128 MATING CEREMONY

Lise carried River in her arms with Anne following behind her.

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The old lady looked so lethargic with all of this running and seemed like she couldn’t handle it any longer.

Not only because she was slowing them down, but also because of her sickness. At her age, she should rest and be concerned about nothing, but herself, and yet here she was; trying to survive with Lise and the little girl.

“Anne...” Lise called her once she had put River in the bed and came to the old lady, as she squatted down in front of her. She held her hands and looked at her with so much concern in her eyes.

“I know what you want to say to me,” Anne cut her words before she even started to speak. They had talked about it a few times in the past, but had never had a real conversation.

“Anne, I don’t want you to misunderstand me,” Lise began, she looked hurt because she had to say this. “But, I think you need a permanent place to rest. You shouldn’t be on the run with me and River.”

Anne sighed, even when she breathed this way, she felt very weak. She knew what Lise said was right. Her age was no longer suitable to this harsh life, but...

“I can contact Nathen or Sebastian, I am sure they will find you a perfect and safe place to stay.” Nathen and Sebastian were Knox and Gael’s right hand men and they still kept contact until now. The two of them helped Lise a lot during their constant run.

Anne lowered her eyes and hid her disappointment.

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“Anne... you know that I love you, you are the only family that I have, but I will not let your life be in more danger than it already has.” Lise kissed her cheek.

“Gael will come soon,” she mumbled and Lise didn’t have an answer for that.

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Blue awoke to the sound of raindrops striking the only window in her bedroom, her blurry eyes caught sight of the droplets of water that were trickling down on the glass.

It looked like a storm would come and the chilly air left her shivering. Her wounds had healed and her broken bones had cracked back to their right places. She hated it with everything that she had whenever someone hurt her, but she would hate herself even more when she could do nothing about it.

Blue stayed in her bed for a little bit longer. The training this afternoon would be canceled due to this weather, thus she didn’t need to attend that stupid training again.

Alpha Xerxes returned yesterday and no one would tell him about Blue’s injuries and the death of a member of his pack.

He believed that it was all about quality, not quantity, therefore if they died during training, then they were not worth being alive at all.

“Zuri?”

Someone knocked on her door and from the scent that drifted to her senses and also from her voice, Blue knew it was Meredith, an omega from her former uncle’s pack.

If Blue could say that she has a friend, then Meredith would be it, though they were not that close or she would like to talk to her about everything, but in general, they were on good terms.

“Come in,” Blue said hoarsely, as she pushed herself up to sit down on her bed.

A young and beautiful woman with curly hair that streamed down her shoulders, came inside the room. She was only a year older than Blue.

Probably, this was one of the reasons why Blue liked her, because she adored her hair, while she had to cut her hair because it was convenient when she had to fight.

Though, her white hair had grown long after the last time she cut it. Her hair reached her shoulders now. It’s time for her to cut it again, albeit she hated the very idea of chopping her hair off.

“What happened?” Blue covered her body with the blanket because of the cold wind that came with Meredith when she opened the door.

“Emmet asked to see you,” she said in a soft tone, her eyes were down when she mentioned ‘Emmet’ name, but Blue didn’t think much about it.

“What does he want now?” Blue scoffed, it was a rhetorical question because she knew, whatever issue that she had to deal with him, it would be something that she didn’t want.

“Actually, Alpha Xerxes is there too, with Liam.” Meredith sat down on the only chair inside this small room. She still didn’t want to look into Blue’s eyes.

“They are in the same room?” If Alpha Xerxes was there, it mostly was his order. “What happened, Meredith? You know something, right?” Blue probed. She noticed her uneasiness.

“Zuri...” she called her name, lifting her head to meet her eyes. “You should run from this place.”

This time, Blue could see the concern in her eyes, no, it was fear. Meredith was not scared for herself, but for her.

“Why?” Running away from this place was her dream, but apparently, the world outside of this pack was not as easy as one could imagine. She had validated that, since she fought alongside the warriors in every attack that humans threw at them.

Meredith looked troubled when Blue asked that, she even flinched when Blue got off her bed and approached her.

“Tell me, what is it?” Blue knew it was not right to press her this way and she shouldn’t talk like this to Meredith, but her gut feelings told her this was something out of the ordinary.

“Zuri...” Meredith held her hand and looked at her with desperate eyes. “I can be wrong, but I heard them talking about the mating ceremony before I got out of the room.”

It was no secret that Alpha Xerxes was obsessed about Emmet mating with Blue. That was his intention since the very beginning.

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