LOGINQUEENETH'S POV.
After some minutes, I was standing on all fours, my fur was so white that it glittered under the moonlight.
My friends turned to each other screaming.
“She's different, just white,” Aisha said.
I was very anxious to know why they’re surprised. I looked at my wolf and asked her.
“Why are they gasping. Is it something special?.
“We are a pure wolf, Queeneth, which is very rare; in fact, it does not happen. Everybody has a combination but we are just white.”
“What do you mean?” I asked her.
“I mean that in the land of wolves, there's nothing like white wolf, there's always a spot but we don't have a spot.”
“What does that mean?” Aisha asked her brother.
“I don't know,” Reuben said not taking his eyes off my wolf. “But she's beautiful.”
I looked at him and immediately felt disappointed. There was no connection which simply means Reuben is not my mate.
“Queeneth, we are not his,” Amy said.
“Relax we belong to another.”
“What do you mean?” I surprisingly asked her.
“I mean that I know our mate, it's not Reuben.”
I was more surprised because other wolves don't know their mates until they see them.
“Who is he?” Tell me please. I'm curious.”
She didn't say a word to me. I asked again and again, my anxiety was at its highest limit.
“I'm not saying anything until the right time. Now stop talking to me and focus on your friends. They want to talk to you. Reuben is trying to mindlink you.
I quickly pulled my focus away from my wolf and focused on Reuben. I don't know what mind-blinking is; I just heard about it, but have not experienced it. I just experienced it now that I shifted. I can now mindlink the entire pack.
“Queeneth!” Reuben called me.
“Queeneth, can you hear me?
“Yes, I responded. I'm sorry I was talking to Amy.
“You're very beautiful, Queeneth. I’m so proud of you.
Would you want to run to test the strength of your wolf?
I gave a slow nod.
Reuben quickly told her sister, Aisha, to shift so that they could run with Queeneth. Amy met Reuben's and Aisha's wolf and we all went for a run.
We ran a long distance when I told them I was tired. We ended the run and went back to our clothes to shift back. Shifting is very painful, it hurts. But according to what we’ve been taught, when we keep doing it over and over again, it becomes a part of you, and it won't hurt badly again.
My friends hugged me and gave me lots of kisses. I was so happy that the three of us are at the same level. Reuben and Aisha have their wolf, and now I also have my wolf..
We picked up our belongings and started heading to our different houses.
“So, finally we are not mates,” Reuben said, his voice laced with regret.
“That was the same way I saw it “ I responded.
“I'm not happy about that, Queeneth. I wanted you to be my mate. I know I've never said this openly, but I love you, Queeneth, and I want you to be my mate.” Reuben confessed.
What Aisha told me before, that her brother loves me, is very true. I least expected her to express herself that day. I felt so emotional because, since he wants me, I also want him. I love him too.”
Aisha interrupted my thoughts.
“Brother, it's true that you love Queeneth, I knew that before now, and I wanted her to be your mate so that we can be family. But you’ve to give her a chance to find her own mate. If she doesn't find them, you can be her chosen mate, but first of al,l, she has to find her mate.” Aisha explained.
The whole thing Aisha was saying was not going down well with Reuben. The way he was staring at his sister as though he wanted to blow up her brain with his eyes if they were guns.
After some seconds, I nodded to what Aisha said.
“Aisha, you're right. She has to be given a chance, but I also pray she doesn't find any.”
We all laughed loudly together. We left the forest and got to Reuben's house. They bade me goodbye, and I headed straight to my house.
I got to my house and was too tired to even shower, especially because of the run. It was the first time I was doing such a thing and it really told my body. I managed to take a shower and put on my pyjamas to go to bed. I checked the time and it was 10pm. I already gave up, I won't find my mate since it is already 10, and I’m back at the house. Where would be see me for the connection to spark again? I was home.
I believed that it was the way the Moon Goddess planned it but never knew she was wiser.
As I was about to go to bed, I heard a noise that pushed me out of bed to check what the problem was. What I saw gave me the biggest shock of my life.
QUEENETH’S POVI found Success where I least expected her.The old training grounds had been abandoned since the eastern attack. Grass had grown between the cracked stones, and the wooden posts stood crooked beneath the trees.She was sitting on one of them.Waiting.I stopped several feet away.She didn’t look surprised.“You took your time.”My fingers curled.“You knew I was coming?”Success smiled.“I knew you’d come eventually.”There was no weapon in her hands. No guards nearby. No sign she intended to run.“Why are you here?”“Waiting for you.”“Then you know what I want.”Her smile faded.“Who was your master?”For a moment, she looked amused.Then she laughed.“You still think there was only one?”I stared at her.Success slid from the post and stood.“That’s your problem, Queeneth. You’re looking for one person behind all of this. One mastermind pulling every string.”She shook her head.“There wasn’t one.”“Then who gave you your orders?”“Different people.”My stomach tigh
QUEENETH’S POVI remembered the letter.It had been sitting in the back of my mind for years, tucked beneath everything else I had been too afraid to understand.Hilda’s letter.I remembered this letter. I had seen it once before, back when everything between Hilda and Collins had still been buried beneath secrets I didn’t understand.I had read enough to know it concerned Collins.Not enough to understand why.At the time, there had been too many things happening around us. Too many lies. Too many people hiding pieces of the truth.Now, every time I thought about it, one question kept returning.Why had Hilda written it?I found her old belongings in a locked storage room beneath the eastern wing.The room hadn’t been opened in years.Dust covered everything.Broken furniture.Old clothes.Boxes filled with documents that no one had bothered to sort.I searched until my fingers were gray.Then I found the box.My heart started beating faster before I even opened it.The same worn woo
QUEENETH’S POVI found Collins near the eastern wall just before sunset.He was alone.That was becoming unusual these days.There was always someone looking for him. A pack member needing an answer. An elder wanting to discuss the next patrol. A warrior waiting for orders.But tonight, he stood at the edge of the trees with his hands resting against the stone wall, staring into the forest.He didn’t hear me approach.Or maybe he did and simply didn’t turn around.“Collins.”His shoulders moved slightly.Then he looked over.For a moment, neither of us spoke.There had been a time when silence between us felt comfortable.Now it carried too many things we hadn’t said.I stopped a few steps away.“I need to ask you something.”His expression changed.“About the curse?”I nodded.He looked back toward the trees.“I wondered when you’d ask again.”“Then you knew I would.”“I hoped you wouldn’t have to.”I folded my arms.“I’m done accepting half-truths.”That made him look at me.Somethi
QUEENETH’S POVI couldn’t sleep.Every time I closed my eyes, I saw Aurelia.Her wrists in chains.Her blood in the silver pool.The crown she never wanted.The people who had taken her story and twisted it until generations of wolves believed she had been chosen by the Moon to rule them.But there was something else I couldn’t stop thinking about.The bonds.Reuben.Collins.Dante.Three names.Three different bonds.Three different moments when my wolf had reacted as if something ancient had recognized them before I ever had the chance to decide for myself.I sat on the edge of the bed, staring at my hands.“How many times?”Amy stirred inside me.“What?”“How many times did they do this?”She didn’t answer.My stomach tightened.“Don’t.”“Queeneth…”“No. You don’t get to do that anymore.”I stood.“You told me about Aurelia. You told me about the bloodline. You told me people had been writing my destiny before I was even born.”My voice cracked.“And now I’m supposed to believe the
QUEENETH’S POVThe old archive smelled like ash.Not the fresh kind that still clung to clothes after a fire, but the stale scent left behind when something had burned so completely that even the walls seemed to remember it.I stood in the doorway, staring at the shelves.Most of the records were gone.The ones that remained had been damaged by time, water, or deliberate hands. Pages had been torn from books. Names had been scratched out. Whole sections of history had been reduced to loose pieces that no longer belonged to anything.And now I knew it had not happened by accident.Someone had been trying to make sure I never found the truth.I stepped inside.My fingers brushed over the spine of an old law book.Aurelia.The name still sat inside my head.Amy had said it like a warning.She was my Queen.Then she had told me the truth about my wolf.An ancient memory sealed inside me.A bloodline someone had tried to erase.The people who wrote my destiny.I pulled the book from the sh
CHAPTER 94QUEENETH’S POVAmy’s First LieI don’t speak to Amy for the rest of the afternoon.Not because I don’t have questions.I have too many.They crowd my head until I can’t focus on anything else.Aurelia was my Queen.The words keep circling.Every time I think I’ve finally understood something, another piece falls out from underneath it.I sit alone beneath the old oak tree behind the pack house, knees pulled against my chest.The painting is still in my mind.That crown.That woman.The way Amy reacted when I said her name.I close my eyes.“Amy.”Nothing.I wait.Still nothing.My jaw tightens.“You don’t get to hide from me now.”A breeze moves through the leaves.I almost laugh.“You’re really going to ignore me?”Silence.I press my palms against my eyes.“I trusted you.”That does it.Something shifts inside me.Not a voice at first.A feeling.Guilt.It rolls through my chest so suddenly that I sit straighter.Then I hear her.Very quietly.“I know.”My throat tightens
QUEENETH’S POV.“Good morning Queeneth.”I was surprised to hear my name because the last time I checked I slept alone in my house. I had no companion, so I stood to check if anybody was at the door.“Don't bother stressing yourself. It's me your wolf.”I flinched. Of course, it's my birthday. I go
QUEENETH'S POV.The door opened and the person at the door was not seen.“My pretty, please check who's at the door.”I nodded and went to check.It was Alpha Collins.“Is Reuben still at home?” he asked“Yes, he is.”I wanted to go to the training with Reuben, but as he was already dressed and Alp
QUEENETH'S POV.I decided to stop at Reuben’s place before heading to the training ground. I was so surprised when I saw Success standing in the living room as I walked in.Success is Reuben's classmate and friend. They are of the same age. She is also Alpha Collins' friend. Reuben and Alpha Collin
QUEENETH’S POV.Morning came too fast and I woke up very early and got up immediately. I was very excited. Tomorrow is my birthday. Not just that it's my birthday, I’ll be meeting my wolf tomorrow because I’ll be eighteen. The elders of the pack always tell us that to shift is very painful but I do







