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.

to collect a sample

to the side, a sudden realization creeping over

I knew it wasn’t him when I saw his face clearly. It wasn’t him, but it was his voice. That’s when I told you we needed to

I asked, my skin prickling with

around my belly as if sheltering her, protecting her from whatever Elaine

I saw Ben, something I’d been battling with for a long time. When I read your palm, Lena… I actually saw something. I’d be reading tea leaves and palms because that’s what I remembered being able to do, for whatever reason, even though I had no memories of my time before Crimson

“Elaine,” Xander said sharply.

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 and I just…. A woman appeared out of nowhere, begging me to come with her, pleading with

length of my spine as Elaine folded her hands between her thighs,

realm anymore. I was in… you

“Then what happened?”

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

“You went to Andromeda–”

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

“You were raised there–”

my purpose. I was sent out to guard over you, Lena. I went to Morhan looking for you. But then I was… I still

Xander interrupted. “Just

what was happening, they called me home. Lena, when you brought the

sob. She didn’t know, did she? She didn’t

“But–”

asked, eyeing

understood him completely. Announcing that we knew

in the 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

go find Alma?”

void of expression. I chewed my lower lip as I rose,

“I’ll be back–”

Xander said in a low growl that made the down hair on my

me. I let

of you have any idea where Oliver

a dish back in the sink, her

New Dianny; that’s

***

*Xander*

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