Chapter 25 – Protective Spell
••• Aleena’s POV •••
“It was nice for Alpha Kyson to let you shop,” Beta Christine said as she accompanied me to the town center.
“Yes,” I smiled broadly as we walked into another boutique. The town center was bigger and better than I’d imagined it to be. There were many selections of shops, from bakeries down to formal clothing. There was even an art gallery and exhibition hall.
“I know this is not my place to ask, but… how are things with Alpha Kyson?” Beta Christine asked in a soft voice.
Beta Christine was a lovely woman. She was very gentle, and it was easy to talk to her. She made me feel like I had an older sister.
“Well… I want him to love me, but it looks like he doesn’t want to.” I said with a sad smile.
“Just give him time. It wasn’t easy for him to be an only Lycan, and he always harbored hatred toward Andre. It’ll be a little hard for him to accept that his mate was the enemy’s daughter,” she said gently.
“But I’m not Andre’s daughter. At least, I don’t think so. He wouldn’t banish me so easily if I were,” I said with sadness and bitterness.
“Don’t worry about it, Luna. I’m sure he’ll come around soon. After all, you guys are mates,” she said with a kind smile.
“I hope so,” I smiled at her and began sorting through the clothes in front of me.
We had a fun time shopping, and I even bought many clothes for Kyson.
“Umm… Do they know I’m the Luna?” I asked her as we walked along the street. I noticed some of the pack members looking at me respectfully, and they called us ‘Beta’ and ‘Luna’, though I didn’t know if they knew which was which.
“Some of them know. But all of them know that you are Alpha Kyson’s mate,” she explained, and I nodded in understanding. Since not all members knew Kyson was the Alpha, they might now know me as the Beta.
“Beta Christine, may I know why Kyson hates Andre so much?” This question had been in my mind, but I knew if I asked Kyson, he wouldn’t answer me.
“It’s not my place to say, Luna. You have to ask Alpha Kyson about this matter,” she answered, and I knew then that no one would tell me about it. I guessed I had to ask Kyson about it, or maybe Night.
“Hey, Aleena, are you seeing what I’m seeing?” I suddenly heard Celia say.
“Umm… What are you seeing?” I had no idea what she was seeing. We were in the town center; there were many things to see.
“You can’t see those tiny balls floating near each pack member?” she asked.
Tiny balls? I looked around and saw no tiny balls around the pack members.
“No…” I told her.
“I wonder what those balls are…” she mumbled and went to the back of my mind.
“Beta Christine, do you see any tiny balls around the pack members?” I asked Beta Christine to make sure that I wasn’t the only one seeing nothing.
“Tiny balls?” she asked.
“Yeah… My wolf seems to see them,” I explained to her.
“I don’t see anything,” she said.
“I’ll ask Witch Lily about it later,” I told both her and Celia. I believed in my wolf. She wouldn’t see anything if it wasn’t there.
“Have you finished shopping, Luna?” Beta Christine asked.
Looking at the many shopping bags, I knew it was time to stop. “Let’s go back,” I told her, and we went to the car to go back to the pack’s main house.
Once I arrived, I went straight to my room and unpacked the things I had bought, setting aside all the stuff for Kyson.
“Let’s go meet Kyson and Night,” I told Celia once I’d finished when suddenly I saw a blurry image of a moon-like object in front of me, but it disappeared a second later.
“Celia, did you see that?” I asked her.
“I saw. Yours is bigger than the pack members’, and it kept circling you,” she told me.
“Maybe we should see Witch Lily first?” I asked, and she agreed.
I walked toward Witch Lily’s hut, and she opened the door before I could even knock on it.
“Welcome, Luna,” she said with a gentle smile of hers and ushered me in.
“Umm… Which Lily, this might sound strange, but Celia can see tiny balls around the pack members and a bigger one around mine,” I told her once we were seated inside.
“Can’t you see them?” she asked softly.
“I saw mine, but only for a split second. What are those?” I asked with curiosity.
“Those balls are the protective spells that I put on each pack member…” she explained with a distant look in her eyes.
I waited for her to explain more, but she didn’t say anything.
“Umm… Did you put the one on me too?” I asked. Or was it Witch Rose?
“No, I didn’t put the one on yours, and neither did Witch Rose, at least not intentionally,” she said, with the last four words in a very soft voice.
I have a werewolf’s hearing and sense of smell now, thanks to Kyson’s awakening my werewolf’s abilities by marking me.
“You said I could help you with it?” I asked as I remembered her words from before.
“Yes… But it’s not the time yet. Your full potential is still locked,” she said.
Still locked? I thought Kyson marking me would unleash all my potential.
“There’s just one other thing you need to do…” she said, still softly.
“And that would be…?” I waited for her, but after a few minutes, she was still silent. Thinking that she was being ambiguous again, I stood up to leave.
“Your marking with Kyson is still yet to be completed,” she said suddenly, and I sat back down, but she stood up and went to the window. I waited for a few minutes, but she still didn’t say anything, so I left.
“My marking with Kyson is not completed yet?” I asked Celia as I walked back toward the pack’s main house.
“Does it mean that Kyson needs to mark you again?” Celia asked.
We both pondered about it as I walked back toward my room. I went to stand in front of my mirror once we reached the bedroom and touched Kyson’s mark on my neck.
Not completed yet… Could it be…
“Do you think Witch Lily meant that I have to mark Kyson?” I asked Celia as that thought dawned on me.
“It must be it!” Celia exclaimed.
“But how do I mark him?” I asked with uncertainty.
“Easy. We just need to get him to fuck you again,” Celia replied cheerfully.
I blushed hearing her words.
“But I don’t think he will let us mark him,” I said as I blushed while thinking of that scene.
“We can get Night to be the one in control of the body?” she gave me a solution.
“I doubt it. Kyson is the one who is in control. He won’t let Night take over if he doesn’t allow it.” I went to my bed and let out a sigh.
“Do you think Kyson will ever love me?” I asked Celia, suddenly feeling sorry for myself.
“Of course, he will! He wouldn’t be able to resist the mate-bond!” Celia tried to lift my spirit up with her words.
“I hope so.” I let out another helpless sigh. Everyone seemed to think the same way, but it was hard for me to believe it, seeing how he was somehow still resisting the mate bond.
“Don’t give up, Aleena! He had marked you; it’ll only be a matter of time before he gives in,” Celia encouraged me.
“I wish for him to talk to me. I wish he would listen and believe me.” I felt dejected the more I thought about it.
“You can try to be one who talks to him first. If he doesn’t want to listen, I can threaten Night,” she said in what sounded like a happy yet playful voice.Nôvel/Dr(a)ma.Org - Content owner.
“How are you going to threaten him?” I laughed.
“Well… I can tell him I’ll make you reject him if he can’t make Kyson listen to you,” she said, and I could feel her smiling mischievously in my head.
I laughed hearing her words. “That should do the trick.”
“Aleena, are you home?” suddenly, I heard Kyson’s voice through the mindlink.
“Yes.” I quickly went to take the shopping bags I wanted to give him.
“Come to the study on the first floor. Someone wants to meet you,” he said.
Someone wants to see me? I wonder who it is… I dropped the shopping bags and walked quickly to the study.
Taking a few deep breaths, I calm myself down. I didn’t know who was behind the door, and it made me nervous.
I knocked on the door and opened it when Kyson asked me to go in.
“Alpha, you want to see me?” I asked as my gaze fell on his handsome face.
“He wants to see you. He didn’t believe me when I told him you’ve changed,” Kyson said with a smirk as he looked at the other person in the room.
I turned my attention to the other person and nearly laughed when I saw his mouth hanging open, obviously in shock.
“You are Aleena?” he asked in disbelief.
I was about to tell him that I was indeed Aleena when I felt Kyson pull my hand, and I tumbled forward and fell into his embrace.
“Didn’t I tell you to buy some clothes?” he growled.