73. Lorita Or Whatever
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Following Larisa was the best decision | have made in my entire life... well aside from getting justice for my
daughter.
| got to discover the truth about her even though I still couldn't explain sthings like how she walked out of
the air. One minute | couldn't see her and the next, she walked out with Kyle staggering and struggling weakly
behind her. "What the actual fuck!" Lex gasped, shocked.
Despite his suspicions, my wolf was still shocked to see Larisa drop her mask, revealing her real face as she
stepped closer to Aurelia whose pain flooded my system.
It took a while to get here. Larisa walked around in circles for a while before she disappeared. | didn't know
where she had entered but | could still sense her presence in the vicinity which was why | decided to hide and
wait for her reappearance. | had thought to myself, "Where could she have gone? It's an open forest. There is no
building in this area."
It took seeing Aurelia after many minutes of waiting for Larisa to reappear forto realize that this area was
the marked spot on the map we received with the note. | fucking lost my mind when | saw Aurelia and | knew for
sure at that point that Larisa had something to do with my son's disappearance as well.
It was hard to not leave my hideout and approach Aurelia who seemed to be speaking confidently. | even saw her
smirk a couple of times, taking steps like she could tell where to go. This wasn't the plan yet | let Aurelia do her
thing and she was fine until arrows were fired out of nowhere and at Aurelia.
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The way she fell on her knee made it known that the arrows were laced with ssort of poison. Aurelia's
screams brokeand | was quick to let my eyes scan the forest, hoping to find the shooters so | could make
them pay for hurting the woman | loved... even though she never ceases to disobey me.
Lex's eyesight becone with mine and soon, | found two shooters. One was hanging on the branch of a tree
which was far fromand the other was leaning against another tree, hiding in plain sight.
After getting over Larisa's reappearance and seeing her with Kyle, confirming that she was indeed the
kidnapper... Truth be told, there was no getting over that but | sprung into action regardless, quietly moving
towards the shooter closest to me.
"Take them out and help Aurelia before we lose her to the witch you chose to love!" Lex snapped at me.
This wasn't the tto argue with him or let the guilt he was trying to plaster all over my mind take over me. |
needed to be focused but a question lingered in my heart- Was Larisa a witch? Witches were banished many
years ago and it's rare for a werewolf to be a witch but it wasn't impossible as long as the werewolf gets initiated
and invited into a coven by a powerful witch.
Larisa couldn't have been initiated-
My thoughts were cut short when | arrived by the tree and found the target lying on the floor, completely
knocked out.
How?
"The second one is out too," Lex announced into my mind as my eyes cut to Aurelia and Larisa.
"That can only mean there is someone else here. | can't sense-" | started talking to my wolf while keeping my
eyes on what was transpiring between Larisa and Aurelia.
Lex interrupted, "There are more of them."
"More of what," | asked him, hoping that I'd be able to save Aurelia and Kyle from the evil incarnate that Larisa
had suddenly become.
Perhaps it wasn't a sudden change. Perhaps | had just been stupid and blind to who she really was.
"More fallen men. Unconscious bodies are everywhere within this vicinity." Lex clarified and true to his words, |
sensed other unconscious men in the forest the second I let my senses loose. | didn't do that earlier because
anyone in the forest would have sensed my natural energy and even now, | was putting Aurelia and Kyle in
danger.
| could only imagine how fast Larisa would use the silver gun | saw her taking out of her family hif she
sensed my presence but fortunately, Larisa didn't noticeas she was engrossed in whatever she was saying
to Aurelia while keeping Kyle at arms length.
"Sniff out the person taking these men out. | need to locate-" My words to Lex died in my mind as | perceived the
looming presence of someone who was undoubtedly a skilled warrior. "He is behind me."
| made the mistake of assuming that the warrior was a male and that he was working with Larisa and simply
taking out everyone | could take in for questioning to help Larisa escape my wrath... which she would get. There
was no escaping that!
However, | was proven wrong when
a strong yet feminine pair of arms skillfully grabbed my neck, pressing the right angles that would hinder blood
flow to my brain. | tried to be quiet as | twisted out of her hold, turning my body to face who assumed was the
enemy until | cface to face with Jessica.
"You?" | was shocked to see her.
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Rather than respond, Jessica's eyes flashed with recognition and her face relaxed a bit as she placed a finger
over her lips, shushingand pointing towards Larisa who happened to be staring into the forest. | must have
attracted her attention.
"You cwith someone, didn't you? Bad, Aurelia. Here | was thinking you cared about your son." | heard Larisa
as she raised her voice.
She wantedto hear even though she didn't know it was me, and Jessica in the forest.
"Show yourself or she dies now." Larisa's voice rang through the forest and she pulled out the silver gun,
pressing it against Aurelia's head. "I'm not bluffing."
Aurelia chose that second to rip out one of the arrows in her thigh despite knowing that would do more harm
than good. She knew doing that would lead to loss of blood but | assumed she did that to protect Jessica who she
knew was in the forest...
It drew onthat the duo ctogether just like | realized that the men Jessica was busy knocking out were
Nolan's personal guards.
The pieces were beginning to ctogether and | concluded that | should put an end to Larisa's insanity. |
pushed her into this crazy state by leading her on so | should end it-
"Call your trusted men and save us. I've done my part. We're trusting you from here on." Jessica whispered to me
and she showed herself to Larisa without givingthe chance to stop her.
Fuck!
"You might not know this but | hate threats, bitch, especially from spineless wimps like yourself, Lorita, or
whatever you're called." Jessica didn't hesitate to strike.
And with her actions, | knew if | didn't step in soon and end this madness, Larisa would kill them all. Quickly, |
called the men | trusted, oblivious to the glaring truth- among my trusted men was Larisa's faithful protector.