the power running through me at that point that caused it”, she said.

“It clearly isn’t the source now”, Lyla piped up. I was about to scold her again when she changed her position and looked somewhat remorseful.

A soft “forgive me, Alpha” made me realise that Adrian was still in the room and he must have scolded her.

“It must have been the black magic that revived her because she did not look dead to me at all. Her aura was dark and she had this unhinged look in her eyes”, I said.

The room was silent, save the occasional sighs that escaped everyone once in a while.

“I promise that we’d get to the root of this but you need to rest now. Serena will be back tomorrow and alongside my trusted men, we’ll figure out a way to put an end to this”, Adrian said with a note of finality. His tone clearly gave no room for argument.

Everyb*dy nodded and they silently went out of the room after I hugged and assured Serena that everything will be settled. Lyla and Avianca pulled me into a tight hug and we had our little moment before they left the room, leaving me alone with my mate.

With a sudden movement, he pulled me against his chest and deeply breathed in my scent. Jasmine purred in my head from that simple gesture and I could feel his chest vibrating with satisfaction too.

“Urgh, your hair stinks”, he said. I looked up at him, ready to kill him with my glare when I noticed that he was smiling at me.

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