Chapter 2 The blurry truth
That was his final act of kindness to her as he walked away, resisting whatever it was that kept pulling him to her.
After he left, Miguel went back and told her exactly what Kael had said. He then bent towards her, a sad look flashed through his eyes as he wiped her tears.
“I'm sorry”
He said, but she shook her head.
“You shouldn't be, I should have told him”.
She said, referring to the text she had received earlier. She soon stood up, still limping as she walked out.
As soon as she got out of the building, she opened her hand and looked at the object on her hand as her eyes brimmed with anger. Not at Kael but at whoever pulled such a stunt.
She wasn't going to stop until she found the person who killed his parents and framed her for it and she knew that when she did, death would be the least of their worries.
Until then, she would disappear like darkness in the night.
With pain in her wounds and pain in her heart, Hazel didn’t stop running until the scent of the pack lands faded from her nose.
She was extremely weak but she knew that once the news spread, a lot of werewolves would be out hunting her and even though she was a tribreed, she was yet to harness all of her powers.
Kael, the man who had sworn to love her just hours ago had given her twenty-four hours before she'd be hunted down like a rogue. Being a rogue was a werewolf's nightmare for a reason.
She couldn't blame him as the situation looked questionable but it hurt her so much that he didn't give her the slightest benefit of the doubt.
When she had finally gotten on a bus leading to a whole different city, she wiped her tears away and tried to focus.
Her mind drifted back to the scene at the abandoned building.
Kael's mother had whispered two words before she died… “burn and tattoo”. Hazel didn't get the chance to figure out what that meant before Kael walked in.
She clenched her fists as her wolf tried to come out in anger.
“I'm going to find who did this Kael, I will”.
She said.
Kael sat at his father’s desk, the room thick with silence as he kept looking at the big portrait of his parents on the wall. He had sent everyone away, but the smell of death still lingered around him.
He should have been preparing for the council’s arrival as they were going to discuss the death of his parents and the punishment of the killer as killing an alpha was not a forgivable sin.
But instead, his mind replayed Hazel’s voice, desperate, broken, and the way her eyes had looked when the bond string had appeared between them made his heart sink.
He flung the things on the table to the floor in disgust at the fact that he was still thinking about the woman who had just killed his parents.
Miguel entered almost immediately, dropping a small object wrapped in cloth on his desk.
“I found this under your father’s body.”
Kael immediately unwrapped it. Inside, was a piece of paper that looked a bit burnt. It looked like a letter but most of it was already in ashes.
Still, Kael tried to read what he could.
“Be there, burning sun, Kael”.
Those were the things he saw and finally, a seal at the edge that didn't look familiar at all.
Kael looked at Miguel and asked
“What is this”?
Miguel hesitated before he finally spoke.
“Forgive me if I'm wrong, but this looks like proof that Hazel was set up. This seal… looks nothing like that of our pack”.
He said and Kael's eyes twitched a bit before he looked back at the paper on his hand.
Miguel used the opportunity to continue speaking.
“If she wanted them dead, you know she wouldn’t have been this messy she had no reason to remain there even after they were dead.
And you said it yourself, she was with you all through the night. That attack didn't look like it happened in such a short time.”
He said but Kael said nothing as he just squeezed the paper. His heart twisted in pain and he began to think of the possibility that he indeed just ruined his own life.
“She didn’t do it”.
Miguel said firmly but Kael shook his head
“She was standing over their bodies with the weapon. She was covered in blood and she had no other reason to be there”.
He said and Miguel stepped closer.
“Why does it look like you're trying so hard to convince yourself that she killed your parents? Was your love for her that mild”?
He said, causing Kael to growl at him as his eyes turned red and his wolf threatened to come out.
Kael's hands curled into fists but he closed his eyes and tried to calm himself down.
“Leave, I want to be alone”.
He said and Miguel sighed before he left.
After Miguel left, Kael's wolf growled again.
“If Hazel hadn’t done it… then it means someone had walked into my territory, killed my parents, and framed my mate right under my nose”.
He said as his claws came out and scratched the table and his eyes held a brand new anger.
“No, I could never be that dumb”.
Hazel soon got to Alhora, a different city in the same country. A city filled with humans.
She booked a room in a cheap motel and took a quick shower. She was drying her hair when she looked at her eyes in the mirror. The eyes Kael had called monster.
“Wolf, witch, siren”.
She said and smiled bitterly.
“Even I wouldn't trust myself”.
She said as she flung the towel on the floor and curled up on the bed.
She didn't want to cry but she couldn't help it, she couldn't pretend to be strong anymore.
Kael was the only person who made her want to see the next full moon. The only person that made her feel the pain she was born with was not a curse but a blessing. But now, even that person saw her as a monster.
She remained on her bed for three days, crying. But with no tears left to cry, she decided to do something that would actually make a difference.
“I don't care if we don't end up together, but I'm not going to let them ruin me.
I'm not going to spend the rest of my life as a rogue”.
She said and stood up, walking towards the table.
She picked up the object she was given by Kael's mom.
It was a pendant that had a blue crystal on it.
The moment she placed her hand on the crystal, her head raised to the ceiling, her entire body began to vibrate and her eyes turned pure white.
She stayed that way for a while until blood began falling from her eyes and soon enough, she fell to the ground and passed out.
She didn't wake up for hours and as soon as she did, she gasped, breathing heavily as though she just regained her breathing.
She sat up, confusion written all over her face as she looked at the pendant again.
“What was that? Did I… did I just witnessed the entire death scene”?