Kael’s POV
Inside Roman’s room, once Eira was calm, she told us what nightmare she had.
All of us could conclude it was something that had truly happened with her. Her lost memories, not a nightmare.
I was relieved that it wasn’t a nightmare about black wolf. I didn’t have to stay away from her.
Liam had also arrived home after we called him in panic. He made sure she was stable before she told us everything.
Now she was fine, once more she went back to being a stranger to Jason.
I took my place as her mate and comforted her by holding her in my arms as we sat on the bed. She didn’t mind at all.
"...Just like Kael, they had used a spell on you to make you forget that night in prison," Roman said, who sat on her other side. "But how come you are remembering it all of a sudden?"
"Something had triggered it," Liam said. "Sometimes a spell can be broken like this."
"She was affected from the moment she saw that pendant," I said. "That must be the reason."
Liam hummed. "No spell is permanent. It has its shelf life, or some weakness."
His words made me fear for myself. What if something triggers the spell on me and suddenly I get the memories of what I did with Eira that night? I didn’t want to remember it. If I did, I didn’t know what I was going to do.
"Her memories confirm all our predictions till now that all of this is out of some vengeance in the past," Jason, who was standing on the side, said. "That woman clearly told her she wants Eira and Kael to suffer for what their people did. She was referring to past incidents their families were involved in that hurt the enemies."
"I understand Kael’s family, but Eira’s?" Lucian said. "From how Eira is being targeted specifically, her family is no ordinary. She’s definitely from some powerful family in the past. We have to find her real family."
Eira, who heard it, was surprised to hear it.
Why wouldn’t she be, as her entire life she had spent like an ordinary hybrid low class family. The idea of being from a prominent family must be like some impossible wild dream.
I rubbed her arm gently and said, "There are so many things that are far from our knowledge. Just know that you are someone special, someone who exists for a reason. Rest, leave it to us. Just focus on our baby."
She hummed lightly, assured at my words.
"What I wonder is how and since when they knew Kael and Eira are fated mates," Rafe, who had been only silently observing and listening until now, asked. "The witches can identify it from the moment babies are born. Let’s assume the witch knew it when Eira was born, but how did she find out who her fated mate was? How precise her prediction must be."
"Kael, have you come across any witch ever, or at least felt some out-of-ordinary presence around you ever in the past? When you were a kid?" Liam asked.
I shook my head. "As far as I can remember, I don’t have any such memory."
"To take her revenge, her plan was to put Eira and Kael in a lifetime of pain," Roman said after a while of silence. "She first planned to have their pureblood child. Once it was achieved, she planned to keep hurting Eira by planning to hand her over to the traffickers. Everything she suffered, Kael felt that pain as well, and both of them suffered together. If we hadn’t found Eira, both of them would have been always in pain. What a vicious plan."
Eira looked at me to understand his words. I shook my head and said, "It’s nothing."
"You should tell her," Liam said.
"Everything’s fine now," I didn’t want to worry her.
"What is it?" she asked Liam anyway.
Liam said, "You two are fated mates. Even after Kael rejected you, your bond never broke. The pain you felt for the past six years, he felt it as well."
She looked back at me.
"I deserve it," I said. "And I am glad I could share your pain. You were not alone."
"It hurts the other mate more than the one who is actually hurt," Liam said. "Same way, you will feel Kael’s pain as well."
She hummed lightly.
"And the bastard kept it from us that somethings was hurting him," Lucian frowned angrily. "All he did was to silently hide in his room and endure it alone and left us wondering what’s wrong with him."
The room turned silent once more as I had nothing to say about it. They would be of no help even if I had told them.
I wasn’t sure what she was thinking now.
"You know what’s the funny part to me?" Suddenly Rafe spoke.
We all looked at him.
He sat in the chair like a king as if he was enjoying something. "The bastard, Eira’s supposed mate and a father of her child. the one we were searching to kill him was none other than Kael. Even Kael was looking for him."
Well, that was indeed unexpected and laughable now.
"You are her fated mate, then how did you think she might have some other mate?" Lucian asked. "And even asked us to search for him?"
"At that time I didn’t know Eira was a rare pureblood, that she could have only one mate and breed only with him," I explained. "And I had rejected her back then so I thought our bond was broken.
"But then Roman marked her, he said she already had a bond with someone else. I never felt a bond with her, so I thought after I rejected her, she found her second chance mate. Or she found someone, fell for him and chose him as her mate.
"But later I started to realise she didn’t have any other mate. She just had a child with some other Alpha like any other pureblood shewolves who breed for various Alphas. At the same time, I had no memory of that night so there was no chance of any doubt. It was all just infuriating and confusing."
Rafe sighed. "Can’t blame you. Even after I knew you were her fated mate and rejected her, I thought the same possibilities as you. Only if we knew what kind of a rare shewolf she is, so many things would have been cleared already."