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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.

Ben the night Xander and I went out into the hills when he wanted to collect a sample of the blood root. I thought… I thought Ben

his head to the side, a sudden realization creeping over his face. “Who was he screaming for? I didn’t hear

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 his voice. That’s when I

why did you go back?” I asked, my skin prickling with

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

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 Creek. I was just there. I woke up to Maxwell hovering over me one day, saying I’d hit my head. I

“Elaine,” Xander said sharply.

in the hills, I felt that pull again. So, I went back out in the hills. I went to the same place

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

wasn’t in this realm anymore. I was

“Then what happened?”

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

“You went to Andromeda–”

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 portal in the temple to the realm of the witches, so that I

“You were raised there–”

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 did something to me,

memories,” Xander interrupted. “Just

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

didn’t,” I choked, my throat tightening around a sob. She

“But–”

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

I understood him completely. Announcing that

portal 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

go find Alma?” Xander said

nodded at me, his face void of expression. I chewed my lower lip as I rose, giving Elaine

“I’ll be back–”

growl that made the down hair on my

door behind me. I let out the breath I’d

of you have any idea

back in the sink, her

mentioned New Dianny; that’s all

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*Xander*