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Chapter 48 Theo’s Past I

My thoughts were fuzzy as I tried to keep track of what was happening all around me. A whoosh of wind flew around me, and I felt like I was both floating and falling at the same time.

With a thump, I hit the ground, my legs slamming into what felt like a stone floor. I lay there for a second, opening my eyes slightly. I had to figure out what to do next.

Well, if the mission had failed, and the crystal hadn’t been cleansed from the last user, then we would have to wait until the next real blood moon to plant the berry, and I would just have to find a way to make sure that I didn’t hurt anyone else until then.

If that meant I would have to seclude myself and stay away from everyone until that could happen, then that was exactly what I would do.

It wasn’t like I’d never done that or been alone before. I was quite used to either anyway.

Pushing up off of the floor, I turned around and sat down, the world still spinning slightly. At least my organs seemed to have settled back down. My heart was no longer hammering, my lungs could suck in a full breath of air, and my head was no longer pounding.

Something was still different, though. Something was off. The room I was in looked like my own bedroom, but I could tell there were minor differences that made it seem like per-

haps I hadn’t quite reached reality after all.

Glancing around, I saw that I was alone. The others were not there–Ciana, Jake, Brook, Warren, and Sophia. That made

no sense.

I got up and started for the door, but it was then that I heard maniacal laughter behind me and turned around to see Luther standing across the room. He hadn’t been there be- fore; I was sure of it.

“You’ve got a lot of nerve to show your face,” I sneered.

Luther walked toward me, his arms folded across his chest as he continued to chuckle. “Seriously?” he asked. “You still haven’t figured all of this out? You are the one who should be concerned.”

“Obviously, you and I see things differently.”

I didn’t have time to chat with him, so the sooner I’d taken care of him, the better. I was about to shift when I realized

that I couldn’t.

“Hahaha!” Luther laughed. “Prince Theo, why didn’t you show me your wolf? Is it because… you can’t?”

“What did you do?” I narrowed my eyes as I waited for him.

to answer me.

“You know that every pack has an artifact from the Moon Goddess, right?” he asked, a snarky smile on his face.

Of course, I knew that. Everyone knew that.

“Well, before you had your brute of a Beta go out and track down the Moonlit Crystal, maybe you should’ve done a

little bit of research about where it came from.” He still had

look on

Shit!

laughed again. “That’s right. It belongs to my pack, Ortiz–mine. And that means… I’ve been the one pulling the strings all around this little adventure you’ve just been through. Did you enjoy it? How did it feel to be able to touch

“SHUT UP!” I roared.

and I felt my furious blood rush to my face. I realized that if he had been behind all of it, it wasn’t over yet. After all, I was still pretty sure I wasn’t back to my own

so angry about? Aww, are you worried

her out

shriek of laughter. “Why don’t you beg me? If

a deep breath, calmed myself, and quickly

the situation.

with scorn. “Why don’t you beg me

stead?”

talking about?!”

you’d prefer us to be trapped there forever. So let me guess what happened. Something didn’t quite work out as

pected, did it?”

away, and I knew I was right. So I continued, “You didn’t expect us to have kept our memories, and you surely didn’t expect that we would be able

jaw, and that confirmed my guess. I silently let out a breath of relief–it seemed that at least Ciana and the rest of the group should have been returned to reality now. Things were not as bad as I thought. That was good to know so that I could focus

was, the closer I was to the truth. So I chuckled again, “So

twisted in hatred, but he soon calmed him- self down

easily agitated as I’d hoped. I didn’t like that. Enemies

with than those who

remind you- I’m in charge here. Now, Prince Theo, it’s time for you to get back to the

not a good actor and you’ll be

take the bait this time and only sneered,

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finished his sentence, I

into place. He was right–I wasn’t going to

heard him say, “It’s time for your nightmare to continue, Prince Theo. Get ready for your worst memories

away, and everything around me

been standing in morphed into a field out- side of the castle. The scent of the green grass hit my lungs as

the only

so short. Glancing down at my body, I realized I was a small child again, and as the rest of the scene came into fo- cus, I knew exactly who I

because of his battle skills. He was in his human form dressed in the uniform of our castle guard. I remembered that this was back when my fa- ther had been putting together a detail to go fight in an im- portant

name was Zade, was supposed to be the most merciless and

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going on that

was finished with him.

to increase as he realized what was happening to

was

youth–all of the attributes that contributed to Zade’s prowess as a warrior were seeping into me. I watched his face continue to pale and shrivel up as the very essence of life was sucked away from him, flowing through the air and rejuvenating

to find a way to end the pull that was sucking the life out of him, but I