My Secret, My Bully, My Mates (skylar) by Miss l Free novel Chapter 473

Weeks go by, nothing is right. Everyone is tense and the whole pack is reacting to the tension. We keep our distance as best we can, but my team and the guys cross paths regularly during training and running patrols.

Oliver has tried to talk to me a couple times, but I just head in the other direction. He knows things shouldn’t be like this. I’m pretty sure he’s the only one who saw through whatever enchantment was on the packhouse. I just can’t do it, he is the only one who sees the problem for what it is. The rest are just angry and aggressive, but we still don’t know what they believe.

The Elite warriors fully run pack training now. None of the ranked guys show up at all, not even Delta Kyle, and I haven’t seen Sierra since the night we left and I can’t get a hold of her, but that doesn’t stop me from messaging her and Mina every night. With no response from any of them.

I am surrounded by people and have a job to do and I still feel so isolated and alone. The depression is taking its toll. Jena and I have started staying together again. The nightmares are so bad that we sleep in the same bed most nights holding hands. We need our guys, but something magical is keeping them from us and we can’t risk being pulled in.

I was able to link Osiston and fill him in on what is happening. He said he will inform Alpha Reggie, but they aren’t going to send anyone and possibly cause suspicion. He agrees something magical is going on and will have Elena work on it.

I have been trying to use my magic and even that seems to be tied to how I feel and I can’t make the most basic things work. I am sitting out by the little fire pit in the backyard of the house we are staying in, just trying to move the ashes around.

“You don’t really want to and the magic knows it. It won’t work for you like this.”

I jump from my spot on the ground, fully ready to fight Oliver.

He has his hands up. “I just want to talk, I need to know your version of why you left. I know what I saw and what we are being told are two different things. “You aren’t a traitor, but you are more powerful than you let on. Talk to me Bitty.”

He walks next to me and sits facing the unlit pit.

I wave my hand flippantly, but it ignites, much to my surprise and Oliver’s.

“Hey! Some warning next time please.” He adjusts back to a sitting position now that the flames are at a normal height.

“I didn’t do that.” I whisper. “I mean, I didn’t mean to do that.” I move to sit on the opposite side of the fire from him. “I haven’t been able to make any magic work since that night.”