Episode 9

A hand suddenly grabbed the butt of the knife and pulled it out from my arms. I screamed in pain. I was bleeding heavily. The whole hall went silent. Everyone was shocked. I was again forced to get up. I looked at the person who had just attacked me and was still grabbing my injured arm right where I was bleeding.

A very beautiful girl with ocean blue eyes matching her pale white skin and pitch black long hair almost touching her thighs behind. Her clothes weren’t even natural. That white piece of clothing wrapped around her body was making her to look like a goddess from a Greek myth.

Even Zen was taken aback by her sudden approach.

"Claire! You're going too far, leave her hand, " the oracle ordered.

"How dare you to put your filthy hands on my mate, bitch?" she asked ignoring the Oracle.

"Mate?" I asked her back confusedly. My arm was hurting like hell. She was still applying pressure on my wound.

"Let her go, Claire," Zen put his hand on her shoulder and said. She finally listened to him and let go of my arm.

I quickly grabbed my injured arm. The oracle came down and quickly started to treat my wound and asked a girl to bring her the stitches. Unlike the others my body didn’t have the ability to heal itself.

"Claire! I told you not to come here," Zen was talking with the girl.

"How could you allow this selfish bitch to touch you? Because of her my father died, she doesn't deserve to live. Why are you saving her? " she shouted at Zen.

I was looking at them. I didn’t remember seeing her in the pack before. I looked at the oracle confusedly. In between treating my wound, she continued, "This is Claire, the daughter of our late war General and an Alpha female."

Zen took her out of the hall. Probably to calm her down.

The oracle continued, "She is just like Zen. As she is one of the rarest in our kind, an Alpha female, she was kept hidden till she was ready for the war and was training under the best female warrior of south. Her father went with the Alpha the night you ran away. The Alpha and both of your mates made it back to the pack, but the general died. She thinks you're responsible for her father's death. She never got to say goodbye to her father."

The oracle finished stitching my wound, I cried out a bit in pain as she applied pressure on the stitch.

"Do you also believe that it was my fault?" I asked to the oracle. But she didn’t reply to my question. Instead she continued, "She is chosen as the new Luna of this pack. Zen chose her right the day she returned. But Zen chose her for a purpose. You will know that when you will join tonight's conclave."

"Conclave?" I asked confusedly. "What do you mean?"

"Claire is not the only Alpha female. There's three more. And two of them challenged her for the next Luna's position. They are from our ally clans. So there will be a conclave tonight to decide the final Luna of the pack," the oracle gave a mysterious smile and said.

"Why after all these years? I don't get it. If Zen had chosen her years ago, then why didn’t he mated with her yet? And why after all these years they are holding this conclave? " I asked her. I was sweating. My pulse was rapidly increasing.

The oracle laughed a bit and looked into my eyes and said, "The third alpha female was absent all these years."

My body wasn’t being able to bear my weight. I sat down on the ground completely. "You are joking with me. There's no way you're indicating me as an alpha female, are you?" I asked her.

Till then the hall had emptied. The oracle and the omega girl were all that left.

"Your body may not, but your wolf is. You should have realised it the day you killed a bunch of Sapphires in the wood," the oracle said again.

"What is your point? Even if she is an alpha it doesn’t matter now. My body is fragile. You can't use her. And I am married. I'm not participating in any conclave to win someone whom I rejected as my mate as well," I said.

"You're getting it wrong, Ella. Claire is the chosen one. But It's your wolf that is in the way of their mating. The Spring seeks your wolf, " the Oracle mysteriously said.

"Don't twist it more than it is. Get to the point. What spring you're talking about? And what kind of connection does my wolf has with it? And why did they capture me after years? They could have found me years ago," I asked.

"That you will slowly understand. You will get your answers at the right moment. But take my advice, don't try to look for Edward or run away, Zen is now raging with a desire for vengeance. It will only hurt you and cost Edward's life. Come to the conclave in the evening. You will be able to see your husband there as well," the oracle said and left me in the hall alone.

I was sitting there all alone, broken. It was more twisted than she even hinted.

The only spring I ever heard about was a myth or better to say a story in my nursery book. The sacred mystic spring, that opens and blesses the wolves with it's moon water once in a thousand year. But that was just a rumour. No one ever saw that. Were they really believing into a nursery child's book after all these years?

But I wasn’t being able to fathom what could be the reason lying behind capturing me. They knew I wasn’t a fighter.

A lot of questions crossed my mind. If Zen had wanted to take revenge, he would have killed me and Edward a long time ago. Then what was the actual reason behind all these.

I kept my hand over my belly. No one knew about it here. I had to get away. For Edward's sake, for our baby's sake. I was not feeling safe there anymore. Everyone was angry at me.

I quickly got up and decided to find Alex. Only he could help me to get out of this. At least none involved with him died that night or after that. He probably still didn’t have any reason to kill me. I hastily left the hall to find Alex.

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