Chapter Thirty-Seven – Friendly with Dara.
Jaden’s POV
“She is with Your Silver at the moment, I’m sorry.” Dara, the lead warrior replied.
“She is there to defend him in case of another attack, I doubt they will be any. We handled all so far.”
“I am grateful for the sacrifice.” I made a bow.
She did the same. “But if you have any message you want me to relay to him, I gladly will.” She smiled broadly.
I bet she had been instructed to be comely.
“It will be a wasted effort to come all the way and not meet him, he was supposed to answer our questions.” Jake complained.
“What questions? I have been with Your Silver since his first raid. I can answer them.” She hurriedly said.
A warrior wearing the same uniform with her, sped towards us and knelt before her.
“Dara, there’s an issue, Your Silver is…” the warrior stopped speaking, on seeing us.
“What happened to Your Silver?” Jonah asked, oddly concerned.
The warriors sighed, looking at Dara. “Are these the Black Rose leaders?”
Dara nodded, with a frown.
The warrior bowed. “Forgive me, Your Silver was on his way back but got in a fight with his second, they’d be there for awhile.”
Jonah sighed, backing away.
“His second is the female silver wolf, right?” he still had the same mocking tone.
Dara glared at him and he shut his lips together. He did that when he was hiding something. What was he hiding now?
“It’s okay, I will not meddle in his personal business. I will ask you, Dara, my questions and head back to my pack.” I informed.
Dara and the warrior bowed.
“Oh and do scout before returning, in case of Red Moon warriors.” The warrior whispered, but I heard it, before leaving.
Dara exhaled, assuming a comfortable stance. “What are your questions, Alpha?”
What lingered in my head at that point was if Dara was the scout I met that day. But my wolf had not reacted with her so maybe not.
“First, I wanted to ask if you had some particular wolfs who scouted.” It was random, even Ralph was confused.
“Well,” she hesitated. “Your Silver scouts himself. If need be, he asks either I or his Delta to do so.”
I nodded. So Your Silver also had a Delta? He really got a pack for himself. Who had I seen that day then? I wasn’t sure if it was a silver wolf.
“Well, recently, he has been teaching some young hunters to scout, perhaps that was who you saw?” she blinked.
I shook my head. “I did see someone, I just wanted to be sure of what I saw. Was that scout Your Silver or a young hunter?”
“A hunter!” she replied immediately. “A hunter had been trained in that position. Hope no problems?”
“None.” I replied.
There was silence.
“Um… about a girl named Jean.” Ralph started.
“She accepted the young man’s rejection. Your Silver had banned us warriors from engaging on that topic.” Dara said, sternly.
“Accepted his rejection? He said she rejected him.” Ralph corrected.
“Yes, but after he told her to get away from him and called her a killer. It’s a mutual agreement.” Dara smirked.
I remembered the palm reader saying something similar. It seemed Dan had regretted his words afterwards but it was late.
“The young warrior? Can we meet her? She wasn’t forced to reject him, was she?” I enquired.
“No, she wasn’t.” Dara deadpanned. She stared into space for a while, probably mind linking and soon a blonde girl came walking to us.
She frowned. “I rejected him by my own will. Your Silver wasn’t even aware I did.”
She had a strong voice. And was their abode so close that she came within seconds of being called? I sighed, Dan would have to suffer.
“He regrets his actions. Could you take it back?” Ralph pleaded.
Her eyes dilated and she looked at Dara, who shrugged. “I will think about it. Excuse me.” She sped off.
Jake came down from his horse. “Well, I don’t think there’s any other question we have. Just keep being on our side.”
Dara bowed. “As long as it’s favorable. Your Silver will always be in alliance with Black Rose.”
Alliance? I don’t recognize his pack so it wasn’t an alliance but a cooperation. But that was the least of my problem.
Was the young scout my mate? I really didn’t want to leave here without getting this solved.
I had waited five years since I turned eighteen, waiting for a mate. If the moon goddess had given me a rogue, I wouldn’t mind.
“Tell me, Dara. If your silver was to find a mate, would he stop all these rogues act and be with her?” it left my lips.
Dara was already collecting the gift box Ralph had prepared for Your Silver, she paused.
“I don’t know if I should say this, but Your Silver had been rejected by his mate once, the chance of meeting someone else, it’s low.”
I noticed Jonah look hurt.
I nodded, brushing the question away. I didn’t want to meddle in the man’s affairs. His pack and these girls, must be all he had.
“Oh and tell me, is it only female warriors he has?” Ralph raised a brow. That hadn’t occur to me. Jake cleared his throat, having a smirk.
“Majority of us are women. That’s because slaves are mainly women. Red Moon usually killed off the male wolfs to prevent uprising.”
Jake’s smirk fell off. “Oh.”
She continued.
“My pack was raided and my father and brothers slaughtered. That’s the story of almost every warrior here. Your Silver training us gives hope.”
That was deep, I felt it. It was nice to know there was a man challenging and doing things that never crossed my mind to do.
“That’s nice. We’d call it a day then.” Ralph concluded. Dara nodded, taking steps back.
“I am sorry about your pack.” I told her. Someone had to apologize to these slaves.
“I lived through it, thanks to Your Silver.” she replied.
Ralph and Jake set off heading home. I waited a bit for Jonah and overheard him asking how a particular ‘she’ was and if that ‘she’ was injured?
Dara replied in the negative, with a nod and a wink? What was going on? I looked away when Jonah rode towards me.
This young man was giving too many questions much that I couldn’t hide my thoughts.
“Is it me or are all Your Silver’s warriors pretty? For a moment, I took of my necklace to be sure Dara wasn’t my mate.” Jake confessed.
Jonah and Ralph laughed and even slapped him playfully. “I mean it though.” Jake pouted.
“Jonah, have you ever met Your Silver.” I broke the two-second silence. Ralph paused and turned to me. “You mean while he was there?”
I nodded at him and faced Jonah, he wasn’t looking at me. “Tell me, you had an informal relationship with Dara. Have you met him?”
“Are you suspecting something or what? I never met with any man there. I only spoke to a man on the day I was captured.” He replied.
Jake glanced at me and asked through mind link. “Is something wrong? If you have more questions, we can go back and ask Dara.”
“No need.” I replied. Jonah seemed to have all the answers I need, I just had to make him spill it. “Let’s go then.” And we continued on our way.