87. I need To Find Her.

Adrian POV

Pain was the first thing I felt.

Not sharp. Not sudden.

Deep.

Like something heavy was sitting on my chest, pressing down on my lungs, on my heart, on my soul. I tried to breathe, but the air felt thick, like I was drowning on land.

My eyelids fluttered.

I forced them open.

We are not at the ritual site anymore?.

Light greeted me, soft and silver, glowing from everywhere and nowhere at once. The ceiling above me wasn’t stone or wood. It looked like it was made of moonlight itself, moving slowly like mist.

I groaned.

The sound felt weak. Wrong. I had never sounded like that before.

“Adrian.”

That voice.

I turned my head slowly.

Caleb.

He was standing close, his face tight with worry, his jaw clenched like he was holding himself together by force. Behind him stood Matthew, quiet, watchful, his eyes darker than usual.

I tried to sit up.

Agony ripped through my body.

I cried out before I could stop myself.

“Don’t,” Caleb said quickly, placing a hand on my shoulder. “Stay down.”

“What… happened?” My voice came out hoarse, barely louder than a whisper.

Before either of them could answer, another presence made itself known.

The air shifted.

Warm.

Ancient.

Powerful.

The seer.

She stood a few steps away, wrapped in pale robes that shimmered faintly. Her eyes glowed softly, not threatening, not cold ... knowing.

She smiled.

A calm, gentle smile.

“The Luna has been found.”

Those words hit me harder than the pain ever could.

I sucked in a sharp breath.

Caleb turned to her immediately. “It's not Lucy?”

The seer shook her head slowly.

“No, you shouldn't be surprised . You all knew but no evidence whatsoever.” she said.

The world seemed to pause.

My heart skipped.

Then she continued.

“It is another.”

I stared at her, my mind racing.

Is it ....Rose?

No.... She's not a wolf.

Caleb frowned. “What do you mean another?”

The seer’s gaze shifted to me.

And in that moment, everything inside me went silent.

“She is the one you mated with before.”

Before I could even think, before I could speak, before I could ask a single question...

My heart reacted.

Warmth exploded in my chest.

Her face flashed in my mind.

Rose.

I gasped.

Strength surged through me, wild and sudden, like something inside me had been unlocked. The pain disappeared as if it had never existed.

I stood up.

Caleb shouted my name.

I didn’t listen.

I didn’t speak.

I didn’t wait.

The world folded.

And I vanished.

Caleb POV

“Adrian!”

He was gone.

Just like that.

One second he was weak, barely breathing.

The next, the air snapped, and he disappeared.

I spun toward the seer, anger and fear crashing into me at the same time.

“What did you just do?” I demanded. “He’s barely standing!”

Matthew stepped forward too. “You should have stopped him.”

The seer didn’t look bothered.

Not even a little.

She simply smiled again.

“He has to fight this battle alone,” she said calmly.

My hands curled into fists. “He’s sick, he was struck at the ceremony.”

“He is fine.” she replied. “More fine than he has ever been.”

I ran a hand through my hair, pacing. “You don’t understand. He’s been through too much already.”

“I understand perfectly,” she said softly.

Matthew spoke then, his voice steady but heavy. “What about Lucy?”

The seer’s expression changed.

Not anger.

Not sadness.

Disappointment.

“She used dark magic,” the seer said. “And because Adrian was still connected to the true Luna… because his heart was filled with hatred… the ritual rejected her.”

I swallowed hard.

“So… she caused this?” I asked.

“Yes.”

“And the consequences?” Matthew asked.

“They will come,” the seer said simply.

I stopped pacing and looked at her directly. “Why now?”

She met my gaze. “Because it was time.”

“That’s not an answer.”

She tilted her head slightly. “It will be clear when Adrian returns with her.”

My chest tightened.

Returns… with her.

Rose.

I exhaled slowly.

"But she's human" I blurted out.

The Seer still calm. "Fate and him chose her as his Luna, when she gets here, it will be sorted out"

“For once,” I muttered, “I hope fate knows what it’s doing.”

Matthew POV

I stayed quiet.

Not because I had nothing to say.

But because this was bigger than words.

I watched the place where Adrian had disappeared, my heart heavy but steady. I had seen that look on his face before — not fear, not anger.

Hope.

Whatever waited for him, I prayed it would save him.

Because if it didn’t…

I wasn’t sure he would survive another loss.

Adrian POV

The world rushed past me in fragments.

Wind.

Darkness.

Light.

Rose.

Her scent hit me first.

Faint... I followed her saint.

But there.

My heart pounded.

“She’s alive,” I whispered to myself.

I didn’t know where I was going.

I only knew who I was going to.

And nothing ... not fate, not councils, not gods ...was going to stop me.

Then I landed in an unfamiliar bedroom.. The smell .... The smell of Vampires swarm my nose, then I smell a familiar smell... Rose... Rose?

What is she doing here ....in the mist of vampires?.