Aderyn Pov

The moon shone brightly and the howl of the wolves echoed my ears, as I looked in front of me sadly witnessing the funeral process of the dead wolves. It turned out, the dagger couldn’t bring the lives of the wolves who passed away early. Only the wolves who died nearly the time when I got the dagger back were saved. I looked at the side to find, Cole and Jenny standing looking sadly at the deceased wolf’s bodies. Blake and Bella were comforting the dead wolf’s mates and the wolf who lost their friends howled showing respect and feeling sorrowful for the loss.

Dylan encircled his arms around my waist and pulled me close. A tear escaped my eyes, as I looked at mates of the deceased wolves crying their eyes out. Some of the packs lost their alphas and it was heartbreaking to see the sadness in the whole pack’s eyes. Somewhere deep down, I felt guilty.

“I can’t help but think that this all happened because of me,” I told Dylan and felt his arms tightening around me.

“No, it’s not like that. It was meant to happen. The only person to be blamed in this is Edna, this all happened because of her. It’s only because today we have lost so many companions. You don’t need to blame yourself for anything,” he said.

I gasped when I saw the body of a familiar person. The beasts attacked the house and the female warriors among with normal wolves had to fight too. Cole despite being wounded fought in his terrible state managed to fight but lots of female warriors and innocent lives were lost in that fight but among those lives, we lost a precious and nearer one. Lily.

We lost her and I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw her body. Her left hand dangled from the stretcher from which her body was being carried. I walked up to her and held her hand and slowly put it up on her other hand. I couldn’t help it any longer because I burst out in tears when I saw her face. Her eyes closed, hair on her side shoulder, her mouth partly apart. Scratches, bruises, and wounds marred her beautiful face. She couldn’t even meet her mate. That made my heartbreak even further because here, two people who were supposed to be destined for each other couldn’t meet.

I felt Dylan pulling me back my waist as we moved back and stood back watching the deceased one being carried away. The witches stood their quietly as they performed some spell over the deceased bodies and chanted some mantras in their mind for their piece. It was not a sight to behold. Even the pups who lost their parents cried and sobbed crestfallen. The burial process was to be held soon and we all closed our eyes and prayed for the deceased one for redemption.

Five months later

“Aderyn?” I heard Dylan calling me through mind link and I walked to him to the kitchen to find him pouring soup in the bowl.

“What happened?” I asked and walked to him and held his arm and leaned against him and watched as he garnished the soup with parsley leaves.

“Eat up,” he said and I hummed in response taking two bowls from him, I walked back towards the drawing hall where I took my seat on the sofa next to pregnant Jenny and handed her one of the bowls.

“Thankyou,” she smiled and I watched Cole leaned down and pecked her cheeks before taking a seat next to the Tv.

Jenny was three months pregnant and Dylan told me that Cole told him, Jenny is expecting twins because she could hear two heartbeats from within her. Everyone was sad after that war. The other packs returned to their respective lands and the packs who lost their Alphas has new alphas, some alphas are young, the son of their deceased father while some are the betas who took their alphas position.

Nobody was happy, nor anybody talked for many days about the war. Everyone was missing Lily. But then, their buried place was filled up with flowers and roses, people didn’t forget to visit their grave letting them know that are live within our hearts. It didn’t matter if they left us but we all can never forget them ever.

Two good things happened in these five months, and that was Blake found his mate. He went to the neighboring pack after three months of the war for inspection, if the new alpha was taking good care of the pack or not and there he found Crystal. An eighteen year old, blonde with brown eyes chubby and kind Crystal Morgan. We all were happy for them because Blake was smiling and laughing again. Finally, the sadness in everyone’s eye dissipated with his good news because he was the kingdom’s beta and people were happy with his happiness.

Another happy news was the kingdom’s warrior and his mate expecting. We found out Jenny was pregnant and that filled our heart with joy. Slowly, slowly the sorrow and pain in everyone’s eye began to dissipate and finally we all here, starting the new phase of our life with happiness.

“My lord!” I gasped when all of a sudden Estelle stood before me out of nowhere catching me off guard and causing the bowl literally fly up in the air but I managed to hold it back before I could spill the hot soup all over the carpet.

“Jeez! Estelle,” I said once I held my breath and looked at her in shock.

“Sorry my Queen,” she bowed in response.

“What is it, Estelle?” Dylan asked as he emerged out of the kitchen room and stood behind me.

“Good news,” she said with a smile.

“And that is?” Cole asked curiously.

“The Elders are coming,” she said and we all stood up from our respective place out of shock.

True to her word, even Dylan got a message in his mind which told him that the Elders are coming. I paced around filling the anxiety growing up from within.copy right hot novel pub