Chapter 51: Rejecting A Wolf

Minutes before Aurora and Jace took their lives. Brandon sat in the room Tom was being held captive in.

"Why are you here?" Tom's lips curled into a sneer as he asked Brandon this.

"Now, is that any way to talk to your big brother?" Brandon gave Tom a teasing glance.

Tom narrowed his eyes at Brandon, "Don't think I won't attack you."

"Ooh, I'm so scared." Brandon rolled his eyes as he sat down.

"When are you going to let me out? I know you found the answers about me having a second mate. Or is it you have done something to her?" Tom lowered his head as he stared at Brandon.

"Fuck," Brandon chuckled, "Well I did check, thoroughly too. There is such a thing as a second chance mate. It's unfortunate that she's mates with a lycan."

"The hell she is!" Tom shouted in rage. "If you think that I'll sit back and watch you destroy her. You have to be crazy."

"But what if she did it willingly?" Brandon gave Tom an innocent smile, making Tom explode in rage and lunge at him.

Brandon scoffed, and within fifteen seconds, he pinned Tom down and suppressed him with his aura.

"Aww, you poor thing, the last time you caught me off guard, but don't forget who's in fucking charge." Brandon sneered. "Stop pretending to not know her importance. Do you think I care about you or your little feelings? Nothing in this world is more important than the revival of lycans."

"You obsessive asshole! You can't even control half-lycans! What makes you think a full-blooded one will listen to you?"

Brandon didn't reply. He only pressed Tom down more in anger to the point where it was difficult for Tom to breathe.

"It's not about control. It's about making us, the descendants of the most beloved race created by god, whole again." Brandon coldly told his brother, " It doesn't matter who is sacrificed to achieve this goal."

"You. Raised. Me. Please. Don't. Take. Everything." Tom gasped out.

"I raised you, so you should be fully aware of what I will do. I did follow your wishes, and I followed Aurora's wishes also. She chose to do it." Brandon told him.

Tom closed his eyes in despair. Everything has been taken from him now. He came here with a bit of hope that Brandon wouldn't be so cruel. He hated that he wasn't stronger. Maybe if he was, he could have killed Brandon and that would make things better. It would be the start of change.

"You're going to reject Aurora," Brandon ordered Tom, and like a broken string, Tom's body went limp. Brandon was having fanciful thoughts of Tom rejecting Aurora. Tom would never do it, even if Brandon tried to make him, but Brandon would find out that Tom wouldn't even need to do it as he was mind-linked. Aurora and Jace were dead.

Before Brandon could even feel shocked about this, his body was lifted away and slammed into a wall. Nick appeared in the room to take Tom away. Nick hurriedly helped Tom up as he kept his focus on Brandon.

How could Brandon not figure out the ins and out of the situation? This witch had a part to play in their deaths. Brandon roared in rage, fighting to shift, but Nick was locking his body, including his bones, into place.

"Nick, what are you doing here?" Tom asked weakly, and Nick gave Tom a sad look.

"Aurora's dead, we need to leave," Nick explained simply and was readily teleporting somewhere else as Tom froze in shock and despair.

Nick teleported not far away and thought of Aurora's instructions. 'Let them out,' at first he had no idea what she was talking about. But as he was here in the heart of the council, he could feel the unstable auras of half-lycans. He was to let these things out to aid escape. So that is what he did. He opened the doors and everything was sent into chaos as he teleported again, but this time out and far away from the council to meet with the others.

At the meeting place, Morel, Aiden, and Cherise already stood there waiting. With the time Tom and Aurora spent in the council, Nick was busy putting things in place. He also roped in this familiar ally to help. They prepared silently. Two powerful witches worked together and the result was satisfactory.

Aiden and Cherise were rescued by Morel as she happened to pass them on her way to retrieve Aurora and Jace's bodies. Aiden and Cherise suffered greatly at the hands of the council. Aiden was spared not being able to see his father and brother killed, but he wasn't spared witnessing his mother overwhelmed with grief taking her own life.

After seeing Aurora's cold body, something in Aiden snapped. Like he lost his soul, he hadn't spoken anything, he just stood at the side and watched Cherise wipe the blood away from Aurora and Jace's faces. Nick looked at everyone gathered and nodded at Morel, they pooled their magic together and teleported to the safe house, erasing the tracks in the process.

Meanwhile, Brandon stood in the messy hallway where enforcers and other personnel were fighting half-lycans. "After you regain control, wipe out the Lunar Pack." He ordered through gritted teeth. Astrada stood there with her head bowed shaking.

"That fucking witch! I should have killed him the moment I found out he was living here." Brandon regretted it so much his insides turned green. Now everything is a mess. The hope they had was gone just like that. But it wouldn't end here, Brandon's wrath would spread throughout the werewolf race like wildfire as sparks of rebellion were lit the moment the council matched to wipe out the Lunar Pack.

In a large pool of water, a young woman sat quietly as she gazed down at the girl floating quietly in the water. Motherly affections burst through the woman's eyes. The attendants around found it so hard to believe that this young woman could be maternal towards anyone. Especially because of how cold she was.

The girl's long lashes fluttered, her eyelids quivered and then the most beautiful pair of silver eyes opened. Aurora felt her entire body aching, especially her head, but before she could even try to feel her body, a woman's face and voice occupied her attention.

"Sweet child, welcome into the world. I am your mother. Selene." Aurora looked at the beautiful woman staring at her. Aurora had never seen such a beautiful woman before. The woman's hair was silver, reminding Aurora of the moon. Even the woman's temperament and movements reminded her of the moon. Like she was carved out of jade, the woman was cold and noble.

Aurora opened her mouth to talk. There were no words, only a soft cry. A cry that seemed to wake Aurora out of her stupor. It was only then that she realized how big the woman looked to her. Panic gripped Aurora. The woman, Selene, sensed her daughter seemed to be panicking and quickly took her into her arms.

"What is it, little darling? What has frightened you, little baby?" Selene frowned and asked Aurora, whose little body stiffened.

'What the fuck? I'm a baby? This shouldn't be possible. What went wrong!' Aurora thought as she fainted in her new mother's arms, sending everyone into a panic.