You Kissed My Soul novel Chapter 55

Dylan Pov

“I don’t even know where she is!” I punched the table so hard that it went flying until it smashed against the glass window of my office room breaking the window glass into pieces. The glasses shattered into pieces and some even pierced my skin because of the impact of force that I used to throw the table. The skin on my face healed as immediately as it got punctured by those glass pieces.

“You need to calm down my lord!” Pearsyvia said as I rubbed my face by my hands.

“Calm? Are you asking me to calm down? Are you ignorant of the state that I am right now Cynthia?” I growled and she took a step back lowering her head.

“King!” Pearsyvia walked inside the room with Blake following her.

“What is it?” I asked and from my peripheral vision watched as Estelle who standing near the door walking towards the window and repairing it back to its original form using her power.

“As you had ordered I have asked all the eleven witches to gather up downstairs. Eight witches are downstairs except me, Cyreana and Estelle. The wounded Wolves and the alphas have been taken care of and Lord Cole is also doing well under the healer’s supervision. The Alphas who are fine and non-effected by the previous incident have been also asked to gather downstairs. Shall we?” she asked raising her hand and indicating to join the meeting.

“We shall!” I nodded and walked out of the room with them following me.

This was going to be an important meeting for everyone in the werewolf kingdom. We will be trying to locate our enemies and hopefully, we will find my Aderyn very soon. My heart hurts and I heard Black whining in my head think about his mate. I swore if I saw a single scratch on her body then I would shatter my enemy, whoever he or she is into pieces.

“King!” everyone bowed their head down when I entered the room.

“Take a seat!” I told everyone and they all nodded before taking the seat on their chair. It was like a conference meeting. Everybody was seated on the chair next to each other and facing me. The witches chose to sit on one side together while the Alphas chose to sit on the other side of the long table. The Betas chose to stand due to the shortage of space and I moved my chair to the side not wanting to sit.

“We all are here gathered up for a reason and I assume everyone present in here already knows the reason,” I said and watched as everyone present inside the room nodded their head.

“All of a sudden the welcome ceremony of our Queen turned into our worst nightmares with our Queen missing right before our eyes. She was kidnapped right before us and we couldn’t even do anything. Especially I failed to protect my mate and my Queen” I said clenching my fists in anger.

“Not only did we lose our Queen but also our fellow Alpha mates and some wolves from our kingdom. My condolence to their pack and family. I am proud that they stood against our enemies till their end and for that, the whole werewolf kingdom shall always remain grateful towards them. They shall always remain in our hearts. We shall take a moment of silence to pray for their soul” I told and everyone stood up and we all closed our eyes and prayed for the those who lost their lives. They were brave, courageous and strong to fight against the enemies who attacked us like a coward out of nowhere. Their deaths shall not go in vain, I made a promise to myself.

The screeching noises of the chair were heard when the people chose to seat down after the prayer. For a minute, I stood there in silence thinking what to say. I was out of words because I was in dilemma. I couldn’t understand how to motivate my people when I didn’t even know who my enemy was. It would have been so easy if we knew who were our enemies. If anything I wanted to do then it was to run out of the place, out of my kingdom until I find where they had kept my Aderyn. I believed my wolf sense would help me in this case because I could smell her scent from miles afar and that way I could easily find her. But the problem was I didn’t know if they were close to us or at the end of the world. If that is so, then it would take me days maybe months or years to find her and I didn’t really want that to happen. I wanted my Aderyn right next to me as soon as possible because not only me but my whole kingdom needs their Luna.

“King?” I heard Blake whispering to me from beside me which broke me out of my thoughts.

“Hmm? Oh! I’m sorry! I was thinking something” I said and everyone looked at each other and gave me an understanding look.

It really helped me that my people understood me. They felt my pain, they knew how I was feeling. It was a bond that only we werewolves had that is why we were so strong unlike humans or any other kind. Bond of a family is a pure and strong bond in this world, for it gives you strength and support in the time of need. Unity is the biggest strength and me being a werewolf understood it very prominently.

“We-” the door of the room opened and a healer interfered by walking in. But what got everyone’s attention was Cole walking inside the room limping in one leg and his body supported by the healer himself.

“Cole?” I said and immediately walked up to him with Blake following me. Everyone present inside the room was looking at us as I reached next to a wounded Cole and held his another arm over my shoulder giving him support.

“What in the world are you doing here? You should be on the be-” Cole cut off Blake in the middle speaking “King! King, I have got something important to tell you!” he coughed in the last.

“Cole! I don’t think you should pressurize your bod-”

“No! Please listen to me. It is really important!” he even argued with me.

“Here! Please let him sit down!” one of the witches whose name was Annika offered her chair for Cole to sit down. We made Cole sit down on the chair and Cole thanked the kind Witch before looking up at me.

“Cole!” Jenny came running inside the room and knelt right before Cole.

“Baby what are you doing here? You should be rest-” Cole even cut her off.

“Please everyone I am fine now. I have an important thing to tell you. Please tell me speak until the end” he said and everyone silenced waiting eagerly for him to speak.

“I know who is our enemies!” he said and gasps of people was in the room with people gossiping about it with themselves.

“Silence please!” Blake politely asked the people and again the room was silenced as Cole coughed quite a few times while I stood there with my jaw tightly clenched and I shoved my balled fists inside my pant pockets not wanting to look aggravated by the situation. The temperature of the room suddenly raised up because of the heat radiating out of my tensed body.

“Who is it?” Blake urged Cole and I watched as he sucks in a deep breath and closes his eyes. He looked nervous.

Why is he nervous?

“It is Edna!” he said in one breath. People gasped and I heard as some stood up in anger and the chair falling down due to the sudden impact. The room’s temperature radiated even more because not only me but everyone was beyond angry.

“I thought she was dead!” we heard Derrick the alpha of Pinewood pack growling in anger.

“That witch!” we heard another one cursing her name.

Hearing her name after a long time brought the raw painful memories back in my mind. Edna Hunter was the twelfth Witch. Not only that she was the witch who killed my parents. She believed that she was the strongest and she should be the one to rule the kingdom not me or my family because she thought us as weak animals. She despised and loathed our kind. Back then, it was a sudden surprise attack on us which resulted in her to kill my parents. She actually targeted to kill me, but unfortunately for her, she couldn’t because my kind and the other loyal witches were protecting me. I thought she was killed before us. The witches killed her. Then how is she back?

My eyes trailed off to one of the witches, ‘Phoenix Hunter’ who stood in the corner in the dark with her head lowered in shame hearing people cursing her own daughter.

Edna Hunter was her daughter. We thought being Edna’s mother, Phoenix would support her daughter in the war but we were proved wrong and Phoenix showed her loyalty towards me by killing her own daughter with the other witches using her power. Everybody’s eyes fixated on Phoenix wanting to see her expression.

“I am truly ashamed of her being my daughter my lord! I swear I don’t have any idea or connection to how she survived. She brought disgrace to our kind and she shall be punished for not only going against the kind but also for kidnapping the Queen and for killing our fellow mates. I promise you, my lord, this time I wouldn’t let her pass through my hand easily” Phoenix said and I watched as tears fell down her eyes as she disappeared in thin air leaving those tears which fell on the ground.

“I think Phoenix has betrayed us” I heard one of the alphas.

“Yes, I also think she saved her daughter! She is a traitor!” another one said.

“Nonsense! We all know Phoenix isn’t like that. She stood with us in the fight and she even raised her own hand to kill her own daughter. She didn’t betray us. Phoenix is loyal!” snapped Amber Sueffer another witch from the eleven powerful witches.

“My lord please, believe me, us Phoenix is loya-” I cut her off by raising my hand at her.

“You don’t need to explain anything. I have never doubted any of the witches nor Phoenix. I have faith in her and even we all” I looked at the Alphas before continuing “we all trust Phoenix. Do we not?” I asked.

“But Alph-” I cut Derrick in the middle.

“It is not the time to raise ou fingers at each other. It is the time of unity. Regarding Phoenix, no mother would ever wish to kill her own blood let alone raise a finger on her child, but here Phoenix had proved her loyalty towards the kingdom by standing with us. She could have easily taken her daughter’s side. What could you all have done if she took Edna’s side back then? Nobody could have done anything and no one should question her loyalty when we all have witnessed what has happened in the past!” I said and watched as the witches nodded and a small smile crept up their faces.

“I understand what Phoenix must be going through right now. It is a sensitive case for her and we won’t mind if she chooses to stay away from the war. It is not easy to face your own blood in a war. We shall respect her decision in this matter” I said and the witches nodded agreeing.

“Thank you, my lord, for having faith in us!” Estelle spoke for the first time and I nodded at her.

“Now that we all know who our enemy is I believe it will easy for us to locate Aderyn now!” I said and everyone nodded.

“We wait for your command, my lord!” Estelle said and I inhaled deeply before saying.

“I command the witches to gather up and start the searching up process. Locate Edna’s position and try to find out how she survived the last time” I commanded and series of ‘Yes my lord!’ from the witches was heard.

“The Alphas are in the charge of the gathering up and training the wolves for the war. Prepare your packs and gather every pack together nd train them together for the war. No female wolf is to be allowed in the war. The female wolves are requested to guard the kingdom in our absence. Some pf the betas shall stay behind in the kingdom to guard the territory in our absence. It is no offense to the female wolves but I have made this decision because the female wolves need to protect the pups and the older ones in the kingdom. And with that, they must be trained by the betas to remain prepared if they were attacked behind our back. Betas will train every single female wolf so that if we need them they must be able to join us in the war. But till that it is for the kingdom’s future generation’s safety that the pups and the female wolves shall remain back in the kingdom” I said and watched as Jenny hugged Cole sobbing.

“Cole! You shall remain in the kingdom. You-” Jenny’s face lit up but at the same time Cole stood up from the chair despite the wounds he managed to act strongly before me.

“No Alpha! I shall join my King in the war. It will be shameful for a warrior not to accompany his king when the kingdom is in the state of war” Cole argued.

“I understand. I am not banning you from joining us but looking at your condition I have taken the decision that you shall remain here and concentrate on healing yourself for protecting the people in the kingdom” I said and before he could argue I silenced him by saying ” It’s an order!”

He nodded but judging from his body gestures and clenched jaws I knew he wouldn’t really do what I have ordered him to do. Perks of being the childhood best friend.

While everyone gossiped to each other and began to plan their strategy my mind trailed off to Aderyn.

“Have faith in me Aderyn! You will be back to me in no time. I promise!” I spoke to myself.

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