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Chapter 637

Chapter 137 : The Silver Eyed Wolf

*Lena*

Elaine took a few steps forward, her jaw flexing as she swallowed.

“Lena, you and I need to talk–”

“Obviously!” I nearly shouted, rounding the table.

I passed Alma, who was standing in the doorway to the kitchen with two plates of chocolate cake, looking more annoyed than confused.

Gideon rose to his feet, glancing at Xander before he motioned for Alma to retreat into the kitchen.

Ianthe gave me a tight-lipped smile as she sidestepped around me and left the room, leaving Elaine and me alone.

Except for Xander, of course, who was standing on the other side of the dining room table looking just as shocked as I was.

“Elaine,” I breathed, my initial shock ebbing away into outright confusion. “What happened?”

Elaine sighed deeply, running her fingers along the top of the couch as she walked toward us. I noticed the faded bruising along her jaw, and the scar along the bridge of her nose as she came into the light of the chandelier above her head.

“I don’t know how to explain what happened to me,” she said, glancing from me to Xander.

“You need to try,” Xander said flatly, righting the chair he’d knocked over in his haste to stand up.

I sat in one of the armchairs, keeping my eyes focused on Elaine, unblinking.

“I heard the two of you met Andromeda,” she said in a whisper, her eyes sparkling with understanding. “I just missed you there. I’d just left–”

“Elaine,” Xander exhaled, tapping his fingers on the dining room table. “What happened? We need to know everything, from the beginning.

“You’re my friend’s twin–”

“I didn’t know about my sister until the war,” she breathed with a pained expression as she sat on the couch, running her hands over her jeans. “I didn’t know. I thought…. It sounds crazy, but I can’t remember a time I wasn’t in Crimson Creek. I was just here one day, and all of these memories I thought I had… of a family, of parents–” She tapered off, shaking her head.

night Xander and I went out into the hills when he wanted to collect a sample of the blood

creeping over his face. “Who was he

was screaming for you, Xander. That’s when I knew something was wrong. Ben wouldn’t have… he was looking right at me, I thought. He was walking toward us. I knew it wasn’t him when I saw his face clearly. It wasn’t him, but it was

why did you go back?” I asked, my

I wrapped my arms around my belly as if sheltering her, protecting her from whatever Elaine was

what I remembered being able to do, for whatever reason, even though I had no memories of my time before Crimson Creek. I was just there. I woke

“Elaine,” Xander said sharply.

I read your palm, I saw this place… wooded and just beautiful, a dream. I felt this pull toward it, and when I saw Ben in the hills, I felt that pull again. So, I went back out in the hills. I went to the same place I’d taken Xander

ran down the length of my spine as Elaine folded her hands between her thighs, rocking her body back

realm anymore. I was in… you

“Then what happened?”

the realm, I am sure. We came to the water, that strange sea and

“You went to Andromeda–”

know. It’s still there. That’s where I’ve been, all this time. That’s where I was taken when I was a child.” She rolled up her sleeve, her pale skin glistening in the amber light of the chandelier. She revealed a pale pink mark in the crook of her elbow, something that looked like a half moon scar. “I was born with it. It’s a witch’s mark. I am a shifter by blood, but somewhere in my family’s line is a witch who passed her powers down, but not everyone has it. Abigail,” she said,

“You were raised there–”

went to Morhan looking for you. But then I was… I still don’t remember how I

took your memories,” Xander

He did. And when the witches caught wind of what was happening, they called me home. Lena, when you

choked, my throat tightening around a sob. She didn’t know, did she?

“But–”

did you get here?” Xander asked, eyeing me before looking back at

completely. Announcing that we knew her mate…

temple. She told me my work for her was done, and to go home. But I didn’t know where home was. So, I came back here. I got here a few days ago.” She looked meditative for a moment, her eye’s glistening with some recent memory. “I thought I felt the mate bond

go find Alma?”

of expression. I chewed my lower lip as I rose, giving Elaine a weak smile. She looked somewhat fearful of

“I’ll be back–”

Xander said in a low growl that made the down hair on my arms stand on end. What did he

out of the room, walking into the kitchen and closing the door behind me. I let out the breath I’d been holding and

any idea where Oliver might

back in the sink, her face falling at the mention

Dianny; that’s

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*Xander*