Chapter 50

MILA

It felt like I have been running for hours.

I needed to a rest. But I don’t know what direction I was heading in. I just needed to run.

I must have been running for over an hour as I started to feel my muscles in legs tighten. My breathing become hard. I slow my pace and go into a walk, catching my breath to make sure I could take in what was around me.

But I know where I am.

I know this place, but how do I know it.

I inch more through the forest and stumble across a cabin. I come to a complete holt.

I take in the sight before me. This place is definitely the place I know. This is where I stayed with my mother. It has bushes that are overgrown all around the cabin and even through the steps; the windows have cobwebs in them as the windows themselves look really bad and stained. It looks like no one came back here ever since the whole rouge attack happened.

I let out a sigh and head into the cabin, taking each step at a time. I run hands over the hand rail as I take the steps. Everything smells damp and feels worn.

I open the front brown door and head inside.

Definitely no one has been here. Everything before me was how it was left. No food out, tidy kitchen except the cobwebs where all around the furniture and loads of dust. The spiders must have taken over this place now. There were toys all around; I walk through till I come across a photo on the wall that was hanging up, there’s so much dust on it. I wipe away the dust with my T-shirt, to reveal a picture of me and my mother. She looked so beautiful. The smile on her face always made me feel like I was at home. I feel some tears escaping my eyes; I take the photo out of the frame and place the photo in my back pocket of my jeans.

I carry on looking around the cabin, noticing all the toys, the furniture and even some clothes around the place. I walk into the room I loved the most; I opened the door to my mother’s bedroom. I look around. It looked the same as if she had never left .

I notice another photo frame on the bedside table of myself, my mother and Gamma Richard. The photo was on his birthday, he has some cake on his face with me and mum laughing on either side of him. I also took out the photo to put in my back pocket. I don’t have anything of either of them. I miss them so much. I sit on the bed and just let the tears wash over me.

I drop the block on Sapphire and I can feel her stir inside. She takes a while to look around and sense where we are.

“It hasn’t changed since you were here last” she says softly.

I don’t say anything as I'm still feeling all the emotions of everything.

“Mila, please talk to me?” She says softly.

“You promised Sapphire” I say with the sadness that escapes me from all I had lost.

She doesn’t say anything even though I can sense her close by, she knows I have had enough of everything. She stays still, looking through my eyes and lays down with her head resting on her paws.

“I know Mila, I’m sorry” she says with a hint of defeat in her voice but also concern.

“I’m sorry I made you feel like you couldn’t trust me” she said.

“Sapphire, we are supposed to be as one, if my wolf has something to say or needs answers too, you should tell me. It makes me feel stupid especially in front of Emily” I say and sigh “you want our mate, don’t you?”

I feel her purr in my head at the mention of our mate.

“I do Mila, but you are more important than them. I won’t go to mate till we are both ready and I mean not until you are ready Mila” she says with her tail wagging.

I don’t say anything for a moment, I know I want him but I’m hurt.

“Sapphire, have you got a connection with Nathaniel’s wolf?” I asked.

She looks up and smiles, “Yes, why do you ask?”

I know what I want to say “I think I want to hear from his wolf first before I make my finally decision. I need to hear his side of the story.” She nods in agreement “That’s a good idea, his wolf wanted to talk to you before but Nate stopped him. I think you know what you really want though.”

I don’t want to admit anything. I think she can feel what I want. I do want our mate but I need to have a conversation about everything and also with his wolf too.

I stand up to look out the window “It is so peaceful here” I say.

“Yes it is my child” a voice of an angel says.

I turn around to see the most elegant woman in a white thin strap dress looking back at me. She is stunning. She smiles “Don’t freight child, I am here to answer your wolf. I need to wait till you were alone to talk to you.”

“It’s the Moon Goddess” says Sapphire in surprise.

I look back in shock but the woman looks at me, suddenly holding out her hand to me, “Take it child. We should go for a walk” she says.

“You’re........the Moon Goddess” I say with a shaky voice.

She nods “Yes my child, but call me Selene, especially as you are my creation, you my child like your mother before you but you are more powerful.”

I take her hand and she leads me all the way through the cabin and back outside. She nods towards the garden chairs and we both take a seat.

“This was your home, you were happy before the attack” she says looking at me.

I don’t say anything.

All my memories are back but there is something missing, both Sapphire and I can feel it. She is standing to attention and close to the surface.

“Sapphire, do not push my child back inside the dark, you know what it is now like back there when she did it to you” she says suddenly and I can feel Sapphire retreat a bit but not enough, still in ear and eye sight to see Selene.

“My child I know you are missing some memories, I took them away when bad things started to happen to you and your wolf. No wolf should have gone through what you had or put in that situation” she says and with a blow of gold dusk in my face, my memories came back.

The memories that did not make sense, memories of George torturing pack wolves. I wasn’t even present but of Sapphire being controlled by him, George parking out orders. She couldn’t stop the control. She was under his spell. A loud growl erupted through my head; Sapphire is pissed at what George had done not only to her but all the wolves, wolves that were not even rouges. They had packs, families. I couldn’t help the tears taht slide down my face.

The next memory comes through as Sybil pouring some sort of liquid into a bottle and forcing me to drink it; he wanted to know everything that I knew about the white wolf. About all my powers I would have. HE TORTURED ME. I didn’t give him anything. I remember waking up the next day with injuries and them both playing it off that I was clumsy and fell while playing.

More memories came in all the same of everything that he wanted to know all about Sapphire and my powers, being tortured, pretending they loved me after they tormented me.

I soon realize that I had my eyes closed and once I opened them, the tears flowing freely down my face.

Sapphire growling at the images that have been running through my mind.

We both are angry at the people who were supposed to have look after us, protected us, made us feel part of the family.

It was all a lie.

“What about Emily?” I ask suddenly wanting to know the truth about her.

Selene looks at me and smiles “She had no clue; Gloria kept her memories hidden from her too as George wanted to know what I told Sapphire about you both. I would never let him have it. He follows the whole code for Devon and the others he doesn’t follow you, he wants power” she says “He wanted you to protect the town but wanted you to sacrifice everything that I created for you to help him again power but there was another warlock with him. I made him take a blood oath so he could never speak the truth about you.”

“Yariel? The other warlock you mentioned” I asked her and she nods “He never told me much about him”

I looked at her and she doesn’t say anything but all of a sudden “Ask me the question child” she says with a tight line across her face.

“What did you tell Sapphire that George wanted to know?” I asked.

“You see, our creation has a purpose and sometimes it might not be understood till it is too late. I told Sapphire, that the time will come when a war will fill the lands and you will have to lead the charge of the war. Defeating Devon” she says with a sigh but continues, I can’t interrupt as both Sapphire and I need to know what the hell is going on.

“After the war, that’s when it will come difficult as you have to travel. You have to head far across the world. You are needed there. But I will say this, if Yariel is not defeated in the war, that could change the course of the future for us all” she says.

I look back at her “I understand the war and the defeating them both, but why have I got to travel around to the other side of the world, what is it you are not telling us?”

She looks at me “Calm my child, you will be going because you have to, there is a curse, which mainly evolves around you. If you don’t stop it, you and everyone will suffer dearly and it will affect the age of time” she goes to stand but stays still “there is one thing though, you can have one person with you on that journey, Archer. He is your guardian and he will help, but he has a destiny too. He has to find the other dragon, the one Anna and he knows Lucas.”

She turns to leave and I shoot up out of the chair “You can’t leave, I do have one more question, what about our mate?”

She stops and turns but tears are welling up in her eyes “Your mate will have to learn to be patient, you cannot be marked or finish the mating process as he will track you. He needs to stay put as he has to deal with some other problems that will come.”

“Everyone who took your memories have a lot to answer for as you are so unprepared. I would have told you all this sooner as I know you are needed but it won’t be long to leave my child, your lift will be here soon” she says and then vanishes.

I drop to my knees. Sapphire is in pain knowing we will have to go and leave our mate, I’m in pain too. I realize that this is going to be harder than I thought.

“Maybe we can see him before we go” she says in whisper.

I can’t say a word but all I can do is agree.