Chapter 24: Free From the Bind of Deception

SAGE

Once we got out of the hospital, we headed straight to the Olcan Hill, to Irvine's manor. Pretty much the same, their private guards immediately granted us entry through the gate. I wondered if they knew that the family they were serving wasn't entirely ordinary. Vance had told me that they are werewolves but my mind kept on telling me that they didn't exist at all. He must be joking and wanting to mess up my mind so that I wouldn't figure what Val truly is.

I had watched movies about werewolves and read books about their monstrosity. However, I was convinced that they weren't real because there was no basis at all. On the contrary, I believed that vampirism was more like a disease while witches have the power to manipulate things, like a mental power bending nature at their will. But a werewolf? No one would believe that a human could actually turn into a ferocious animal. There was no such scientific explanation about growing furs rapidly on your skin while your body swelling l