His Destined Mate

I Can’t Remember

When Zander woke up, he felt his limbs ache. When he opened his eyes, he saw his sister looking down at him. He groaned and slowly sits up.

“Why are you here?” He mumbled as he rubs the sleep off his eyes.

“Zander...”

Zander looks up at his older sister.

“Huh?”

“Why are you here?” She asked and Zander furrowed his eyebrows.

“What do you mean why am I here? Why are you here in my room?” He asked.

“You’re not in your room.”

She told him and Zander snorted.

“What do you mean I am not –“

Zander cut himself off when he heard the horse neigh. His eyes widened when he looks around and he is indeed not in his room. And when he looked down at his hands, he was startled to see blood. There is also blood on his legs feet, he was covered in blood.

Then he looked at his sister, with a horrified look in his eyes.

“What happened?” He asked.

“You need to rinse that blood off of you before anyone else sees you. Shift and run to the falls. I’ll meet you there.” She told him.

“But you can’t –“

“I don’t care just do what I say!” Zari growled and Zander flinched.

Then he nodded and shifted into his Lycan and dashed out of the stable. Once he’s gone, Zari let out a sigh and looked around for anyone. When there is none, she opened a portal toward the falls.

She stepped into the portal and stepped out right in front of the falls in the forest. When the portal closes, Zander came running and he shifted midway, running towards his sister.

“Jump.” She told him and Zander did jump into the water.

Zander spent minutes in the water scrubbing off the blood on his body. While he does it, Zari sat on a tree stump and thinks of what could have happened to her brother.

Once Zander was done, he climbed out of the water and approaches his sister.

“Can you tell me now what happened?” Zander asked, and the Zari looked at him.

“What made you think I know what happened to you?” She asked back.

“You know where to find me, you must’ve known something.” He said.

“I was looking for you and my nose took me to that stable. I didn’t expect to see you there covered in blood. Whose blood was it anyway?”

Zander huffed and sat beside his sister.

“I don’t know what happened. I don’t remember anything last night just that I can’t sleep so I decided to run. After that, I can’t remember anything.” He said.

Then Zari grabbed his hand.

“Is the reason you cannot sleep was because of what I told you?” She asked.

“Partially. I am also worried about grandma and everyone in this kingdom because of this impending war.” He answered.

“What will happen if grandma succumbs to that curse? What will happen to us?”

“Don’t worry about it too much. We will find a way to save grandma. In the meantime, I want you to remember what happened during your run.” Zari told him and then Zander looked at his sister.

“Why?”

Zari looked back at Zander and let out a sigh.

“I’d be honest with you Zander. You blacking out and being covered with someone else’s blood is not a good sign. What if you did something that might have hurt others. What if at some point last night you lost control and left a trail of dead bodies?” Zari told her brother.

Zander then pulled away from her and stood up.

“Are you insinuating I killed people last night? I am not like Ivan who losses control when he’s out of his serum!” Zander snapped.

Zari just stared at him. She sees the wisps of dark energy-sipping out of Zander’s skin. Zari stood up and she places her hand on his chest.

“You’re burning up.” She said and then Zander felt like he was burned by Zari’s touch that he flinched away from her.

The two of them looked at each other.

“Is Achilles okay?” She asked.

“Y-Yeah. Why do you ask?” He asked back.

“Then it’s not Achilles I am feeling,” Zari mumbled and Zander furrowed his eyebrows.

“What do you mean by that?”

Zari didn’t answer him as they both received a mindlink from Shanaia. She was looking for them, and she just ended up telling them that Alpha Liam and their parents, left to go to Russia and Hobart to talk to their twin uncles and Aunt Calie. Shanaia also mentioned that there is going to be a meeting when they get back.

They looked at each other and then Zari opened a portal that led to their apartment. They both stepped into the portal and when they are in their apartment, Zari closed the portal.

“You take a shower and I’ll meet you in the secret room,” Zari told him, and then she left the apartment.

Zander huffed and did what he was told. He went inside his room and went straight to the shower. Meanwhile, Zari went to see Lady Amara in her office. The witch adviser was busy reading different books and scrolls on her table.

“My lady, can we have this talk after the meeting?” Lady Amara asked Zari.

“I just need a second Lady Amara,” Zari said, and Lady Amara heaved a deep sigh.

“Okay. What is this about?”

“I want to ask you about the seal. I remember you performing a sealing ceremony on Zander when he was a baby.” Zari said and Lady Amara was taken back.

The sealing ceremony is something that not many know and it was decades ago, she wonders how the princess still remembers it.

“What about it princess?”

“I want to know if there is a way for the demon inside Zander to break free of that seal.” Zari said and Lady Amara was indeed surprised by the princess’ question.

“Princess...”

“I am really curious since I was sealed that time as well.”

Lady Amara stared at Zari before she answers.

“The seal was not permanent. It was there to hold off what’s inside him until he was ready to have that part of him.” Lady Amara told her.

“Will, that seal break now or is there any other way for it to break?”

“Sometimes, there are situations that can trigger the breakage of the seal.” Lady Amara answered.

“A situation...” Zari trailed looking away and then she looked at Lady Amara.

“What kind of situation?”

Lady Amara then heaved a deep breath.

“Danger is one. If Zander is in great danger and he cannot protect himself, then what is inside him will protect him. Also...” Lady Amara paused and looked at Zari.

“If something happens to you.”

************************************.

While showering Zander tried to remember what happened to him. But all he remembers was going in for a run because he cannot sleep.

‘Achilles, what else happened last night? Why am I covered in blood when I woke up?’ He asked his lycan.

‘I-I don’t remember.’ Achilles answered.

‘You too? What the hell is happening?’

After the shower, he changed into some faded ripped jeans and a white shirt, with his white sneakers. He went out of their apartment and he was on his way towards the secret passage in the kitchen when he noticed that there are more guards than usual.

Then he bumped into Crane.

“Hey. What’s with the increase of guards?” Zander asked.

“The whole castle is on lockdown. As of now, no one can enter and no one can get out. The guards were tripled, as well as the security system was upgraded.”Crane told him and then Zander noticed that Crane looked really haggard.

“What happened to you?”

Zander asked.

“The patrol this morning found twenty dead rogues just outside the protective line.” Crane said and Zander whipped his head towards him.

“Twenty dead rogues?”

“Yep. It seems like they are going to attack the small pack near the No Man’s land but they were intercepted.”

“Intercepted by whom?”

“That’s it. No one from the warriors up to the Elites saw them last night. They called me to check on the bodies to determine who killed them. I can tell it wasn’t done by a simple warrior or assassin.” Crane explained and it piqued Zander’s interest.

“What do you mean?”

“The cuts on the bodies are all lethal. It’s not just cuts but slashes. Some would think that the killer used a sword to kill them but in my point of view, it wasn’t a sword but a very sharp set of claws. Flaming claws to be exact.” Crane told him.

“How can you tell that it was flaming claws?” Zander asked.

“The wounds are burned,” Crane said and then they saw Shanaia and Seb.

“They are having tea in the family room,” Seb told them.

And then instead of going to the secret door in the kitchen, they went for the secret door under the stairs; the one that will lead them to the secret room in the family room.

When they got to the secret room, Zari was already there. Then they all positioned themselves towards the holes that were supposed to be the vent. They saw Lady Amara rush into the family room while their family was having tea.

“Did you find something?”

They heard Alpha Liam ask Lady Amara.

Lady Amara nodded and then she pulled out an old book. She flipped the pages and showed something to them. Lady Amara has her back to the vent so Zari and the others cannot see what she was showing their parents.

But when they heard Zab snarl, they get it that it isn’t good. They listened carefully and heard that their family is talking about a witch named Rowena Shien, Alpha King Lucian’s witch adviser/side chick. And that witch tried to kill their great-grandmother when she was pregnant with their grandmother.

Such news surprised them since it is the first time for them to hear such a story.

“This witch messed with a pregnant Vampire Queen, and she didn’t succeed. My mom comes along and then they locked the witch up in something. And then your mother was born and the rest is history.”

They heard Lady Amara tell their parents.

“If that witch was locked up, then how the hell did she able to curse our mother?” Zab snarled.

“Are you saying these black witches, brought that witch from the past?”Sahara asked Lady Amara.

“No, it’s more like they freed her from wherever she was locked up. And then they brought her here to bring chaos.”Roe said through the screen of the laptop.

Zari and the others suddenly felt anxious with the news.

“So what are we going to do to stop this b***h and save mom?”

They heard Zab ask, and then lady Amara was quiet.

“Someone has to travel back in time.”