Chapter 5

Bastian

I stared down at the girl the moon goddess paired me with and honestly the only thing I felt was irritation crawling up my spine.

I still don’t understand how fate could look at all the warriors in the world, all the powerful females in royal packs, all the trained fighters and gifted wolves and somehow choose this small fragile looking thing as my mate.

She looked so young and if not for the fact that she has been eating quite well since she married Caspian she would still be skinny like those sickly orphans we used to rescue when we were kids. It’s been three weeks since I returned to the castle which is already the longest I have stayed in this place in years.

I usually come back for seven days to oversee some kingdom business with my twin then I leave again to manage our human world business empire. I never linger. There are too many memories in these walls and I hate every single one of them.

Since I can’t shift to my wolf and can’t even talk to it, I am basically more disabled as a werewolf than Caspian ever was.

Caspian couldn’t walk in human form but at least he could shift and stand on his feet in wolf form which is why he preferred staying in that form more than being himself.

But me? I can’t even shift. My wolf is trapped inside me like a dying thing because of the accident we had together. The same accident that took our sister’s voice. The same accident that nearly killed us both.

The prophetess told us that day our lives would never be normal again and we believed her because she saw things nobody else saw. But now everything changed because the moon goddess gave us something unbelievable. A mystic mender.

The last one alive maybe. Half werewolf and half fae and a creature more powerful than any witch. And she doesn’t even know what she is.

I looked at her small sleeping form on the bed and then turned to my twin brother, mind linking him immediately. I didn’t bother softening my tone.

“It’s time to reject her. We’re fine now. You can walk and our injuries have reversed. The curse is broken. There’s no need to keep her anymore.”‘I told him through the mindlink.

I felt Caspian’s shock like a punch but I didn’t care. I kept my eyes on her hair. The silver roots she was forced to hiding in her former pack were already showing and she said that was her real color.

Mystic menders all had some kind of strange marking on them and that silver was one of the signs. She won’t stay long enough for us to see her full transformation because I don’t intend to let her remain here. Not with us or in this kingdom nor in our family.

Our lineage has suffered enough from her kind. Our father kept one long ago as his mistress and that was the exact moment the downfall of our family began.

Darkness fell on us like a curse. A curse that spread everywhere until even our younger sister Aurora was born with a speech impairment and hasn’t spoken more than three words since she was a child. And that was even before the accident.

Now she barely speaks at all staying in her wing where nobody is allowed to enter except a few healers she trusts. And the last time the prophetess came she said Aurora’s condition was rapidly changing but she didn’t tell us how.

Caspian’s voice cut through my mind link sharply. “Did you forget what the prophetess said about her?”

I clenched my jaw because fuckinh no, I did not forget. I remember every damn word.

“Hold on to Silver tightly. If she goes, everything in the kingdom will crumble. The balance will break and the darkness will rise again.”

I remember it well but I do not care because mystic menders are a curse and a disaster and no matter how rare she is, she is still not my type. I told him exactly that. She is too young, too petite, too fragile amd too everything.

She looks like a girl that should be in a kitchen learning how to cook soup not standing beside two kings. I don’t like her. I don’t want her. I don’t want a mate that makes me feel like I’m robbing a cradle.

Immediately after I marked her that night I felt revulsion hit me so hard I nearly vomited. The bond felt wrong. Felt off like something that shouldn’t exist. I wanted to reject her immediately but Caspian stopped me.

He said she was the last mystic mender alive and Mother confirmed it. I still don’t understand how the Queen Mother knew but we always suspected she had some kind of power. She proved it that day when she talked about Silver like she already saw her years ago.

And then Silver told us about being rejected by her former mate and everything started making sense. Of course she was rejected.

Who would want a malnourished young girl as a mate? Who would celebrate that? Even her wolf had gone dormant out of starvation. She was weak and fragile and not worth all the trouble destiny was forcing on us.

She cannot become a queen of the entire werewolf. It is not possible because nobody is going to respect us when they find out. Coronation might have taken place but I made sure there are rumors about Caspian taking a more powerful warrior in future.

I stood up from the bed tired of staring at her innocent face because it only made my annoyance worsen. We had just thoroughly fucked her together and she is still glowing from it.

I told Caspian I was leaving. He didn’t look happy but I didn’t care. Right then Silver stirred in her sleep and Caspian immediately softened.

He smiled at her and sat beside her like she was some precious treasure and I rolled my eyes because this whole thinh is a pretend and I know the only girl he wants is Viola. His ex mate that rejected him which is why I arranged for her to come back to him.

She is coming back today

I tried backing away quietly so she wouldn’t see me but she opened her eyes halfway and mumbled something. She asked Caspian where I was and he told her I went for pack business.

She accepted it easily and they started speaking in hushed tones like some newly married couple and I wanted to gag because this girl didn’t belong in our world. Not with us or with me or with the curse hanging over her.

I left the room and didn’t look back even once.

This will be the last time I’m touching that girl. The last time she will ever warm my bed or breathe near me. I am healed and Caspian is healed. Our sister Aurora is healing. There is nothing left for her here. Nothing left she can give us.

She should take her curse and go far away before she destroys everything.