Chapter 4

ADRIANA CROSS

“You slipped during the party and injured your arm. Don't you remember?” Dimitri's words couldn't stop echoing in my mind all through the day.

Dimitri had told me earlier this morning when I woke up. I had drank too much wine, and slipped during the party, injuring my arm.

I heaved a sigh, bringing a hand to my arm. The wound was still a little fresh and I could tell it would leave a weird scar when it's all healed up. I couldn't clearly remember what happened last night, but for some reason, something about everything seemed strange.

Whenever I try to remember something from last night all I kept seeing was a flash of several faces, including Dimitri's and the woman who looked familiar last night, Agatha. It was as if there was a powerful force ensuring I didn't remember.

Absent-mindedly, my hand touched the ruby bracelet on my wrist. I could try to figure out what happened last night but it was very risky. I hadn't taken off the bracelet since that cruel night fourteen years ago when I watched my entire family die at the hands of Nikola just to save me. I was only ten and all alone in a world I had to escape to survive those who wanted me dead or wanted to exploit my powers for their selfish greed.

The truth was, I was far from being human. I came from a world where the supernatural exists. My mother was a Halo witch from the powerful Blackrose bloodline and my father was a wolf. After the massacre of my family by the vampire king, I was forced into hiding but the bastard was still searching for me.

There were times I wanted to go back for revenge, but I couldn't. I promised my sister before she died that I would survive at all costs, and that was what I had been doing all these years. Surviving. I had binded my wolf and cloaked myself and contained my magic using the ruby bracelet on my wrist.

I kissed Zoey's sleepy figure before I left the VIP ward and found two of Dimitri's bodyguards waiting for me in the black Mercedes outside the hospital.

I got in, and the car drove off. We were already halfway when I got a text from Dimitri asking me to meet him somewhere and it was urgent. The text wasn't from his saved number on my phone.

I showed the text to Rick, one of the bodyguards and the car turned around, heading to the location he had sent.

After some minutes, we were almost at the location but something was strange. The location Dimitri had sent was far ahead in the woods, located near the mountains.

We were still moving when Rick turned to me. “Are you sure, Mr Dimitri wanted you here?”

Something was wrong and I knew it in my bones. I was about to put a call through to Dimitri when, from nowhere, four figures rushed out from the woods, and they ran straight into our car, flipping it over, causing an accident.

The deafening sounds of the car glasses shattering against the ground pierced my ears as I had hit my head against the shattering window and a huge shard of glass had pierced through my stomach. I was upside down in the car, bleeding profusely from my head and stomach.

“Luna, stay with me, are you alright?”

I heard Rick's voice in a blur, as I tried to fight the pain and dizziness that shook my body.

Luna?

I tried to keep my vision steady, but it was of no use; I could feel my body giving up.

Swiftly, Rick ripped off the door to the passenger seat, and he got out of the car, unscathed, along with the driver, who charged against the four figures approaching us.

Before I could blink, three of the figures shifted into wolves.

I felt the blood that rushed to my head turned cold. They were fucking wolves.

My mind raced with so many questions as dear paralyzed me. They all smelled like rogues. Had Nikola sent them? How did he find me?

I tried to get the door open but it was stuck, and I could barely move from the glass inside me. Rick hurried to my side, ripping off the door, about to pull me out, when from behind, one of the wolves lunged at Rick, and the next thing I heard was a loud growl from Rick, and just like the others, he shifted into a brown wolf.

Shock numbed my bones and I couldn't believe it. They were all wolves.

I was still frozen in shock when one of the figures grabbed a handful of my hair, forcing me out of the car. My hand instinctively fell on the ruby bracelet on my wrist. I could easily tear it off and access my magic, ripping every one of these bastards in shreds. Or, worst-case scenario, my wolf, Naya, could take over finishing them off. Suddenly, both ideas seemed so dangerous.

I hesitated as indecision shot through me, but then I thought of Zoey; she still needed me, well and alive, and by the looks of things, these bastards wanted me dead.

I was about to rip off the bracelet when a terrifying, angry growl rippled through the air, and a jet-black wolf dipped from the sky in his full elaborate beauty, looking as pissed as hell. He didn't waste any time as his teeth grabbed the man that had flung me and with a hard pull, he detached the man's head from his body.

I froze as blood splattered around us, tainting the trees and ground. I watched in horror as he moved swiftly and ripped the remaining two wolves in pieces, leaving just the driver's unconscious wolf and Rick's wounded wolf.

The black wolf stood in the middle of the bloodbath for a second, his eyes watching me and right before my eyes, he shifted into a man.

Not just any man.

But my husband, Dimitri. He was covered in blood, and very much naked before me.

Oh, goddess!

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