Chapter 43: Baby Steps.

Lilac

"Someone tried to kill you, do you remember that?" Carla asks Kael. It's been three hours since I found out my husband does not remember me or anyone in particular, three hours since I have begin to question my life in this stupid Lycan city, three hours since I have started replaying Nina and Milo's words in my head of how I will actually die here in Lycania. Could things actually get any worse? Issy has gone back to the palace, I wonder if the royal family already knows of his condition and if they did, why have they not contacted Carla?

Kael shuts his eyes at Carla's question, his index finger rubbing on his eyebrow in deep thought then he shakes his head. "Nothing. I remember nothing," He says. I groan inaudibly. This is so fucking bad. How can he not remember anything? He didn't hit his head or something... So what the hell is going on?

Kael stops rubbing his brow and then his gaze meets mine again. "Can I have some space with my wife please?" He says to Carla without taking his eyes off me, I try not to squirm at his intense stare.

Carla says nothing but she obliges, walking out in silence. When he is sure she is no longer here, he stands from.where he sat on the sofa across and strides towards me. I sit still, wondering what he is doing as he settles down beside me.

I look at him, hoping maybe to see a difference. Would it show on his face that he remembers nothing? I have never met an amnesic patient before, how do I react to a man who was just beginning to get along with me but now can't remember me. Even as I stare at him, tears threaten to fall from my eyes, maybe Nina was always right, maybe I am cursed. I do not realize I am actually crying until I Kael raises his fingers to swipe at my face and he says. "Am I making you cry? You shouldn't cry Princess."

Princess. My head shoots up at the nickname. "You remember that?" I croak out.

"What?" His thumb still rests on my cheeks but he looks confused. "What do you mean?"

I sigh. "Never mind." I try to turn away but his thumb stills on my cheek, his eyes lingering like he is trying to memorize my face, or maybe remember it. Whatever he is doing, I let him because my head is a mess right now and I do not think I can stop him from doing what he wants. My chest flutters at his scrutiny and I stay rooted to my spot.

"I think I had a dream," He suddenly says earning a curious stare from me.

"What? What dream?"

"The doctor... Carla, she says someone tried to kill me." I nod as the events of this morning rushes back to me in full force, the weight of what had happened settling on my shoulder. The same dagger that had been found on the murdered victims was what nearly killed my husband and somehow had wiped his memories. The incident–I am looking back at it now and actually realizing that maybe I was the target, because Kael had pushed me to the ground and went up against the cloaked man.

"I saw a dagger," Kael says. His thumb has dropped from my face and he is now staring into space as if trying to piece together the image. "It had a weird crest on it, I saw it before I woke up at the hospital... Is that what was used to attack me?"

Suddenly wheels are turning in my head, possibilities swirling. I have always been one to take chances at anything that comes my way especially if it comes to a point where the answers seems to be hidden in open places. The dagger crest, the Wylanda emblem Beryl had shown me, the blank book that I can actually read, and then the dreams! The fucking dreams that has been giving me headaches, the dream that I still do not know what it entails but I am very sure it has to do with all these. How I know that cannot be explained, maybe you could call it intuition.

A light bulb goes on in my head and I return my focus to Kael. "It was the dagger that was used to attack you and four other victims, three of which are dead and one is in coma. Apparently you are the only one still alive and not on the brink of death or actually dead.." I say in reply to his question and then the realization again comes and I add; "because you are not an ordinary Lycan."

"Why?"

"Why what?"

"Why am I not an ordinary Lycan? Or rather what makes me not an ordinary Lycan?"

"Because you are a moon Lykae." I am still not acquainted with Carla appearing out of nowhere so I am startled at her sudden reply to Kael's question.

"And what's a moon Lykae?" This time I am pinning my ears and hoping Carla answers and does not dodge the question like she did when I had asked the day of Roman's attack because I also need to know. I need to know that Talon was wrong with what he told me.

Carla steps forward with a sigh, she strides towards the flowerpot sitting on the table and lowers herself before it, hands caressing the flower plant that is now growing on it—It's a Queen of the night flower plant. I remember the plant too, it is the one she had brought on the day of Roman's attack. Now that I think of it, does it have a significant meaning?

"A moon Lykae is the product of a Lycan and a shifter, a living product. Because no one born of that intimacy ever lives to tell the story. A surviving offspring from that intimacy is a Moon Lykae. Your mother was a shifter." I let out a breath I didn't even know I was holding, hoping that Carla is actually right in what her description of a moon Lycan is and that she is not lying to me and I also try not to think of the fact that Kael's mother was not a Lycan but a shifter.

Suddenly, Carla's eyes starts to grow misty as she keeps petting the plant and then when she speaks again, it is not her voice I hear...it is a voice that does not quite belong and somehow shakes the whole of the room as she utters her sentences.

"You are a child of the fates, born on the night of the full moon, you have been blessed by her bare hands and so you hold a power that has never been heard of, but only one can bring that power to use. Only one can help restore things back to it's rightful place."

My mouth is agape as I watch her blink back to normal and then she stands. "You have to stay here for a while, I need to help you regain your memory before it is too late." She says to Kael.

"What was that? A telling of the future?" He asks.

Carla freezes on her step. "What?"

"What you said before now, what did that mean?"

" I guess we would have to find out.."

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