Chapter 89
Chapter 88
Melissa POV
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I sat back down at the table and waited for everyone to return. I sipped on the water I had taken from
the fridge. The other witches, some who knew the whole story, stayed inside, giving space to the
Lycans and the young witch that was with them. She, from what I have gathered, was Brent''s mate.
She was calming him down and I was thankful that she was here with us. The look in his eyes looked
as if he was ready to murder everyone here. I hoped that he woulde back in and listen to the
remainder of the story, because though it sounded as if his brother was innocent in a mind game by
Sophia, he truly was not.
The sound of the front door closing had me lifting my head up to see who would being in first. I
watched as all four of them came in and sat down at the table. I cleared my throat before speaking,
"Are you all ready to continue?"
"Yes, I believe we are," Avalynn answered.
"Okay then. So going back to your mother and father." I paused, trying to remember where I left off.
"Ah, yes. Well see your mother and father were mated. Your father never kept your mother away from
her friends and family. In fact, they came to visit her home a lot. They even invited us toe and stay
with them on several asions. Anyway, Sophia was jealous of the life your mother was going to be
living and wanted it for herself. She tried to alternate the truth and mess with the mate bond. Everyone
knows that you can not alter an epted bonded pair, especially Lycans. Wolves you can to an extent,
but it generally backfires. Sophia believed that she could twist their truth and failed. She was sent back
home and banned from stepping even a toe into their territory. If she did, she would be seen as a threat
and taken out. This then caused your mother to not feel safe oning back home and, sadly, tension
rose because they could no longer trust us." I looked down at the table, hanging my head in shame.
"Wow," Avalynnmented.
"So your mother became a Lycan after the long change and she was everything her Kingdom needed
her to be. She was kind, loving, and put her people first. Now, while your family was living their lives,
Sophia hade up with a n of revenge. She wanted to squash their happiness in any way that she
knew how. So, when she crossed into the Southern Territory she was met by the warriors who took her
to see your father." I looked at Brent, my gaze never faltering. "In fact, you may have remembered her
under her different name Cassandra." I watched as his eyes widened.
"Ca-Cassandra? No, she was a maid that lived in our house." Brent was shaking his head. One of the
other witches handed me a photograph of Dexter and Sophia together recently and I slid it across the
table to him. I watched him pick it up and then crumble it in his hands.
"Yes, she is very good at the game she ys. She kept her identity a secret for many years. She
worked your family to fit her agenda. She started the division from the Northern Territory and Southern
Territory. She went out one night and poisoned a bunch of warriors and left a note saying it was from
the Eastern Kingdom. This obviously created the distraction that she needed and, with tension between
all the kingdoms, no one wanted to help or aid one another." I took a sip of my water. "Now, around this
time this happened, Avalynn was just a few months old. Sophia went to Dexter and told him how she
was a very powerful witch and she saw a prophecy about how Avalynn was to be his and if he didn''t
get there first, to warn the family to remove her, all would be lost. She made him swear to keep her
secret and he swore to take her secret to the grave. So, your brother left on his own and made the
journey there. He warned your parents that war wasing and, if they wanted any life for their
daughter, to send her somewhere. He told them their small kingdom was going to bepletely
demolished." I looked over at Avalynn who was now leaning against her mate, her eyes began to water.
"This is where the story your father told me aboutes into y." I listened to Avalynn whisper to her
mate and he nodded his head, his arm wrapping around her like a protective nket.
"So they left you in a random wolf pack without any exnation and, from my understanding, a note
addressed to the Alpha of who you were and to keep your identity hidden. Somehow, through the well
hidden,Sophia was still able to figure out where you were. Dexter and his friend invade the pack to take
you but was met by their warriors. Lives were lost from the wolf pack and they bolted. Not before he
could see you though. You were still young at the time, just a kid and he had just received his Lycan a
few months ago. He, for whatever reason, thought you were older and left. If I understand correctly,
one of the wolves that died was your father?" I asked Avalynn.
"Yes, yes it was." She spoke in a whisper. "How do you know all of this?"
"Sophia has a big mouth and told me the whole story, not realizing that I was immune to her truth
altering."
"Oh, I see. You didn''t do anything?" Miranda looked at me with a frown and confused look on her face.
"I did, I needed time to gather evidence. Which was hard to do. It took time, especially when she faded
into the background for a few years. I believe she was hiding in Avalynn''s mother and father''s castle
with her select few and very trusted followers."
"Oh, I see." Miranda nodded her head and sat back in her chair.
"When Sophia finally emerged out of the shadows, she manipted Dexter and his buddies to storm
the wolf pack. Your mother died and when he saw how devastated you were, with your mother''s death,
he couldn''t handle it. He had hurt his mate in his eyes and left. When he went back to Sophia to report
the news, she used her magic against him. She held him captive and warped his mind. During this
time, you have been mated to someone twice. When she set him loose his only objective was to find
you, capture you, and take you as his own. Seeing how he never marked you means that side of him,
that knew that it wasn''t the truth, was fighting the side she manipted. He was told all his life you
were his mate and to see you mated to Everest made him lose his mind. He was angry and confused. I
am just d that you were saved from him." I took another sip of my water.
"Sophia eventually came clean when things started going south with her n. Dexter went crazy and
wanted what was promised to him." I nodded over to Avalynn, "He wouldn''t stop and Sophia was
always following close behind. He told her he would destroy everything and everyone who stood in his
way and so the destruction of the Northern Kingdom began. Around this time I had been debriefing
other fellow witches on what the situation truly was. When I was in the middle of passing out the serum
and herbal blends my friend had been making to help protect against Sophia, she took us out, one by
one. Some she murdered, others she captured. It just really depended on her mood. She went to the
rest of the council, bent the truth and tried to frame me and the others. Then she handed out our
sentences and eventually put us all in that steel hell of a box. She was nning on torturing us one by
one until someone came forward with who was working against her. She called it the better life for all.
But really, we all knew it was for her. It was all for herself and trying to be the Queen over the witches
and other magical beings. She got in too deep when you think about it. When Dexter came back here,
to this safe house of hers, after being defeated she offered him a deal. He would be her King if he
would mark her. I was in the next room over, handcuffed, with my magic depleted, I was left listening to
them. She offered him the life he dreamed of, everyone would be under him. That her prophecy was
misinterrupted, it was really to be both of them together. He didn''t want only her, he still wanted you
too. She eventually agreed to him to be his mistress. He told her if she harmed you, he would murder
you. Sheughed and when I heard bones cracking in his shift, is when she agreed not to touch you,
ever."
"What about the papers that led me to you?" Avalynn asked me.
"I did that before we came here. I got a hold of them and ced a spell for only you. I didn''t know
where exactly we would be but if I was still alive the spell would bring you to me, to not only save me
but the others." I told her.
"Well where is Sophia now?" Brent asked me.
"She made a trip to the council to tell them she had the traitors captured." I told him.
"We need to leave here immediately then." Everest stood up.
"I agree. We need to leave this ce. When shees back she will still be expecting Dexter and all
of us to be captured and in the steel box." I told them all.
"We leave in a few hours. I will have a few nes arranged to take all of us back to my Kingdom."
Everest told everyone.
"Very well," Brentmented and nodded his head.
"You should really mark her and soon. We might need her strength and abilities sooner rather than
later." I told Brent and Miranda.
"I agree with her, Brent," Miranda said to her mate and he took her hand, kissing the back of it and
pulled her closer to him.
We all left the table and I hung around my friends watching as the Lycans made their ns. I felt hope
and saw freedom in the distance. I knew that while we were all working together we would surely be
able to seed. We would need to work together as a team and agree on how things were going to go
for us all. Noting together as one could be catastrophic. While the Lycans got all of the things in
order, I got all of us together. Venturing into the territory of Lycan could be difficult for a lot of my
people. Lycans and witches don''t really get along. We would have to, for the sake of everyone. When
we were all ready to go, we left the house of terror and made our way to the Northern Kingdom.