Chapter97
Evangelina’s POV
“Would you want to go for a walk?” Warrick asks and I blink up at him in confusion.
“We need to get back to planning.” I state, but he just looks at me blankly.
“You mean, the planning that we just solidified and communicated to our top warriors?” He asks and I shrug.
“Yea, there is always something else to do. We could talk to everybody regarding the interrogations on Hadley.” I say and his eyes darken just a smidgen.
“Planning is complete, and I need a moment of reprieve before I listen to those interrogations. She is gone and poisoned me, if there was anything that was more important than that, somebody would have come and told me. Right?” He asks and I sigh. I guess he’s right, and he hasn’t gotten a break from this nonsense. “I’m not used to taking breaks. There is always something to do.” I admit and he smiles, causing my heart to skip a beat. His blue – orange eyes are twinkling as he stares down at me on the barstool.
“Neither am I, maybe we can change that for the both of us. It can’t be healthy to work ALL of the time.” He says and I nod. There is nothing else I want to say to that.
He is confusing me, just four days ago he was accusing me of being the enemy, and the switch when he found out I wasn’t gave me whiplash. Then not even 72 hours later I let him give me one of the best org*sms of my life. Now I am feeling like a schoolgirl with a huge crush.
The mate bond has been pulling me more and more toward him since that spell has been broken, maybe that has something to do with it. I’m still not ready yet, he was willing to kill me to reject me 10 years ago, not that he knew that. But there is also the fact that he knew I was out there and hurt me by having s*x with other women. Granted that woman was Hadley who poisoned him into thinking he loved her. And even while here he was an a*shole, but maybe it was just the poison.
“If you look at all of those reasons, he really isn’t bad.” Veena speaks up, surprising me.
“What are you talking about? He hurt us.” I argue and she huffs.
“I’m not saying that. I am saying that he didn’t know he would kill us when he rejected us, AND he was tricked into falling in love with the dumb b*tch. Go on the walk and ask him about the reason for wanting to reject us. Then ask when he started seeing Hack–ley and then form your thoughts. We only have our perspective, not his.” Veena, the ever so rational wolf says.
“Yes, oh wise one.” I say and she chuckles.
I look back at Warrick who is finishing his sandwich and watching me. He raises his eyebrow when I make eye contact and I shrug my shoulders.
“Why not? I think we need some fresh air before we go and put together puzzle pieces of Hadley.” I sav and he smiles, then frowns at the mention of her. He takes his now empty plate and mine and washes the dis, before putting them on the drying rack above the sink, and turns around. Wiping his hands on his slacks. I am surprised that his closets held up from the trip to get Sirena. It was pretty humid there.
He walks over to me and smiles down at me.
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“Ready?” He asks, holding out his arm.
“Sure.” I say and stand up from the barstool, I Ignore his arm and begin walking towards the door. I can’t let the mate bond affect me getting the answers I need to maybe accept it.
He follows me out the door and we begin walking side by side in slightly awkward silence. He makes his way towards a side door and we exit. I pause at the beauty I see before me. Flowers of all colors, a beautiful walkway of stone, fountains and statues.
“It’s my mother’s pride and joy.” Warwick says as he begins to walk slowly through the archway leading to this seemingly other realm.
I take in all of the different flowers and scents as we walk.
“Tell me about him.” Warrick rushes out, like he was forced to. I look at him in curiosity.
“Who?” I ask, looking toward him. He rubs the back of his neck awkwardly.
“Your first mate. What was he like?” He asks, looking back at me and I smile at the memory of Xavier. “He was lovely. Sweet, but stern. Cared for his pack, even though people sometimes had a hard time seeing that. Even as a teen, before we were mates and he took the Alpha title, he stood up for the weaker members. He would try to include all kids when playing games. As a teen, even as his father was training us in torture, he never lost his spark. He never fooled around, was waiting for his mate, which is quite rare. Then when we found out we were mates, we were the happiest people in the pack. There was no waiting for anything. We knew that we loved each other since we could remember. And once we had Ziana, he became even more protective of me and her. He was a good man, not a day goes by that I don’t miss him.” I answer, surprised at how easy it was to give that much real information. Warrick smiles sadly at me.
“He sounds like he was a wonderful man. I am sorry that you lost him so early. I am sure that he is proud of what you have done.” Warrick says, surprising me.
“You’re not jealous?” I ask and he shakes his head.
“Of course not. He was your first mate. I am just lucky to be your second.” He answers and I nod my head. “You’re not jealous of my first mate are you?” He asks and I look at him in surprise.
“I don’t know much, other than you killed her.” I admit and he looks away, toward the gardens.
“I did. When I first met here, she was a rogue and my family and the pack welcomed her with open arms. After 2 years of her playing the perfect princess, getting to know the people, helping mother out with balls and events, she wanted more. Wanted to be the queen and didn’t want to wait, so she killed my father during an attack on the pack. She didn’t expect us to see her do it, so she turned on us and I killed her. It wasn’t until later that we found out she organized the attack as a distraction to kill my father. I was devastated, I lost my father, my mate betrayed me and I had to kill her. On top of that, I had to step up to become king.” He shares with me and it begins to click in my brain.
“That is why you wanted to reject me. Because you thought that I would be like her.” I state, not as and he nodded, looking back down at me. His eyes holding pain.
“Yes. I was blinded to rogues, they were all considered enemies to me. And during that time I couldn’t risk my pack, the kingdom, or you. The pack wouldn’t have trusted you even if I accepted our bond from the start and I couldn’t do that to you. I couldn’t ask that of you, or my pack. Or me for that matter. There are multiple reasons as to why I wanted to reject you, but looking back, none of them truly mattered. You are my second
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chance, a blessing that I should have accepted from day one. I am sorry that I didn’t.” He says with so much rawness, it scratches at my heart. I nod my head and look away.
“I didn’t let you reject me because it would have killed me.” I say and he grabs my arm, turning me to look at
him.
“What do you mean?” He asks and I smile sadly.
“There is this little trade off with my gift from the goddess and fate. If I refuse their path or tasks they give me, then they will take my gifts and give them to somebody else. If they do that, I die. If I would have let you reject me, I would have died.” I explain. His eyes wide in surprise.
“They would kill you?” He asks in disbelief and I nod.
“Not that they want to, they just need a person to be the help in the war. The only reason I have half of my pack is because of the visions they sent me to save them. They helped me build an army for the war, it was my task to protect and train them.” I say and he nods, but I can tell that he is still confused. “What happens after the war, and you are no longer needed to do their bidding for it?” He asks and I shrug. “I don’t know.” I answer truthfully and he frowns.
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