Chapter 218: The Sacrificial Lamb


    My brain felt so foggy. No matter how hard I tried, it almost felt as though my eyes were constantly out


    of focus, like I was walking through a thick mist that was obstructing everything in front of me. That


    strange girl that looked almost exactly like Selena came running out of the woods, and she tackled


    Selena, sending her to the ground. They grappled there for a few moments in a shrieking, wing heap


    while I stood inplete and utter shock, before I finally came to my senses and pulled her off of


    Selena.


    The girl kept saying strange things. She kept talking as though we knew each other, but I didn’t know


    her. I didn’t even know where I was. It felt like there was something at the very back of my mind that


    thought that maybe she was familiar, and that maybe I did know her somehow, but that didn’t make any


    sense.


    And so, when Selena opened a portal and took my hand, I went along with her.


    When we stepped out on the other side, we weren’t far from the Alpha King’s mansion. Selena seemed


    angry, and for good reason; that girl had muddied Selena’s clothes and wrecked her perfect hair during


    their fight, and I knew that Selena didn’t like getting dirty. But there was something else that I noticed,


    too, as she took me by the hand and pulled me toward the mansion. She kept muttering to herself


    about the other girl.


    “That bitch… Thinks she can pull a fast one on me… I’m his mate, not her.”


    I frowned as I listened to Selena. I thought back to what Selena had told the other girl. She had said


    “See? He doesn’t even remember you!”


    It was as if Selena knew the girl, but I didn’t know her for some reason. How could this be? I was so


    confused.


    But I didn’t say anything. Selena was extremely angry, and when I opened my mouth to speak, her


    nails only dug even harder into my wrist as she pulled me along. I decided then and there that I needed


    to give her some time to cool off before I tried to say anything about what happened.


    Within a few minutes of storming through the woods, we arrived at the front of the mansion. The guards


    let us in; it seemed that they, too, realized Selena’s anger and decided not to question anything. I didn’t


    even know why or when we had left the mansion, so I was just as baffled as they were.


    Once we were inside, Selena led me upstairs and down the winding hallways to my room. She then


    opened the door and pushed me inside.


    “Stay here,” she growled, her eyes burning with fury. “I’ll be backter.”


    I furrowed my brow. Now, this was getting too confusing. I wouldn’t just sit there and wait for her to


    come back; I needed to know what was going on.


    “Where are you going?” I asked, putting my foot in the way before she was able to close the door.


    Selena paused, her jaw moving back and forth as she grinded her teeth together angrily. “I just need to


    take care of something,” she said. “I’ll be back soon. I promise.” Then, with one final shove, she pushed


    me into the room and mmed the door shut. I heard the sound of the lock sliding through the bolt, and


    then her receding footsteps.


    I cursed under my breath, my brain still coated in a thick fog. What was going on? It felt as though there


    was a voice in the back of my head telling me to snap out of it, but I didn’t understand why. And when I


    searched for my wolf to see if he had any guidance to offer, he was fast asleep. It almost felt as though


    there was some sort of spell on my wolf that was keeping him in aa. He was there, but he wasn’t


    conscious. This made me nervous; what if something happened and I needed to shift? I couldn’t do


    that if my wolf was fast asleep and couldn’t be woken up.


    Suddenly, as the sky darkened outside, I saw a sh of something through the window that caught my


    eye and broke me out of my train of thought. I bolted over to the window to look out, and I caught a


    glimpse of what looked like Selena running across the road in a cloak. She was fast, like a bolt of


    lightning, and she looked over her shoulder as though she was making sure that the guards wouldn’t


    see her. Then, she disappeared into the forest in the blink of an eye.


    Something was going on here — I was sure of it. I didn’t know what exactly was happening, but I knew


    that something was wrong. And I couldn’t help but think that Selena and that strange girl who could


    have been her twin had something to do with it.


    I decided that I couldn’t stay here. I had to follow Selena; but she had locked the door.


    Once again, I cursed under my breath as I paced the room, trying to think of a way to escape. My eyes


    fell on the window once again, and I tried to lift the window frame. It slid up easily; in Selena’s haste,


    she hadn’t blocked me from getting out this way. I quickly climbed out the window and used a


    combination of the vines that were climbing along the side of the mansion, an old and rickety trellis, and


    the corner of the building to make my way down.


    As soon as my feet hit the ground, I took off as fast as I could toward the direction that Selena left in.


    The guards didn’t see me in the darkness. I could still faintly pick up Selena’s scent, and so I followed


    it.


    I followed her trail carefully through the rapidly darkening woods. She had been in such a rush that she


    didn’t retract her scent, so it was easy to follow it. She had left an obvious trail of crushed leaves and


    broken bushes as well, so I quickly found where she had disappeared to.


    When I saw the little witch’s hut in the distance, with its yellow light spilling out from the closed window


    into the dark forest, I had to rack my brain to remember why this ce felt familiar. It was foggy and


    distant, but as I approached, I remembered that I had been here before. I had found Selena in here


    once, talking to the witch about some curse… But I couldn’t remember much of anything after that. Did


    the witch put a spell on me? That was the only logical exnation for this strange mind fog that I was


    in.


    I quietly approached the witch’s hut until I was close enough to hear voices.


    “Hold it still!”


    “I’m trying! It’s wriggling around too much. Just get it over with.”


    I could hear the sound of terrified bleating. It sounded like a sheep in distress. Amb, actually. It


    sounded too small and weak for an adult sheep.


    Then, I heard a strange sound, followed by silence.


    I couldn’t exin why I did what I did next. That tiny voice that had been echoing in the back of my


    mind took hold for a moment, and I knew that there was something going on in that hut that needed to


    be stopped.


    And so, I gritted my teeth and kicked down the door.


    Just as I suspected… Selena was sitting on the floor in the middle of a circle drawn with chalk. In her


    lapy the bloodied body of amb, its throat slit. In front of her kneeled an older woman, a witch, who


    was smearing blood on Selena’s face.


    They both froze. Selena whipped around to look at me, her eyes wide and her face covered with blood


    that was painted on her skin in strange symbols.


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