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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.

when he wanted to collect a sample of the blood root. I thought… I thought Ben was in

over his face. “Who was he screaming for? I didn’t

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 his voice. That’s when I told you

I

as if sheltering

remembered being able to do, for whatever reason, even though

“Elaine,” Xander said sharply.

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

my spine as Elaine folded her hands between her thighs, rocking her body back

I wasn’t in this realm anymore. I was in… you

“Then what happened?”

day we traveled far, across the realm, I am sure. We came to the water, that

“You went to Andromeda–”

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, tears in her eyes, “she didn’t have it. No one in my family knew what it was, or what it meant. I was taken from my home as a child and taken to Winter Forest, through the

“You were raised there–”

out, back to this realm, to spy. That was my purpose. I was sent out to guard over you, Lena. I went to Morhan looking for you. But then I was… I still don’t remember how I ended up in Crimson Creek. Those memories are blurry. But Maxwell

Xander interrupted. “Just like

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

around a sob. She didn’t know, did she? She didn’t know about

“But–”

get here?” Xander asked,

understood him completely. Announcing that we knew her mate… it wasn’t for us to

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 in her realm. I was sure, even if for

find Alma?”

I looked at him, but he nodded at me, his face void of expression. I chewed my lower lip as I rose, giving Elaine a weak

“I’ll be back–”

low growl that made the down hair on my

into the kitchen and closing the door behind me. I let out the

have any idea where Oliver might be?”

in the sink, her face falling at the mention

New Dianny; that’s all we

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*Xander*