Chapter 14: BOLT

I was worried about but I knew he was a strong man and he was definitely going to get through this no matter what.

The mountain ash burned out completely and I extinguished the fire immediately.

“Thank you Elaine” he said breathing heavily, his wound was already healing.

“Come on, let’s get you to the bed you need to rest” I said and he put his hand around my shoulder for support, slowly we approached the bed and he laid on it gently.

“Don’t worry about me, I’ll get better in few hours” he said placing his palm on my cheek trying to reassure me.

“Okay, I’ll stay here with you” I said and he smiled slightly before drifting away into sleep.

I watched him sleep peacefully and I prayed his wounds healed completely so that we could start our plan to overthrow Skylar.

My mind drifted to the expression on Skylar’s face when he figure out that Edgar survived and his sick plan failed woefully, Its going to be quite satisfying.

I walked towards the door and opened it.

“Don’t let anyone in, not even Skylar” I said to them.

“Yes, My Lady” they both said in unison and I closed the door and bolted it.

I walked towards the chair and sat there, I took a book to read but my mind thought of many things and I couldn’t focus on it.

I sat on the chair watching Edgar sleeping and my major concern is how a substance as lethal as mountain ash got into the pack house full of werewolves.

I sat in silence for hours watching Alexander, Now that my mind was at rest and having not slept the previous night, I slowly drifted into sleep on the chair.

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“How were they able to escape even after ingesting mountain ash?” Skylar said looking out the window into empty space, he took a sip of drink as he talked to his manservant behind him.

“They never ingested it, Master Edgar killed them all before they could bind him and force it down his throat” the manservant replied and Skylar paused for a while.

“And how did the house burn down?” Skylar asked his brows furrowing slightly.

“I don’t know how that happened My Lord” he replied.

“Did Brandon and Edgar escape the fire?” Skylar said.

“Yea they did my Lord” the manservant replied and Skylar’s anger grew.

“And Hayley?” Skylar said reducing his voice slightly.

“Dead, my Lord” the manservant said and Skylar heaved a sigh of somewhat relief.

“That’s alright, you can go now” Skylar instructed and the boy left after giving a bow.

How did he escape? How was he able to kill all my hounds? Is he that strong? Skylar kept on wondering to himself.