"I asked around," said Scarlet as she stepped out of the car. "The people of the town where you t the chanic told a little about the female alpha that man and his wife spoke of."
"They did?" Inez followed Scarlet out of the car. She glanced around the town where she had co the last ti with Tracy, and the worry in her heart eased a little. The town no longer looked as terrifying as it did on that night; instead, it looked quite cute and vintage, with small houses scattered all over the land. Suddenly, an odd sort of feeling, which she wasn’t used to but wasn’t unfamiliar with, trickled within her heart. It was an emotion that she hadn’t felt on her last visit to this town.
Nostalgia.
Like she knew this place but couldn’t rember it anymore. As if she had once walked around this place—which was fucking weird because Inez didn’t recall walking around this town in the past, like, ever.
It’s not weird considering that the last ti you were here, you were just a kid, her siren spoke within her. Her voice was calm and soothing, but Inez didn’t dare to trust her, given that her siren was not even in control of her own powers.
Her siren snorted within her.
Is it my fault? You have never accepted as a part of you. Always ashad. Always avoiding . You don’t even speak my na. If not for the fact that your wolf was incapable of assisting you at the mont, you wouldn’t even pay attention to . If you had learned how to use your powers, do you think that we would be in the situation that we are in at the mont? Her siren’s words left a lingering guilt within Inez.
Right. She had always avoided even accepting that she was part siren because her mother often called her a monster and whatnot. Saying that she was not worthy enough to be a shifter because she also had a siren. Because of this very reason, Inez had hardly learnt or even accepted her siren—no, Nerina. That was what her siren was called.
Inez could feel Nerina’s happiness within her. Even though she hadn’t done anything other than accept her and call her by her na, Nerina was beaming with happiness with just that alone and that only made Inez even guiltier.
"Are you speaking with your siren?"
Scarlet’s voice broke through her thoughts, and Inez turned to look at her sister.
"Yeah, how do you know that?" She asked.
"You have this guilty expression on your face. Like you did sothing wrong," mused Scarlet. She wasn’t looking at Inez but around the town as if searching for sothing. "Honestly, I wonder how it feels to have two forces within your own body and head. I an, I have Mila, and she alone is enough to keep occupied all day long with how chatty she is. I wonder how you haven’t gone crazy with Nia and that siren of yours."
"Nerina". Inez relayed her siren’s na to Scarlet before she continued to speak. "And yeah—it’s really confusing with the two of them yelling and screaming at in my head, but with Nia gone... it’s quite too quiet." Inez frowned, missing her wolf who had gone silent. She could feel Nia, knew that she was alive within her. But that was it. She couldn’t reach out to her. It was as if Nia was wrapped and hidden in a bubble. Inez could see and feel her, but she couldn’t reach her with the barrier separating her from her wolf.
She is just throwing a tantrum, huffed Nerina. What’s the point of pining after a wolf who doesn’t even want you? She is a sha and embarrassnt for all the sirens.
Except that she is a wolf and not a siren.
She is stuck with . So she should know better. n and wolves are not worth your trust—and even if they are, you need to keep your heart protected. Never ever put your key to happiness in the hands of a man.
What about Killian?
Inez could feel her siren going silent before Nerina exploded. What about him? What about him? It’s not like I am going to cry myself to death if he walks out on . I am stronger than Nia and always will be. Don’t count in the sa rank as her, alright?
Inez winced as Nerina’s voice drumd within her head. She pushed her siren back to the back of her head and then glanced at Scarlet, who was standing in front of her and staring at the end of the road on the right. "What are you looking at?"
"There is sothing wrong," replied Scarlet. She pointed at the end of the road, and Inez followed her line of sight. "You see that? That old path had a signboard with all the streets marked the last ti I ca here, but now there is nothing. It’s weird. who in the world would move a signboard?"
’It was indeed weird,’ agreed Inez.
Why would soone move a signboard?
She questioned, "Was that signboard important?"
"No," Scarlet shook her head. "Though it was indeed a landmark that I marked in my head, it wasn’t exactly important. I know where to go."
She raised her foot and headed down the road that spiralled down from a modern one to a rickety and bumpy forest path. With thorny bushes, wild plants and gnarled branches reaching out to smack them on their faces, Inez felt like they were walking down what she thought was a path to the forbidden city rather than to an old and abandoned pack.
"Are you sure it’s down there?" She asked with a frown on her face as another branch smacked her on the face, leaving a red thunder-shaped mark on her pale skin.
"I left so marks behind." Scarlet pointed at the claw marks on the tree on the right and stated, "You don’t have to worry, we are on the right track. This road will definitely lead us to the abandoned pack of Alpha Ria."
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