Chapter 7

Maya's POV.

The alpha had not mentioned a single word of what had happened to me yet.

All he did was ensure I had my clothes on and was properly invested in my bed before he left.

I could see him from the side of my bathroom while I changed into my nightwear checking for marks on my bodies. Scars, burns, anything at all. He must have peeped over a thousand times before I called his name to ask if there was something wrong.

“No. Nothing at all, get some sleep. Goodnight.” But then he left me and closed the door.

The moment his footsteps disappeared into the silence hallway, I adjusted out of my bed and sat up straight.

“Melissa.” I whispered. “Melissa, are you up?”

“Hey Maya, what's up? What's going on?”

“The coast is clear. We can talk now.”

Before the fire started, Melissa stirred within me. She tumbled, scratched and howled inside of me.

I thought of it as nothing, not until the fire blasted quickly and she took over my body without my control, shielding me off from the fire with a blazing fire of her own.

My eyes witnessed it for about a second before everything went dark.

“What happened?”

“I don't know.” She answered. “It just happened.”

“The fire. You were trying to warn me before it even happened, weren't you?”

“I'm not sure. I just felt uncomfortable and then the fire happened.”

I could feel the genuine confusion in her, she had no idea what was going to happen and had only shifted to save me.

To Melissa, I was grateful. My wolf saved my life, but that wasn't the case now. In saving my life, I was without a scar and that, apparently was the strangest feeling of my life.

Melissa had no explanation of what happened and neither did I.

It just happened…

“Go back to bed. From the look on the alpha's eyes, I can tell you have a lot of questions to answer.”

“You think he'll send me away?”

Melissa shook her head. “He looked more fascinated than he looked disappointed when you were coming out of the fire. He won't send you away but you have a lot of questions to answer. Get some sleep.”

My chest pounded in my chest while I laid back in bed, my thoughts far from blank, my eyes strained and itchy from lack of sleep as the memories of what had happened played in my head.

I was scared.

Not sure what I was scared of, but my pounding heart didn't let me get much sleep.

“”””

Morning came quick, the sunlight filtered through my curtains and beamed directly on my face, long enough to wake me.

I got out of bed with a terrible headache. Probably because I hadn't slept much last night, I told myself before I rushed to the bathroom to brush my teeth.

The knock on the bathroom door jolted me from the remaining sleep in my eyes.

I threw water on my face to waken my nerves before I opened the door.

“Luna.” A maid called. “Good morning Luna. How was your night?”

“Fine.” I stepped forward with a smile. Hers shifted slightly to a thinner lip as she took a step back from me.

I noticed the slight expression but moved beyond it.

“Yes?”

“The alpha asked that I come get you. A seer is downstairs waiting to have a look at you.”

‘Told you.’ Melissa’s voice crept into my thoughts.

“Alright.” I thanked the maids, maintaining where I stood before. “Tell the alpha I'll be done in a minute. I just need to get dressed.”

“I'll help you.” She looked uncomfortable with her expression again. “The alpha asked that I help you get dressed so we wouldn't waste much time.”

“Oh.” I paused, a little shocked. “You really don't have to.”

“No. The alpha insisted that I helped you.” She said once more and without a chance to react, I watched as she took off to my closet and started taking out what I was meant to wear.

The maid was helpful. She helped me heat water up, helped with a bath and brushed my hair. The royalty treatment wasn't something I was used to but enjoyed. In less than an hour, the maid and I were walking down to the living room where the alpha king and the seer were seated waiting.

“Good morning Maya.” Alpha Williams greeted me with a bright smile, “Why don't you have a seat right next to me?” he tapped on the vacant space between him and the seer.

The seer, a fragile woman with weary skin, dressed in sack clothings with hair that had not been combed for years, flashed me a bright smile.

“Good morning Luna.”

“Good morning.” My voice turned into a whisper, goosebumps crawled underneath my skin.

“Good morning Alpha. Why is she here?” 

Alpha Williams eyed the seer before he shifted his gaze to me.

“I believe the maid told you who she is. I brought the pack seer here to have a look at you. After yesterday, I wasn't sure what happened and so I called her to come visit. Why don't you have a seat and let her begin?”

My heart dropped to my stomach as I obeyed the Alpha's command, my thoughts ran wild with what the seer would find. Would she label me bad and ask the alpha to send me away?

Her hands felt wrinkly and warm when she reached for the inside of my palms. A sly smile cornered on her lips and then she asked me to relax.

“This will only take a moment. Take a deep breath and close your eyes.”

I listened and pretended to do what she asked as I lowered my back into the couch and shut my eyelids.

I felt her hand over mine, her heat spreading over mine and seeping gently into my body.

Melissa stirred within me, my wolf was uncomfortable with her presence near me.

“Let go of her palm.”

“Why?”

“Let go!”

I snatched my hands from her at once, clicking my eyes opened as I shifted away from the seer.

“What happened?” Alpha William question.

I turned to him, his expression filled with concern and curiosity.

But it was not directed to me. He meant to speak to the seer. His question was for her.

The seer swallowed hard and then shook her head.

“This is way beyond us, alpha William…”

What did that mean?