Chapter 40 CHAPTER FORTY
MAEVA
The door opens minutes later and the witch walks in with a flourish. What is she wearing? Why is she wearing it here? How is she here so quick?
“I’ve missed you.” She says with a smile.
I scoff and Caius says, “Of course.” His Beta stands to the side, silently watching the exchange.
“The potion you gave me is trying to erase me.” I say.
She looks between Caius and me in confusion.
“That can’t be right. You obviously did it the correct way if you’re still alive.”
“What? You didn’t say anything about death when you gave me the ingredients.”
She put her hand over her mouth in mock surprise. “Didn’t I? Oops.”
That’s all she has to say? She could have killed me.
“What disrupted the potion? It’s too powerful to start acting out on its own.”
Caius looks at me with a smirk before turning to the witch.
“How do we fix it? She doesn’t have a scent and we don’t know what else is going to happen to her.” Caius says.
The witch gets a serious look in her eyes and tilts her head to the side as she watches me intensely.
“What else happened?” she asks in my mind.
“I want him again but he can’t smell my want or my arousal.” I reply.
“Wait. You’re both communicating through mind link.” Caius says.
His beta’s eyes bulge and he looks from me to the witch in mild admiration.
“Why would you think that?” the witch asks innocently.
“I’m not an idiot. I know mind link when I see it. Speak or the witch goes.”
I grind my teeth together. This new thing where he threatens me is becoming annoying and I don’t like it.
“I can help you. I’ll need to go back to my territory for a few things but when I come back, I’ll have a solution.”
“Don’t enter this room if I am not with you.” Caius says.
The witch rolls her eyes and disappears in a cloud of smoke and Caius grunts. The beta leaves but Caius stays back.
“What is your plan when this is fixed and you can no longer threaten me?” I ask.
He shrugs. “I’ll find away.”
“Begging like a pathetic puppy didn’t work, and threatening me into doing what you want will soon be over. I wonder what other cards you have up your sleeve.”
“It wouldn’t be a card if I told you what it is now, would it?” he says and licks his lips.
I hold my breath and will myself not to follow his tongue. He can’t find out what is happening to me. I’m pretty sure he’ll push and right now, I’m running out of the energy to refuse him. His muscles bulge and I swallow.
“Get out. Only come back when the witch returns.”
“What was she telling you?”
“If it concerned you, she would have said it to you too.”
He gives me a dark look, nods and leaves. As soon as the door shuts, I breathe a sigh of relief. I just have to hold on until the witch returns and all this will be fixed.
Caius returns with the witch in tow hours later. Caius stands to the side as the witch hands me a bottle.
“What’s in this?” I ask.
“I could list out all the ingredients for you and you still would not know what they are. I could still lie about what the ingredients are and you wouldn’t know. Do you want to drink or not?”
I take the bottle and sniff it first. When I don’t perceive anything, I walk up to Caius and put the bottle under his nose.
“What does it smell like?” I ask.
I don’t trust my senses right now and what smells like nothing to be could have a foul stench.
“It smells like nothing.” He replies.
I nod and walk away. “You could have just asked me, you know. I did make the potion.” The witch says.
I ignore her and take a sip of the potion. It might smell like nothing but it taste like shit. My face squeezes and the witch smiles.
“See, if you had asked me, I would have told you about the taste.”
I ignore her and continue drinking the potion until I finish it.
“Good. It will take a few hours to work. You might feel a little discomfort but ignore it. It’s the price you pay for whatever you did that ruined the first potion.” She winks at me and I scowl at her.
She turns to Caius. “Can I talk to her privately?” she asks him.
“Why? So you can give her more instructions on how to keep blocking the bond?” he asks.
“How do you know I didn’t give her a cure and tomorrow you’ll have your mate back?”
Caius scoffs. “I know how blockers work. Once they start, they don’t stop until the time they’re supposed to last for.”
“I’m a powerful witch. I could have made a cure in the potion I gave her.”
“But you didn’t.” Caius says and walks out of the room.
So now he wants to leave? The witch moves her wrist and comes closer.
“This room is now clocked so we can speak freely without your mate listening in. He’s right. There is no cure. The potion will stop working when it supposed to. What I gave you will put a stop to everything going wrong because you decided to kiss your mate. Which brings me to an important question, why did you kiss him?”
“He kissed me first. I just wanted him to relax so I could fight him off. I didn’t know it would backfire.”
She sighs and shakes her head. “Now for the truly terrifying news. You have broken the blocker. It can’t be fixed and I can’t give you a new one.”
“Why?” I ask, mouth open, forehead sweating.
“Blockers aren’t good in the first place so it is given in precise measurements. They block out a very important part of you. You will die if I give you another one. Don’t worry, I gave you something that will help stop all the side effects except one. He won’t know that the blocker has been broken.”
“What do you mean?”
“Your scent will come back, but he won’t be able to smell your want for him. No one can. You will have to fight your own feelings until the blue moon passes.”
I shake my head in disbelief. That sounds like a nightmare. How am I supposed to do it?
Just then, a bell rings and Caius runs into the room.
“Rogues are here. I want the both of you to stay very still, and very quiet in this room until I return.”
“I can help. You know I can.”
“I don’t want your help – either of your help. Stay here, Maeva, I fucking mean it.”
When I don’t respond, he nods and walks away.
“You’re going to go out there, aren’t you?”
I nod and she sighs. Caius can’t keep me from helping and he’s about to find that out.