Chapter 98: mate mark

Harper’s pov

“Alpha King and The Vampire Prince please prepare yourself” Joseph said and we both looked at him confused.

“what? why?” I asked him and looked at his family who seemed to be panicking.

This house is usually so full of life and stress free but now people seemed to be panicking all around.

“my grandmother- in law is coming” he answered, and I looked at Derek.

“this is interesting, I wil finally get to see the famous Cara Hale” he said and looked at me with a smirk.

“Cara Hale?” I asked because I only know two people from the Hale family.

And that is Ruby Hale and also Samantha Hale who is Joseph’s wife.

Who is this Cara Hale and why is Derek looking forward to seeing her?

If she is so famous why haven’t I heard about her until now?

I looked around and the workers were cleaning like their lives depended on it.

Joseph looked at me and frowned for a second looking around.

“where is Grace? I think that Cara is coming to see her” he said and I looked around.

I tried to find her scent, but I couldn’t find anything at all.

It is as if she disappeared off the face of the earth and I couldn’t believe it.

I looked at Derek and I am guessing he sensed it too because he frowned.

“I can’t find Grace’s scent anywhere here” I said and Joseph just smiled.

“she is probably somewhere practising the barrier spell… could you go and look for her?” he asked us and we nodded.

We went our separate ways and started looking for her but I couldn’t have any luck at all.

She wasn’t in any of the training grounds and I couldn’t find her anywhere.

There was no trace of her at all, as if she just disappeared or was erased.

Derek and I both then went to Joseph to tell him this.

“we couldn’t find her at all” we said to him but he couldn’t do much about now because she was here.

An older looking woman, I think she should be looking like a grandmother but she didn’t.

she seemed like someone who was in her mid fifties so I am guessing that is magic.

I heard that a lot of witches use magic to stop themselves from aging too fast.

They still age but at a much slower rate than any werewolves or Lycans.

She looked around and her yes landed on me and Derek.

“I see that now we open our doors for everyone huh” she said and then looked at Joseph.

“yes, I believe that we need to be open minded and form new relationship” he said and Cara frowned.

“you couldn’t even maintain old relationships and you want to form new ones? Is that a joke Joseph?” the old woman asked.

Everything about her screamed danger, the way she looks at you and her aura.

I heard that the spell she is using to make herself age slower is really hard.

Not a lot of witches have been able to do something like this, not even Rose.

Rose practises dark magic from what I know, and dark magic users are usually very strong.

So this old woman is stronger than Rose, a person who has been using dark magic for years.

It honestly sounds like she also has a few secrets that led to all this power.

Derek was just looking at her and as always I couldn’t tell what he was thinking.

“the girl I came to see… I don’t see her around” she said looking around.

“Grace is busy with something right now… I will have someone get her soon” Samantha said and looked at her kids.

“yes great grandmother, Grace is somewhere around here” the oldest daughter said.

“okay then, lets go inside and I will wait for her. I have come a long way to leave without seeing her” she said.

we all headed inside and tea and snacks were brought out for her.

I don’t know why but for some reason I didn’t like her the first time my eyes landed on her.

Something about her just rubs me off the wrong way and I don’t know why..

she is a total stranger to me but right now I feel this hate, it is so strong that I can feel it slowly consuming me.

but it doesn’t sound like my hate at all, I have no reason to hate this woman so why?

Yes I don’t like her and I find something about her to be dark.

But that shouldn’t make me hate someone I just met.

We stayed there for a while waiting for Grace but nothing until Jason came in.

his father looked at him confused, “where have you been?” he asked his son.

“I was in my room painting” he said and he was telling the truth because he was covered in paint.

“but then if you are here, and you have been in your room the entire time then who is in the artifacts room?” Joseph asked his son.

“Artifacts room? I haven’t been there in months” Jason replied.

Joseph looked around and looked at his two daughters confused.

“someone is in the artifacts room?” Cara asked as she quickly got up from her chair.

she started walking and everyone got up and followed her so Derek and I followed suit.

“open this door” Cara said as she got to the artifacts room and Joseph got closer to the door and it automatically opened.

Standing there, inside the room all frozen with tears in her eyes was Grace.

She seemed to be in a trance of a kind just standing there as if she saw a ghost.

I have never seen her like that, I could feel it from where I was standing.

“Grace? What are you doing in there? How did you get in there?” Joseph asked her.

She didn’t even look up at him but was just frozen on the spot.

“answer him you little bitch, what were you doing in this place? A sacred place with rare items. And how did you even get in” Cara asked.

Her tone was way to hostile, she was talking to Grace as if she was talking with an old enemy.

“Cara don’t, this is my matter. This place belongs to my family so you don’t have a say in this” Joseph said.

Grace suddenly looked up, her eyes were red and filled with tears.

I saw so much pain in her eyes, why? Why is she hurting like this?

“ohhh your poor thing, she seemed really mortified” Samantha said going to Grace’s side.

She put a jacket on her shoulders but Grace’s eyes were somewhere else.

Or should I say they were on someone else?

She was looking at Cara and her eyes were full of hate.

Grace is the kindest person I know, I have never seen so much hate in her eyes before.

It actually took me by surprise the way she was looking at Cara.

I think Cara also sensed it because I noticed how uncomfortable she got.

She was also taken aback by the look on Grace’s face.

“Grace you shouldn’t have been there… how did you get in?” Joseph asked Grace.

“dad I opened the door for her” Mira said and looked at her other siblings.

“what? you opened the door for a complete stranger to such a place? What if she is here to steal something valuable?” Cara lashed out.

“Grace wouldn’t do that, we just wanted to show her the cool place we have” Jason said.

but something I don’t think a lot of people noticed was the clear surprise in Grace’s face.

Even the fact that the siblings are sharing these looks as if they are making up a lie on the spot.

“yes, and then you told us about Great Grandmother coming so we panicked” Mary said.

“we couldn’t leave and come to help her, and I guess Jason forgot so he came downstairs” Mira added.

“yes, I was upstairs painting so you would think its me here and I completely forgot and then came downstairs” he said bowing his head.

“it doesn’t matter that you opened the door for her. She is older and should know better” Cara said.

“this isn’t a small matter, this is a sin” she added looking at Grace.

Grace fell down on her knees and just started sobbing.

I quickly went to her side and picked her up, she rested her head on my shoulder still sobbing.

“please, can we talk about this some other time. She is clearly not okay” I said walking away with her without another word.

Why is someone with no humanity crying this badly?

She also seemed to be tired and numb from the way I saw her.

I could feel by just holding her how much she didn’t have any energy in her at all.

What happened in there and what is this feeling I am getting.

As I was walking with her In my arms I noticed something. It made me freeze because I couldn’t believe my own eyes. There on her neck, looking brand new was the mate mark.

The mate mark that Hendricks placed on Grace;

how did she get that mate mark back?

What Is happening here?