Chapter Hundred and Ninety-One – Get the answer.
Jaden’s POV
I wondered what my future held.
In the prophecy I was called the silver wolf’s mate, not husband.
What if we didn’t work out after killing Logan?
My wolf came to the surface to scold me for that thought but I blocked our connection.
I needed answers not motivation.
“That palm reader that foresaw Ralph’s death!” I remembered. I had a score to settle with her, but I’d like to know my future as well.
I needed more answers that wouldn’t break me, hopefully, though I doubt anything else can.
My memory had identified the small house where the palm reader stayed. I knocked on it.
“Yes, come in, Alpha.” She replied.
She was a ranked wolf to know I was an Alpha. I hesitated before walking in.
The room was dimly lit, I sat down on the chair before the table and cleared my throat. “You seem to know who I am.”
“Yes, but you don’t know who you are.” Her voice came from the darkness. I couldn’t see her.
What did she mean by I didn’t know who I was? “I know, only that I wonder who’d I be later.”
“Your future had already been prophesied, why do you still seek answers?” she asked.
Prophesied?
Well, the prophecy talked more on the evil than of me. “Do you mean my future is to be the silver wolf’s mate and kill the evil, that’s all?”
The old lady became visible to me. Her gray long hair looked haggard and birds could make a nest there. I looked away from her dark eyes.
“If that’s what the prophecy says then it’s true.”
I smiled at her words. “Oh okay.”
That was a very uneventful future but at least it had no more drama, and I get to kill Logan and be with Rihanna.
The lady smirked, resting back. “But is it what the prophecy really said?”
I frowned. “Isn’t it?
“I ask you.” She remarked.
The prophecy was confusing, the last bit of it where it asked ‘or must it end this way?’.
It sounded like something could have averted all these wars in the first place. “Can you explain? I have no clue what it meant.”
“The battle you fight, do you know why?” she asked. “The enemy you fight, what is his goal? Is there a force that drives him to do it?”
Apart from madness, another force that drove Logan to do these were desire to be immortal and the extinction of all werewolfs.
But if I was to look at it critically, Logan wasn’t stupid. He showed it times without number.
Even making me know I was his son as his endgame, to stop me from killing him.
Why’d he then want to kill every werewolf that walked the earth? Immortality can’t aid him.
What drove him to such bloodthirsty? What did werewolfs ever do to him? They killed his sons? But he said he didn’t mind.
So what exactly was his anger?
“Maybe when I find that answer, it will lead me to how this battle could’ve been adverted.”
Perhaps if Logan gets what he wanted, he’d not cause all this pain in the land.
“I think I need to see this enemy and ask him. Right now, I have no idea.” I told the lady.
She grinned broadly. “Do that then but remember who you are. You are all the good things your parents are, not their bad.”
It warmed my heart. I nodded, rising from the seat. “Thank you. And Ralph, a man…”
“He may be dead but a lot will be done in his name.” the lady replied before I finished.
A lot will be done in his name? By who? I made a small bow, taking out some gold coins and dropping it on her table.
I walked out.
“How do you plan to find Logan?” Leon asked.
No idea but he’d make himself available to me soon, I knew it. He sent me on a quest so he’d like to know what I thought.
“No matter what his answer is, he’ll still die by my hands. Whether the battle should’ve been avoided or not, it wasn’t.” I muttered.
Within minutes, it’d get to afternoon and I’d need to be home for lunch. I sped off towards Black Rose.
Many thoughts went through my mind but I squeezed them at the back of my head.
I was my mother’s son, so I could be the Alpha of Black Rose. I may have been an accident but my mother doesn’t regret me.
I arrived at Black Rose and mind linked the warriors. “Is Alpha Rihanna still around?”
“Oh, she never came, Alpha. Are you expecting her?” he enquired.
She never came in? My mother said she’d write to her. Then where did they go? “Forget it. And my mother?”
“She hasn’t returned yet. She left with a carriage so we assume she’s going far.” He replied.
My mother must have taken Rihanna away from the pack so no one would overhear them. I sighed, walking into the border.
“Jake and Jonah are the only ones around, right?” I asked the warrior again, physically.
He nodded. “Yes. Jake returned with a little boy. Delta Jonah didn’t go anywhere today.”
I nodded, walking away from him and to the main house. My Delta energy was inside and he was pacing around.
“Jonah, what’s wrong? Why are you pacing about?” I asked him in mind link.
He flung the door open, smiling on seeing me. “Jake is training a child now so I can’t tell him but there’s good news. A sadly good one.”
I closed the door behind me, then sighted Ralph’s mate seated on a couch, looking down.
Since Ralph’s death, I hadn’t had the courage to meet her. Before his death, I had only spoken to her once. Her name came to my mind.
“Rita? It’s nice seeing you here.” I spoke softly.
She rose to her feet and bowed. “Alpha Jaden, you never visited.” She said accusatorily.
She was quite plain. I chuckled softly. “I couldn’t.” I said, honestly. “And I’m very sorry.”
Her hand was on her stomach as she spoke. She looked at it and rubbed it. “I’m pregnant.”
My shoulders fell. She was? Jonah came to my side. “A few weeks. Ralph wasn’t aware.”
Rita tightened her lips. “I was waiting for the right time to tell him. Maybe after Logan was gone and all but… I didn’t get the chance.”
I blinked furiously, my eyes stinging and tears fighting to leave my eyes. I looked away from her. “Ralph wanted to be a father too.”
Our last conversation came to my mind. Why was that our last conversation? Why wasn’t it something hearty or funny?
I breathed in and out, stretching my lips to a smile. This should be what the palm reader meant.
Ralph was dead but a lot will be done in his name. “That child would do great things, I know it.”
Rita smiled, nodding. “Yes, and thank you.”
Jonah advanced to her. “He or she will be our future Beta. Take care of you two please.”