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.

I went out into the hills when he wanted to collect a sample of the blood root. I thought… I thought Ben was in danger. He was screaming but

his head to the side, a sudden realization creeping over his face. “Who

wrong. Ben wouldn’t have… he was looking right at me, I thought. He was walking toward us. I knew

you go back?” I asked, my skin prickling

around my belly as if sheltering her, protecting

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 Creek. I was

“Elaine,” Xander said sharply.

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

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

I wasn’t in this realm anymore. I was

“Then what happened?”

during the night. During the day we traveled far, across the realm, I

“You went to Andromeda–”

“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

“You were raised there–”

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

Xander

did. And when the witches caught wind of what was

sob. She didn’t know,

“But–”

asked, eyeing me before looking

understood him completely. Announcing that we knew

got here a few days ago.” She looked meditative for a moment, her eye’s glistening with some recent memory. “I

find

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

“I’ll be back–”

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

behind me. I let out the breath I’d been holding and came face to face with Alma, Gideon, Ianthe,

any of you have any idea where Oliver

sink, her

New Dianny; that’s all

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*Xander*

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