CHAPTER 5: MATE!

“Shut up!” Hilary felt irritated watching her laughing like that. Something about the way she was acting made him feel panicked, and he was having a foreboding feeling that didn’t sit well with him.

However, Elowyn didn’t stop just because he commanded her to.

“Do you think that I will not touch you, now that you are standing there?” he gnashed his teeth angrily as he coldly asked her, but she merely laughed before she suddenly stopped, which was eerie even for him.

“Tsk. Tsk. Hilary, I swear with the moon as the witness on this very night. Even as a ghost, I will never forgive you. I will haunt you and make sure that you will never be happy even for a single day!” she suddenly swore, her tone filled with solemness, even Adolf was taken aback.

[I suddenly have a bad feeling! End her quickly!] Adolf’s tone was filled with urging.

“You!” he pointed angrily at her as he took several steps forward but she didn’t even budge from the spot but added as she gloomily looked at him, “You killed me today, Hilary. Not just me, but …..” suddenly she didn’t want to tell the bastard that she was carrying his children. He wasn’t worth it.

She took a deep breath as she felt him coming closer and continued, “I will never let you go! I will haunt you and make you experience the loss, despair, and heartbreak and make sure you live in eternal misery!” her voice becoming louder and eerier with each word she spoke.

As Hilary was a few feet near her, Elowyn suddenly mustered her strength and raised her hands to her face and that small move forced him to stop for a moment, curious about what she wanted to do. In his hand, a bloodied dagger, still dripping her blood.

Elowyn parted her hair, revealing her ghastly looking face, devoid of any blood, her eyes were bloodshot and the love that used to be contained there was no more. Only hatred and loathing remained here.

Suddenly that realization made Hilary feel discomfort. He wasn’t used to seeing that at all.

Elowyn didn’t know what he was thinking about, but she knew that her time was nearing. There was no way she was going to die without telling Hilary these words. After all, he should at least once experience the bitterness of being told such cruel words.

So Hilary, who was still stunned about the lack of love in Elowyn’s eyes, suddenly felt a piercing pain cutting through his heart and an agonizing scream from Adolf as Elowyn coldly said to him, “Cough ….. I Elowyn Gregory reject you Hilary Jacobs as my mate, lover and father of my children. Such a cold and heartless man, you don’t deserve to be tied to my name even in death. It was my misfortune that I met you, saved you when you were despairing, fell for you and risked everything for you.

It was my foolishness that thought that one day you would be moved by my feelings and that you were different from other men out there.

Today, you have shown me how cruel you men could be. Cough ….. but don’t worry, you will pay for the pain that you have caused me. In this life and any other lifetimes that will come, I will avenge myself and make sure that you will never have a moment of peace.

This very moment, using the blood of my children, you brutally murdered. I swear that I Elowyn will haunt you and you, Hilary, shall never have happiness. May the deities above hear my vow!” her every remark so piercing, he could taste the metallic taste on his tongue.

He clutched his chest, his eyes nearly bulging out because of the pain as the hand with the dagger stretched towards her, but she merely laughed at him hysterically, blood streaming down her chin from her mouth before letting go, a smirk on her face.

“No! don’t!” Hilary called in anguish as he ran to grab her, but he missed.

[Mate!] Adolf’s anguished voice yelled in his mind, leaving Hilary blank as he stood foolishly, watching her as she fell down so fast, he could still hear her laughing hysterically as she continued to curse him.

“You will never know peace, Hilary. Even if you didn’t want me, then what about the children? They were innocent!” when he heard that, he felt his bile rising and started vomiting on the side. The dagger in his hand felt very hot. He unconsciously threw it away, thus following Elowyn down the cliff.

[She was carrying our pups! How didn’t I know? How …. Why ….] Adolf was going crazy and so was Hilary.

But Elowyn’s voice could still be heard.

“We will haunt you, Hilary. You, Veda, the Whitecrest pack. Everyone and everything!” and that was the last of her voice he heard before a ‘paa’ sound rang in his ears and her voice died down.

‘What did I do?’ he slumped at the edge of the cliff, with hands on his head, blood dripping from his lips as he felt the tether, he never knew existed get ruthlessly cut and the endless howling and growling from Adolf overwhelming him.

Drip. Drop.

[Haha, we killed our second chance mate! Haha!]

The man and wolf could only shed tears of regret knowing that she was dead.

It was deemed to be an unforgettable night and the beginning of unending terror.

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“Oh~ what do we have here?” a croaking voice sounded in the eerie night, as a white figure floated with the river currents. The scene was quite conspicuous.

Standing on the river bank, with arms behind the back, and donning a dark cloak which mixed well with the dark night. The figure watched interestingly as that poor little thing floated, the white dress illuminated by the moonlight dyed red despite being in the water.

With a glance, the person could tell what was happening.

‘Should I save or not save?’ the person thought playfully, watching as the person floated further.

The person was lost in thought for a while and the floating figure never stopped, either. After a while, as the figure was about to leave the view, the person cussed out loud. “Damn! Blame me for coming here. Since I am here, I can’t let the poor thing die like that, right?”

As soon as that was said, the cloaked figure suddenly vanished from the river bank before appearing in the same place a few seconds later. This time, with the person who was floating earlier in the river.

“Tsk, tsk. If I had been late, this kind soul would be gone!” suddenly a female voice sounded from the cloaked figure, revealing the figure’s gender.

The cloaked woman took large strides away from the river bank while holding the dying person in her arms as if she weighed nothing.

With each step that she took, the wind blew and covered her tracks. It was as if she was never there and the endless howls in the air didn’t seem to faze her at all.

The woman’s strides were very long, and she was very fast in her walk. It wasn’t long before she covered a large area.

Beyond the river was a thick and lush forest. The trees were thick and very intertwined. It was difficult to find a road and yet as the woman walked in such a forest, the trees parted ways for her before returning to normalcy.

After a while, a beautiful waterfall came into view. The place looked very serene and peaceful. It was the kind of place where one would meditate and find Zen without fail.