Academy Of Mates novel Chapter 111

Chapter 111

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When I try to think about my childhood, I come up blank. The memories I have are all about the farm land but nothing before that. It was strange now that I realize it. Because I do not know why it’s blank and I never really questioned it, but now with my ‘mother’ saying that she was never my mother in the first place and that I was some prisoner, I cannot really fathom it.

Because I have no memory of a time before the woods.

There was nothing but darkness.

But maybe that’s all there was.

Darkness.

Maybe she did have me locked somewhere with no memory of anything but just the dark and nothing else.

“Don’t lie.” Sebastian laughed cruelly at my mother- at this woman, tightening his grip on her neck. “Don’t try to spin us with a story about my mate.”

The woman, though pale and gasping for breath, merely smiled as if she knew something that we all don’t know and this fills me with even more dread.

It was Benedict that spoke up. “She never lies. She doesn’t have a reason to.”

When Benedict turned, he was looking at me in awe, like I was some special thing he cannot believe, but I still couldn’t wrap my head around this. Surely, this isn’t true. Surely, this is all just another one of their School of Love.

But the look on Benedict’s face said otherwise.

That all she was saying was true and I am a daughter of some old city pack Alpha… it didn’t make any sense. Wasn’t I just some poor girl left in the woods? How can I be anyone but that? When that’s all I’ve ever been? That’s all I’ve ever known?

“You’re the rightful Alpha of the city pack.” He whispers to me. “All of this is yours. You’re the true Alpha.”

I felt like I might throw up or pass out. Maybe both.

But as I saw Sebastian’s squeezing harder on her neck, I find myself approaching him, touching his arm gently. “They have Kelcey. Please.”

Sebastian didn’t immediately stop, not when the woman who had all caused us pain was already here, in front of us, within his fingertips, but I know how well they keep their threats and I wasn’t about to risk Kelcey.

“Please, Sebastian.” I begged, staring up at him. “They have my friend. Are we going to let them take another life from us?”

He lets go but he doesn’t do it kindly, throwing her down the ground roughly.

The woman smiles tauntingly. “This is why it’s so easy to win against all of you. With your weaknesses exposed, you’re nothing. You all allow yourself to be nothing.”

We all watched her go, walking away with her army as she cackled. The sound was like a punch to my chest and when she disappeared into the shadows, I found myself losing control of iny knees and I fell to the ground.

“Vareesa,” Sebastian had his arms on me before I could blink. “Varcesa, come to the tent-”

“Who am I?” I whispered with a shaky breath. “I don’t… I don’t know what’s happening. I don’t know who I am. I’m so lost.”

He takes me by the chin. “You’re my Vareesa. That will never change.”

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I try to shrug him off- absolutely disgusted with myself, but I’m too weak and he’s too strong, keeping me in his arms like I was the most precious thing. “But I’m from the city pack. Did you hear? Your mate is one of them.”

The amber of his eyes never wavers. “That doesn’t make you like them.”

“I don’t know what to think.” My vision blurs with tears but I blink them away. “I just want them gone. All of them.”

Sebastian pulls me up and wraps me in a tight embrace. “And they will be. Every single one of them. I’ll make sure of it.”

But I was them.

Wasn’t I?

A city pack.

All this time.

“Vareesa,”

It was Benedict, inching closer to us. He glanced at Sebastian apprehensively and when Sebastian nodded, he approached.

“I do not know much about the old Alpha, but I know he was a good man and his mate was even better.” He explains to me. “Do not ever think that my family is the definition of the city pack. The city pack used to be respectable, fair and true. A bustling place of life where everyone was welcome. They stole that from your father, taking everything he worked hard on and creating this monstrosity of a pack.”

“I appreciate you trying to make me feel better, Benedict.” I started, but Benedict didn’t let me finish.

He shakes his head. “No. I’m not trying to make you feel better. I’m telling you the truth. The old Alpha was fit to be a King. His fur was gold and his deeds were of a kind heart.”

But I only had one father in my heart and he raised me all on his own, even if I wasn’t really his. He took me from the woods and tried his best to make life easier for me, even when it made his life harder.

And as I looked around and saw him to the side, a small man amongst strong warriors, I couldn’t help but detach myself from Sebastian and Benedict to run to him. He immediately opens his arms for me, catching me in them and pulling me close.

This time, when tears prickled my eyes, I let them fall.

He wasn’t the strongest man in the world but he did make me feel safe… loved.

My father didn’t speak for awhile, keeping me in his arms as I let out my frustration, my confusion and how I felt like the world had tipped over.

I don’t know how long I cried, how long I shook, but when I finally stopped, he brushed my hair back and wiped away my

tears.

“Don’t think about what that monster said. It doesn’t matter.” He tells me softly, lovingly, proudly. “You know who you are. You’re the Luna of the nameless pack, the mate to the greatest Alpha there ever was and my daughter. Isn’t that enough? Isn’t that all you need to know?”

My father always knew the right words to say because the tears stopped as he said this, my resolve strengthened.

He nods encouragingly upon seeing this. “Don’t let whatever she said put you down. Everything else can be handled after, when your friend is safe and when these monsters are permanently put to sleep.”

After he wiped the last of my tears, I turned and faced Sebastian and Benedict, who were both waiting for me where I had left them. “What’s the plan? How are we going to end this?”

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When I was younger and I dared to think about my future, what it would be like for me, I did not once think it would be this; circled around a map of the city pack, surrounded by the most powerful people in the werewolf world with my mate right in the middle of it. I thought I would live the rest of my days as an unmated girl on the farm lands, working until the day I die, working for the pack because I was another unsuccessful, unmated girl that burdened the Alpha. Never this. Never watching the strong Beta Benedict as he scribbled notes on the map, remembering his time in the city pack and pointing out routes and other things. Never thinking that one day I would be watching the strongest Alpha in the world, my mate, Sebastian and his Delta moving around pieces on the map, discussing plans of attack.

I watched it all with wide eyes because this can’t possibly be my

life.

But it was also incredible.

Who else could say they were here when the destruction of the city pack was being discussed?

“They’ve closed all sewer lines.” Benedict informs the group. “Bad sanitation and hygiene but perfect to keep everything secure. I can’t think of any other way through the borders without being detected.”

“There is one other way.”

The voice that spoke was unfamiliar to the group, but as he limped forward, I couldn’t help but smile. “Andrew! You’re okay!”

Andrew winced, giving me his best smile, but it didn’t quite reach his face, the pain he felt clear and loud. “There’s a spot on the borders that is unreachable to everyone, mind link wise, because it sits above a silver mine. If we are to pass by there, the Alpha won’t know about it until we’re upon him.”

“How can we trust this man?” One of Sebastian’s men grumbles under his breath. “He could be leading us into a trap. If there is a silver mine under that border, then we will be weakened. A perfect chance to have us ambushed and killed.”

“You have no reason to trust me.” Andrew nodded understandingly. “But I also know the city pack better than Benedict and my information is more up to date. I’ve been… tortured and raped in that pack until Vareesa saved me. I watched as they killed my parents and watched more as my parents were hanged to rot in a room that they kept me in. You have every right to doubt me, but I am here having every right to make them suffer like they have made me suffer. If you let me, I have valuable information on all of them, so please let me, because I want them gone just as much as everyone here does.”

Everyone turns to Sebastian, who has kept his eyes on the map the entire time, I know Sebastian hates Andrew and the last thing he wanted was to entertain such an unstable man, but he nods. “Tell me more about the silver mines.”

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