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CHAPTER 11MAELISThe moment we returned to the room, Heira closed the door behind us. I watched carefully as she walked towards the table in the corner of the room and began to gather the things that I supposed she needed to tend to my wound.I still didn’t know what kind of room I was in. The scent of herbs mingling in the air and the heathen jars and bowls coupled with dried bundles of tree barks and plants made it look like I was in a healer’s coven but the room itself suggested otherwise.It was much cleaner than most healers abode I had been to and I recollected being to quite a few in my childhood, owing to Father’s concern that I hadn’t inherited the abilities unique to our bloodline.A shiver ran through me at the recollection of the many tonics that had been forced down my throat, all in a bid to help me manifest abilities I doubted I possessed.When Father eventually realised it was all for naught, the resentment crept in. When Serina was discovered to possess the Pyreth’s

MAELIS A loud sigh came from behind me. I turned around immediately, finding Heira standing at the entrance. Her eyes moved from me, leaning against the window, to the hand I had pressed against my abdomen. The look on her face said everything. “You’re going to hurt yourself again,” she said. I straightened slowly, pulling away from the window. “I’m fine.” “I told you to rest,” she continued, stepping in with an expression that said she wasn’t pleased with my actions. “I was only looking outside.” I had no idea why, but I felt like I needed to explain my actions to her. She however did not argue and only gesticulated towards me, “come with me.” My face pulled into an instant frown, “where?” “You’ll see.” That was all she said before she turned around, beginning to walk out the room. I hesitated only briefly before following after her. Where she brought me to was a new chamber, different from the one I was in before. Asides from lacking the medicinal scents and

MAELIS The days rolled by quickly. Life in Eryndor had settled into a quiet calm and Heira had been right about one thing. Resting helped. Maybe not in the way she meant but the days spent in solitude helped me think of where I had gone wrong, and the things I could have done differently. If I hadn’t been so submissive and if I hadn’t been so hasty in falling for Nolan, none of what happened would have. I wouldn’t have been content being a mere wife to him and I would have stood a chance against Serena in the end. As the days passed, I had a rethink on my decision to remain in Eryndor and each time I thought it over, I came to the same conclusion. I was going to stay. I would train, become stronger then return to Pyreth to make Serina pay for all that she had taken from me. My only companion all these while was Chesmal, who came frequently to deliver clothes, food and light the fireplace before the wood it contained depleted. Heira came every morning without fai

RAEGAN It always began the same. At least fifty times now, I’ve stood on these grounds, my vision obscured by a dense white fog. Snow blanketing my vision, and chilling my heated skin. No, it was fur now. The wolf had taken control and I was somewhere deep inside of him, watching through his lens and trying to figure out why goosebumps were prickling down my arm and spine. In this illusion, my wolf was always restless. Keeping my grip on him was always a losing battle I fought and lost. Like a length of disintegrating rope, my restraint frayed apart. Now, the animal stood in my place and it took a long while for the man trapped inside him to realise what he had done. The fog lifted and the sun began to shine ten times harder. Its sudden harsh rays made my wolf howl and lower his snout, seeking the chill of the snow around us. However, where I expected pearly white, there was crimson. It was as though blood had fallen from the sky and bathed the ground. I took a step

MAELISHe hadn’t even listened to my reason. He didn’t even ask before he expressed his refusal.“I can’t join your pack?” I echoed, still befuddled and bewildered by his refusal.Why? What qualifications did I lack? He hadn’t even asked me anything.It wasn’t like I would dive into a sob story about how I’d been betrayed by my mate, Father and sister and how I had lost my child to them too and how I had been forced out of my home or how I had been forced to decide to brave the unforgiving territory of the northern lands but still, I expected to be asked why.Yet, Raegan didn't even blink twice before rejecting me. He didn’t look like he had the intention to question me about anything either.His reaction or the otherwise lack of it left me bewildered and it took a moment for me to snap out of it.My face pulled tight into a frown. “I’m not asking you to just let me in without following due procedures. I can go through any trial you want me to and if it’s proof of my goodwill you need