My Professor Is My Alpha Mate

Chapter 281 He Still Won’t Talk

Lila’s POV

“Where?” I asked, quickly standing to my feet. “Where is this darkness?”

“I cannot say,” she said, a quizzical look in her eyes. “Darkness is such a powerful force that it feels as if it is everywhere, and yet nowhere.”

“But you are sure that it’s here?”

“Yes,” she answered. “As sure that I am that you and I are here.”

“I thought the purpose of the barrier was to keep darkness out,” I said, shaking my head with frustration. “I don’t understand how it can be here.”

“My mother explained that we cannot banish or destroy darkness. If darkness was already here before the barrier, it will remain. Maybe not be as powerful, and it might feel a bit of discomfort being within this barrier, but it will not be destroyed. If given the right tools, it can be strong again.”

“The right tool? What kind of tool are you talking about?” I asked.

“There are many,” she answered. “The most powerful is the moonstone.”

My heart fell into my stomach upon hearing her words.

“I thought the moonstone was for protection?” I asked. “How can it give darkness power?”

“The Moonstone is a powerful tool that could protect or destroy. Depending on who wields it and who what it’s used for.”

I rubbed my bare wrist; my mother had given me a moonstone bracelet on my 16(th) birthday; it was supposed to be meant to protect me. I took it off days ago and stored it in my jewelry box, forgetting to put it back on.

I rushed to the jewelry box that sat on my dresser. Opening it, I began to rummage through it.

“Where is it…” I murmured to myself.

The bracelet… it was gone. I could have sworn I put it in here.

Shaking my head, I stumbled away from the box.

“I mustn’t stay in this form. If I’m gone from the barrier for too long, it won’t remain, and dark magic will be able to enter.”

“You are able to keep dark magic away?” I asked, looking at her. My heart was racing as the realization that my moonstone bracelet had gone clouded my brain.

She nodded her head once.

“Dark magic cannot enter the barrier and the magic that was here previously has been banished. But darkness itself remains.”

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to do?” I asked. “I think whoever darkness is using to kill those people took my

moonstone,” she answered. Her brightness was intensifying, and I knew she was leaving. “You

into an orb of light and

in bed; I needed to find the person who had my moonstone bracelet. But how could I

to speak with Scott and

him and have him hold me in

come with you,” I

should stay here where

here,” I said, sitting up in bed.

they and the ga mmas think they are safe. We will speak when

with you right now,”

love. I promise. For right now, get

love you too,” I said, feeling all sorts

I was left in silence. I wasn’t sure I’d be able to sleep, but soon my exhaustion got the best

more danger she will be in,” Xander spat as my father drew his

daughter,” my father seethed through his

rip Xander’s throat out. Xander was shackled and

alone was stomach-wrenching, but the scent made me want

though, I had never actually been down here before. I’m not even sure how I ended up here, but it

looked more than

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coughed; blood poured from his

you here,” my father ordered.

“I cannot,” Xander hissed.

“Why.”

danger if I did,” Xander retorted. “I would never put them

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them, opening my mouth to speak and ask

lifted him off the ground; Xander struggled against him, coughing and

answer,” my father said in a low and threatening tone, throwing him against the wall with a loud thud. “We will continue to torture you until you give

at my father through his swollen

she fights it, she will always

my utter shock, his eyes flickered at me,

know it to be true,” he said the

his

over him, covered in his blood. Beta Ethan appeared at the cell gates, standing beside me. But it was like he didn’t see me. My father turned to face him and could see the grim expression that

answers?” Ethan asked, peering down at a