Chapter 21

I stared at him, dumbfounded. Does that mean that everyone believed and told a lie all this while? Does Luna Violetta know about this too?

“What do you mean?” I muttered.

He chuckled, straightened up, and sat by the edge of the bed.

“We were indeed attacked by a band of hunters but he wasn't killed by them,” he replied. His eyes were distant like he was trying to open up a wound that shouldn’t be tampered with.

“What were you two doing in the woods anyways?” I was tempted to ask the irrelevant question.

“We went out for a picnic and a swim in that pond you were staring at,” Xander replied and my eyes widened.

They went for almost the same things that we had gone for.

“We overpowered the hunters and killed many of them, the remaining ones that survived scampered away. On our way back to the Pack, we were ambushed by a wizard. He was too powerful, he stabbed my brother with silver blades and cast a spell of death on him. I watched him till he slowly dwindled.”

My throat was parc