Clentine:
I did not understand what was happening to , and it felt as if my identity was sothing else entirely, yet I did not know what it was.
I had beco completely blank, and inside my mind there was only silence most of the ti, though sotis a sudden storm would rise without a warning.
Whenever I ca back to my senses, I looked around at the people near , but every face appeared blurred.
It felt like I had been rejected recently, yet when that thought surfaced, I rembered my mates, and I was still mated to them, I think. But who were they? I could not understand that either.
As I waited in the room for those strangers to return, an unknown face suddenly appeared in front of .
"Oh, Clentine. I should have known you would be with one of them," he said.
"Who are you?" I asked him, noticing how comfortably he road around the room, checking one thing after another. It seed as if he was not only aware of the layout, but also had all the ti in the world.
He stared at when he heard my question, then tilted his head as if a thought had just occurred to him.
"You don’t know ?" he asked, pointing at his chest and raising his eyebrows to make sure he had heard correctly.
"No, I don’t. Have we t before?" I questioned, pressing my head as I tried to understand who this person was. To be honest, he looked a little hostile to .
"Oh, you don’t know ?" he repeated, more to himself than to .
"Have we t before?" I asked again, trying to understand why he was roaming around the place I was in if he was a complete stranger. And if he was not, then why the hell could I not rember him?
"Actually, I’m your friend," he uttered, and I tilted my head in even more confusion.
"Yes, basically, we have been friends for a very long ti. You always co to confide in whenever you are in trouble," he continued as he circled the room, reaching to one side and then moving to the other, like a predator.
"We were friends?" I asked, trying to confirm whether the person in front of was a danger or not.
He nodded confidently, but sothing told that was not the case.
I had t other strangers just monts ago, but him, he was exuding major bad vibes.
"Yes, and you’re supposed to go sowhere with ."
As soon as he said that, he stopped at the edge of the bed and raised his hand toward , as if asking to hold it.
That was when sothing switched inside , and I shook my head.
"No, I will wait for my friends to co," I replied, shaking my head once again.
He clicked his tongue and lowered his hand, looking disappointed, almost as if it were my fault that I had said no and now I would face the consequences.
"You may please leave the room and return only when they co back," I requested, pulling the blanket up to my legs and then to my chest as I watched him stare at with a blank look on his face, as if he were anticipating what to do next.
There was an agitation in his body that made anxious.
"Well then, you leave no choice," he stated.
The way he spoke carried only hostility, and before I could react, he lunged at .
I tried to push him away with my hands, but I was not myself. I was weak, so weak that I could not even fight back properly or protect myself, and I did not understand what was happening to . All I knew was that I had to save myself, yet I could not do it.
He overpowered , and for a mont his fingers wrapped tightly around my throat before everything went dark.
When I regained consciousness, I realized I was being transported inside a cage, and many people were gathered around . It seed like so kind of basent, though I had no idea where I was, and I felt completely lost.
"So finally you are in our hands. You see, evil always ets a bad end," a woman said as she stepped forward.
Everything about her was white, from her hair to her clothes. She looked like an angel at first glance, but when she began speaking, her tone was extrely harsh.
"I don’t understand who you are. Why are you speaking to like this? And why am I locked inside a cage?" I whispered.
As soon as I said that, everyone looked at each other.
"What is she talking about?" a man said from the side.
I kept staring at him because it felt as if I had seen him sowhere before, and yet at the sa ti it felt like I had not.
"Alpha, please. She does this kind of drama. I told you she lies to protect herself," the woman said again, silencing him.
By then I understood that he was the Alpha, and I felt like I had seen him in passing before, though I still could not understand who he really was.
Then she turned back to .
"I am Lady Sylvia. I am the Council Leader. How could you forget ? I am the one who does not allow evil and monsters on this mainland," she continued.
As she kept speaking, I only beca more confused.
"Anyway, she will keep acting like this. Take her out right now. Everyone has already gathered. They have seen the show. That academy she was calling entertainnt and accusing us of, today it will be exposed in front of everyone. Today she will stand before them all and transition into a monster," Lady Sylvia began.
She kept calling a monster.
I knew my identity had blurred, even in my own eyes, but I knew one thing with certainty. I could not be a monster.
"One second, please. What is happening here? Will soone tell ?" I said, gripping the bars of the cage.
The mont I touched them, my hands began to burn, and I understood they were made of silver.
"Take her away. She will transition in front of everyone and prove that she is a monster," Lady Sylvia ordered, dismissing everyone with a hand gesture.
The Alphas began lifting the cage and loading it onto a large truck.
Throughout it all, I did not understand what was happening.
I felt lost, and my heart was heavy with grief. It felt as if I wanted to mourn sothing, but I did not even know what that loss was, and on top of that, they were taking away to force to transition in front of everyone.
After that, they took to a large ground.
Just as Lady Sylvia had said, a crowd had gathered there. There were so many people that I could not even count them.
The mont they saw the cage, they began shouting.
"Is she really a monster? Is that why she could fight monsters, because she is one herself?" a woman scread.
I sat down inside the cage because the noise was pounding inside my head.
At the sa ti, sothing else was happening.
I had been unconscious for a long ti, and the pain in my body had begun to fade.
My wolf was waking up.
"You are awake?" I asked her inside my mind. "What has happened to us?"
I did not know where she had been or why she had been silent for so long, but it felt like whatever loss we had suffered, her awakening was tied to it.
"I don’t want to transition," my wolf’s voice echoed.
I was shocked.
Her voice was powerful, yet she sounded as if she was in pain.
"Clentine, we have to stop our transition," she said, struggling.
"I can’t stop it," I replied.
"We have lost too much blood. We have suffered a great loss. I was rejected. Transition is a must."
She spoke in a trembling voice, and then the pain began spreading through my body.
"You have all been called here so you can see with your own eyes that there was a monster among us. We have not wronged her. She is a monster, and she belongs in the North," Lady Sylvia announced as she arrived at the ground with the others.
The crowd began shouting again.
Their voices started fading from my ears because my transition had begun.
As my bones started cracking, I saw heads snapping away from , as if their attention had shifted to soone else arriving.
"Who is that?" soone shouted.
I followed the direction of their pointing hands.
Through the crowd, I saw a familiar face approaching with many others.
He stood out.
The mont I saw him, my heartbeat slowed.
And before I could stop myself, a na escaped my lips.
"Ian."
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