Chapter 0104 "Are you sure you are ready for this?" King asks, as I shove my clothes inside my suitcase.
Stopping, I stare at him for a minute. "No, but it's the only way to get what I want." I've gone over my decision over and over again. I'm not one to reconsider something I've already decided. I make a decision and stick to it. When it comes to Alec, though, I have to think things through. I have to look at all the angles. I have to exhaust all the possibilities. I'm doing this for his pack, in exchange for my freedom was the best possible outcome. I could involve the council like I'd threatened, but deep inside I know that they are a bunch of sexist assholes. They would probably have sided with Alec. Threatening him with the council was justcalling his bluff.
The council's attitude is also one of the reasons why I've never cout to them as the alpha of the hope pack. I didn't want to deal with them constantly challengingor looking down onbecause I am a woman.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtThe council has been there for years. It was established after the first bloody war between the three supernatural species. The deities of the individual species didn't like that their children were fighting and killing each other. Through an oracle, they commanded them to stop their war and find a way to coexist or else the deities would send their wrath upon them.
At first, they didn't listen. The wolves wanted more territories, the vampires wanted more blood, and the witches and warlocks wanted more power. It was chaos with the wolves' attacking vampires and witches for their lands. Vampires attacking witches and humans for blood, and witches and warlocks using vampires and werewolves as blood sacrifices to strengthen their magic.
The god and goddesses had enough and wreaked havoc on them. Diseases, death, hurricanes, storms, floods, drought, you nthem. They were suffering, they were dying, and so they had to concede to what the deities wanted. With the help of the oracle, who was given instructions by the deities, they formed the first council. It was a great story. A great part of our history. The only thing I didn't ever fucking like was that the council consisted of only men, even though two of their deities are females. It's been that way for thousands of years. Only men sit on the council and lettell you, from what I've heard, those men are sexists as hell.
"Sadie?" his voice pullsback to reality.
""What is it?" I ask.
Shaking my head to clear it, I continue packing. I'm already done with Aspen's clothes, and they were currently sitting in a little pink suitcase that she chose herself.
She was so excited when I told her that we would be travelling. We rarely left the pack, and if we did, it was at night. I was always afraid that someone would recognizeor her. A part from her hair color, she was the spitting image of her father. It wouldn't be hard for someone to connect the dots.
"I'm really not sure about this, Sadie," King sits down on my bed, his intense gaze burning through me. "I feel like you going to that pack will bring about something. I just don't know what." "Stop worrying," I tell him, before sitting down next to him. "It will be over very quick. I'm just going to help them, get what I want and then be back before you know it. Besides, Raven will be there." We had agreed that King would be the one staying behind while Raven travels with me.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmWith how powerful I'd gotten, I don't really need her to accompany me, but I thought it would be nice to have someone I trusted with us. It would make going back to Alec's pack a bit easier.
"Fine, but just know that I'll be there in a heartbeat if you need me." "I know" I say before zipping up my suitcase. "Now I'm done." I'd just finished the sentence when Raven walks in. "Are you done? Because I am, and I'm looking forward to going back and seeing my mom's grave. It's been years." When Raven had helpedthat day in Alec's office, she had been labeled as a wanted person too. Just like me, she left everything of her old life, including her mother's grave, when we fled. Over the years, I asked her to go back and visit her mother's grave when she talked about missing her, but she never did. She insisted that our safety was paramount and she didn't want to risk ever getting caught.
It's one of the reasons why I decided she would be the one to accompanyinstead of King.
"Yes, I am done," I answer standing up. "Letjust get someone to bring our luggage down." Minutes later, a guard comes in to take our luggage. We leave the room and follow behind him. I'd told one of the omegas to tell Martha to meet us at the front.
Given Martha has been her nanny since she was around eight months, she is coming with us. I trusted no one in Alec's pack to look after my sweet baby Aspen's body collides with mine the moment she sees me. She was a bubble of excitement and joy.
"I get to fly, mommy," she gushes with happiness. "I've always wanted to fly in a plane."