Whore of the Werewolf Billionaire

And when neither of us dares to speak, I did not make bold of knowing how many minutes have passed; I just studied her-stared at her.

Her eyes are wholly focused on the ground, tears quietly cascading from their origin. She's sad and acknowledging her mistakes, I can see it. Feel it deep in my bones.

Yet, I still did not know why she betrayed us. She did not answer me earlier. Yet. "Why did you do it?" I now took the courage to break the silence and ask her that vital question. But the shaking of my voice did not hide the fact that I was debating asking it. "My brother was eaten by Hearteaters weeks ago, the remaining relative I knew, on a sunny beach in your hometown..."

Wait. Did it happen the same day they killed the Rutherfords and the very day I crossed paths with those hideous creatures?

Holy fuck.

"I don't see why it's a good reason to do a bad thing," I uttered with untamed

disappointment.

"On that same day you were attacked at the Misty Forest, I was outside Selena's Wall at that time. And one of them confronted me by mocking me how the face of my brother, the scent of him identical to mine, was so delicious that if only I was there to witness his death, I would be utterly devastated and shattered. And that brings them happiness-seeing people desperate and tormented while they cry for what has already been taken by taking hold of their heart..."

I clenched my hand to a fist. This is all the fault of Eliane.

'You cannot escape your fate our fate...'

Those words whispered to me again. A brush of cold wind stroke my cheeks, cupping it

as if the cold wind are invisible hands of someone I do not know but utterly does.

"The Hearteater told me persuaded me that I can see my brother again if I let them inside...inside Stella's Soul."

"So you let them in?" I gave Rowena a brief breathy laugh. "Why would you believe those devilish creatures?"

She looked at my green eyes, the eyes of the Misty Forest. "Eliane has the power of resurrection. And they told me that, they convinced me that if I help them revive the Forest Queen, my brother will be the first and foremost soul she will bring back."

I don't know if I should believe a traitor. I cannot discern whether she's lying or

fabricating truth but...Rowena has not lied to me before—

  She already did. By betraying us and letting the Hearteaters inside.

"What do they need here inside?"

"Eliane's bones are hidden here. And only by acquiring it they can revive her before the first day of full moon. They plan to bring back Eliane here, within Stella's Soul itself. But when one of them saw you the face of Eliane, your face, made them realize you are somehow connected to her..."

; I froze as I listened to her. I took a step back, legs wobbling. "I-I am...I—”

"No one knew what Eliane looked like. Not even the High Priestess Jane. Only the Hearteaters knew her face. And when one of them saw you, the one that was burned to ashes in front of us in The Arena, the Hearteaters decided that they will resurrect Eliane through you instead, a living flesh compared to remnants of bones..."

Fear coiled inside me. My throat tightened as if someone was choking me. I was unable

to reply. I looked away, turned away from her.

Should I trust a traitor's words? Should I believe someone who is capable of lying? 'Everyone lies. Some people are even born with how to say it nicely...' That voice left me shivering. Not from the cold or but the darkness of the voice, but because I

Am I the reincarnation of Eliane? Or perhaps her descendant?

"Don't go to the wedding, Elaine," Rowena startled me and I whipped my head to her.   "You betrayed us. And now that I am asking you politely why did you do it, you lied to me?"

"I am not lying!"

"Hah! All liars said that." I tilted my head to the iron bars. "And after betraying and lying, you tell me persuade me-not to go to my wedding? I guess you are a monster after all behind that motherly face of yours."

Rowena's lips never opened again. I shut her down, shut her up.

I was about to return and turn back when-noveldrama

"I am only warning you. If you go to your wedding, if you entwine your life to the Alpha,

the Hearteaters told me that your destiny will bleed, Elaine. Your fate shall flow in crimson blood if you mate with him."

I stopped. I can no longer hear my heart beating, my lungs breathing. I cannot feel the blood in my veins. I was frozen. The world ceased moving.

'You cannot escape your fate our fate...' The face of Eliane flashed before me, the arrow

pierced to her heart, the tears descending from the windows of her soul.

Her forest-green eyes met mine, lingered in mine. Is that how my eyes look? So

unyielding and so sad. The emotion of being betrayed shone on her eyes.

'We were both betrayed.'

I can still see the prison cell on either side. But before me...I am gazing at the Misty Forest, the nightly blanket wrapping the forest in dark shadows. 'You must choose. Choose wisely, or your destiny will bleed like mine.'

Destiny. Bleed. Choose. Fate. Blood.

Those words keep clinging and playing in my ears like a broken radio in a car.

I blinked and Eliane, the Forest Queen, was grabbed by long hands that came from behind, from the sea of shadows. She cascaded below the earth as if I were before a very large hole in the ground.

Someone is calling my name repeatedly, both femininely old and young and masculine.   I blink and, before I know it, I am staring at a pair of cerulean eyes. Two Brown Wolves in wolf form on each of his sides.