128 MATING CEREMONY
Lise carried River in her arms with Anne following behind her.
The old lady looked so lethargic with all of this running and seed like she couldn’t handle it any longer.
Not only because she was slowing them down, but also because of her sickness. At her age, she should rest and be concerned about nothing, but herself, and yet here she was; trying to survive with Lise and the little girl.
“Anne...” Lise called her once she had put River in the bed and ca to the old lady, as she squatted down in front of her. She held her hands and looked at her with so much concern in her eyes.
“I know what you want to say to ,” Anne cut her words before she even started to speak. They had talked about it a few tis in the past, but had never had a real conversation.
“Anne, I don’t want you to misunderstand ,” Lise began, she looked hurt because she had to say this. “But, I think you need a permanent place to rest. You shouldn’t be on the run with and River.”
Anne sighed, even when she breathed this way, she felt very weak. She knew what Lise said was right. Her age was no longer suitable to this harsh life, but...
“I can contact Nathen or Sebastian, I am sure they will find you a perfect and safe place to stay.” Nathen and Sebastian were Knox and Gael’s right hand n and they still kept contact until now. The two of them helped Lise a lot during their constant run.
Anne lowered her eyes and hid her disappointnt.
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“Anne... you know that I love you, you are the only family that I have, but I will not let your life be in more danger than it already has.” Lise kissed her cheek.
“Gael will co soon,” she mumbled and Lise didn’t have an answer for that.
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Blue awoke to the sound of raindrops striking the only window in her bedroom, her blurry eyes caught sight of the droplets of water that were trickling down on the glass.
It looked like a storm would co and the chilly air left her shivering. Her wounds had healed and her broken bones had cracked back to their right places. She hated it with everything that she had whenever soone hurt her, but she would hate herself even more when she could do nothing about it.
Blue stayed in her bed for a little bit longer. The training this afternoon would be canceled due to this weather, thus she didn’t need to attend that stupid training again.
Alpha Xerxes returned yesterday and no one would tell him about Blue’s injuries and the death of a mber of his pack.
He believed that it was all about quality, not quantity, therefore if they died during training, then they were not worth being alive at all.
“Zuri?”
Soone knocked on her door and from the scent that drifted to her senses and also from her voice, Blue knew it was redith, an oga from her forr uncle’s pack.
If Blue could say that she has a friend, then redith would be it, though they were not that close or she would like to talk to her about everything, but in general, they were on good terms.
“Co in,” Blue said hoarsely, as she pushed herself up to sit down on her bed.
A young and beautiful woman with curly hair that stread down her shoulders, ca inside the room. She was only a year older than Blue.
Probably, this was one of the reasons why Blue liked her, because she adored her hair, while she had to cut her hair because it was convenient when she had to fight.
Though, her white hair had grown long after the last ti she cut it. Her hair reached her shoulders now. It’s ti for her to cut it again, albeit she hated the very idea of chopping her hair off.
“What happened?” Blue covered her body with the blanket because of the cold wind that ca with redith when she opened the door.
“Emt asked to see you,” she said in a soft tone, her eyes were down when she ntioned ‘Emt’ na, but Blue didn’t think much about it.
“What does he want now?” Blue scoffed, it was a rhetorical question because she knew, whatever issue that she had to deal with him, it would be sothing that she didn’t want.
“Actually, Alpha Xerxes is there too, with Liam.” redith sat down on the only chair inside this small room. She still didn’t want to look into Blue’s eyes.
“They are in the sa room?” If Alpha Xerxes was there, it mostly was his order. “What happened, redith? You know sothing, right?” Blue probed. She noticed her uneasiness.
“Zuri...” she called her na, lifting her head to et her eyes. “You should run from this place.”
This ti, Blue could see the concern in her eyes, no, it was fear. redith was not scared for herself, but for her.
“Why?” Running away from this place was her dream, but apparently, the world outside of this pack was not as easy as one could imagine. She had validated that, since she fought alongside the warriors in every attack that humans threw at them.
redith looked troubled when Blue asked that, she even flinched when Blue got off her bed and approached her.
“Tell , what is it?” Blue knew it was not right to press her this way and she shouldn’t talk like this to redith, but her gut feelings told her this was sothing out of the ordinary.
“Zuri...” redith held her hand and looked at her with desperate eyes. “I can be wrong, but I heard them talking about the mating ceremony before I got out of the room.”
It was no secret that Alpha Xerxes was obsessed about Emt mating with Blue. That was his intention since the very beginning.
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