Chapter 22

She can make his heart beat several times in a second just with a smile on her face and he can understand her more than anyone else. They are destined not only for this life, but for eternity.

Elinor 's POV

“Good to begin with,” said Mr. Mark, standing beside me, after I tried to use my strength

"Yes, but let's try to use it more now that I feel it, you just fire randomly now try to find a target and shoot it" Daniel said as he walked up to a lawn chair and put it in front of me

"Try to direct your strength towards him, try to move him or bring him down." He said to me to raise my hand and start trying to release my strength that appeared in the form of a white light and headed towards the chair but did nothing to him

“Its strength is still weak,” said Mr. Mark

"It's alright, it's the beginning. Let's try again. Fellow queen, my brother. Try to put more strength into it. Imagine that in your mind." Daniel said to raise my hand again toward that chair and release my strength this time I succeeded in knocking it down.

“Good, Luna,” said Mr. Mark, excited me

"Okay, let's stop here for today," Daniel said

“Yes, then, thank you. I have a place to go.” I told them, and went out of the garden, heading towards the door of the palace, and as soon as I came out of the palace, I found two guards behind me.

Of course Kayden wouldn't let me go out on my own. I was surprised when he agreed in the morning I started walking towards the orphanage with the two guards behind me

"Luna, you're welcome," Victoria said, smiling

"Hello, Victoria, can you bring Leo to me? I want to talk to him for a bit?"

"Of course, Luna, you'd better sit down," she said, pointing to the lawn chairs for me to sit on and wait for her, thinking how I'm going to convince him to tell me anything?

"Luna," Leo's voice interrupted my thoughts as he stood in front of me alone

"Sit next to me, Leo," I told him to nod

“Leo, can you tell me about the events of that day?” I asked, looking frightened, before shaking his head in denial

"Leo... I know you're scared... but if you don't tell me, who knows if they're going to hurt your other friends??" I told him to look at me worriedly.

"It was... it was someone... who told me," he told me

" what did he tell you ? "

"He told me that he would be able to take my father, and that I would be able to see them again if I met him in the woods."

“And you trusted his words?” I asked him to nod

“But when I went, there was this terrifying thing. He tried to attack me, so I started running and running.” He started crying so I hugged him .

"Don't worry, I won't let that hurt you again," I whispered to him, continuing to cry

"Do you remember that person?"

“No, he was wearing a mask that covered his face only his eyes were showing and he had a cut on his hand,” he explained, trying to remember.

“Thank you, Leo, you are really brave, I am proud of you.” I told him to smile at me.

"Luna...hello. "

"Hey Vex, how are you?"

"You remember my name is Luna?"

"I have a good memory" I told him to smile

"So did you come to see the kids?" he asked me

"Sort of you too?"

"Yes, I came to see one of my friend's child, he died some time ago of a disease that neither I nor the witches could cure," he said to me sadly

“I am sorry for your loss,” I told him

“Thank you, Luna,” he said, still lowering his head sadly. I understand it now

"Don't blame yourself Vicks, this is the worst thing you can do to yourself and your friend too. You did your best to save him but fate wanted it and we no matter how strong we were we couldn't change something called fate" I told him to put a small smile

“Thank you, Luna, really,” he told me

"I didn't do anything. I hope you get over it as soon as possible." I told him

“Yes, Luna, I must have delayed your work, go ahead.” He pointed to the road for me to nod and go

Kaden's POV

“So do you think he died from the shadows?” asked Logan the healer, looking at the dead body of one of our members who was in the woods.

“Yes, this is their technique of killing that made their heart stand and their body frozen like this,” the therapist explained to see the corpse

"He must have tried to resist them and they couldn't turn him," said Henry

“They came closer than I expected.” I told them as I looked around

“They chose this particular forest because they know that the other forest is where the Bride of the Forest lives, meaning that there will be a witness to them.” I spoke to start walking around with Logan and Henry behind me.

"What is Alpha thinking?" Henry asked me

“In their plan,” I replied

"Do you think there is a plan?" Logan asked me

“Yes, and we must find out before they raid us.” I answered them

“What do we do Alpha?” Henry asked me

“Tighten the guard at the edges of this forest, and make each team three, not two,” I replied, nodding to me

"Logan, check the identity of the dead person and if he has family to tell them about it" I told him

“Okay,” he replied, so I could start going back to the palace

I went inside and was going to take a risk with Elinor to find out where she was, but a smell made me angry. I went to the source of the smell and found him standing very close to Elinor. I rushed to him and pushed him hard to bounce back.

“If you come near her again, I will feed you to the wild animals.” I told him to look at me and put a smile on his face, that smile that makes me really want to punch him.

"Wait, I know my limits, it's the color in the end." He answered me

"" who is this ?? He said his name was Joseph "" I sent Elinor by telepathy

""He's my cousin"" I answered her nodding as if she remembered who he was

"What are you doing here?" I asked him

"I came to visit you"

"Stop saying nonsense. What do you want?"

"I really only came to visit if you don't believe that's your problem."

"Good, I hope you'll be able to visit quickly and leave here as soon as possible," I said as I grabbed Elinor 's hand and pulled her behind me to go to our room.

" Are you well ??" She asked me in her sweet voice as we sat on the sofa

"I'm fine, I just don't like him here" I told her to take my hand that was around her and pass it over her trying to calm me down when I felt upset I smiled at her

So how was your first day of training? I asked her to smile and stand up

"Great Kayden, look what you've learned," she said to me, raising her hand to my desk chair and letting it fall

“Isn’t that cool?” she asked, excitedly

"More than wonderful, well done my beautiful" I told her to smile at me

“But there is still a lot to learn,” she told me

"It's okay, you'll learn quickly, I trust you."

"Kayden " she called my name in a voice that made my heart beat faster and I just wanted to kiss her right away but I took it

"What is it?"

“Do you think we will be able to overcome the shadows in the future?” she said to me

I stood in front of her and grabbed her hand and immediately felt the sparks generated by that I raised her hand to my mouth and kissed her

"Let's trust that, Elinor, trust that we will overcome them and prevent them from hurting others in the future," I told her to nod and give me a hug.

“How do you say we go on a date?” I told her to smile at me

"A date?? It's only in humans. How do you know about that?"

"We also go on dates. You can ask Grace if you want."

"You're right, but where are we going?"

"How do you say we go to your world?"

"Really? "

"Wait, since it's already evening here, there will be day," she said to me

" Yes, is there a problem ?"

“Never, wait for me to change my clothes quickly and go.” I ran to the dressing room excitedly and smiled at my little girlfriend before thinking back to Joseph. What does he want now??

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