"Where's Mia?" She scolds the question at him.
"She's somewhere safe, you don't worry about her," he said smirking his lips at her timid eyes. More like he had hoped while torturing her, had he known shifting would have gotten her tame then he would have done so sooner than earlier.
" You tortured me, you stabbed me and attacked me," she said.
King Steffen's dark gaze falls on John causing him to weaken on his knees. Even if he isn't interested in her and holds many doubts about the whole process of her being his mate, she's still his bonded mate and he is obliged to protect her.
" I'm sorry " he apologizes wanting to free the weight of his dark gaze upon him. " I didn't know she's your mate then, plus I got her healed"
'Healed' she questioned from within at his claims. Wound like the ones he inflected on her takes months to heal and the stab, only a miracle can save her from it. But again she's still breathing and her body hasn't complained of a sting of pain since she got conscious. Her hands quickly lifted her top reveal to their stomach that lay smooth and heal of no wound or mark, it was completely perfect as before.
" But how?. I was gut in by you, what the freak is going on here" Panic starts dissolving in her, she takes a second look at her thigh that was drilled in and it too is clear of any scar. It was like none of that torture ever occurred but she knew too well to deny such pains she went through.
" Count yourself lucky, you're one of the few people that I've used my moon water on" he states in pride. As famous as his pack moon water is known ln for only a few have ever seen it or gotten the luck to use it. Even members of his pack haven't laid eyes on it, only those of important status have seen it.
" Don't speak as you did me a favor, you inflected the wounds on me, also what's a moon water?" As much as she would love to flee from there, she also would love to make sense of the words they speak. What miracle water is it that healed all Thale wounds without leaving a scar, that too with days? One thing is for sure the people in front of her are not ordinary and she wishes not to entangle herself with them. The sooner she finds a way out the sooner she'll be out there looking for Mia and they both will be on their way to freedom.
"Your majesty, the elders are here," a man said after a full entrance into the room. Without a second more Steffen walks out of the room along with John, towards the huge tall doors that slide wide by the no-less giants at its sides.
Within behold a hall of eight chairs, each carved on the floor in replication of the meteor rocks. Occupy at the sides are the two witches lady Mas and Mistress Lily, both in their prime as beauty hasn't failed them even after decades have passed, most thanks to their genes and portions.
" Lady Mas, beauty as always" John greets with a kiss on her hand, and smoothly he winks at her in delight. As always he's the charmer and player in the squad.
"Lucy, oh my Lucy not a day over twenty" he flirtatiously said on his way to his seat.
" oh please Johnny boy, that must be a sick joke. She knows she's everything but a beauty under twenty, a face like that can pass for a grandma" Lady Mas said aiming to spit her out. And why not? Both are known for their taunts at each other and petty arguments. It would been a surprise to have them not exchange negative words in negative on each other.
"I could say the same to you. Have your witchr aside you would look like a street dog with no fur on its skin. My beauty is natural, I can't say the same for you "She bit back with her head held high. Unfavorably beauty is less kind to her, as wrinkles have become her new friends. Even for a lycan werewolf it a most age chases her as immortal isn't hers to will. Yet no deny, the red dress with a slit at the side enlightens her glow skin and undoubtedly charms, for a woman in her hundreds of years she looks a day not over forty, you can also say she kept a good record over her looks.
"You old hag, how dare you?" Lady Mas rants out with their hand fisted in the air, muttering her lips moving in chants that are soon to silence on the entrance of Steffen.
" Silence from you two," he said before taking a seat on his throne, as all pay attentive heed to him.
A meeting has been called to discuss the strange occurrence. The news was easily spread through the ears of the supernaturals and before it could go beyond control, he called for ideas to be given and solutions to the arising issue.
" You all must know by now, a girl bears my mark" The word comes out flat, hesitant to the topic of discussion.
"The news is known to all, the more intriguing question is how she bears it?" Paul asks, staring at his wife who sits in a wheelchair. The night of their battle with the prophecy child left her incapable of using her legs, years of search for a cure were in vain as none could heal her disability, not even the greatest witches and healers in the world.
Even so, Paul no doubt showed immense love and care for her.
" Have you interrogated her ?" Another asks, in a suit of black establishes an aroma of a human. Known from the bloodline of the great king Sulieman. With the years the first King Suleiman died and behind him was his lineage that took over, decades and decades his bloodline continues as now King Sulieman the Eighth sits in the midst of supernaturals. Sulieman the Eighth is a man of great influence, a man whose hands extend to all regions of the country. Wealthy and powerful with cash to lay around to do his bidding.
His appearance gives no less of a man in his late thirties yet bestows youthfulness and charm like no other.
"Never has this ever occurred, in all histories recorded not one tells of this you claim," Lady Mas said to the council directing a suspicious gaze at King Steffen.
" Was there any chance that you marked her without knowing? " she asked and the second she did her chest felt a hit of electricity within, compelling her body to bend in the cough of the choke in her throat.
"Or she's wrong," John said saving her from his dark gaze. Who best knows the pain of his dark gaze than him? Once it is on you, you lose the ability to think, your breath becomes insufficient for your body. A weight of thousands falls on you and your body weakens.
"I was wrong," Lady Mas said catching her breath. Calm she holds her head in thought of her ill luck yet again lucky enough to not have gotten her head ripped out. All knows better not to anger the king, somehow her big mouth has to spread out and cause her trouble.
"This girl, is she human or of your kind" Lily asks in a calm tone.
"Of course, she is a human, and a very strong-headed one " John responded in thoughts of Ella and his strange draw to her. In a quick wave of his head, he clears every bit of such thoughts, she bears the king's mark which makes her his mate.
He isn't foolish enough to make an enemy of him.
" That's impossible, we all know the first created wolves can't mate with humans, they don't mate so easily not even to their kind and to measure a human girl" Rose speaks in total disbelief to the claims.
"Hey, I just said what I know and witnessed. What to it she could touch the moonstone without frozen to death " John adds earning widened eyes from Lady MAs and others.
"That's new, even for us with powers it is impossible to touch the stone without getting hurt and she is just an ordinary human and could touch the stone and live on with no harm," Lady Mas said with a bit of hurt to this human girl's ability. For years she has tried to get her hands on the moonstone but was unable to do so and now a girl makes it so easy like it's nothing.
"If all said is true then am afraid there is more to her than we know, I suggest before things go out of control we have her killed" Paul suggests, grasping a gasp and eyes of disbelief from others at him.
As much as it is in their nature to get rid of threats she's an innocent girl who has done no wrong to them or anyone. Killing her would be wrong on their side.
"We can't just kill her with no harm done to us or the world. She's just a girl " Lily protests with aims to be heard and hopes to save her life.
"Yes she is just a girl, but again she does things that no ordinary human does not even us. No one but the blue star pack can touch the moonstone but she did. How do you explain the mark of the king on her?" Paul queries in fear of things not being as simple as it presents. More than anyone he knows the feeling of danger and he's good at getting rid of it.
"So you would have us kill her because you have no answers to the questions in your head? Tell us then how would you get those answers if she's killed?" lady Mas asks Paul. Certain she's in dislike to her ability to withstand the power of the ice stone but she isn't dumb like them to vote her death when she hasn't gotten any answers to the questions she has. The girl is a mystery she's willing to invest in.
" And what happens when this girl turns out to be a much bigger threat? What if she becomes a danger to not only us but the world as well?"
"That won't happen if we're careful enough. She should only be killed after we get what we want" Lady Mas argues back.
"Enough!" Their lips go silent to the stone voice that hits their ears. Pale they shadow their eyes to the floor, daring not to gaze in his eyes.
"She won't be killed. I'll keep her and study her, I want to know how she got my mark" he states to no protest or further debates.
"Since it has been settling, I'll take the first leave," Sulieman said up on his feet, out he marched in a minute to the door. Outside he grabs his phone and dial a contact with no save in his phone.
"She is alive and have been cought " he said through the phone as he gets in his convoy of cars .