CHAPTER 4: The Stranger
When Kael saw Elara, his lips moved to say her name.
"Elara..."
But Elara didn't even look at him. She looked right through him, as if he was a stranger. As if she had never known him. As if he didn't exist.
Kael's heart sank.
Elara walked past him without a second glance and went straight to an old friend standing in the corner. She smiled, a real, warm smile she didn't give to Kael.
"Long time, Maya," she said softly.
While she was talking, she needed to sit. Kael was sitting on the main sofa. With just a flick of her finger, using her invisible wolf power, she pulled a chair close to Kael's sofa. SCHHH.
Everyone gasped.
Then she looked at her friend Maya, smiled, and with her other hand, she used her power again. A second chair flew from the other side of the hall and landed softly behind Maya. She made her friend sit like a queen.
She was doing all this, showing her power, entertaining her friends, as if it was a game for her.
Kael was just watching her. Watching every move. And for the first time in his life, regret hit him like a bullet.
What have I done? he thought. I rejected her. I called her weak, useless. And today... today she has the biggest power of all wolves. The Goddess power.
Around them, people started to stand up, shocked by her magic. They had never seen such control over wolf power.
And in the middle of all those standing people, Kael slowly fell to his knees.
Not because of her power pushing him.
But because of his own guilt.
He was on his knees in front of the girl who now pretended she didn't even know him.