“Why…”
I can’t understand why Alec went there to help me. I still can’t understand how he appeared out of the blue to help me. He felt different, too…
“Your brother had been in rehab for a while, Nora,” explains Sylviana. “Since the last time you had seen him, he was… thriving to get better, to get out of drugs.”
“Sylviana actually helped, too,” adds Liam.
“I didn’t do anything he didn’t want,” she says. “Alec was… remorseful of what he had done.”
I choke up a little bit, hearing those words. Alec did? Are we talking about the same person who abused me for years? That Alec, my brother? The one who tried to sell me to a rapist? It is still a bit too hard to believe.
I don’t want to think about that now. I turn to Damian.
“Then?”
“Liam and Sylviana brought you back here,” he says. “You were in critical condition like she said. Yet, when you woke up, you decided to do something even more dangerous.”
Yes, I remember that too.
I remember the sad memories. How people died in the attack or succumbed to their injuries. Damian was one of the first to fall, but my mate was still alive when I came to. I remember my discussion with Sylviana, and my eyes naturally go to the witch.
I decided to use my Moon Power to save Damian. My mate was on the verge of dying when I woke up from my first coma, and I just couldn’t have that. Sylviana nods, reminding me of what happened, but it’s all coming back to me now.
Once she’s done talking, Damian sighs. “That was a crazy thing to do, even for you.”
“I wouldn’t have lived without you,” I answer.
He nods. “I said the same... If you had died in the process...”
He frowns from the thought, as we all know the result of my bet could have taken my life instead of those two years.
Liam claps his hands, taking us away from any depressing thinking, and smiles. “Anyway! Our princess is back now, for good! Right, Nora?”
I smile. “To be honest, I feel awfully sleepy...” I whisper, playing a bit.
Liam shakes his head. “Oh, hell, no! Girl, you are not going to play sleeping beauty again! You’re back to the living now, so get ready, because you have a lot of people waiting for you and a whole bunch of things to catch up on, too!”
I nod to Liam’s words. He’s right, I missed two whole years! Those two years I will never get back… It saddens me a little bit, of course. I look at Damian, Liam, and Bobo, my three men, all looking a bit older. I smile and turn to Damian, with a mix of curiosity and apprehension.
“So, what did I miss?”
“Well first, it took a few days to settle everything after what had happened... Surprisingly, the events served as a lesson for everyone. All the remaining packs finally agreed to your idea of a Peace Treaty between the Clans. Sylviana used her magic to seal it, so no Alpha can break the peace vow as long as their turf is located in Silver City.”
“Oh, come on, Damian, tell her about the Liege,” says Liam, visibly excited.
I frown. The Liege?
Damian nods. “They also... agreed to recognize me as the official Alpha King of Silver City. It’s more of a title than anything else, but everyone thought it would be best to make it... official. That way, no one would dare to raise up any more conflicts or take advantage of others under my name again.”
“You should have seen it, Nora. Even William agreed to it, and all the Alphas discussed in one room, like equals.”
“Anyway,” resumes Damian, “there was a month of mourning, and then we began the reconstruction of the stadium. We also had to reconsider all the packs’ territories and sort out the situation of the ones who had lost their Alphas.”
“The Jade Moon is all yours, by the way,” says Bobo. “They didn’t have any Alpha or Beta left, so they just agreed you were their legitimate leader now. Until now, they answered to Damian while you were in the coma.”
“Most importantly, we abolished the physical boundaries between the territories within Silver City,” explains Damian. “No more frontiers between the turfs. Anyone is free to go wherever they want. Each pack still has its own establishments and properties, but when it comes to the streets, no more fighting.”
Moon Goddess, that’s amazing... Before that, any wolf was constrained to their own pack’s territory, and would goanywhere else at their own risk! It also kept Damian from finding me all those years, as he couldn’t go everywhere freely. This is such a huge change; I can’t believe everyone agreed to it so quickly!
