Fate Of A Hybrid

Chapter 9

It's been three days since the guest house incident, but I didn't seem to have gotten over it, in fact it's been causing constant nightmares and even while I was awake, I would occasionally here that harsh voice. I was even sober because of it, my past self would have even laughed at me, I was sober even while I didn't lose my mother, just what was happening to me?

"Are you sure you are not extrapolating things? He never said it was because of his offsprings, why do you curse your blood?" My friend and neighbor, Flora said as she passed me a glass of water. I grabbed it and muttered a "thank you" with a low voice.

She smiled and pushed my hair behind by ears, despite knowing fully well that they wouldn't stay as my hair was like it had been chopped like someone went at it with some hacksaw, but that someone was me, I was already fond of using a pair of scissors to trim my hair perhaps "hack" should be the right word.

This human friend of mine; Flora, always looked for the greenlight in situations. She was so optimistic.

"What else could it have been?"

"He said it's not only his life that's tied to it, whose else life could be tied to it apart from my offsprings?" I started crying, I had put away the glass of water and started rocking back and forth on her couch.

"Hey hey don't cry, are you forgetting who you are?" She patted me. I sniffed cleaning the liquid that was sticking out of my nose and drying my tears with me wrists.

"Of course, I am A-A..." I broke into tears, twice the amount of the previous tears, I didn't even have the guts to claim who I was again. The Amoura I grew into, wasn't a failure, but I failed to acquire my mate.

"I'm really speechless about you." Flora sighed.

"But I really feel you should give up, nothing good actually comes easy, you really have to fight for it." She tried persuading me to see Stanley again, of course I had to follow her advice as there was literally no other option left bare on the table for me to make a selection.

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I had to wait several days before I came across Stanley again. These days, I was doing what I was really good at— gathering information.

I was able to find out the route he takes and the places he goes and what time of the day.

This day I positioned myself in a corner of where he passes occasionally. It's been a place I've also been at at several occasions, but at those occasions, I only walked by, only now did I really observe the scenery here.

The walls of every building or castle here were built with fine precious stones, the streets were also paved with such stones, the blossoming ornamental trees that stood in front of every building made a very beautiful contrast. This place was really beautiful and peaceful, people rarely come here especially since the occupants of these buildings were all people with high statuses in the town.

There was a mountain that stood out behind this estate, it was shaped like a wolf's head, and it had three gashes on its face that seemed they were the result of another animal's claws.

There were numerous legends about this mountain, but the most popular one was that almost a million years ago, there were so many wolves that have become godlike, and a huge battle occured, this wolf was one of the aftermath, and after so many years, it didn't decompose but instead its body became rocky after being battered by so many years. As for where the other part of its body was? No one knew. As for how true this legend was, there was no way to confirm.

Now, due to the beliefs that it was a wolf god, the higher echelons of Arrow Brooke Town had already erected an altar somewhere on the mountain, and they perform rites there annually.

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After waiting for two hours and I hadn't seen a glimpse of him, I was convinced he wasn't passing this place again today, this wasn't my first time doing this over the past several days, I was most times always at the wrong place at the right time or the right place at the wrong time.

Seeing he wasn't showing up, I prepared to leave, inside, I felt a bit of relief he didn't show up, my blood always boiled when I think about the outcome of us colliding.

Every moment I waited, my heart always tensed up, but despite being scared, I would always try to show up.

*Succeed at it... Or die trying. There's no stopping or giving up, where is the glory in that? Even the world is against me, so I would also be against the world.*

These were words I've grown accustomed to telling myself after years of hardship.

All of a sudden, my heart tensed up, there was a group of people walking forward in my direction or perhaps passing by the corner I hid. There robes weren't particularly majestic, but they had the airs of nobles. If they were just nobles, it wouldn't have been enough to make my heart grow tense.

The one who led them was a figure I would never forget even in my grave. That was one of the elders of my mother's pack, he was even one of the spearhead of my misfortune in that pack.

This man was called Clyde, the beta of the pack and also the younger brother of the alpha. It was known that the alpha really doted on this younger brother of his. He must have pleaded with the alpha to exile my mother and I, there were even rumors he was fawning over my mother and she rejected him constantly only to be angry and scheme against us.

I hated this man deep within my bones, only second to my father. But seeing him walking towards my direction, and I wouldn't be able to face him, if not I'll be killed without even knowing how, I clenched my fist, gritted my teeth, and vowed I'll repay the debt he owed me in hundred folds.

"But what was he looking for in Arrow Brooke town? Their town was miles away from this town, and as far as I knew, there was no links with their pack and any pack here, if not my mother and I wouldn't have come here. That'll be a question for another day, their intentions would later on be revealed, I needed to get to my mother and tell her about it as soon as possible." I thought and decided to get back to her as soon as possible.

I turned and sneaked through that corner leading to the street behind but still in the estate. Just as I was running to get a better fight another day, I stumbled upon another person. But looking at who I stumbled upon this time, I almost forgot to breathe, my heart pounding so hard that it would have leapt out of my ribs.