Chapter 43: Chapter 43

It wasn't long before I realized she was a demon, and now she just talked about taking over the pack. Was she talking about our pack? And why did she just make this statement now that Ava just died? Does it mean that Ava was the one holding her back all this time?

Different scary thoughts kept running through my mind in a rush, making my breath hitch in my throat as I kept swallowing hard while staring at Aurora. She was smiling all the while, and those eyes that had always been cold and angry were now brightened, shimmering with excitement and victory.

She was running with great speed without shifting into a wolf, and her demon scent was still hitting hard inside my nostrils. Her feet were as if they weren't touching the ground. Beneath her legs was something that looked like dark fog as she bolted through the forest path that leads to the royal palace. I was in her arms, but wasn't comfortable at all.

Fear was eating me up, so I couldn't breathe again. Even as I found out that Ava was still alive, I still couldn't tell how bad the danger looming was, and the very fact that I helped a demon couldn't stop leaving me in terror.

Soon we were going to enter the busy area of the pack, and I wondered how she was going to pass through them unnoticed.

Just as expected, we dashed out of the forest and into the village center, where pack members were all present, and Aurora stopped running and began to walk instead, but what happened next left me stunned.

None of the pack members glanced in our direction. It was like we were invisible. Aurora dropped me from her arms and held my hand instead, pulling me to walk at the same pace as she, even after seeing that I was too stunned to walk.

My eyes were roaming around my environment as I wondered if I needed to talk before the werewolves around me noticed me. It was so confusing, and Aurora doesn't even care.

"Are we invisible in their eyes?" I couldn't help it anymore as I mumbled the question and it made her throw a short glance at me like she was just realizing I was with her.

Her smile vanished as she lingerered her stare at me, her eyes getting darker in anger, which left me shaking in fear.

"I used to ask myself that question each time I walked with her. I kept asking if I was invisible in those guys' eyes, as they would only want to talk to her. All their attention is on her, making me the black sheep, but I will make her suffer more than she imagined." Aurora huffed and let out a hiss before turning back to the road as we began to walk again.

I was totally confused at what she just said and would have thought she was mad if I didn't see how mean her eyes were and felt the heaviness of her breath. What she just said really meant a lot to her.

I wish I was able to ask her who she was talking about. I wish I could question her about who was the woman who made her wonder if she was invisible by taking all her attention, but I couldn't even talk and my lips were only shaking.

I dreaded demons because of the evil I had heard they did in the past. Never did I ever think I would one day stand this close to one of them, even holding hands with her.

It is more scary that no one knew Aurora was a demon. This could only mean she has a mission here, and I guessed she just used me as a tool. Ava must have been the one to stop her, which is why she did everything to get her to kill herself.

"You are confused, right? Later, it will be clear only if you're among those still alive in this pack till then." She said, curtly to me, with a shrug and a hardened face, causing my blood to run cold in terror.

Alpha Sean's POV

I was sitting on the throne when the royal messenger ran in to tell me that the rogues were preparing a war with my pack after I killed their leader. I expected this, but never so soon.

It was just yesterday that I ordered the guards at the border to kill him after he was caught trying to sneak in. They had tortured him severely to find out why he came to the pack, but he kept saying it was nothing.

Rogues have no business with us werewolves anymore as they are all unhinged and evil-minded. It takes only a bad wolf to become a rogue.

Most of them are wolves that don't want to be ruled and punished by an alpha after they have committed a terrible crime. They tend to run far away and wander in the forest.

Many reasons could make a wolf turn rogue, and not a single one of them is a good cause, so all rogues caught are either punished severely or killed immediately when caught.

During the torture, the border guards had discovered that he was one of the rogues' leaders, and that was why I gave the order for him to be beheaded and his head dropped across the border as an example to other rogues who would try to show up.

"Those disgusting rogues must have a death wish to dare send a letter of war to us. I think they are tired of living in hidden caves and bushes. They want us to help end their lives. " The Beta who was with me in the palace chimed in and let out a short laugh.

His mate and the elders all laughed too, supporting his statement, but the more I tried to push back the anxiety building up in me, the more it grew. The war letter wasn't from a group of fretting rogues who are fighting to their death.

They seemed so confident and really urged me to give my response in 24 hrs, which means they are already ready.

The incident happened yesterday, and it took them not less than a day to send this message. It doesn't look normal, yet I can't tell what to be scared of.

The Betas and everyone else looked so free-minded and confident to be able to wipe out those rogues, but I don't feel that way. If you ask me why, I can't even explain. Something doesn't seem right.

Just at that moment, I sensed a voice trying to talk to me through a mind link. It came with weak force, which really made me not notice it. My brows arched as I saw it was from Ava.

She had never tried using mind link to talk to me, and even if she had tried in the past, it wouldn't go through because I had disowned her as my daughter. It must have caused her great inner energy to be able to make this one mind link get my attention.

My face contorted into a frown as I wondered what would make that useless and cursed daughter of mine send a message to me.