LILLIANA'S POV:Today I was meeting Doc. After my very eventful meeting with Camille and Sarah, I began to look for Doc but it seemed the woman was trying to see if she had a new superpower- being a ghost. It was quite disconcerting. I tried returning to the lab, but the passcode I stole from Bianca did not seem to work; perhaps it was only for exiting the lab and not entering. Or maybe they always rotated the passwords so people like you couldn’t easily enter, a tiny voice said in my head.Shut up, tiny voice. I said back to it.If I couldn’t enter the lab by sneaking in, then I’d have to just use the conventional means- find Doc, that way I could always come back here anytime I wanted to.So here I was, pacing in front of her office and smiling awkwardly at the people who stared at me with confused looks on their faces. Their confusion was a valid one, I mean it was not every day one got to see someone pace the entrance to Doc’s office.But I had to talk to her, I needed to let he
We looked at him in shock. How?How on earth could he tell? Clarke asked.“It’s not too difficult, telling.” He said, “All wolves have a somewhat vacant expression on their faces when they use their mind link.” He paused for a moment to give his order to the waiter who had arrived at our table.Once he was done, the waiter turned to us, “And for you sirs?”“Steak,” I said.“Same thing he’s having,” Clarke responded.The waiter bowed to us and scurried away. Guess it must have felt overwhelming being in the presence of such high-level pheromones.“It is also quite interesting,” the Alpha continued, “that wolves use that mind-link so much, without even realizing that that moment of vacancy could be considered their most vulnerable." “What are you trying to say?” I asked, tired of him beating around the bush.“I’m saying… If I wanted to, I could have killed you both, cut off your heads, and sent them to your people back home. All because you decided to have a mind-link conversation in f
KILLIAN’S POVEverything and everywhere was wet. Gah, I hated the rain. But for my task I had to suck it up and endure.“You're frowning again,” Clarke said, smirking at my side.“Can't help it.” I grunted, “How long do we have to stay here?”“Here specifically or here as in away from the pack?”“Both.”“Well, we have about a week left here, but away from the pack, we're talking months.”Months? My pack was again going to be left without stable leadership for months.“Months?” I rubbed my temple. I could feel a headache coming already. “Are you sure we'll still have a pack to return to by then?”He laughed. The bastard laughed.“It's not funny.” I said and frowned at him, “Your cousins are going to run rampant now that we're not there. The people I have watching the pack tell me Clarissa is already moving.”“Clarissa?” His brows raised in shock, “That's surprising. I would have put my money on Eliza being the first to make her move. She was the obvious choice.”“Good thing you didn't.
I took a deep breath, then I told them how Doc asked me to join their team so I could help them stabilize the plants.Surprised did not begin to cover the range of emotions they felt. Shock switched to surprise, then to fear, then to worry before their faces finally settled on thoughtful.“That’s insane. How dare she try to rope you into her evil plan and get you to stain your hands with blood?” Sarah said, outraged.“Wait, no one is staining my hands with anything.”“Um, yes she is.” Camille said, “She's trying to make you an accessory to mass murder.”Eh?“Eh?”“She's right.” Sarah agreed, “Just think about it. You work with them and the plants get to prime condition. She could monetize them, and if she ever gets discovered, she and her team, which happens to include you, will get arrested and possibly get the death sentence for life endangerment.” She explained, “You can't risk the future that you've only just started to build for yourself.”I guess she was right. But still.“Wait,
CHAPTER 42“So she wants to be famous?” She asked, head tilted in shock, “Isn’t she already famous in the pack?”“That’s not enough for her. She’s trying to prove to her family that she’s far better than her sister. It’s a whole thing. Anyways I digress. So I saw Bianca there, you know that whole image of her we had of her suffering in tears?” She nodded, “Well, that did not happen. Turns out they love her down there. She found a way to get them to do her tasks.”“What the” She looked furious, “is that even allowed?”“It was. Doc said she only asked Bianca to do the tasks; she didn’t specify how the tasks should be completed.”“Ugh, leave it to Bianaca to find a loophole in a punishment.” She groaned, “So what about the plants that will revolutionize the wolf community?”“Now that is the thing that shocked me the most. They’ve created two breeds of plants that, to me, seem to have similar attributes to Aconite but are still different.”“Wait a minute, Aconite? They are working with Ac
Back at the dorm, Camille and Sarah were not around. So I had the room to myself. Which was a nice change as they were always around. I took advantage of the silence and caught up on the notes and assignments that they’d made for me. It wasn’t easy throughout the last week at the clinic, as I had to skip classes; thankfully, the teachers understood, they just told me to make sure I read and did all the assignments. Easy peasy right? Wrong.I mean, Art was easy enough, but Pack politics and Pack History? Boy did I understand nothing. I must have been at it for hours before Sarah and Camille returned.Camille had said something funny and Sarah was laughing. They walked in carrying bags, they must have gone shopping or something. “Hey guys!” I said cheerfully to them. I dropped my book on the bed, happy for any excuse to get rid of them.“Lilliana!” Camille called out cheerfully and jumped onto my bed, onto me.“Omph,” I grunted and laughed.“Careful Camille, you might hurt her.” Sarah