Chapter 724

Chapter 69 : A Trip Down Memory Lane

“Are you going to tell me where we are going?” I asked as Soren hurried me along.

Payne and Ashley had gone on ahead to the rogue zone, leaving Soren and me alone. He seemed determined to get me where he wanted to take me and at the same time, he was doing everything he could to hide our destination from me.

“Does anything seem familiar?” he asked, instead of answering my question.

Shrugging, I looked around and shook my head.

“No. I’ve never been here, Soren. What should I be looking for?” I asked.

Soren shrugged. “You’ll know it when you see it.”

We headed off the main road into a forest. I slowed down as we got onto a forest path. Soren was still holding my hand and when I slowed down, it forced him to slow down, too.

“Something wrong?” he asked.

“I feel like I know this place,” I muttered, glancing around at the trees.

So many of them were young and still growing but I could see the charred remains of older trees overgrown with moss, grass, and vines.

“This forest… I’ve been here or seen it…” I said, my breath getting shallow.

“Where?” Soren prompted.

“This is the forest where April took us in that dream. The forest on the outskirts of Pomeli pack, Hathaway packland,” I said, recognizing where I knew the forest from.

“That’s right,” Soren said.

I went to the closest burned trunk and ran my hand along the charred bark and remains.

“The fire did a lot of damage. I’m surprised that the forest has grown back so much. It looks like it is recovering. But the pack…”

“The pack hasn’t recovered,” Soren agreed with a somber nod. “Come with me. The forest opens up just ahead.”

We went to the end of the forest path and it opened up into a big, clear space. I could see the remnants of roads from my pack but all the destroyed buildings had been taken back into the earth.

“No one has been here for a long time,” I said absently, looking at the strange hill-like shapes of grass and weeds around the buildings that used to be standing there.

“This whole place is deserted but the entire village isn’t gone. Not entirely,” Soren told me.

He grabbed my hand again and pulled me toward the hill where the pack mansion, my original home, used to stand. The mansion was gone completely. It had probably been burned to the ground and overgrown like the rest of the buildings.

looked like in that dream. My heart ached, wishing I could see it again in person and recover more

led me into the center of the deserted village and I slowed again, chewing the inside of

memories of this place were practically non-existent. The dream was all I had and it wasn’t real. The real Hathaway had been burned to

were no memories for me

wrong?”

It’s hard to remember anything when it looks so different from the dream,”

are the heir to this territory

“Hang on…”

the familiar looking edge of the forest. Pulling away from Soren, I ran along the edge of the forest. Something nagged at the back of my mind. I wasn’t sure if it was some

you going?” Soren asked, running behind

know! I just feel like this is the right way to go…”

base of the hill. The

of the little cabin. It was tucked back in the forest, just hidden well

was small. Just big enough for two bedrooms. There were the remnants of an old garden in front of the cabin and a

in some places, I could vividly imagine that cabin when it

opened and a loving father came out with a little girl. She had golden hair and bouncing

walk,” she

on the monkey bars. There was no way she could have

I thought it was a memory. It could have just

musty and stale. There were cobwebs filling the corners and some moss and lichen had crept in around the

inside was ruined, despite

in

the kitchen and touched the granite countertop. It was a very nice counter for a cabin,

you remember this

more, hoping to jog my memory. First, I shook my head, then

so…” I

layer of dust

child. Rather, my parents’

being

“Maybe they are memories. Maybe they are wishful

To fix up and

stared at Soren

parents were, my real family, my true identity, and the

them or know them because I hated to think of what kind of people would abandon me

at the hands of my foster mother and Saboreef pack. It had been easier to hate my parents as villains rather than think of what I might have lost. I

after everything I went through, I’d decided it would be better to die of the poison than go through more pain and suffering. I had thought my existence

that I knew who my parents

to them because I had the chance to avenge them and get revenge for them! My parents were killed because of the selfish desires of

This wasn’t over! I would make them all pay for destroying my family and

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