67

67

Kristen's pov. 

I sat quietly in Agatha's room as I stared at Rose, her face had turned pale as she lay unconscious. Agatha sat across mixing a potion in a small cauldron. 

“Darla, who is she?” I bolted out, my eyes still fixed on Rose. “Is she someone dangerous”.

“Very dangerous” she replied muttering some spells.  “She is the second strongest black witch in their coven”. 

“And you know that how?” I turned to her. 

“I knew of their coven all along, I just didn't think they could do such a terrible thing” she explained as she picked up a spoon to stir the potion. 

“Why should I trust you?”. I frowned. “You are of their kind, why would you betray your kind?”

She paused as she slowly turned to me, her face contorted with venom. “You are a rogue hunter, aren't you?”

“Yes,” I nodded my head in agreement. “But what does have to do with my question?”

“It means that it is your responsibility to capture them”. She rolled her eyes. “And as of my kind…” she scoffed as shook her head in disbelief. 

“So you are not the same?”

“We are not” she yawned as she stretched her hand.  “We are two different people, I was born in a black witch territory, they were born and they practice black magic” she revealed. 

“There is not much difference” I scoffed. “How did you come to live in this pack?”

“I met the Alpha who gave me a chance to change my cruel fate, I accepted the offer” she narrated. 

“What about Rose?” I turned to Rose as I squeezed her hand. “I promise to let you go soon” I muttered as I glanced at Agatha. 

“She is just a nobody that I need to help me here”. 

“She is not a nobody” I defended. “She has a family that misses her and that she also misses”

“Don't act like you care for her” she hissed. “You should be careful in this pack, people should know where they belong if they don't want to be the Alpha's next meal”. 

“The Alpha?” My jaws fell open in alarm.

“If you think you can ask me about the Alpha you shouldn't even bother” she scoffed as she sniffed her potion, nodding her head in satisfaction, she took a bottle.

“So Gath is not the Alpha?”

“Gath is an Alpha”. She disclosed. “Jake is an Alpha, Dominic is an Alpha” she paused. “We are all Alphas in our own ways, but we fall on one Alpha”.

“Is he that scared that I might recognize him for him to ask you to put a spell on Rose?” I scoffed, my face flickered to disappointment.

“Mute spell” she corrected me. “It is a spell that makes one mute to some certain things”. She explained.

“Would she be okay?” I turned to her. “I forced her to speak and this is what happened”. I said as tears glistered in my eyes, my tone laced with regrets.

“She would be fine” she reassured me. “She would just be unconscious for a while” she added. 

“I am sorry I put her through this”. I apologized.  “I shouldn't have forced her”. 

Agatha turned to me as she dropped the bottle on the table. “Let me tell you something I found out in this pack”. She paused as she leaned in to whisper. “Dominic is like a figurehead of the Alpha, if you want to get something done faster and easier, you need to get closer to him or Jake”.

“So what you are saying is that if I want Noah's treatment to be faster, I should get involved with Dominic or Jake?”

“Gath is a softhearted person that doesn't want trouble, but Dominic is the real deal”. She disclosed. 

I scoffed as my lips curled into a smirk. “Does that sound normal to you?” I snapped. “The same person who wanted to kill me so she could get Dominic all by herself is the same person telling me all this?”

“Dominic has the face, the build and power but he isn't my type”. She defended. “I only wanted my mother and I to be happy here that's why I was throwing myself on him but right now I am just interested in finding the killer and you are the only one who can help me”. 

I stared at Agatha, my piercing stare locked on her as I tried to decipher what she was planning, she was definitely up to something, I just had to play along. 

“How can I help you if I can't help myself?” I scoffed. 

“Dominic or the Alpha doesn't want to involve themselves in the black witches affair, the only one I have left to fall back on is you”. 

“How can I help you if I don't know anything about black witches?” I shrugged. 

“You can”. She smiled putting her hands on my shoulders.  “You can involve your pack in this if necessary”.

My face immediately flickered to shock as my mouth dropped open. I wasn't expecting her to be this open.

“I can involve my pack in this?, Will that be okay?, I don't want any trouble for myself or Noah”. 

Agatha turned her face away as her contentment flashed on her face. “You are right you shouldn't involve your pack but you are my only option, we are going to all benefit from this alliance”. She frowned.

“Benefit?” I scoffed. “How am I going to benefit from this alliance?”

“I could speed up Noah's treatment and the faster you get back to your people”. She explained. 

“Didn't you just say I have to get closer to Dominic to approve of that?”

“You still have to get closer to Dominic for both things to work out” she added.

“Okay,” I nodded in agreement. “So tell me about Darla”.

“Darla is someone who wants to get everything in the world, she wants power”.

“Power?” I frowned. “What kind of power?”

“Everything, she wants to marry Dominic to get that power”.

“Well I wish her good luck” I scoffed.

“Don't you understand?” She snapped. “If she marries him, there is no going back, if we don't get the necessary information and things to treat Noah, you and I would not be safe, you would be killed because you are a rogue hunter and I would never find my mother killer”.

“Do you want to find your mother's killer or do you want to help me treat Noah?” I frowned. 

“I want to find my mother's killer and for that, if I have to help you find the killer, I am willing to do what it takes”. 

“Before I help you, I want to know what it would take to treat Noah”. I demanded.

“Okay,” she nodded her head in agreement. “There is this black witch that can counter any spell, If I can pressure her to help me, Noah would be fine” she explained. 

“So there is nothing you can do for Noah now?”

“Unfortunately, we don't know what happened to him, we don't know if it was the black witch that made him brain-dead or it was from something he touched”. She bit her lips as she darted her eyes from left to right. 

“So everything depends on whether she helps you or not?” I scoffed.

“She was close to my mother but she is an enemy of the werewolves, but if she knows what is at stake she would gladly support me” she reassured me. 

“How can I be sure you would keep to the end of your bargain?” I asked, my face filled with doubt.

“I promise” she forced a smile as tears threatened her eyes. “I just want to find the person that killed my mother”. 

“Okay, tell me what I need to know” 

“The only person you need to know about is Darla… she is the daughter of Athena the head of the coven, she would stop at nothing to get Dominic so she can have access to his power and the Alpha”.

“The Alpha doesn't get out that much?”. 

“He is not someone that social, he hides behind a mask” she replied. 

“What should I be expecting from Darla?” I tilted my head back as I relaxed my back on the chair. 

“She knows you were Dominic ex, she might see you as a threat, so you should be careful with her”. She warned. 

“Wait…” I paused as I bit my lips. “How do you know all this?” l locked eyes with her.

“Insider” she replied. “I have someone I know from the inside, she tells me everything, she was the one who told me that Darla might have been the one responsible”.

“She is lying,” I thought to myself. Rose said that Agatha had gone to the coven to declare war against the rogue pack. 

“I had to go to the coven in pretense that I was going to ask them to help me fight this pack” she added as though reading my thoughts. “It was all a trick to get into the coven to question Darla, but I couldn't do what I went there for, I had no power to question her”.

“Do you think I would have that power to question her?” I rolled my eyes.

“Yes,” she nodded. “I know the things that Dominic and you shared are no longer there but you know him better than I did, you can get into his heart better than anyone”.

“I thought I knew him” I corrected as tears pooled out freely from my eyes. “The Dominic I mey here isn't the Dominic I fell in love with”. 

“I won't alert that but if you think that he used you, don't you think you should use this opportunity to get back at him?”

I looked at her as I bit my lips, I didn't know what she was planning under that innocent face but I felt her words encouraging, she was right I could get back at him. 

“If you think you are okay with your life now,  remember you said your scar is a lesson for you, do you want to look back and regret playing to his tunes when you should have put him in his place” she added as she held hands.

“This is your choice but remember I gave you a choice, I am not saying you should get back to him, I am a woman who doesn't accept what he did to you… Kristen” she called locking eyes with me. “If you don't put him in his place, he would think he has won and nothing is stopping him from showing up later in the future when things go back to normal, he would come… you need to decide what you want are you going to let go because of your hurt or will you let your pride take over and show him that he was wrong for hurting you?”