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She pulled out a card, looking at it before scowling at me. “See this?” She showed the card with The Magician written across the top. A man holding up a wand glared back at me. “This says that you plotted behind my back to get whatever outcome you wanted. This tells me that you took my cards, hid them, and then lied to my face.”
More tears filled her eyes, her lip quivering in anger as she glared back at me. “You took a piece of me. All so you could keep me from knowing about our bond. Why? Were you hoping I actually found a way to break it? What else have you lied to me about, Nyte? Do you even love me? Have you ever wanted me as your mate?”
I grabbed her shoulders, pulling her against my chest, my hands pressing her head into my shoulder as she wept. “I never lied about how I felt, Paige. You have to believe me.”
She shoved me back, eyes narrowed. “I can’t. I can’t believe anything from you because you haven’t been honest with me from the very beginning! You could have told me that day on my front porch that it was you in my vision and the psycho on the beach was just that, a psycho. I had nothing to fear when it came to whom the fates chose for me. Instead, you pretended to be my fake mate while you actually were!”
She ran her hand over her neck where my mark had been made. “You marked me, telling me that it could be undone. But it can’t when the mark is between true fate-chosen bonds. You didn’t even give me the chance to accept you.”
“How was I supposed to give you that opportunity? You mentioned finding some spell or potion to break your bond!”
“From him!” she screamed at me. “Not you! I wanted to break my ties with the man I thought was my mate. I came to you because I trusted you.” She took a step back, shaking her head. “How can I trust you now?”
A sharp knock came at the door just as I approached her, Jose’s voice thundering through the wood. “Alpha’s office! Now!”
I growled at the command. The timing couldn’t have been worse; I knew that Beta Jose coming directly to me meant trouble. The trouble that I couldn’t turn away from, even to console my shattered mate.
“I’ll be right there,” I called back, pulling a clean shirt from my drawer and looking at Paige, her eyes piercing mine with daggers. “I’ll be back. Wait here.”
She scoffed, turning away and walking into the bathroom, the door slamming behind her. I sighed, leaving the room and walking toward Alpha Alexander’s office. As soon as I entered the room, I noted two new Alphas in attendance.
“Nyte, may I introduce Alpha Orion and his daughter, Liberty,” Alexander nodded at the two Alphas.
I took in the older Alpha, recognizing his name before his face. It was hard not to know the wolf's name with witches fully integrated into his pack, thanks to his mateship with their city’s High Witch. I just never expected to meet him or his daughter, for that matter. The young hybrid was barely eighteen years old; it was said that she would be taking over the pack from her father soon.
She smiled back at me, standing as she extended her hand in greeting. “I would like to say it’s a pleasure to meet you, Nyte. However, under these circumstances, I think it might be slightly inappropriate.”
I shook her hand, noting the combination of her features. Her dark hair matched that of her father’s, but the sparkling green of her eyes held magic and no doubt came from her mother. “I assume your pack has been experiencing the same phenomenon as we have if you have come all this way.”
“Not exactly,” Orion said, gesturing for his daughter to return to her seat. “Our city is easily locked down. However, there have been attempts. Thankfully, those attempts have been thwarted with witches at every corner of the city.”
Alpha Markus scoffed, earning a glare from the older and more powerful Alpha and his daughter.
“Do you know who is behind it then?” I asked, eager to end this nightmare once and for all, hoping to save the missing werewolves.
“Yes and no,” Liberty replied. “We have caught a few vampires. However, there are spells upon spells placed on them. Each time we attempted to question them, they’d bite off their tongue or burst into flame before our eyes. I can barely find a trace of the power used. It’s dark though. Very dark.”
Orion looked at me, tapping his chin with his finger as his eyes gazed behind me and then at my face. “I understand that you have a witch-mate,” he stated. “And I hear she has a powerful tracker bloodline and premonitions.”
My back stiffened, recognizing the same request that Rome had tried over the phone. Why couldn’t these men, whose mates were also witches, not understand that she owed the pack nothing? They didn’t trust her, so why should she help us?
“Why should that matter?” I asked.
Orion chuckled. “You can’t protect her from what she is. What she is, is the best chance you may have to stop this. It is witches who protect my pack from this outside force. A witch may need to save you and your missing packs.”
Orion nodded to Liberty, the two standing again. The young hybrid smiled at me before her gaze turned to Madilyn. “I will see you in a few weeks then, Madilyn. We are looking forward to your visit.” I watched my would-be Beta smile, nodding to the alphas.
“Thank you, I look forward to it as well. It will be interesting seeing how your pack works,” Madilyn replied, bowing her head respectfully.
Liberty turned back to me, a soft smile touching her lips. She stepped closer, lowering her voice low enough that even the sharp senses of the wolves in the room couldn’t catch every word. “I have the power of premonition as well. You have to trust your mate; if you don’t, then you both will lose the fates’ favor.”
With that, they departed, leaving the rest of us to contemplate the new information they left with us.
“Bah,” Markus scoffed loudly. “They are just trying to spread that witch wolf integration bullshit they feed their pack. Just because they haven’t lost any wolves yet it doesn’t mean they won’t. Witches are only out for themselves. As soon as it gets too much, they will leave that city, and Orion and his half-breed daughter will come to us for help.”
“Watch your tongue,” I growled, narrowing my eyes at the visiting alpha.
Markus grimaced at me, his Beta growling low. “That’s right,” he chuckled darkly. “Your little witch bitch is probably already planning her exit. No doubt she caught wind of the danger the packs are under, and she’s ready to hightail it out of here. Mark my words, you will be mate-less before your pack is taken out.”
