Chapter Fifty–One – Accepted
Rihanna’s POV
My parents turned around and were about to leave when Camilla stopped them again.
I glared at her. She shouldn’t try bringing those people into my life was better off without them.
“Alpha, they were permitted to deploy here. Black Hills will not accept them again if they don’t successfully deploy,” Camilla
reminded.
Dara scoffed. “What do you know? They’d feel what it’s like to have no place to rest…”
“Dara!” Camilla shouted, cutting her off.
“This is Alpha’s decision. They’re her parents, who have apologized, and we need former officials to help our new pack,” she said the last part to me.
My eyes stayed fixed on my parents‘ horses as they moved away. They were both dramatic, walking slowly as if hoping they’d be called back.
Lana came to the surface. “They should stay, since they have nowhere else to
P
I turned to Dara as if she were the devil on the other side of my shoulder, stopping me from accepting my parents back.
“Don’t accept them, Alpha. We don’t know if they work for Chris. There’s an important detail in the prophecy that Chris shouldn’t know,” she said.
Camilla frowned at her. “What now?”
Ignoring them both, I ran toward my parents‘ horses. They halted when I spread my arms in front of them.
“To be accepted in my pack means you are loyal to me and no other, not even the Alpha King,” I spelled out.
My mom looked at my dad and then back at me.
“Is that a no?” I asked them.
She shook her head. “We didn’t ask to deploy here to backstab you, Rih. We want to help you build your pack. And discover something more.”
Something more? Like what? I brushed it off and gestured for them to return. “You’re accepted then.”
“Really? Thank you, dear.” My mother’s horse turned
she
spoke.
My father stared at me for a moment. “Don’t worry; we’ll make it up to you. And Ray.”
Ray? Weren’t they with him all those years? My father’s horse turned around and crossed the border. I exhaled and followed.
“I hope you know what you’re doing, Alpha,” Dara said to me via mind link.
I hoped I knew what I was doing too. It was sad that I couldn’t even trust my own parents in times like this. They shouldn’t
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disappoint me.
“Here, you’ll have no title. Rest, interact, and live peacefully, but that’s all! Do not oppress anyone with your ranks!” I ordered.
My mother nodded, seemingly unbothered by the orders. However, new they were specifically for her she always had the urge to grasp authority.
Here, there was none for her.
“That settled, I also don’t want you two trying to control me here,” said, folding my arms and staring at them.
“But dear, there’s something you need to know. The second part of e-
“Mom, I’m being serious here. Don’t try to control me,” I interrupted ensuring she understood my demands first.
Dara stepped forward and turned to her. “Second part of the what? Prophecy? You know about it already?” she asked, looking alarmed.
I calmed myself and thought hard. Dara had mentioned the other part of the prophecy that was ‘interesting.
“What’s this second part about?” Camilla asked.
My father took out a scroll from his luggage, but Dara quickly snatched the one in her hands and handed it to me. “Mine’s authentic,” she said with a smile.
“The authentic one was stolen,” my father frowned, glaring at Dara. She avoided his gaze and stared into space.
Camilla rolled her eyes and nudged her.
I read through the scroll, and my mouth dropped open. Was I the silver wolf the prophecy talked about?
I knew about defeating an evil, but having a mate who’d be the next Alpha King, and us defeating the evil together? That was news
to me.
“It’s crazy, right?” Dara smirked, turning to my father. “Chris shouldn’t know this, or he’ll realize his reign is doomed and cause
trouble.”
I agreed with her–this was a lot to take in. To think Chris was once my mate. He’d know now that he’d lost out more than he thought.
“Actually, he is aware,” my mother said in a low tone.
Dara snatched the scroll from me, raising it high. “He saw the scroll? How? I took it from his library so he’d never see it!”
She did? How did she get there? How did she have the time? This girl was really fast.
“We told him ourselves. I did research a long time ago when I realized you were a silver wolf. We told him before he allowed us to
be deployed.”
I shook my head at my mother. Did she tell him as a threat that his rule was ending, or as a ‘come and kill my daughter’s new
mate‘?
That was Chris’s likely move if he were bloodthirsty–kill my mate. And that happened to be Alpha Jaden.
“Chris isn’t someone who’d kill for the throne, right?” Camilla asked, sounding unsure.
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“He’s a good kid, but don’t underestimate him. He might see it as saying the throne from someone unworthy,” my father replied.
A scoff escaped my lips. “He’s the unworthy one. He had a mate, rejected her, and now the new mate is unworthy while he’s worthy?”
“Well, until you find a new mate, this secret shouldn’t be told to anyone else. Let’s watch Chris’s next move,” Camilla advised.
Her being very tactical and less warlike since we formed our pack was amazing. Dara seemed to be the wild card now.
I nodded at her words, as did my parents and Dara. I needed to understand everything before telling Alpha Jaden he risked being killed if Chris learned we were mates.
“Very well, thank you for the heads–up. We’ll tighten security so there’s no repeat of today.” I made a small bow to my parents.
Dara bowed as well while Camilla escorted them into the pack. I waited to continue patrol.
“What did she mean ‘repeat of today‘? Did someone try to hurt her?” my father asked Camilla as they walked away.
“Yes, a Blue Bloom warrior. She was saved by Alpha Jaden of Black Rose Pack just in time,” Camilla explained.
“Oh my.”
“That Alpha? Is he on her side?” my mother asked, sounding impressed.
“He’s an ally. Has always been, actually, even when we were rogues,” Camilla answered.
“What? Black Hills didn’t know of such a relationship,” my father noted.
Camilla laughed. “Yes, it was quite a secret. One you now share as part of Silver Pack.”
She sounded hearty with them. I knew she had never had parents and her brother was her only family.
Either way, I sighed. The other half of the prophecy was a real problem and steered my future in a new direction.
But what really was this evil we were supposed to fight?
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