Chapter 184
[SAMANTHA’S Point of View]
I let the kids get busy taking care of the pup. Maybe they needed it. They needed a distraction from the issue that I and their father should be handling without involving them. That idea was like a sledgehammer on my chest. I wish we hadn’t brought Diana and Devon into that underground cave.
I wish we didn’t go there. Because for what!? We failed to find the Wolf Tomb. We failed to locate the dead body of my mother. Or if she was dead indeed. I wasn’t sure anymore of what was happening. Yet, I couldn’t deny the fact that we learned a lot from that little dangerous adventure. We learned that Olivia still existed, and she still posed a huge threat to us and the whole Silver Crescent pack. I just wasn’t sure if my husband told his Beta about what happened to Olivia, and if the council would even believe everything we saw.
And Killian. The MoonStone Alpha. I had no idea how I would be able to look Brianne in the eyes and tell her that her mate was as good as dead after what I witnessed. He wasn’t the same anymore. The darkness of the Black Forest had completely devoured him, making him into a totally different werewolf. And I wasn’t sure if we could still bring him back to his old self, to the same man who was always there for me when I needed him.
The living room was filled with Devon’s and Diana’s laughter as Madison and Cynthia helped them feed the new member of the family. I stared at the cub, and I was surprised that it stared back at me as well with its light blue eyes. I wasn’t sure, but there was something about the animal. Like I had seen it before and it knew me, yet I couldn’t remember where I’d seen it or if I really had seen it somewhere else.
Or maybe I was this one ball of paranoia again.
I decided I needed to check on Dominic to know the progress of his investigation and research about his father’s involvement in the purple eyes shadow werewolves, and how Olivia knew about them. I thought it was only Lena who was hiding secrets among the people of Silver Crescent, but apparently, it ran through Dominic’s family, having their own dark and personal agendas.
Happy that the kids were enjoying their new pet, I went straight to my room to get my phone. I remember the last time I used it, I put it on the bedside table—
“Hello, Sam.”
My eyes widened as I recognized that voice. All the hairs on my nape stand, creating goosebumps on my skin as his spine-chilling voice reverberates in my ears as if it came from the depths of the ground.