Chapter 29
In no time, I found the house that was supposed to be my home. My safe haven. But things didn’t go as they were supposed to. Though it now looked slightly different. It had a long porch out front with a single door in the middle of it. But I knew better. I walked towards it and opened the door. I found myself in the middle of two separate homes and I needed no one to point out which one was mine.
Walking towards the one in the west wing, I smiled when I saw the words written on top of the front door in our native tongue.
***Beware of the shadows that come out during the day.***
It was plain but cryptic enough for all those in our family. We all knew why those words were written in front of my mother’s pack house and my father’s palace. But we never talk about it or explain it to anyone. It was better that way. I walked into my home and that was when I realized Uncle Hephaestus had really outdone himself again. The house was perfection in itself and you could feel the heavy power flowing through the house. I don’t know how he did it, but it really felt like home, home. Like how I felt when I visited my father at his palace some years back.
I found the stuff I purchased already in their designated places and turned to raise an eyebrow at Kiara and Matthews who still couldn’t see me.
“Um we didn’t have anything doing so we decided to fix them for you” Kiara answered my unspoken question
“Who are you talking to?” Matthews asked with a cute frown on his face
“Khione Dava Chaos!!! For fucks sake, get the fuck out of the shadows” My mother yelled without looking up from her inspection of my new home
Rolling my eyes, I uncloaked myself before seating myself on the nearest couch. I closed my eyes and threw my head back
“Fuck me!!” Matthews cussed when he saw me.
“Don’t worry babe. I will tonight” Kiara teased
“That was just too much information than I needed to know.” Lucien whined
“Shut up Luce” Kiara snapped
Kiara and Lucien continued throwing jibes at each other whiles I soaked in the comfort of my new home. I felt the space beside me sink as a body made itself comfortable on it. I knew it was Lucas with the way he stared at me analytically. Trying to figure out what I was hiding. He liked to scrap every wall that someone close to him likes to build up in other to hide something. You never succeeded with Lucas around. He was always on my case when I was a kid.
Seeing as I didn’t know how to deal with common human emotions and tend to try and hide my frustrations and anger.
But he would always be there to analyze me and help me figure out how to go about it. May the goddess and fate bless his infinite patience because I know I was difficult to deal with...But he never gave up on me. He was smart but this time, it took him a while to figure out what was going on with me.
I smiled inwardly when he figured out one of the numerous things that have gone wrong with my body.
“Open your eyes” he demanded
“No” I replied back
“Please!” he begged causing everyone in the room to go silent.
Lucas Chaos never begged. He was also prideful like that.
My eyes flew open before I could stop myself and the gasps that followed told me that I really shouldn’t have.
“Mama…” Lucas called out softly
“I am seeing too Luca. I figured it out with her hair but I didn’t know it went this far.” My mother replied solemnly.
“Baby sis” Lucien whispered brokenly.
His jovial mood long gone. And it was a first. He never missed the chance to put a smile on my face when I was growing up or in one of my moods. He didn’t even stop joking when I told him about my mate cheating on me, but this was different and I knew it. Whiles Matthews stood still in shock. His mouth opening and closing with no words ever coming out.
Matthews was still trying to digest the little he knew about his mate and Chaos’ family and to have this slammed on top of it had his head reeling with confusion. Looking around swiftly, he located the nearest chair and shakily seated himself inside. Kiara walked towards her mate and rubbed his back in a comforting way. She understood what he was going through because she could feel it through their bond.
She wasn’t so surprised by Chaos’ new appearance because she had had the bitter honor of seeing it when she first woke up. It was enough to make a grown ass woman like herself breakdown. She scanned the room and watched the way Mama Chaos tried to blink back the tears that were desperate to escape her eyes. Lucien now sat in the couch with Chaos cuddled tightly to his chest as tears rushed down his face silently whiles Lucas sat beside them watching on with a blank look on his face. But everyone knew better.
He was raging mad inside and was in intense pain just like the rest of them. He just didn’t know how to show his emotions when they were too intense or this life altering. A mournful air hung deep in the air till Matthews cursed under his breath.
“What is it baby? Kiara asked softly
“Alpha is calling for a meeting in an hour time” Matthews replied icily
“That’s just perfect because I will be storming that meeting. But in the meantime, make sure to get Felecia, George and Tricia in that room. My family and I will be there as soon as we freshen up” Chaos said so eerily that goose bumps found residence on the body of every other person in the room
“Ooh… it’s about damn time” Kiara said with a sickly-sweet smile on her face.