Chapter 0214


    Neah


    “Breathe.” Raven mutters


    “I''m not dead am I” I snap “So I''m obviously breathing!” I stop in my tracks, realising how much of an ass I sounded.


    Locking over my shoulder, I see the hurt in her eyes. She was just trying to help.


    The darkness had a grip so tight on my heart that it was making it hard to think about those around me, unless it was my sons.


    “I''m sorry.” I mutter. Hoping she knew that I did truly mean my apology


    “It''s happening isn''t it? You are slipping.”


    “I... I''m trying not to.”


    My eyes drift down to my fingers as I carefully feel over the tips. The growing ws had felt so bad and so good at the same time. Like a release of


    built up pressure. Is that how Salem felt?


    “You need to talk about it. Remember what Mallory said, you need to look at the bigger picture to see that there is more than what is happening in the


    moment. To make it all make sense.


    I roll my eyes. Mallory and her theories. Though I have to admit, they were helping a little, even if I still didn''t trust her.


    "So tell me again what miss lookalike said.”


    “Raven...”


    She cocks a brow and folds her arms. "She told me we share the same father.” I repeat again.


    “But you don''t believe that?”


    “I believed Devon more than her. And look how that ended.”


    “Bigger picture.” She mutters


    “No, I don''t believe it. I couldn''t feel her, I couldn''t sense her other than knowing what she is. It''s hard to exin.”


    “Try.” She smiles at me


    "With Jess, I could feel her presence. The same with Damien and... Mallory. With the other bitten ones. I could feel their fear when they realised they


    couldn''t fight me and my orders. There was even a tiny bit of recognition from Salem, but her, there is nothing. She looked at me with those big brown


    puppy eyes but do you know what she reminded me of?


    Raven shakes her head. “The way Trey used to look at me. It wasn''t even hate, it was more than that. It was like I was something he stood in and


    scraped off on the grass. And that’s exactly what I felt when she looked at me.”


    "What about your parents, what did she say?”


    "She said something about our father choosing my mother over hers when he discovered he was mated. But it makes no sense as the cone thing I do


    remember from my early years is that they loved each other so much.”


    “Like how Dane loves you?”


    “More.” I mutter. I couldn''t describe it. I just remember the feeling. Or maybe it was because I was a kid and I was seeing what I wanted to see


    "So she’s older than you, but you are the Alpha?”


    I nod, “I don''t think she is much


    older. Dane thinks the Alpha blood


    comes through on my mothers side.


    But they@idn''t care enough to tlt”


    me that before they died. Before I


    was set up.” I hear the spite my


    words and close my eyes taking I ina


    dep breath. Content belgngs to


    We were set up.” Nyx adds quietly. She still wasn''t sure what to think of this ir woman either and I was d she was keeping her thoughts to


    herself.


    "Why did you start shifting?” Raven presses as she pulls her hair up into a bun. She was trying to make the conversation as casual as if we were


    talking about movies. But I was starting to see that she was testing me. Trying to find a trigger point.


    “I didn’t know. not straight away. Dane was aware of it before I was.”


    The ws had retracted the


    moment shewalked away. Dane had


    made NE low her. And then


    informed’everyone that if I turn up-at


    the gatés or anywhere along the


    boundary line, to check the eyes. If


    they were anything other than blue,


    they had to call him in. Cgntent


    belongs to


    "Raven, what if I''m supposed to let this darkness take over me?”


    Her dark eyes are wide as she thinks of an answer, but all she coulde up with is ‘I don''t believe that.


    ‘Damien came back from that


    ce.” She adds with a small smile. I


    knew she seretly worried about him


    slipping pack, every single day. Even


    when she didnt talk about it, I knew


    becalse Damien would appear’ a


    few minutester. Enveloping her in


    his arms without saying asingle


    word.


    “But the others didn’t.” I wasn''t trying to find a reason to turn, but to understand that it could be my future. I would rather be prepared.


    She puffs out her cheeks, she doesn''t have an answer and I turn the conversation back to what happened with ir.


    “ think it''s because she mentioned the twins. I think that''s what prompted the shifting.


    "Nyx?"


    Not me.” Nyx murmurs. ‘It was all you.’


    I shake my head and slump into therge armchair.


    "Ah, so you went mama Lycan on her.


    That is a horrible term. “I probably would have killed her if Dane hadn''t stopped me.


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