His Dark Obsession by Moonlight Muse

59. A Message

ZEDKIEL.

“Did you find anything at all?” Chasyn asks me as I remove the nails and lift the Oracle’s body to the ground, looking around I yank the charred tablecloth off and cover her body. 2

“Not yet.” I say, staring down at the Oracle’s body, I sniff the air, letting the smell of blood fill my nose. There are two different smells mixed in… I lean down, sniffing the blood. It’s not Evangeline’s blood.

Relief floods me, and I stand up.

I don’t know why she thinks she killed her, but I plan to find out who it really belongs to, but this blood is not Evangeline’s. I’ve tasted hers, smelt hers

… this one is nowhere near hers.

“Don’t touch anything in here.” I hear Chasyn command some of the men. I slowly walk through the room, trying to visualise what may have happened.

The runes and the burns are the Oracle’s doing, her magic draws from herself and that around her. I know that much. I frown as I crouch down looking at the marks on the floor.

There are no claw marks, no torn clothes … This isn’t a werewolf or a witch… I’ve studied all kinds of species and magic, but this was a battle of a different kind of magic…

I wipe a bit of the blood and taste it, hearing Chasyn groan from the doorway.

“Don’t do that.’ He mutters, grossed out.

“Don’t look then.” I reply coldly,

frowning as I scan the floor slowly once more before walking back to the Oracle and looking at her hands, her entire body is covered in blood… but I can smell some other blood on her too and I lift one of her hands, before examining it closer.

There’s someone else’s blood on her hands and behind her nails…

Frowning, I pause. It’s definitely not the same as the one on the floor.

I hear footsteps, and Chasyn enters, shutting the door behind him.

“What is it, Zed?”

“There’s blood from two different people here. As we already know, a scuffle took place. This is something that forensics can figure out… I don’t know how long it will take to get some answers but I can pinpoint that blood if I smell it again.” I say, pointing at the Oracle’s neck that isn’t covered by the tablecloth. “The blood on the ground is the Oracle’s…”

“Damn…”

Standing up, I walk over to the table, picking up one of the bloodstained iron nails. Taking a sniff, I pause, looking down at it.

Her opponent had bled very little… I burn the smell into my mind and turn to Chasyn.

“It’s not a werewolf.”

“Yeah, no one thinks so.” He mutters, looking uncomfortable.

“Oh yeah, I’m the one everyone suspects, right?”

Chasyn looks up and although I keep my face emotionless, I cannot deny that it angers me. “It’s not like that Zed…”

blood, or at least have some blood stains on them. I haven’t been anywhere long enough to shower or change.”

much blood spread onto the killer, aside from when they nailed her into

took place here, or should I say duel. “Have you noticed

up sharply.

to use?” I ask, going over to him as he crouches down and grabs part of a

I didn’t want to be caught, and she never complained about us asking for

what the Oracle

kept a selection of spells

chance this bottle broke accidentally,” I

bottles seem to have shattered from

point, and I nod. He pauses,

it?” I ask, irritated with this no-mind

in. I don’t see the point for this to have been told to

see the point

slowly scanning the walls, trying to see if there are any clues here that I

Lunas.” Chasyn replies.

fucking bad luck

haste… the only one of these rushed marriages that even feels like a

he had that irritating

the tournament even began.”

stop talking about her when I see her either.” He adds.

her on a shopping trip with Lucia. “You still have an attachment to her, although you’re mated to Maryka. Correct? How

out his phone before

to his people; our Lunas must be confident and powerful. And marking an Omega… that’s not going to make us stronger. Omegas are treasures for us to claim, gems to enjoy and to treat with love, but they are gentle by nature and far weaker than an Alpha or high-rank she-wolf.

case an Alpha wouldn’t ever be fated to

reminds me, but I’m mated to an Omega. “Hence why I think you should have kept her as your Omega and taken a

after all, you can still do that, an Omega can

through me and I glare at him coldly. Even if she is my fated mate or chosen, she would have still been my Luna. I try to stay

the trails and marks on the floor as I slowly circle the Oracle’s dead

I never planned to make Evangeline my Luna, but my Queen. She may be an

into one of surprise before he smiles. “You love her.” He says, he sounds more awed

Love?

that even

mate, not whilst this tournament

when I

“What the…”

it?” Chasyn asks, hurrying over.

message. I can recognise the Oracle’s markings

the curse becomes stronger… destroy the curse of the Gemini and end the war within yourself. You are both each other’s blessing and curse. Return to the place of your greatest fear, for he

I know

are you looking at?” He asks, staring at her

can’t see it… That only strengthens the fact that

that mean whatever happened here

standing up. He nods, glancing back at

in the hall again as

asks, looking at the