Chapter 104

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"Are you sure you are ready for this?" King asks as I shove my clothes inside my suitcase. Stopping, I stare at him for a minute. "No, but it's the only way to get what I want." I've gone over my decision over and over again. I'm not one to reconsider something I've already decided. I make a decision and stick to it. When it comes to Alec, though, I have to think things through. I have to look at all the angles. I have to exhaust all the possibilities. I'm doing this for his pack; in exchange for my freedom was the best possible outcome. I could involve the council like I'd threatened, but deep inside I know that they are a bunch of sexist assholes. They would probably have sided with Alec. Threatening him with the council was just calling his bluff. The council's attitude is also one of the reasons why I've never counted them as the alpha of the hope pack. I didn't want to deal with them constantly challenging or looking down on me because I am a woman. The council has been there for years. It was established after the first bloody war between the three supernatural species. The deities of the individual species didn't like that their children were fighting and killing each other. Through an oracle, they commanded them to stop their war and find a way to coexist, or else the deities would send their wrath upon them. At first, they didn't listen. The wolves wanted more territories, the vampires wanted more blood, and the witches and warlocks wanted more power. It was chaos, with the wolves attacking vampires and witches for their lands. Vampires attack witches and humans for blood, and witches and warlocks use vampires and werewolves as blood sacrifices to strengthen their magic. The gods and goddesses had enough and wreaked havoc on them. Diseases, death, hurricanes, storms, floods, drought, and you and them. They were suffering, they were dying, and so they had to concede to what the deities wanted. With the help of the oracle, who was given instructions by the deities, they formed the first council. It was a great story. A great part of our history. The only thing I never fucking liked was that the council consisted of only men, even though two of their deities are females. It's been that way for thousands of years. Only men sit on the council, and let me tell you, from what I've heard, those men are sexists as hell. "Sadie?" his voice pulls me back to reality. "What is it?" I ask". Shaking my head to clear it, I continue packing. I'm already done with Aspen's clothes, and they were currently sitting in a little pink suitcase that she chose herself. She was so excited when I told her that we would be traveling. We rarely left the pack, and if we did, it was at night. I was always afraid that someone would recognize her. Apart from her hair color, she was the spitting image of her father. It wouldn't be hard for someone to connect the dots. "I'm not sure about this, Sadie." King sits down on my bed, his intense gaze burning through me. "I feel like you going to that pack will bring about something. I just don't know what." "Stop worrying," I tell him before sitting down next to him. "It will be over very quickly. I'm just going to help them, get what I want, and then be back before you know it. Besides, Raven will be there." We had agreed that King would be the one staying behind while Raven travels with me. With how powerful I'd gotten, I didn't need her to accompany me, but I thought it would be nice to have someone I trusted with us. It would make going back to Alec's pack a bit easier. "Fine, but just know that I'll be there in a heartbeat if you need me." "I know," I say before zipping up my suitcase. "Now I'm done." I'd just finished the sentence when Raven walked in. "Are you done? Because I am, and I'm looking forward to going back and seeing my mom's grave. It's been years." When Raven had helped that day in Alec's office, she had been labeled as a wanted person, too. Just like me, she left everything from her old life, including her mother's grave, when we fled. Over the years, I asked her to go back and visit her mother's grave when she talked about missing her, but she never did. She insisted that our safety was paramount, and she didn't want to risk ever getting caught. It's one of the reasons why I decided she would be the one to accompany me instead of King. "Yes, I am done," I answer, standing up. "Let's just get someone to bring our luggage down." Minutes later, a guard comes in to take our luggage. We leave the room and follow behind him. I'd told one of the omegas to tell Martha to meet us at the front. Given that Martha has been her nanny since she was around eight months old, she is coming with us. I trusted no one in Alec's pack to look after my sweet baby Aspen's body colliding with mine the moment she saw me. She was a bubble of excitement and joy. "I get to fly, mommy," she gushes with happiness. "I've always wanted to fly in a plane."

Chapter 104

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