Chapter Forty-one (Saraya's POV) present Time…

Getting to the entrance door, he drew back from me to push the two doors open and then let out a groan.

"Tabitha! Keanu!" Dane thundered into the dark, shrouded room.

"Papa? Papa!" a little, girlish voice called and I just stood there blinking like an idiot wondering what was happening.

"It's papa and mama!" another one with a boyish gusto whopped.

The expansive room was literally a jungle. A dark, shrouded dense habitation with wild animals roaming about. A large cage was hanging at the right corner of the room with two grown women inside, gagged and tied. The room was a twinning mass of tree roots with the thick potent scent of freshly cut grass sprinkled with fresh rainwater.

Two white-coloured wolf pups emerged from a side shrub; one was slightly bigger than the other. I stood transfixed as they both regressed to half human half wolf and then to humans, the bigger one was Keanu. He was taller and had an evidently bigger build than his sister. The room suddenly brightened