Zenovia
My words made Drusi fall silent abruptly. She was about to yell at me again and reprimand me for my
choices but she stopped speaking after I took Cal’s name.
I know it was emotional ckmail but then I wanted her help. I knew it would take me months or years
before I found any potion that allowed me to change my appearance.
Plus, given the information Sid provided me, it looked like the Rogue King had gotten angry and
vengeful.
Sid looked at me like a kicked puppy and he was still holding his cheek with one of his hands. He
alternated between studying the ground and stealing nces at Drusi who looked like she would rip
his head off.
“Okay, fine. You two. Let us go outside. We can’t talk here anymore.”
“We ARE already outside.”
Ugh.
“Fine. Sit in the car. NOW!!”
I ordered sternly but Drusi was ring at Sid.
“If you make me sit beside him, I am going to w his eyes out.”
“You don’t even have ws, Dru,” I said in a low voice but she shot me a murderous look.
“I…I will go then, I guess.” Sid replied in a low voice, speaking to no one in particr.
“No, you are not going anywhere.”
I grabbed his hand with one of my hands and pushed him into the
backseat of the car before closing the door.
“You sit in the front with me. We don’t have time for this.”
Drusi grumbled a little but I coaxed her into listening to me by saying that I would go with him alone if
she wouldn’t listen to me.
It was heartwarming to see her care for me so much. But I was doing this
for her best friend. She ought to understand that.
After forcing both of them to sit in the car, I drove through the winding roads that led us away from the
city and towards the forest.
I did not have a particr destination in mind but somehow my mind was automatically driving us there.
When we reached the outskirts of the forest and I ensured we were alone, I turned back to look at both
Drusi and Sid.
“Sid, give me your phone.”
I said, holding my hand in front of Sid who nervously reached for his pockets and held it in his
outstretched palm.
If I was not wrong he was shivering a little at the sight of Drusi ring at him like a mad bull and held
his hand closer to me and as far away from her as possible.
“Here”
He croaked as Drusi looked at the phone and then at me.
Before she could open her mouth, I held the phone in front of her, quickly opening the image I had seen
of the corpses.
Content rights belong to N?velDrama.Org.
“What the hell?”
She blurted out after seeing the picture, her wide eyes darting from the phone to me and back again.
“Who did that?” She asked and I handed the phone back to Sid.
“The Rogue King. He is getting violent and I fear he wille after our pack and Cahan pretty soon.
So I wish to infiltrate his territory, get all the insider information and inform Cahan so no more
innocent blood is spilled.”
Drusi blinked, “What?”
“You heard me right. I don’t think there is any other way to stop him. Waging out a war is of course a
solution but it is violent and I don’t want Cahan to lose his cool.”
I gave her a side eye, hoping that she got the cue. I did not want him to lose his cool so much that he
would go feral again.
My anchor bond was still pretty new and I was still experimenting. Plus, the more we waited it out, the
more damage the Rogue King would have caused.
Thankfully, Drusi did not want me to exin why I said thest line so she got the message. She
closed her mouth and began thinking hard about it.
That was my chance to convince her so I urged.
“Time is running short. We need your help. You already helped me before so you can do it now, right?”
She gave me a grave look though it was a relief that the creases on her forehead had disappeared.
“I…I don’t know what Cahan will think of all this.”
I replied with a confidence much greater than I actually felt.
“I know he will not like the idea. That is why I need you to give me a solution that I demonstrate in front
of him effectively. Meanwhile, Sid will go and kidnap someone for me.
Now it was time for Sid to exim, “What?”
Okay. I had to admit, I was not very clear with them with exining everything.
I took a deep breath and tried to piece it all together while both Dru and Sid were speaking against me
about how reckless this idea was.
Finally, they had agreed on something. I could make it work.
Thus, I began.
“Drusi, I want you to give me a potion, preferably a dosage required in small quantities but extremely
potent and will take effect instantaneously. The effect has tost long enough and if the effect is starting
to wear off, need it in a vial or something small that I always carry around and immediately take a sip
of. I believe I cannot just go in randomly with the face of a stranger and infiltrate the pack. The Rogue
King and his pack have to know and trust whoever I am shapeshifting into…so…herees your part,
Sid. You find a person from his pack that he trustspletely and I shapeshift into him, preferably a girl
because I don’t want to be stuck in a male body.”
“I…I…how do I know who he trusts enough AND is a girl? I was given an anonymous tip to kidnap….”
Sid began but his eyes darted to Drusi and he quickly corrected himself.
“…I mean to bring you over to himst time. I know nothing about his pack or warriors?”
Hmm.
This would get tough.
“If I just show up with a random stranger’s face, it would take me ages to climb up the ranks and get in
the inner circle.”
Sid scratched his chin while he said, “Hmm, let me make a few phone calls and I will have an answer to
your question.”
He looked at the door and then at me as if asking permission and I nodded, “Yes, go out. Get some
fresh air.”
He did and I turned to Drusi.
“What do you
think?”
“It is a suicidal n.”
I nodded.
”
“Cahan would never agree to it.”
“He already did.”
She looked at me with a raised eyebrow and I added, “I just took charge of the Rogue King search
operations and he had to give it to me as an award for winning the trials a few months back.”
She stared at me for a horrified second before adding.
“At this point, I don’t even know if you are suicidal or very shrewd. That little brain of yours can cook
ns, I must say.”
“Is that a yes?” I asked, taking her hands into mine and she bit on her lower lip nervously.
“I….I will think about it.”
I smiled and gave her hands a gentle squeeze. “Great. And, also you absolutely cannot tell Cahan
until I have tried it and transformed into someone else.”
I shook my head.
“You trusted me to be his anchor, right? You have to trust me on this too. Please. If the experiment fails,
I will obviously not run into the Rogue King’s pack foolishly. But until then, you have to trust me.”
It was risky to make the Lycan King’s best friend keep secrets from him. But then he had been hiding
plenty of secrets of his own all his life.
He would be answerable to them first about the secrets they would learn aboutter. And my gut was
telling me I could pull this off with Sid and Drusi’s help.
Sid had walked a little further away to talk to someone and returned after a while.
I looked at him expectantly,
“I think I can help you.”
I beamed at him and grabbed his wrist. “Really?”
He looked at me in surprise and the fact that I had just willingly touched him.
“Uh, yeah. In fact, you know what. I tried to ask around and someone told me that there is a club where
a few of the Rogue King’s pack members go to. Maybe, I can go there and find out more inform
“Perfect. I aming with you.”
I smiled brightly at Sid but his eyes went wide with disbelief.
“What? No! Are you mad?”
I kept holding his hand and muttered, “Please, we will stay under co
He was still not convinced. “No, it is too risky. What if they see you? Th already know you are wanted
by the Rogue King and escaped him once
I worked on a response.
“I have to know the pack members, their names, and such if I want to blend in. How would I do that if I
knew nobody there?”
Sid had opened his mouth to deny my im but he fell silent.
“Fair point”
He said atst, but he was not convinced. Drusi meanwhile kept ring at him while pulling me to
the side.
“I will have to see if I can find someone to help us. It might take time. And I am not sure if I can do it.”
I gave her hand a reassuring squeeze.
“I trust you. You will find something.”
Then I looked at both of them and outstretched my hand.
“So, are we in the n together?”
I looked at them, hoping that they would ce their palms on mine and we call ourselves a team.
Drusi shook her head.
“This girl is insane.” I giggled and looked at Sid.
He reached forward to join hands but Drusi pulled away and scowled.
“No way is he touching me”
Well. Maybe, it would take some more time to call us a proper team.