Chapter 6

Kellan’s POV

My eyes were stuck on the mysterious lady standing not so far away from me. First, she was able to breach through the veil, and now this!

The silence in the hall was yet to be interrupted, and I could feel the eyes of the Alphas present and the pack citizens piercing my skin. They sure had questions.

“This is unbelievable,” my wolf, Roman, growled.

“Who the hell is she?” I asked him. Perhaps he had answers.

Roman gave no response, and I was guessing that was a rhetorical question for him. He was just as clueless as I was.

The crystal ball hadn’t glowed in centuries, not since the veil was placed around the pack, but the moment she stepped in, it began to glow, and it still kept on glowing.

If she happened to be a werewolf just like me, perhaps this would make a little sense. All I could do was stare at her from afar, and in return, she did the same.

“I sure have lots of questions for her,” I informed Roman. The moment the event was over, I would have a question-and-answer session with her, and she had better provide answers to all of my questions.

I could tell by the look on her face that she had no idea what she had just done, not even the littlest idea. She kept looking all around as though she was here for an adventure.

“The moon goddess decided it is time for you to move on, and she gave you a second-chance mate. But why her? She’s human,” Roman growled.

“Maybe the feeling is all in my head, and I’m only overwhelmed by her. She’s not my second-chance mate,” I grumbled.

“This is you living in denial.”

“I’m not living in denial,” I corrected him.

I hadn’t been able to get over the death of my mate, who died because of me. There was no way the moon goddess was granting me a second-chance mate.

“I don’t need a mate.” I wanted Roman to know, so I told him.

“Maybe it’s time for you to forgive yourself and move on. I like her already,” Roman spilled. I didn’t see that coming.

“All I need to do is find out who she really is, who sent her here, and what her mission is,” I blurted.

The silence had been interrupted, and I didn’t know how. I was carried away by the conversation I was having with Roman, and now, Kaida was out of my sight.

“You don’t want to taint the memories you have of your late mate by accepting a second-chance mate. This is what this is about,” Roman was back to speaking.

“Can we not make this about me?” I requested. I wanted to focus on the event for now and every other thing later.

The first ritual had begun, and I still hadn’t found Kaida. I didn’t panic because guards were everywhere, and it would be impossible for her to escape, unless she disappeared into thin air.

If she could disappear into thin air, she would have done that hours ago. So I was guessing she didn’t have the ability to, or she hadn’t because she was enjoying all of this.

“Here she is, standing next to Selene,” I muttered after searching through the crowd with my eyes.

She whispered words into Selene’s left ear, and Selene didn’t hesitate to do the same. I hoped that she was beginning to tell Selene the truth about herself, and nothing but the truth.

“You know what all of this means, but you aren’t certain,” Roman howled. I assumed he would let me be for a while, but I was wrong.

Actually, he didn’t tell a lie. I knew what all of this meant, but I just wasn’t certain. I needed to hear from her and not just assume things in my mind and head.

“If you accept her as your second-chance mate, you’ll become connected to her, and that way, you can always read her mind whenever you want to,” Roman lectured, and I knew exactly what he was insinuating.

He wanted me to accept her by all means because he felt the mate bond more than I did. Accepting her as my mate also meant that I got to find out the truth about her.

I would get to know whether she was telling a lie or speaking the truth, and I would also get to control her with the mate bond, or maybe even manipulate her.

“Focus on the moon ball for now. We’ll have this conversation later and also get answers to all of your questions,” Roman remarked, and I planned to do as he said.

“Just so you know, I don’t have plans to accept her as my…”

“Like I said earlier, Alpha Kellan, focus on the moon ball,” Roman chimed. He sounded like he had a plan and also had this figured out.

The moon ball was more than a tradition to me; it was an event that I always looked forward to, and I was certain it was the same with the other Alphas present.

A great howl began, one voice after another, until the forest echoed. The excitement on the faces of the pack citizens was contagious; it could be the reason I got a little more excited.

I found myself in the middle of the gathering with my Beta next to me, Beta Tobias. A glass of dark wine was passed to me by Beta Tobias, and without hesitating, I raised it.

“Tonight, we honor the moon goddess,” I declared.

“Tonight, bonds will be revealed and fates decided.” The crowd howled in agreement after I spoke, and I felt it.

“Tonight isn’t a…” I swallowed the rest of my words because Selene was now standing next to me, and it had to be for a reason.

“There’s a problem,” she whispered.

“Fix it,” I murmured.

“I’m afraid the situation can’t be fixed. It’s about Kaida!” She got my undivided attention with those words of hers.