Chapter 212
Emery
Mom’s eyes widen with understanding, but I ce my finger over my lips. Only my
mom and Aunt Quinn hear my little secret and I can see the excitement in both of their
eyes. I look up at my mates and they’re all smiling as well. I’m not sure what has our
father’s attention but none of them hear my bit of news. It’s just as well, though, they
will be too over- protective had they heard.
Bea pops in, “The council is here!”
I nod at all three of my aunts and they do their part, the amulets glowing around their
wrists as they hold the wall. Their hands are linked while their eyes are closed. You
can see their lips moving as they chant silently. I feel the wardse down, but the
new ones go up automatically, trapping the enemy between the invisible wall and the
border.
“Do it now!” I tell our parents.
They all take the daggers to our hands and slice them in the center of each palm. The
sting is nothing as the de releases the blood from within. We automatically form a
circle as we grasp each other’s hands. As our blood drips to the ground, we begin the
chant, softly at first, but as I start to feel a warmth deep inside of me, my voice gets
louder, as does my
mates.
Opening my eyes, I can see a golden hue radiating off my skin, and each of my mates
have their own hue as well.
Decker’s is a ck shimmery color, Holden’s is a white shimmery, and Asher’s is a red
one. It’s like smoke as it filters to the center of our circle and joins together, mixing the
colors together before they move upward.
The wind picks up all around us and the ground begins to rumble beneath our feet.
Screams can be heard from the Shikari as one by one I can see them in my mind,
dropping to their knees. They scramble, trying to take hold of their magic that seeps
out from their chests and gets sucked back into the earth. It’s too much for some and
they drop, taking theirst breath on foreign soil. I can’t feel sorry for them, they chose
this path and now they must suffer the consequences.
We are only about three quarters of the way through when I start to feel myself waver.
Both Holden and Decker hold tightly onto me, keeping me from copsing. All of a
sudden, I feel a burst of energy rush through me, and I stand up on my own, my voice
loud and clear until the veryst Shikari has been syphoned.
“I felt that! The power surge that went through you; was
that…”
I cut Decker off, “Yes, that was the pup.” I grin.
“I don’t mean to rain on anyone’s parade,” Uncle Den says as he hurries over, “But
we should probably get to the border so we can drop the wall and see what happens.”
“You’re right,” Holden speaks up, “Ledger and Spencer, will you grab the prisoner and
bring him with you? Try not to kill him on the way over.” My mate chuckles.
“Ten-four, Alpha.” Both of my dad’s say it in unison.
It’s so weird hearing them refer to my mates as Alpha but I guess I had better get
used to it. Just like I’m their Luna, but I know I will always be their baby first and
foremost. Both of my father’s kiss me on the head, congratting me for
aplishing what we set out to do. Everyone always wants their parents praise and
I’m not different. Warmth floods me when I hear each of them and then they are gone,
heading to go get Colin.
‘Are you ready, Em?’ Kiki asks anxiously.
Looking back at my mates, I see that they’ve already shifted and are only waiting on
me, ‘Yes Kiki, I’m ready.’
We shift and then the four of us race to the border where everyone else is at. There’s
only about half of the Shikari still standing. ording to the other territories, none of
the hunters showed up there, they were all here, and by the looks of it, I’d say that
there were maybe two thousand, but less than a thousand remain standing. None of
the council members stood a chance; they were too old to take the loss of their magic
as it was syphoned out. Magic was all they knew; it was like a mate losing their other
half, only the Shikari were too greedy and only loved their magic.
Out of all the men standing, there is one woman, and it’s one I know because I could
never forget her face. Kiki growls and bares her teeth at the woman. The hunters
stand huddled together, scared shitless with so many wolves surrounding them and
there isn’t anything that they can do about it. The wall is now down and so Kiki walks
slowly towards the woman like she’s stalking her. I have to give it to La; she may
be scared but she doesn’t back down.
“Kiki, please don’t!” We hear a familiar voice behind us and
turn to see Bea standing there with pleading eyes.
‘It’s her sister, Kiki. We can’t harm her; Bea has done so much
for us.’
‘Ugh, fine!’ My wolf turns back to La and snarls at her onest time, making the
woman jump and then trip over her own feet,nding herself on her ass. Kikiughs
out loud surprising
the woman and other Shikari around her.
We go back to our mates who have already shifted back. Asher holds an over-sized
shirt out for me, “Thank you, baby.” Kiki says and licks him up the cheek before taking
the shirt between her teeth and going behind a tree.
“You’re wee, little wolf.” He chuckles and wipes all the
slobber from his face.
When Ie back out from behind the tree, I see Bea walking over to her sister.
La’s eyes are wide with recognition, “Beatrice?”
“Hello, La. It’s been a long time.” Bea states.
La throws herself at her older sister and hugs her tight, “Father said that you were
dead!”
“I was dead, to him. He disowned me when I left for a better life. He sent men after
me, and it wasn’t until I came here to America that I could finally be free.” Bea
exins.
“You left me…”
“I tried to take you with me, La; you refused. You were too enamored with the Head
Shikari at that time, and couldn’t wait until you could join his harem. Tell me, La,
was it all
you ever dreamed of?”
“H-He gave me my son.” La stammers.
“Oh yes, a son who is now going to lose his life all because of his sick perversions
over his own niece.” Bea spats.
“What? No, they can’t kill him! He’s my baby!” The woman looks to me, pleading with
her eyes.
At that moment, my own mother steps forward and puts her arm around my
shoulders, “And what about my baby? The one you hit and kicked, leaving bruises all
over her body? What about my baby that you were going to allow to be raped by her
uncle, your own son?” Rani, my mother’s wolfes forward and growls.Text content ? N?velDrama.Org.
I ce my hand on hers, allowing my aura to seep in and calm her down. I smile at
her, thanking her for standing up for me. I turn back to La and then point to my
aunts, “Did you and Colin know that he also had three sisters?”
La has a strange look upon her face as she stares at all three women, “How, by
who?”
“By me,” my grandmother states as she steps forward, “His mate, the woman he a
kept secret for years because he couldn’t give me up.”
“That’s a lie, Marko had no woman! Why would he hide you?” La scoffs.
“Because I’m a shifter and it was forbidden, but he didn’t care. My son, our son, had to
wear a silver bracelet for years in order to keep his wolf at bay. Had my son not killed
Marko, I would still be living in the basement at the Hastings Family
Home.”
“Y-You were the one that lived down there?” La asks disbelievingly.
“Yes, me and my three daughters, for about twenty-four, years.” My grandmother’s
voice hardens, “You call my son a traitor, but you were in love with one your whole life
and you fathered his son.” My fathers are just getting to the border with Colin still in
chains as she ends her sentence.
“Mother?” Colin calls out.
“Colin!”
“Don’t listen to anything they say! Everything out of their mouths are lies!” He sneers.
My aunt Sasha, who is right around the same age as Colin steps out in front of him
and Colin’s eyes go as round as saucers. Gasps throughout the Shikari are heard all
around, “No, it can’t be!” Colin himself gasps at what is almost his mirror image in
female form.