Having the help of a witch helped them a great deal but Daisy was adamant that Vera was spreading herself too thin and her dark ways were taking a toll on her.
She was sick according to their sources and the Locke family had no idea because Vera would only visit a human hospital for ailments the poor doctors and nurses couldn’t understand.
They had Vera’s file with them.
The file was passed around the office until it landed on my hands.
Vera was dying.
Her one lung had already collapsed. Her liver was failing her and those poor kidneys. I can’t begin to imagine the pain she must be going through.
Her body was going to give out soon. Her heart rate was unbelievably fast. Too fast to even understand how she had not suffered a stroke yet. Witches have no healing abilities and her constant use of dark magic prohibited good magic to heal her.
No wonder Celine’s family didn’t mind helping us fight off Vera. They must have known this was happening to her.
I mean it is known that magic has a price and hers was dark which means the price had to be high.
The price was her life and she was in too deep now.
What I didn’t understand is, why would she continue to fight for that family if she was the all-powerful witch? Why not just go away to die peacefully?
It didn’t make sense for someone as powerful as Vera could spend her final days playing servant to the Locke family and signing her death sentence.
“Why is she still helping that family if she is dying?” I ask the hunters. I looked at them all and my eyes stopping at Daisy.
“That’s what we don’t understand. This war alone could kill her. There are too many wolves to fight off and now you tell us that you got witches watching your back too. It is not looking good for Vera” Daisy responds.
“Maybe one of the Lockeness monsters is her mate?” Josey says with a light chuckle.
That could be it. That’s the only reason one would put their health at risk for their one true love.
“We thought so at first…” Jason says.
“Until they all found their mates and Vera stayed alone. The twins share a mate, some beta wolf from a pack up north. Reginald has Scarlett and Taylor had a human mate.” Josh said to me.
Wait a minute.
“This pack’s Scarlett?” I ask and before one of the hunters could respond, Max jumped in.
“My mother is mated to that rogue??” Max stands and smashing his hands on his desk.
“Scarlett didn’t tell you? Reginald rejected her when they were young and she ended up in this pack.” Daisy said to Max.
Max looks at Deacon who just shrugs. They were both played.
“Anyway, Vera is not mated to any of the Locke children. Something is motivating her to fight to her death, a painful one and we can’t figure out what that is.” Daisy says.
“Well, we can find out.” I say looking at my mother then at Max.
“It’s too dangerous. We don’t know how she will respond to having you invade her memories and who knows what she could do to you? She could retaliate and find out you are already with child and take over your mind.” Max says to me.
“No. We will not let you anywhere near her. Unconscious or not.” Max says to me.
I knew it was the end of that discussion so I decided to drop it.
“Ok. We can then hope Celine’s family can figure it out then.” Josey says and we all nod.
As if on cue, Celine walks in followed by 4 women who looked to be in their 40s…
They looked amazing, don’t get me wrong but age is age and when one is human, 40 is really 40.
Unless you are one of the lucky humans who grow prettier with age.
Lucky shits.
“Hello alpha. Hello everyone.” Celine says standing next to uncle Deacon.
“Good morning, Celine.” Max says to her. Then nodding at the other ladies.
“We couldn’t help but overhear what you were all talking about. ” Celine says to us. She is suddenly interrupted by one of the ladies that came in with her.
“Vera is our problem and we will deal with her. That is all you need to know.” Said one of the 4 ladies that did not introduce themselves.
“Can we trust that you will get the job done or will you need some help? She is known to be very powerful.” Uncle Deacon said back to the mystery lady.
She nods.
“We will take her down and remove her from this fight. Celine will link Max as soon as we have her and you can all be the animals you were born to be.” She said to us but looking at uncle Deacon.
“As long as you are in my territory, its alpha to you.” Max says to the rude woman.
“Anyway, I can work with that but what if you can’t take her down? How will we know you need help?” Max said to the lady.
“We will have Celine link you, alpha. I doubt it will come to that though.” She spoke. Emphasis on the word alpha.
“How are you so sure? If you could take Vera down before why wait until now?” I ask clearly annoyed that they allowed this woman to kill us when it is clear they were able to put a stop to it before.
“She was not killing our kind. In fact, she was working with your kind to kill your kind.” The lady said back to me.
“So, if we worked with a witch and helped her kill your kind, you’d just let us be then?” I say back to her and she didn’t respond because we all know the answer to that.
I was getting upset. How could they be so ignorant? We have been living in peace for years and not meddling in each other’s business but here we were, a witch meddling in wolf business and they knew all along.
“You did not stop her. You don’t have to care about us but to maintain the peace, you could’ve tried to stop her.” I say to her and she just laughs.
“I only dabble with white magic. It is pure. When a witch goes dark, she is on her own. What she does with her dark magic is up to her.” She says to me.
She walks up to me and looks me straight in the eyes. We were surprisingly the same height.
“We are here to help you. Don’t forget that.” She says to me in a condescending tone.
I snort.
“Sure, because Vera is exposed now and it would look bad if the council was to find out that a witch was playing on wolf ground and killing us.” I retort back and I move closer. So, close our noses were almost touching.
“Be careful pup. I wouldn’t want to hurt you.” She says to me.
Her aura changes and her eyes take on a dark color.
“Calm down witch. You are on wolf territory and I’m the Luna here. Know your place.” I say to her and I release my power but not too much to draw attention.
She moves back and I move closer until her back hits the wall.
“I’m not your regular wolf. You’d be smart to remember that.” I say and I turn around to go sit on Max’s lap so I can calm my wolf down.