Chapter Fifty-three

It's been Tristan.

~Orion~

The council did not take the news well. I made sure not to meet them. I sent a message to Elder Fred and Elder Winston informing them that there was no need for the ritual as there was already a peace talk going on between me and the Alpha of the Wolfshade pack.

If I had gone myself to inform the council. Then they would try to force me to go on with the ritual without giving any thought to what I had suggested.

Something did not seem right in my chambers. The smell. It's familiar. The same one I smelled the night Sofia came to my room and when I was ambushed on my way to Wolfshade town to meet Kane. Just like those times, I felt weak and hypnotized. This time the scent was so powerful. I had to trace where it was coming from.

I could see smoke filling the room. It looked like an incense had been burned. With staggered steps, I made my way to where the smoke was springing from. It was the secret passage in my room. Who would something like that in there