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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

on his

Shit!

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 her smooth skin? It

“SHUT UP!” I roared.

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

you so angry about? Aww, are

out of

don’t you beg me? If you

a deep breath, calmed myself, and

the situation.

I said with scorn. “Why don’t you beg

stead?”

you talking about?!”

scoffed, “If you were able to fully control the crystal, I bet you’d prefer us to be trapped

pected, did it?”

continued, “You didn’t expect us to have kept our memories, and you surely didn’t expect that we would be able to get out of here. You had to use whatever

his 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

the truth. So I chuckled again, “So now what? Why don‘ t you show me

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

I didn’t like that. Enemies who were level–headed

difficult to deal with than those who

“Let me remind you- I’m in charge here. Now, Prince Theo, it’s time for

you’ll be disappointed,” I said, continuing to provoke him,

bait this time and only sneered, “Well, we’ll find out,

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he finished his sentence, I felt like

wasn’t going to be able to

slip into that dream state again, I heard him say, “It’s time for your nightmare to continue, Prince Theo. Get ready for your

slipped away, and everything

into a field out- side of the castle. The scent of

the only thing that

small. My hands were outstretched in front of me, ungloved, and I hardly recognized my own arms, they were 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 was, where

sentenced to death for murdering his brother, but Father spared him and made him a soldier 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

name was Zade, was supposed to be the most merciless and deadly of all of my father’s

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be going on

was finished with him.

of terror on his face continued to increase as he realized what was happening

I was

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

wanted to find a way to end the pull that was sucking the life out of him, but I couldn’t.