The Seasons

Chapter 61

The frown on Summer’s face deepened as many questions arose. “Cairo? What does Cairo have anything to do with this?”

Xana laughed; he hated how angelic her voice was, how soft and smooth it was, gentle like a mother, strict like a father and loving like a sister. It all seemed wrapped up into one vocal chord. “Summer, you really are bringing the humans to shame. Surely, you can’t be that naive. Cairo is working for us. He always has been. Isn’t that marvellous?”

“What do you mean?” he hissed.

She sighed. “He was sent there to watch you all. If a bunch of nineteen and twenty-year-olds could break a curse that has claimed the lives of over three-hundred wolves, our boss was concerned about how they might interfere with his plans.”

“The curse took three hundred lives?”

“Of course. The two alphas it affected, and everybody one would m******e after the death of the first.”

“And Cairo is essentially lying?”

“No, well, you see, he had a mission. He had been doing well for the first month; how do you think we were always one step ahead of you all? But that boy, his whole ruse,” she sighed as she examined her nails. “He’s been slacking off, a shame, really.”

Summer frowned; the boy? “Wing? What does Wing have to do with this?”

She smiled. “Wing is the key to all of this. Don’t you see? He is much more important than you believe him to be.”

“What do you mean?”

“Oh, don’t you worry your pretty little human brain about that, but your friend, don’t think we don’t see you sneaking around.”

“Friend? What friend? None of us even know where you are besides me.”

Her face lit up like a child playing with a brand-new toy. “Really? That is fascinating. It looks like you have someone playing you, Summer. I’d be wary of your friends. Well, that was if I allowed you to remember this conversation; your memory will have to go. We can’t have Cairo’s cover blown so soon, can we?”

“He’s lying to Wing. Oh, what the f**k. He’s going to hurt him; oh, what the f**k? Wing is already so fragile, we act like we don’t see it, but we all know. Neo did a background check on him, there’s nothing but misery in his past, and the one good thing he thinks he has is a lie? Oh, what the fuck.”

She watched him, her head c****d in curiosity. “Tell me something, Summer. Why do you humans always care so much for one another?”

He snapped his eyes over to her, and she was on the bed, her hands on her lap, her head c****d. “What?”

“Well, yes. You are in imminent danger, yet here you are, worried about Wing and what could happen to him. But your heart hasn’t raced until now. Until you learned about Cairo.”

She sighed as she stood up, wiping off imaginary dust from herself, as she came and stood before him. “Fascinating creatures,” she whispered. “Truly.” Something else was said, he wasn’t sure what, but he soon lost consciousness.

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