CHAPTER 76 THE STONE AMULET
SCARLET’S POV
We have been with the old woman for some days now and she has been attending to my illness. Surprisingly, I have recorded tremendous improvement these past few days with her. Now I can move around without assistance and the weakness is almost completely gone.
I walked around trying to find her. “Hello, Nana” I called out as soon as I sighted the old woman by her old fireplace, heating the fire by adding logs of firewoods to it.
She had asked us to refer to her as Nana but has not said much about herself.
“Scar,” she said with her tiny voice as she fondly calls me.
“You are here, Nana, I have been on the lookout for you,” I said.
“You will always find the old lady by the fireplace” she giggled.
“Is there something I can help you with?” I inquired.
“You have to rest, Scarlet, you need all the strength you can get” she replied.
“I am tired of sitting idly, Nana, and moreover, I like it when I am with you,” I said.
She stood up and said. “Come on, Scar, we have to go take another look at you. the colour of your eyes is turning pink”
Walking behind her, I wonder how she was able to detect the colour of my eyes even when she had not looked directly at it. Even Lara noticed the odd colour this morning and had drawn my attention to it. However, I paid no attention to it and had dismissed it as a sign of the illness.
We got to the small room which doubles as her sitting room and the boys’ room at night and found that the others were already there.
“You lie down, Scar, let me take a closer look at your eyes” Nana instructed.
I lay on the old wooden bench while she took a closer look at my eyes.
“The poison went too deep. It was not meant to be reversed” Nana murmured in her shaky voice, shaking her head.
“Poison” I murmured.
Landon had also suspected that I was poisoned and now even the old woman confirms it.
“Poison, but who could have poisoned her?” Lara asked in worry.
“If not for the drug Landon had given you, you would not have lasted till now” Nana added.
“But I am getting better, Nana, I can do almost everything on my own,” I said.
“Maybe you are. But now it is coming for your heart” she made her way to an old bag hanging on the wall. “You see, desperate time calls for desperate measures. Your saving grace is that you only had a sip of the poison and Rich had pulled it off when he did”
She search through the bag and brought out something from it.
“Rich” I murmured as I tried to recall the time such a thing happened.
“Yes, I remember” Rich exclaimed. “That day at the cinema, I had intentionally pushed that ice cream from your grip”
“Some things are better left undiscovered until another time” Nana sighed.
I cannot believe this. So Violet actually made to poison me on that day. Yes, I had only gotten the spoon to my lips when Rich poured it away. I cannot believe she did that when all I wanted was to be friends with her.
“You helped me, Scar, and that is because you have a good heart. I have something for you, something that has remained hidden, a treasure that only the purest of hearts can weld”
She took my hands and pressed small stuff into them. I opened my hands and look at what she had put there. “A stone” I murmured.
“It’s an amulet, Scar. It holds answers to many questions, and the secrets of many are hidden deep within it. It is yours now” she explained.
As soon as the words left her mouth, it was as if some unexplainable power drew a force within me to the stone. I sat up and looked into it. My eyes began to glow and I felt strange powers rejuvenating deep within me.
For a moment, it was as if I was exposed to so many things, things that were not open to any man and my whole body became strong, stronger than it ever was.
I felt Stake again, she has awoken within me, but this time with a stronger force.
“Grrrrrrrr…” Stake growled out loud for the first time ever, causing the ground to shake.
I felt my bones cracking, leaving behind grievous pain and before I could fathom what was happening, I was already in my wolf form.
They all drew back from my wolf in fear, and I wonder why that was so. Stake is the least wolf to cause one to tremble and so I knew that something does not feel right.
It was when I looked at the floor that I realize that I was above the ground, a little more than normal. No, not a little, I was about six feet taller than the ground.
“A white wolf…” Lara and Mia murmured at the same time in shock as their eyes fearfully flickered on the body of my wolf.
I drew back and growled again. “Grrrrrrr…” and I ran out of the hut.
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ALPHA JAKE’S POV
“We have to stop the search now, Robert. The activities of Dark Age Pack are getting intense and we can’t afford to lose any manpower at this time” I said.
“But we never can tell what happened to her. She is not in Diamond Cut and we need to find her and bring her back here” Robert insisted.
“I sent my armies after her the moment we discovered she was gone, but up till now, there is no trace of her so it is obvious that wherever she is, she does not want to be found and that is good for her” I snapped.
“We started looking for her two days after she was gone, alpha” he retorted.
“And that is because it was when we discovered” I growled.
Immediately the words left my mouth, I felt shame instantly. Which alpha will only discover the disappearance of his luna after two whole days of her leaving?
But then, I did the best I could for her. Even after discovering her deceit, I did not send her away from my Pack but kept her here with no intention of divorcing her. I allowed her all her rights even when she is not entitled to such in her father’s house. She is just an ungrateful bitch, that is what she is.
“Look at you, alpha Jake, can you even hear yourself? You only got to find out that you were without your luna after two days, what are you even saying” he asked with a feeling of shame.
“She is not a kid, Robert” I yelled.
“And she is your luna. I would have kept my eyes on her but you stopped me from doing that. You knew her situation, but you never bothered” he yelled back.
“She made her choice and we will respect that. No one will look for her and that is final. You must recall the armies right away, we have better use of them” I ordered.
“You are the alpha, and your words are law. I will withdraw the armies and we would stop our search” he replied. “I will be leaving now, alpha” he requested.
I waved my hands and he made to leave. As soon as he got to the door, I called him. “Robert”
“Yes, alpha” he stopped without looking back.
“Not a single word on Scarlet ever again” I ordered.
“Yes, alpha” saying this, he opened the door and walked away.
I watched him leave in dissatisfaction but I have made my decision. So far I have been soft on Scarlet but not anymore. Now if I ever get her, I will make sure she feels every inch of my wrath.