"Her name is Selene. She is his first daughter and from what I found out, she is cursed but very special to him." Xander said in to the silent night.
Zephyr looked like had sunk in to his former personality, empty and non expressionless.
With the royal mark, it would make sense that she was the Dark King's daughter.
Ralph was the first to regain himself.
"How comes you've never mentioned her." He asked his brother.
"Because I didn't know she existed. Apparently , no one did. Just the Royal family and very few others. The dark king hid her and he is very protective of her because she's …..different." Xander explained.
"Cursed, you said." Zephyr's voice was low.
"That's what I heard."
"So why is she here? How did she get here?" Ralph asked.
Xander shook his head with a sigh. "That's what I don't know. But he is looking for her. Desperately." Xander said.
Zephyr felt like he had been further thrown in to a deeper sea of confusion. Things just kept on getting more complicated for him to understand and it all had to do with her!
"Maybe this is his plan. Maybe he is trying to make everyone think she's missing but he planned this." The Alpha suggested with a growl as his mind raced.
It was what he desperately wanted to believe because asides from the fact that it was the only thing that made sense, it would mean she was an instrument to his dark magic that caused this 'fake' mate bond.
Xander stepped forward.
"This is not his plan. She's the princess and he thinks she has been kidnapped." Xander said intently.
"How is that even possible? Did he hide her? Keep her indoors all her life?" Zephyr demanded with a growl.
"That is exactly what he did. She's very dear to him and he is furious! There has been a lot of deaths because of her disappearance . Her personal servant was killed too and the Queen was struck by him. I am certain he doesn't know where she is." Xander confirmed.
His tone was solid and they all knew it.
"I will find out more soon but for now this is all I know." He said.
There was another heavy silence. Unknown to them, the same thing was going on in their minds.
The mate bond.
Zeeb cleared his throat. "But if the dark king did not send her here then …..what about the mate bond? Is it real?"
Immediately he said that, Zephyr exploded angrilly.
"It's not! The dark king is responsible or someone is! She is not my mate!" He snarled angrilly.
"We still have the shadow weaver." He continued. "We will use it to find out who sent her here."
"I need to leave now. The Dark King is being very intense with the security at the pack and movements of members." Xander commented.
"Is he doing that because of her?" Ralph asked.
"I told you. She is very special to him. I'll communicate with Otsanna if I have to come but for now I have to be very careful." Xander said.
They exchanged goodbyes and he departed just as he had come.
Ralph stepped forward.
"You still want to use the shadow weaver?" He asked even though the death glare in Zephyr's eyes said as much as everything.
"What do you think?" Came the answer.
"What if it kills her?" The Beta asked.
"At least we will know where she comes from and who put her up to this." He said with a growl. "Meet me at the mansion. Zeeb I need you to bring her to the dark room."
Without another word, the Alpha transformed in to his wolf and disappeared in to the night.
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Selene was asleep when the door opened but her eyes flew open and her breath hitched in her throat as she sat up in a start.
Her heart continued racing when she saw who it was. The young man who had been ordering her torturers, the one she had begged not to kill her.
His eyes held sympathy and suspicion. When soldiers came in from behind him, she knew that she was in trouble.
"Bring her." Zeeb said and turned around.
Selene was grabbed and taken down a narrow hallway where she was pushed in to a dark room.
It was the same room she had been tortured in days ago. It had been cleaned out and it only looked darker because it was late at night, almost midnight precisely.
Selene was shaking in fear as she stumbled to her feet.
"Selene." A deep voice said warning a gasp from her as she spun towards the direction of the voice.
Zephyr emerged from the darkness and beside him were his Beta and Gamma.
But it was Zephyr who made Selene shiver in fear and start swear ring profusely. His intimidating presence and dark eyes that showed hatred.
She moved backwards with her heart racing.
He knew who she was. He definitely knew. It was not just because he had called her name, it was because of the way he looked at her with even more hatred.
The soldiers came from behind her and held her in place while the Alpha approached her steadily.
In his hand, he held the shadow weaver which was still wrapped.
His heart burned with hatred as he stared at the daughter of his enemy.
The daughter of the Dark King and all his locked emotions spilled out.
Rage fuelled him as the memories of his past replayed in his head. His first and last meeting with the dark king on that night that shattered his whole being.
The night his pack was almost consumed and was driven in to seclusion . The night they lost their freedom.
The night he became a completely different person. The night he made the ultimate sacrifice by killing his own father!
The night he lost his soul.
"You are his daughter. You have his blood and you deserve no mercy." He said with a growl stepping forward with the Shadow weaver.