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.
freaking
someone lift me up and drape
low and pretended I
was in danger, I thought I could play along and see
war cries from the battlefield sounded further and further away
what felt like a tree trunk, it was
patrolling the area and report
"Yes!"
moved away from us and I was left
to understand Maggie more so I needed to figure out a way to keep her talking. But I couldn't risk waking up. She would force us to move and I would
I mumbled
snap, "What
for a beat
she muttered. I wasn’t sure whether she
to take him from me! He is mine! We have been through so much together.
way? They were siblings. As far as Theo knew, they were born
I didn’t really like Theo too much. He was always aloof, seemingly arrogant. He and Warren were so
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
were my safety net if you will. Justin was set to be the next
pulled away from me. I could tell she started pacing back and forth based on the crunching of the leaves on
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 a shame that none of Sebastian's children had ever lived a normal childhood. I’d never been so thankful that I
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
and you couldn't escape. It was just so
went through. I kept myself as still as possible hoping that she would continue to
person who 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
let out a sing-song sigh. I did my
would not listen." She said through gritted teeth. "That freaking bastard
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 him, until one day, I
My stomach churned.
it seemed like he would never see me in that light. However, I never gave up hope. I went to pray to the
to try my hardest to keep my eyes from opening and glaring at her. That
it in the Moon Goddess temple, and Maggie picked it up thinking it was a gift from the Goddess herself. Later, before she got married, she decided not to keep this token of love for Theo and
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