Chapter 144 : The Promises We Made

*Jared*

I opened my palm and looked at the moonstone ring in my hand. She’d thrown it at me, but I hadn’t gotten a good look at it.

The ring was familiar, but I couldn’t place it.

I frowned and creased my brow. The ring sparked a strange memory. I saw the gardens back at my village and a flash of Eliza walking toward me in a wedding dress. Was it true? Did we get married? Did I really love her?

I scoffed and shook my head.

“The choice is yours. But either way, it will come to pass.” I put the ring in my pocket with my mother’s necklace and left Eliza’s house.

I wasn’t sure why I held onto the ring but I couldn’t help it. Something about it made it impossible for me to let it go.

I headed back to the hotel to meet up with Xander and Theo. They were still working on a plan to get Hestia in the Southern Jungle.

While I walked back to the hotel, I thought about the strange flash and the feelings that came with it. My wolf was restless and agitated. I wasn’t sure if that was because he was upset by the memory or upset that it had gone away so quickly.

Whatever I’d seen, it didn’t change how I felt about her.

Theo and Xander were waiting for me in the penthouse. When I arrived, they both stopped talking quickly and I knew that they’d been talking about me.

“What’s going on?” I closed the door gently and locked it, knowing we couldn’t be disturbed while coming up with a plan.

“Scarlett called Archer and he called me,” Xander said, “about your little visit with Eliza.”

I scoffed. “What about it? I thought we were here to talk about Hestia.”

“We’ll get to that,” Theo said, a deep rumble in his voice that told me I should listen.

Theo nodded to a nearby chair and I took a seat. This was such a waste of time. I knew they were just going to talk at me about Eliza and try to convince me that my memories and feelings weren’t real.

Even with that little memory flash, I couldn’t fathom ever loving her.

“Jared, we’ve worked hard to restore our family’s image and honor. The way you’ve been treating Eliza, it is reminiscent of the days of Sebastian, and it doesn’t sit well with any of us,” Theo said.

“I’m NOT Sebastian!” I glared at my brother and uncle.

What was this, some kind of intervention?

“We know that,” Xander jumped in. “The point Theo is trying to make is that even if you can’t remember loving Eliza, there’s no reason for you to treat her like a breeder slave.”

“I did buy her as one.”

way. It is a really shitty way to treat anyone, especially someone that you loved and that cares a lot about you and is

i***t. I find it very strange that everyone else remembers this past where I’m in love with Eliza when I don’t remember

you can see that

and that is somewhere buried in my memories. But

like they didn’t have a good reason to be concerned. I didn’t like the

resentment, and frustration just boiled over. It was unlike anything

I thought really hard about it, I didn’t even know where that

rude, mean, cruel, or vicious. So, why was I acting that

sure that you get your real memories

making arrangements with Eliza after the child is born. Will that

I felt like my own father, who I never

his lips pulled down in

the best I could offer at this point, and they were either going

Southern Jungle. How are we going to defeat her?” I steered

powers, and her goals. The archeologists just unearthed it and are still digging through the artifacts.” Xander pointed to the spot on

“Archeologists,” I grumbled.

in this place have to remind me of

George, is heading the excavation team. He’s agreed to meet

“Great….” I sighed heavily.

from everything going

be in touch with any more information. Xander and I took a boat with his soldiers and my men to the Southern Jungle. We didn’t talk much. I had nothing left to say on

us at the entrance to the dig site. He gave me a look, like I

and a lot of the artifacts are delicate. You two

and will treat it respectfully.”

temple, again?” I asked as George led us into the

buried for centuries, and large chunks of it still were. From what I

in

were broken off at the top. Even the broken ones were

standing, it had

“Our restorers are working to repaint the graphics in the same style as they were originally done. We’ve even found some old texts that

to look at

his shoulder at me and

recreators working to translate them and reprint them

had a problem with me. He

as elaborate stories as old texts.” Xander stepped in again. I knew he

about our history from wall paintings

little and I got the sense there was a massive amount of

floor with some cracks in it and marble walls. The large pillars rose to a ceiling

section is about King Lycaon and what he was doing when he was in the Light Realm.” George waved

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