The Beast And The Blessed

Chapter 74

Seventy-Four: Natalie

Natalie’s P.O.V.

Killian had been pulled away, and I was back to being locked in our room like the helpless damsel in distress they saw me as. I was getting stronger every day. But I had a long way to go, especially with my magic.

Only a few people knew about it. I was sure that Rona would run her mouth sooner or later. The family and my immediate guards were the only ones we planned to tell about it. I had ruined that by accidentally using my magic on Rona.

Telling people was still on a need-to-know basis, and no one else needed to know for now.

They would probably have their own reservations about the matter. I feared it would become like the healers again, with people trying to capture and control me. My mother had said that she had been hunted for years. Was that to be my fate too?

Mother.

I wasn't sure how I felt about that word when talking about someone other than the woman who had raised me. But it was what and who I needed. I needed a family member, a mother, to hug, hold me close, and tell me everything would be okay.

The war in my mind between my wolf and magic was leaving me with a constant migraine, and if anyone knew how to overcome that obstacle, it would be her. She had said that I would see her again. But I didn't know when, and I didn't know for how long.

I wanted to return to visit her, but I had more important things to focus on.

My legs were crossed under me as I sat on the couch in the sitting room. George and Tobias were waiting outside, but Thomas had decided to join me inside the room. His back was against the wall, and he periodically scanned the empty room every few minutes.

His eyes would turn black as someone spoke to him through the mind link, and I grew more curious.

eyes never traveled to me as the wind picked up outside, but he smiled softly

fluently. She worked with the archives and always said it was important to know the languages in which our past was written to educate ourselves and better our

before me, glaring at it as I waited for it to

with amusement before looking

his position at my side so early in life. 'Back

fake news and stories to keep their attention away from what was happening in the world. They enjoyed having an ignorant body to govern. It made the people easier to control. No one cared when they took something as simple as cursive from their children's education. It was a primary tool the people needed to have in their

in school. We had learned cursive, but we had never been forced to learn another

worse because the people didn’t even realize how much the government had taken from them until it was too late. They lived in blissful ignorance for so long that,

the mass amount of evidence at that

as he stood guard. I knew Tobias would have been the one in here if he hadn't just been so close to Heath and Nolan, potentially exposing himself to the dark magic. So, Thomas had volunteers to take on the

power when he did not trust them. ’It doesn't seem like you trust political

to me briefly with worry, but I knew he wasn't scared about my opinion of him. He was

was an interesting realization and told me a lot

the good to prevent evil from retaking control." His eyes landed back on the cup, and

seem to work, but that was all I was doing. The only two times I had used

your service," I said, trying to get the image of Heath out of my head. There surely was evil about, and I wished I could borrow

silently dismissing him. Thomas scanned the room once more before taking his

looked void of emotion, but I

eyes and the tension in his shoulders. He had lost another man today, someone, that he was closer to than the others. But his

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