Chapter 126: Maggie’s Secrets Revealed

All hell broke loose. Murray and Fredric's men shifted into their wolves and lunged for Maggie’s men. Everyone shifted and started to battle one another. All I could hear was the growling and snapping of teeth.

"No..." I heard Maggie say from beside me.

A wolf lunged for her but she ducked just in time to miss the attack. She stood to her full height and looked around the camp with wide eyes. She could no longer maintain her composure and I also saw anger swimming behind her irises.

She then turned to me and growled. "You always ruin everything. Can you see what you have done? Luther will not stand for this!"

“Looks like you picked the wrong side." I smiled. "Good always wins out in the end, Maggie. You just have to believe that."

Her eyes were burning with fury, and she muttered under her breath as a couple of her confidants lunged at me. "Take her with us. We’re out of here!"

They grabbed my arm roughly and dragged me toward the forest. I tried to cry for help but everyone else was busy fighting and Maggie's guards shoved something in my mouth so I couldn't make a sound anymore.

“Don’t kill her!" Maggie ordered, "I need her wolf!"

I almost rolled my eyes and told her she was delusional, but I kept that to myself. It was best not to anger the lunatic.

They pulled me past the tree line away from the battle.

I decided that now was as good a time as any to play dumb, so I forced myself to fall over and hit the ground hard.

“Ah!" I groaned.

Maggie stopped and her guards tried to pull me roughly to my feet. “What are you doing? Move!"

"My head, it's spinning. I don't know what's wrong." I only hoped that my acting skills were as good as I believed them to be.

She looked down at my knee and it was in fact bleeding. "Get up. You can still walk."

I shook my head and pretended to pant heavily. "I can't breathe. Everything is spinning."

I fell to the ground again and pretended to be passed out.

I knew that she wouldn't leave me out here in the forest. I was too valuable to her. She needed me because she wanted my wolf which she now believed gave me immunity to Theo's powers.

she freaking fainted!"

felt someone lift me up and drape

my head hanging low and pretended

thought I could

the battlefield sounded further and further away as we moved deeper

against what felt like a tree trunk, it was quiet. I knew these forests well and

reinforcements; You, start patrolling the area and

"Yes!"

and I was

to keep her talking. But I couldn't risk waking up.

I mumbled under my

snap, "What did you

a beat and said his

not yours, he belongs to me!" she muttered. I wasn’t

is mine! We have been through so much together. We have loved each other even before

that Theo loved her in that way? They were siblings. As far as Theo knew, they were born sharing

too much. He was always aloof, seemingly arrogant. He

drew her face closer to mine and placed her lips close to my ear. "Then, I found out that neither Warren nor I were Sebastian's children! Could you understand how that felt? Every day and every night, I lived in constant fear of my cruel father finding out about the truth! I had to put up an ignorant

connections with Justin and Queen Regina. They were my safety net if you will. Justin was set to be the next king and I

me. I could tell she started pacing back

two idiots had gone and committed treason! Could you imagine that just because I went to hang out with Justin sometimes, I was also thrown in jail with them? Regina and Justin were sentenced to death and I knew it was only a matter of time before I suffered the

I’d never been so thankful that I spent most of my childhood traveling with

You would never understand the desperation of counting every second without knowing when it would be your last moment in the world. You watch those around you being pulled out from their cells one by

and you couldn't escape. It was just so hopeless

kind of mental torture she went through. I kept myself as still

was least expected came to my aid. Theo pleaded my case to Sebastian. He told Sebastian that I had been in my room the entire time and had nothing to do with treason, and Theo said I was as loyal as he was to the crown. After that, Sebastian released me the same night

sing-song sigh. I did my best not to contort my

that the king would not listen." She said through gritted teeth. "That freaking bastard was ruthless and

him. He was like us, lonely and out of place in the royal palace. The more I followed him around, the more I was attracted to

My stomach churned.

he would never see me in that light. However, I never gave up hope. I went to pray to the Moon Goddess and one day, she responded to my prayer and gifted me

try my hardest to keep my eyes from opening and glaring at her. That was how the

lost it in the Moon Goddess temple, and Maggie picked it up thinking it was a gift from the Goddess herself. Later, before she got

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255