All eyes turn to Liam. He stopped eating, his eyes far off. He takes a new sandwich and starts talking again. “When I arrived, one of them said they needed to take her alive. Isn’t that weird? Why do they care who they kill or not? And there were a lot of them after you, too. If you were their aim, that explains why they rushed to the harbor.”
All eyes turn to me. I hesitate for a while, but I can’t hide things forever. I turn to Damian. “Liam’s right. I’m not sure about being their target, but one of them did say they wanted to capture me.”
My mate frowns. “Why would they want you...?”
“I think... It might have to do with my lineage.”
“Your lineage? I thought you didn’t know who’s your birth mother?” Asks Tonia with a confused look.
“I still don’t. But... I think she might have been a... a Royal.”
As soon as I drop that last word, they look at me with shocked expressions, except for Bobo and Damian. I wish I knew what he is thinking, but as always, his silver eyes are indecipherable.
“...A Royal?” He murmurs.
I nod, waiting for his reaction. But he stays silent, looking at me like he’s deep thinking. After a while, I shift my eyes to Bobo, silently asking for help.
He sighs. “Someone from the Opal Clan mentioned it today. A family of Royals got killed in the North about eighteen years ago. And Nora has... well, white fur and blue eyes, so...”
I hope Elena won’t resent me for this...
“You think your last name is a Clan’s name?” Asks Tonia.
“I’m just saying it could be.”
“...That would explain a lot of things...”
I turn to Liam, who is scratching his chin, thinking. He points out his fingers one by one in his free hand, the other one still holding a sandwich. “Clan-like last name. The white fur and blue eyes combination thing. Your dad taking you away from your unknown mom. Your Alpha genes and obvious good fighting instincts. Your altered abilities, like no fast-healing but large-scale mind-linking.”
“Yeah, what was that, by the way? Even I heard you!” Says Tonia.
I shake my head, just as clueless. I have no idea what I did! I just panicked and unconsciously asked for help. I didn’t think that would result in me sending out a significant distress signal to all the werewolf population of Silver City!
Damian finally turns to me, reacting to Tonia’s words. “Did you know you could do that?”
“No, not at all. I just discovered tonight I could reach out to other Alphas, too. It’s like a door opened in my mind. If my wolf has seen them eye-to-eye, she can talk to any Alpha, I think.”
“Can you talk to me?”
“I can. See? Easy.”
“That’s interesting...”
Damian smiles, but Liam catches us.
“Hey, no mind-flirting now, you two! We are still in the room.”
Damian playfully growls at his brother, but I just chuckle. He is one to talk, we spoke like that for the whole trip to here!
Tonia, too, wants to go back to the serious topic.
“Okay, so now Nora can mind-link any Alpha. That’s an Alpha ability anyway, but she mind-linked us, too, tonight. To be honest, baby girl, it was more of a big siren ringing in my head than nice talk.”
“Yeah, same for me. Felt like all I could focus on was your voice, it was loud and... mesmerizing,” says Bobo.
“It sounded normal for us, Alphas, right brother?”
Damian nods. I remember Elena did advise me not to make use of the mind-linking too lightly. What did she say again? Her pack members found it annoying. Maybe that’s what she meant if our voice sounds like what the Mura siblings described.
