"oh my word Attica, l thought you were dying" Antonio says once he regains control of his emotions and the shock of seeing my eyes peel open has subsided. But l can still see the disbelief in his eyes but had he known the situation l was confronted with, he would be more understanding
"keep your voice down Antonio, you wouldn't want to endanger her would you?" Akya says to Antonio and he immediately becomes silent but l can see his eyes swimming with a billion unanswered question that only l can give clarity and answers on
"you have a lot of explaining" he says
"but you cannot tell anyone that l am not in a coma or else they will kill me"
"fine" and with that he walks out of the room leaving just Akya and l alone, with nothing but the view of the gardens and silence between us
"at least she was kind enough to put you in a room with a beautiful view" Akya says laughing but before l can offer her a response, the door to the room opens and l immediately close my eyes and try to work on controlling my breathing
"why are you talking to a nearly dead person?" Kartie asks, her marinate of perfume filling my lungs with such a force that l cannot stop the tears that start rolling out no matter how hard l try
"l have no one else to talk to here in this establishment, she is the only one l have grown close to and if l do not exercise the muscles in my mouth, l will go crazy" she says and l can hear Kartie grown at the response
The only advantage that Akya has is that she is currently disguised as a witch, and because witches are seen as valuable to the werewolf community, she can skip all the formalities when speaking to a higher up. Had it not been for that, she would have been thrown in the servants quarters before she could utter a word to the higher ups, better yet the dungeons for her inability to follow protocol
"well you weren't brought along to talk to servants but to do your job which in the small amount of time you have been here, l have not seen you do. Now l suggest you leave the room and do what your Alpha trusted you to do before l report you myself" but knowing Akya, her hot headed self will put up a fight before following any of Kartie's instructions
Not only were they mortal enemies but Kartie almost got Akya killed all because she was jealous of her position in my life. When Akya found out, she was livid and vowed to give her a slow and painful death but before she could do anything, the war took place and she was robbed of the opportunity
Not only was she focused on saving my life and our titles, she had a secret she couldn't expose and dragging Kartie into the mix of things would have done more damage than good because we would have all been exposed
"as the Luna wishes" l hear Akya say before she comes over to the bed and puts a flower in my head before walking out of the room leaving Kartie behind
I hear her pacing in the room for a couple of seconds before the door opens and in comes a scent l do not know
"what is it?" the voice asks
"l poisoned the poor woman thinking she is Attica but l was wrong" she says to the mystery person who simply sighs out loud before throwing themselves on the chair in the room which makes a harsh scratching sound to show that the weight of the person is more than it could take
"why would you do that Kartie? you of all people know that she died that night and so did everyone who could be a threat to us. Why do you always have to cause trouble for us? If her Alpha decides to investigate, what will you say?" the person asks, the voice is hard to place on a specific gender and opening my eyes will instantly alert them of my conscious state
"her name is Attica and they resemble each other, well slightly. The scent is not the same so l thought that she had it tampered with. I am sorry" she says. I should have known better than keeping the name Attica but it was the only connection l had to my former life and a huge part of my identity that l was not ready to give up
"Do you honestly think that we wouldn't feel it if she was alive, we were all connected and the connection died with her. The woman died in front of us. And if she was alive, she wouldn't keep her name because that would expose her to everyone else. Another thing, an omega? You really didn't know Attica then, she would never reduce herself to an omega. When she wakes up you will apologise to her, do you understand?" the person says
Clearly they both did not know me very well. I did have a slight pride problem when l was still the Queen of all werewolves but l had to quickly abandon that way of thinking when l realised just how much harm it was creating and l knew that as an omega, they would never suspect me
But this other person was there when l was 'dying' the only two faces l could remember were Kartie and....Zane. Oh no, Zane. He is here right now, the man who destroyed my life and took away the only thing l ever wanted in life
"yes l do understand and l apologise for the mess l created. But l had to do something about my suspicions before it became too late. Now l don't need to inform the Royals because l know that it is not her"
"l heard the prophecy too, l don't think it is her but l know that her wolf must have found another body and that is who we have to find. If the wolf remembers everything, we will not be spared" he says
I should have known that the prophecy would be known by all at this point, but l cannot fault them on being informed. It will work to my advantage if they all think that my wolf is the only thing that has the ability to come back, they don't realise how much ammunition they are giving me
"the wolf comes from her pack" she says and l can feel both their stares heating up my face
"we need to arrange with him to visit the pack, it has to be one of the higher up's. Such a powerful wolf wouldn't be given to just anyone"
"what if we don't find her?"
"then we will have to keep the Alpha close to our side so that whenever a new member comes to join or a baby is born, he will inform us and we will come to assess the situation and find the threat