Chapter 34

I looked at her, trying to understand what she meant by that. “could you… could you please use another for to talk to me? It doesn’t seem right to me that I am talking to my mate who is not just my mate.” She nodded, apologizing for forgetting. I nodded.

She changed. She looked familiar, just like how my visions depicted her to be. “Hello, I’m Dorothy” she bowed a bit.

“It’s a pleasure to meet you” I said awkwardly. “What did you mean that you were just like me?” I asked, jumping right into the question since she was no longer in Eric’s face. “I.. I was a seer” she said in a low voice. “I knew I was different but I never knew that I was that different. I was replaced just like you”

She wasn’t making sense anymore.

“Look, things are repeating itself again and this time, it’s slightly different. When I was the seer, I was the replacement for this dead mate. But you, you are another mate for the prince. Do not let this opportunity slip by you.”

“I thought solaria was the memory of his ex mate? How did it..” there was a whole lot of confusion. I didn’t even understand what was happening anymore.

“I don’t have any more time here in the living. Just know, that history is repeating itself. Please, don’t let the war break out this time again. She said and faded in to thin air.

I sat down, overwhelmed about the whole situation.

“I just need one normal day.” I mumbled to myself.

I walked out of the room, everyone seemed to look tensed, on the edge. I saw some maid’s passing by and decided to stop them “hey, what’s going on?” the girl looked startled looking into my eyes. “S. seer” she mumbled, saying some unintelligent words from her mouth that seemed out of fear. The one besides her took her hand and left.

I walked around, looking for who I could talk to. “Ian!” my face lit up a bit. I walked towards him, nervous about talking to him. This was going to be the first time I would talk to him since the confrontation.

“Eloise” he bowed slightly, barely looking me in the eyes.

“Still mad at me huh?” I said trying to joke. He didn’t move, didn’t flinch. He just stood there, looking.

“Look, I am sorry about the other day. If it…”

“is there anything you’ll need from me right now! I am quite busy” he said cutting me off.

Rude much' I thought, not even listening to me.

“ What’s wrong with everyone in the castle? Every one seems Soo…..”

I didn’t know the word to use without sounding rude or weird. Or outrightly rude incase it was a tradition of some sort.

“The Alpha’s mother just died. Everyone is in morning” my heart lurched out to Eric. I just nodded and let him pass

“I walked around in circles looking for Eric since people were too afraid to talk to me because I was a seer, or the fact that no one wanted to talk to me because I was the Luna.

“For the love of!!!” I screamed, getting annoyed that no one wanted to hear me out.

“Luna” one guy bowed in front of me. I recognized him, he was one of the guards that always stood at my door. “Is there anything you need?”

I sighed in relief. “Eric, I am looking for Eric” I said.

He nodded and began walking down some unfamiliar stairs.

I looked at him, wary of him. This is how it always went down in books. They’d lure the princess out kill her where no one was.

“Where exactly are we going?” I said unsure. I was ready to bolt back to where I came from. Soon, Eric came into view.

He sat there, calm. Just looking confused, tired and just….. sad.

“Hey” I greeted. The guard bowed his head, leaving the two of us alone.

“Hi” even his voice sounded distant.

“I’m sorry for your loss.” I said coming to seat beside him.

“Its alright.i already knew it was coming. She hadn’t been the same since we lost my dad.” I nodded

“what’s the next thing you plan to do?” I said trying to make light conversation.

“The council is coming. We’ve been having attacks from the vampires I don’t have the time to grief.” I could hear how enraged and pained he sounded all at once.

“You need, even if it’s a day to grief them. But whatever you think is okay” I said scared to make him angry or anything like that.

“Eloise… thank you” he said after looking at me for a while. “I don’t know what I would do without you. We might have met not too long ago but somehow, I feel as though my life is wrapped around you”

I swallowed.

'he would not accept us if he knew what we truly were” a little voice said in my mind. I kept quiet.

“I want you to know something” I started. Taking in a deep breath. “I love you, I really do. I want you to have that at the back of your mind when things go down” I Said. I knew what I had just said might not be completely true. Yes I had deep feelings for him, but love? I wasn’t too sure about it.

“I love you to, truly “ he said hugging me tightly.

We stayed like that for what felt like a while.

“do you want a drink?” I asked out of nowhere.

“No, I just want to stay in your arms like this for a while.” I nodded, understanding that feeling. So.i didn’t say anything and then was his armor till when he felt alright.

A loud Bell was heard from the west part of the castle and immediately his body went stiff.

“We are under attack.” He said in a low voice”

I looked straight into his eyes and then I was hit with a memory

∆∆

Where is she!” Eric thundered, storming into the room. He looked around the room and I could see how much relieved he was as his eyes met mine.

He walked across the room and hugged me. I almost couldn’t breathe, but I didn’t say anything. I would rather be suffocated in his hug than not have it at all.

“I went to the room. I was so scared when I didn’t see you.” He said hugging me tighter.

“I’m sorry about earlier” we both said at the same time. There was a pause as I waiting for the other to speak first.

“ I am sorry. I should have defended you earlier in front of my people. I shouldn’t have let them talk to you that way.. you are not an abomination and you aren’t solaria.” I felt my heart squeeze a bit on hearing her name. It was so unhealthy how I jealous of a dead woman

“And I shouldn’t compare you to her.” He completed.∆∆

I held him tight.

I didn’t want to fight again. Not when things seemed alright at the moment