Chapter 22 Something Is Coming For Me
Evra’s POV
I stood in the middle of the room for a few seconds after saying that to myself.
And damn it… that strange feeling still hadn’t gone away.
Usually, whenever Magnus was near me, one thing always happened—whether I liked admitting it or not. Something inside my blood that often felt chaotic would suddenly calm down. Not completely gone, but at least it stopped raging like a storm that had lost its direction.
Now?
No.
Now it was the opposite.
The pulse returned.
One.
Silence.
Two.
I pressed my palm against the table near the window.
“God…” I muttered quietly. “This is really making me uncomfortable and frustrated.”
It was getting clearer.
Not from inside my body. Not from the castle either. This was… from outside. From the ground.
I closed my eyes for a moment, trying to focus.
Usually the power that rose from my blood felt like pressure from within. Like something was trying to break out through my bones and skin.
This was different.
This one felt like… a pull.
Like someone far away was knocking on a door I didn’t even know existed.
The pulse came again. And this time my body reacted without permission.
I straightened immediately.
Direction.
I opened my eyes quickly and turned toward the window.
The forest.
The territory border.
It was far enough from the castle, but somehow my body knew exactly where to look.
“I’m seriously losing my mind,” I muttered.
I tried to ignore it.
Really.
I walked away from the window and grabbed a glass of water from the small table near the bed. But before I even had the chance to drink it, the pulse came again.
Stronger.
The glass almost slipped from my hand.
“Okay,” I said quietly, letting out a breath. “Okay… this is definitely not normal.”
No part of me had ever felt something like this before.
Voices in my head had appeared before. Strange flashes had happened. The red light that made everyone panic had already happened too.
But the ground calling me?
That was new.
I put the glass back on the table.
My mind immediately returned to last night’s dream.
Red mist.
Cracked earth.
The creature in the distance.
And one very clear feeling back then.
The land was searching for something.
And somehow, I knew that something was me.
The pulse came again.
Faster this time.
I immediately lifted my head.
“Don’t tell me…”
One possibility appeared in my mind.
A possibility that sounded ridiculous even when I thought about it out loud.
That creature.
The one I saw in the dream.
What if…
I stopped myself before finishing that thought.
No.
Impossible.
That was just a dream, right?
I walked toward the bedroom door.
The guards were still outside. I could hear their footsteps shifting quietly in the corridor.
If I stepped out now, they would follow.
And if I tried heading toward the castle gate?
Magnus would probably know before I even reached the second staircase.
I let out a long sigh.
“Wonderful,” I muttered. “Trapped inside the strongest Alpha’s castle in this territory, with blood power I don’t even understand. And now the ground is talking too. My life has been a complete mess since I met Magnus at that auction.”
I returned to the window.
The morning fog had begun to thin. On the training field, a few young wolves were still moving in sparring formations. From up here they looked like small shadows moving quickly across the ground.
I pressed my hand against the glass again when the pulse returned.
And this time the sensation was clearer.
As if a wave was traveling through the earth… moving past tree roots, stones, and the water beneath them.
Toward the castle.
Toward… me.
My breath caught in my throat.
“No way…”
I stepped back half a step from the window.
But right at that moment, the pulse stopped.
Just like that.
Silence.
I blinked.
A few seconds passed.
I didn’t feel anything anymore.
“Seriously? Just when I started believing something real was happening, now it disappears?” I muttered.
I looked outside once more.
The forest still stood in the distance. Fog drifted slowly between the tall trees that covered most of Rivenhall’s territory.
Nothing was moving strangely.
There was no sign of anything.
I almost thought it was all just my imagination.
Almost.
Until the voice inside my head appeared again. More like a whisper of awareness that felt very old and very patient.
“Wake.”
I froze.
“What—”
The whisper didn’t come from my ears.
It appeared directly in my mind.
Calm.
Not threatening.
But impossible to ignore.
I swallowed.
“I don’t like this,” I muttered quietly.
No answer came.
But the feeling that followed made the skin on the back of my neck prickle.
Attention.
As if something far away had just noticed my existence.
I immediately stepped away from the window.
“No. No. No.”
I shook my head to myself.
This had to be the result of all the chaos from the last few days.
Energy.
Rituals.
Magnus.
The strange entity inside my blood.
Now my mind was starting to make up its own stories.
I walked back to the center of the room, trying to calm myself down.
But before I could even sit, a hard knock sounded on the door.
I turned quickly.
The guards never knocked like that unless something serious was happening.
The door opened.
One of the guards stepped halfway inside.
“Miss Evra.”
His expression was different than usual.
Tense.
“What is it?” I asked immediately.
He hesitated for a moment before answering.
“The Alpha requests that you remain in your room.”
I raised an eyebrow.
“That’s been his order from the beginning.”
“The order has… been updated.”
His tone made me frown.
“What happened?”
The guard didn’t answer right away.
But from the corridor behind him, I could hear something.
Footsteps.
A lot of them.
Fast.
I walked closer to the door before he could close it.
At the end of the corridor, several guards were moving toward the main staircase with weapons in their hands. Not panicking, but clearly not a normal patrol either.
My stomach immediately turned cold.
“What happened?” I repeated.
The guard finally answered.
“There’s movement at the forest border.”
My heart stopped for a moment.
The border.
The forest.
Exactly where I felt it earlier.
“What kind of movement?” I asked.
He shook his head.
“Not clear yet.”
Then he added in a lower voice.
“But the patrol reported… something is standing at the territory line.”
The skin on my arms prickled instantly.
The creature from the dream appeared in my mind again.
Red mist.
A large silhouette in the distance.
Searching for something.
The guard closed the door again.
But his words still echoed in my head.
Something is standing at the territory line.
I looked at the window again.
The forest in the distance looked exactly the same as before.
Calm.
Still.
But now I knew one thing I could no longer ignore.
The pulse I felt earlier… wasn’t my imagination.
And somehow, something out there had just found its way into Magnus’ territory.
I swallowed slowly.
Then whispered almost without realizing it.
“…and I think it’s coming for me.”