The Raven Wolf King: Wolfless novel Chapter 39

Chapter 39

~Valeria~

Grimm and I stand side by side, staring at the two boxes laid out on my bed.

“How is it that we have the same box?” he asks, disbelief flickering in his voice.

“You said your mother gave it to you, and it was from your father?” I press.

“Yeah. Was it the same with you?”

I shake my head. “No. I stole mine from my mother’s room. I’ve never been able to open it.”

“Me either,” he says. “There isn’t even a seam that indicates you can open it. It’s completely silver and sealed.”

“They look identical, too. Both have a raven.” I show the raven engraved on the metal.

“And a tree,” he says.

A tree?”

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I do the same to mine. “Aren’t those vines? Wait…”

“It looks like a tree to me,” he says.

I gasp. “It does! It is! I thought they were vines, but it’s a tree. And it looks oddly familiar. Grimm…”

“What?”

“The tree,” I whisper.

He still stares at me, confusion clouding his face.

“The tree in the forest with the ravens. It looks just like it,” I tell

him.

His eyes widen, realization striking him like a blow. A gasp escapes his lips as if the box has just revealed a secret.

As if our minds are linked, we take the boxes and head out of the

room.

“How could I have missed it!” he says.

“Well, I didn’t even see the tree. I thought they were vines.”

The halls are filled with people trying to get downstairs to dinner. We make our way through them, finally reaching the entrance doors, where we both stop and look at the dark forest41

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“Uhm… maybe not. But I won’t be able to sleep if we don’t.”

“Yeah. Me either.”

We take a step and then another until we’re walking with a stride. We enter the forest. An eerie quiet settles. The wind feels crisper than usual.

“I feel like I’m being watched,” Grimm says.

“We are.” I point to the trees where ravens quietly stare.

“Oh.”

We make our way through the forest. I glance up at the moon- it’s the only light guiding our steps, silver and steady, painting the path in shadows.

“We’re here,” Grimm announces.

We stand in front of the pond that surrounds the tree.

“It does look the same.” He takes his box out and compares it. “Identical.”

“Yeah, but what does this mean?”

“I don’t know.” He looks at the tree, fixated.

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“I’m getting closer,” Grimm says and begins to enter the pond.

“What?!”

He carries the box with the rag in his hand, walking straight toward the tree. Suddenly, it starts to smoke. Grimm yelps, “Shit!” He jerks back, and the box slips from his grip, falling into

the water.

“No!” he shouts.

Crap!

At that moment, a scream echoes from the distance.

“What was that?!” I whip my head toward Grimm-he’s just as startled. But then my eyes snap back to the water where the silver box fell. “Get it! Get it!”

“Damn it!” He bends and begins to feel for it. I lose hope knowing it’s so dark, but he suddenly pulls something out.

“Aha!” he cheers.

“That’s a rock!” I shout at him.

“Crap!” He bends over again, but I’m distracted once more by the screams. Sounds like a woman.

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He scrambles out of the water, and together we sprint toward the screams. Deep in the forest, a woman thrashes in hysteria, her cries piercing the night as ravens whirl and dive around her in a chaotic storm.

“Stay down!” Grimm puts his body over hers.

“They need help!” she screams, pointing to something in the dark, moving.

As my eyes adjust, I notice that ravens have swarmed over something.

Is that… a person?!

I hurl myself toward the ravens, swatting and shoving to drive them off. There are too many-they cling stubbornly, forcing met to pry them away and fling them into the dark.

“Let go!” I shout at the birds, their beaks and claws hooked into the figure on the ground.

“LET GO!” My command rips through the air, and suddenly they scatter, wings beating as they vanish into the night. For a moment, I feel as if it was my voice that made them obey.

Two people lie face down in the dirt. Horror grips me-it’s just like that image of Emmet. One spine is exposed, raw to the bone. That body shields the other, and to my shock, the one beneath:42

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“He’s alive! This is…” My eyes lock on the familiar clothes.

“Finn!”

I turn to the other body. It doesn’t move. I know I’ve seen them before, but their face is ruined beyond recognition. The sight freezes me.

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Chapter 39-2

“We were taking a stroll when they attacked!” the woman shouts, crying.

“Who?” I ask.

“Me, Prince Finn, and Prince Dorian.” She cries. “Dorian threw

himself over Finn.”

“Dorian?”

She whimpers as she nods.

I look at Grimm. “Members of the royal family… again.”

What is going on here?

A few minutes later, I’m in the King’s office at his demand. Grimm and a few guards took the girl to the infirmary wing.

“You seem to always be at the center of all this madness!” the King shouts at me.

“She has nothing to do with it, Father,” Raphael growls.

“Tell me exactly what happened?” the King demands.

already explained two times, but here I go again. We were

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“Are you really killing the ravens?” I ask Raphael.

“I have to.”

“But…” I’m so conflicted. I know someone is controlling them.

So it isn’t really the ravens’ fault.

“But?” he asks.

“Don’t you think someone is doing this? A real person?”

“How?”

“Everyone keeps saying how smart these creatures are. You all even train them and use them for war. So isn’t it possible that someone has trained them to kill?”

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