Crystal POV
I’ve been here at the Moon Shadow pack for just over two weeks now and I love being here. I never knew that I missed Tyler this much, and his mate is amazing. So friendly and welcoming, it feels like home.
I was lying on the grass looking at the sun when I heard Tyler calling me. He had been analyzing the sample I gave him and he found nothing, just that whatever the wolf was injected with was a death sentence. “C, you might want to come and check this out.” I got up and went to Tyler’s office.
The place reeked of chemicals that actually burned my nose. “what have you found?”
“ Well, not much, but I did find the same genes in this one as in the one I found in your blood. You know to compare it with. So I took some of my blood and I appeared perfectly normal.”
I looked at him dumbstruck and watched as he showed me different slides with different blood. And it’s true.
“ What the hell does this mean, Tyler?”
“whoever made this one C also may have had a hand in creating you.”
I couldn’t speak so I left and teleported myself back to Greyville stone pack.
As I walked through the place, it looked like a hell hole. Everything is upside down and the grass is overgrown and the training field is empty. If someone knew something, I bet it would be May and Rodney.
“ They died, Crystal. Why can you not get that and just leave?”
Sitting opposite Roland and Natasha, I can’t believe what they are saying.
“ Did they leave anything for me that you know of?” I asked, trying hard not to show emotion.
Roland got up and walked over to a safe behind the bookcase. He removed a large brown box and handed it to me. “ This is all we could find, but there is no key.” To access the complete chapters for free, visit J o b n i b ,c o m . I took the box and left, teleporting myself back to the Moon Shadow pack. I looked at the box and the keyhole was not a normal key, it almost looked like something round with a sharp pin-like point in the middle.
“ Why do these patterns look so familiar?”
* Your Necklace is the key C.*
I put the box down and removed my necklace. It has the same shape and symbols as the box.
All I found in the box were two notes. One was from someone named Eliza and the other from my father.
I picked one up from Eliza and read it.
“If you find this, then that means your parents died and I’m so very sorry for your loss. You don’t know me but I am Queen Eliza Cork and I want to explain a few things to you. Please phone me and we can meet or you can come here.”
There was a number and a royal invitation to the kingdom.
I picked up the note from my father and started reading.
When we found you, we found a letter and I put it in this box. And if you are reading this, that means you knew the necklace was the key. I am so proud of the woman I could see you grow up into and I’m sorry I cannot be here for your first shift, but I would have loved to see the amazing wolf you are. I hope you find who you are and I love you.
Sincerely dad
I sat there letting the tears fall freely and decided what I was going to do. I left the room and went to Tyler’s office.
“Ty, I know where I have to go, and what I have to do. But I’m leaving today.”
He looked at me and I saw his face drooping. “I just got you back C.”
I showed him the note and his eyes went huge. “ We don’t want the Queen waiting too long now, do we?”
I grabbed my stuff and teleported myself as close to the kingdom as possible. I’ve never been there, so I cannot go there directly. ‘I can only teleport myself to a place I’ve actually been.’
It took me about ten minutes to get to the front gates of the kingdom.
I was greeted by two guards and gave them the invitation and they let me in, accompanying me to the front door. I knocked and waited.
The door opened, revealing a tall blond woman, maybe in her late fifties. She looked at me and showed me in.
“ My name is Crystalia and I’m here to see Queen Eliza please.” I said and just received a very shocked look from the woman. She looked at me and then said, “ You have changed so much, child. And I am Queen Eliza. And I’m very happy you came. I’m very sorry about your parents and the circumstances we have to meet in.” I bowed and said thank you. She led me to a small room where we had tea and talked about random things.
I told her about my parents and about my life before it went badly.
“I know you were killed, Crystal.”
I looked at her shocked and not sure what to say. There was a faint knock on the door and a man came in. “ Sorry to disturb you, but you called for me, my love?”
“ Yes I have. Please come take a seat and meet Crystalia.”
When he came in, I was shocked into silence, he looked exactly like Zanian just in an older version with grey hair and many more laughing lines beside his eyes.
I got up and bowed to him. We shook hands and sat down again, but I cannot take my eyes off of the resemblance. “ Do you have a grandson?” I put my hands over my mouth and looked down.
“I am so sorry, I said.” And looked up, when I looked at them they were both staring at me. “why do you ask that Crystal?” the King asked.
I bit my lower lip and said “you just remind me of someone I know, my king.”
Queen Eliza looked at me and I saw a slow smile on her face. “ We have a son but we have no idea where he is. We gave him up for his safety as we did for you, Crystal.”
I looked at her and asked, “what do you mean?”
“ You were once part of the kingdom pack, as was your biological mother and father. Your father was the head Beta and your mother was a female Beta. We were a family until your father started looking worse and worse and worse, like he wasn’t sleeping, and then you were born and I was there the day you were born. Your father stole you out of the hospital and we didn’t find you until weeks after.
When we found you, you were bigger, almost the size of a one year old, but you were only one month old. Your father experimented on you to create the perfect wolf, strong, fast, fearless, and almost impossible to kill. We never knew what he did to you but, your mother and I made the decision to get you out of here where he will not find you and that is what I did. I left you in the woods near Greyville stone pack and waited for someone to spot you and a lovely woman and her mate found you. I checked in on you many times but stopped when I was being followed. I am so sorry that we could save you sooner, Crystal.”
I looked at them almost void of any emotion. “ You said I reminded you of someone?” the king said and was looking at me.
“ His name is Zanian Black and he has this safe house for rogues “the good kind”. He lives deep in the forest where no one ever goes to the house Odin Cork once lived in.” When I said that name, they went silent and I regretted saying anything.
“ Our son had a child, and before he found out, we helped the girl get out from under his abuse, but he found her and killed her, but Zara took the child and hid him, not even we knew the pack he had been taken too.”
“I’m sorry I brought it up.”
“ Don’t be, child. But how do you know him?”
“ He is my second chance mate,” I said, and then the room went quiet.
I now know why I am different from every other wolf and I’m not sure how I should feel. The fact that my father killed my mother and experimented on me makes me hate a man I have never met before.
“ Rogues are looking for us. Why would they be looking?”
They looked at me and the queen nodded her head as if giving permission to something. “we heard about the increase of rogue attacks and the death of every Alpha and Luna. We have no proof but we think your father is looking for you and Zanian because the two of you together are stronger than one thousand rogues or five hundred highly trained warriors.”
This is too much information for my brain to take. So Zanian is the rightful heir to the throne and my psychopathic father is looking for us. *we need to go home C.*
“seems like we do.”
“I’m sorry, but I have to go. I haven’t been home in more than two weeks and I am tired of all this drama.”
“ Of course, child, but please do not tell Zanian about any of this. He will know when the time is right.”
I smiled at them and gave my word and from there I teleported myself into my bedroom and fell on top of my bed. “why in the hell is my room smelling like Zanian?” I locked my door and took a shower feeling fresh and new and then made my way downstairs. I am hungry and edgy because I haven’t had a run in a long time. Stepping into the kitchen, all eyes were on me.
“ Where the hell have you been?” I heard that deep voice that sent shivers down my spine. I looked over my shoulder and there he stood, looking like he hadn’t slept in days.
“doesn’t matter. I’m here for now.”
“ You’re leaving again?” Zane asked, coming in.
“yes. I have to go see a friend in Paris.”
“ You are not leaving here without my permission and you don’t have it.”
I looked at Zanian and shrugged my shoulders. “I don’t need to because you don’t own me, in fact no one does.”
He took a few steps closer to me and gripped my shirt from the back, tearing it right down the middle in the front.
I heard gasps and saw everyone staring at me and I looked down.
All my scars are visible at the front, my shoulders, my chest, and on my stomach.”
I turned around looking at Zanian with tears in my eyes and said, “ Is this what you wanted, Zanian?” I took my shirt off completely and did a slow turn for him to see. I looked him in the eyes and he had regret and pain written all over his face. “I wish I never got a second mate.” Was all I said and teleported myself to my quiet spot on the edge of the woods. And that is where I cried my heart out for everything. “I’ve never cried this much in my life and at this moment I hate myself for it for allowing Zanian to make me feel weak and broken.”
Ok, hear me out. The king said that these two together are strong but the king didn’t know they were mated SO they can still be strong working together withou BEING together. Pls darling reject this shit, let him live in misery and find yourself a good one.