My Secret Life (New Edition) Maleah novel Chapter 454

Zalia

“Your Mother was everything I could ask for in a Mate, and the more years passed the more I found out about your Mother, she kept secrets from me but with good reason.

Your Grandfather and Alpha Mike’s Father wanted her to take Rocco as her Mate for one reason only they wanted to get their hands on the next female in your Mother’s bloodline. With your Grandfather getting stripped of his title, the knowledge about their bloodline got lost. Every female in your bloodline has a gift and that gift can be different from generation to generation.

Your Mother had the gift of hearing, the sole reason she was able to hear your Grandfather plotting to drug her that night and that is why she ran to the Palace. You see, your Mother never told anyone she had gotten her Lycan at sixteen and with it the gift the Goddess gave her.” Dad says and the five of us just stare at him.

“That explains why no one ever knows that you are anywhere near them, why Donovan would sometimes be startled when you showed up. You can hide your scent.” Hestia says, but I shake my head as I think about the things I have been able to do and I truly believe I have another gift.

“Dad, what do you know about the gifts in my bloodline?” I ask him.

He tells us that Mom explained there are several gifts that the Goddess can bestow, “Besides the two gifts already mentioned, there is the gift of sense and the gift of speed. The gift of hearing and speed is a gift that multiplies your natural hearing and speed; the gift of hiding your scent is just what it says and the gift of sense allows you to sense if and how many Wolves or Lycans are around.” Dad answers.

“Did Mom ever mention that someone in our bloodline had more than one gift?” I ask him and when he nods his head, I can see by the look in his eyes that the story isn’t a good one.

“Your Grandmother had two gifts. She could hide her scent and her speed was ten times faster than that of anyone else in the Pack. Your Grandfather had no use for those gifts and hoped to gain a powerful Daughter.

We all know how that turned out and your Grandfather died when you were about three years old. Your Grandmother was stuck in a loveless Mate–bond, but her story isn’t as bad as some of the other stories your Mother told me. Most females with a gift ended up in the hands of abusive and power–hungry males, some through a forced marking because their fated Mates eventually turned against them.” Dad says.

None of us has to guess what happened to those females. We have heard quite a few stories in school on that subject and I know I have nothing to fear from Deimos and Goliath.

“I have two gifts, the one Hestia already pointed out and the gift of sense. It has come in pretty handy in the Palace and crossing borders.” I say.

Deimos

My Dad yelling in my ear is what wakes me up from the best sleep I have ever had, but the moment I get aware of my surroundings, Goliath and I both say “Mate” at the same time and I am laughing my ass off at the dumbfounded look on Dad’s face.

“Did you say something to make her disappear?” Dad asks and I jump out of bed immediately, sniffing the air to find her.

Her scent is in my room but fades as I get closer to the door. I turn around to walk to the balcony and it becomes stronger again. I step onto the balcony in my birthday suit as I keep sniffing the air and I almost

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follow the path she took.

You might want to get dressed before you go anywhere.” Dad suggests and that is when I realize that am but naked.

My eyes land on the chair by my desk and Goliath is laughing and rolling in my head, “She took my shire f say as I keep looking at the chair.

Dad follows my line of sight and this time he starts laughing too. I walk into my closet to put some sweatpants on and I pull a shirt over my head as I walk back to the balcony.

“See you down the stairs.” Dad says as I jump onto the next balcony and I follow her scent into an empty room down the hall. Her scent is stronger here which tells me she spent some time inside this room. “Did she hide here because she heard something? Or because she needed to calm herself down?” I ask Goliath.

We follow her scent into a corridor that gets used by Omegas, but this isn’t public knowledge. “You showed Zalia one of the corridors on the last day of the meeting.” Goliath points out and I know the smile I have on my face will be stuck there the rest of my life. My Mate is an extraordinary female with a great sense of humor. I keep following her scent and it guides me past two challenge spots, both of them are empty. It leads me out of the Palace and towards a tree, there the scent disappears and it has me completely confused. How did she manage to disappear into thin air?

Dad is waiting for me when I walk back into the Palace and he tells me that Alwin wants to have breakfast in our private dining room.

“You told them I found my Mate, didn’t you?” I ask Dad through the mind–link as we walk up the stairs. He tells me he did but he didn’t tell them anything else.

“Two more rewards are gone.” I state as I walk into the dining room and Axelle asks me which Packs claimed their rewards.

“I doubt any of the Packs claimed their reward. I believe only one person is responsible for claiming the rewards.” I say as I sit down in my seat and even though I know everyone expects me to tell them who it is, I keep my mouth shut.

During breakfast I keep my eyes on my plate and I can feel their eyes burning into me. They really want me to spill my guts. Asha is the first to crack, “Fuck, Deimos. Just tell us about your Mate.” She exclaims and I slowly lift my head to look at her. I smile before I shake my head.

Suddenly Alwin starts laughing as he looks at me, “She took your shirt, didn’t she?” He asks and I nod my head with a huge smile on my face.

“No way.” Alwin says as he looks at me and I know he has figured it out already, but the others are a bit slower.

“How did she get into your room?” Eryx asks and I just shrug my shoulders, I am not going to tell him.

Eryx will be the next one on her list and I am not going to give him any clue as to how she got in and out of my room. I know Dad won’t say anything either, he wants to see if she can pull it off and I hope I can figure out her pattern. Maybe wait for her the next time she comes here to claim the rewards, even though I would like to keep her here with me.

Goliath points out that she is still in the competition and if she took all the rewards it means that Moon Stone Pack took out all the other Packs. I am still trying to wrap my head around the fact that they managed to take out the other Packs. They even managed to find the extra challenge and I really wonder which one of

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them figured out the hints.

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I doubt if Donovan or Gibson would be smart enough to understand the cryptic hints. If I had to bet on it, my money would be on Zalia. But what I don’t understand is how I was unable to smell any scent on the locations of the rewards, every time I checked the locations of the rewards, the locations that were empty

held no scent.

Maybe I need to discuss this with my Father and see if he has an explanation for the lack of scent on those locations, after all every Wolf or Lycan leaves behind a scent, even a small trace. The only thing that could explain it to me is something I have never heard of, and that is if a Wolf or a Lycan would be able to hide their scent.

If there were Wolves or Lycans in our world that could hide their scent, my Dad would have told me, he knows that this is information I would need to know as the future Royal Gamma. I also believe that if King Alwin knew about Wolves and Lycans being able to hide their scent, he would have told us about it, because that would mean our jobs could get a little more difficult.

The only thing I remember from school about Wolves or Lycans with gifts is that their lives were almost always cut short, either by themselves or by their Mates and if I remember correctly, there were no bloodlines left with gifted Wolves or Lycans.

I know of at least one bloodline that ceased to exist when King Alwin stripped the Alpha of his title. If I remember correctly, King Alwin didn’t mention any offspring from that Alpha and that would mean that there are no more Wolves or Lycans from that bloodline that could have the gift of hiding their scent. Apparently I was too far gone in thoughts to realize that everyone had left the dining room. The only one still in the room is my Father and the look on his face tells me that he knows where my thoughts ran to.

“Dad, could it be possible that Zalia comes from a bloodline that is able to hide their scent?” I ask him and Dad looks at me as if I have lost my mind

“Son, the last known female that was able to hide her scent died centuries ago. No one in her bloodline ever had the ability to hide their scent again and as far as I know, that bloodline ceased to exist when King Alwin stripped the Alpha of his title.” Dad says and I think he’s talking about the same bloodline that was running through my mind.

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