Chapter 61
Vicky POV
This was my opportunity.
It was me who had created the small magic circle next to a mud puddle just to test my theory. The thing was that I was trying to learn magic from one of the younger witches, Deidra. I scribbled a lot of notes, and none of them made sense. She would laugh at me sarcastically, saying that I would never understand the symbols or incantations. Which was true, but not unattainable.
When I had escaped from the Oak Pride pack, I didn’t carry my notebook, but I remembered some of it.
I had gone to one of the farthest mud puddles two days ago and created the circle from my memory. But those fucking wolves discovered it. If my father went there, he would easily smell my scent and punish me severely.
In order to rectify the blunder I had made, I had to do something that would save my ass. My mother was in their dungeons and I knew it was just a matter of time that she buckled under the pressure of their torture and revealed about us. Foxes were weaker than wolves.
My life was so beautiful until that fucking Venus took it all. I was burning in revenge. But for now, I had to do something that wouldn’t lead to my mistake. This move was going to bring me closer to my goal as well.
“Yes, I can take you to their weakest group,” I said confidently. “However, I am not sure if the werewolves still live over there or not.”
My father narrowed his eyes at me. “Just fucking take us there. I am sure that they haven’t moved out of there in a short time. You have been in that pack for over six months, so stop playing games with me, Vicky,” he snarled.
I licked my lips as I tamped my panic down. “Father, you have to trust me on this.”
“Fuck you!” In a flash of a second, he was onto me. He grabbed my hair, fisted them to the point that it hurt my scalp, and yanked my head back. “Trust
you? No one will ever trust you again!”
I took a ragged breath in. “Do you have a choice? Your only source of information about the Oak Pride pack is me. I know them inside out, but if you keep being so arrogant about it, I will not say a thing.”
His eyes widened, and before I knew it, he slammed my head to the floor. I screamed in pain as skin split and blood oozed out.
“That’s your choice,” he growled, glaring at me. “Don’t you fucking dare to misguide me, Vicky! It’ll take two minutes to kill you, get that?”
I cried, pain lancing through me. “Okay,” I managed to say.
He left me and walked out of the room, leaving me alone with his beta. “I’ll g
I get the healer,” his beta said with pity in his eyes.
The healer bandaged me without speaking a word. I knew most of the pack foxes hated me. Well, I didn’t have to prove myself to them. However, with each passing day, I hated my pack, hated my father, and loathed Venus. I was going to annihilate them one by one. But first things first.
Next day, even though I was bandaged, I came out of my room. “In order to attack that village, I want all of us to go there together,” I suggested to my father. He was having his breakfast alone.
“Why?” he asked, crossing his arms. “Are you trying to get us all trapped?”
“No,” I sighed. “You know wolves are stronger than us. Let’s attack them together and come back quickly.” I told him my full strategy, which was bullshit.
He seemed convinced at the end. “Okay,” he grumbled. “I will assemble them and we will start at dusk.”
“No, we have to start right now. It will take us several hours to reach there. There’s no time,” I countered. I wanted to get out of this place as soon as possible because I was sure that the wolves would find us here soon.
My father raised his eyebrow as if assessing my words and my zeal. Then he nodded. “Okay, meet me out in twenty minutes.”
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I strode back to my room, packed my bag with every essential item, and came out to see that my father had gathered his foxes.
We all started towards the place I had in mind. Away from our current dwelling. Since father was leading us, he knew his way through the landmines. A few foolish foxes ended up trapped in the mud puddles, despite my father’s instructions to ignore them.
We walked throughout the day in which my father and some of his people lost patience. “Where the fuck are we going?” he seethed.
I was ready for his question. “We are circling the pack’s perimeter to reach that village of wolves, but I am keeping you safe by staying deep in the forest. Or do you want us to go closer?”
“No,” he grunted. “Carry on.”
Finally, we arrived at our destination. “This is it,” I breathed. “Once the night falls, we will head east and launch an assault on that village.”
All the fox shifters were so tired already that they immediately settled in the nearest clearing. Father came to me and said, “This better be right, Vicky. Else I will kill you myself.”
I stifled an urge to stab him then and there. “It is right,” I replied. “I suggest you take some rest before we attack them.” There was no attack. Rather, I was going to do something that would make him regret his actions.
He gritted his teeth and went back to his beta. I sneaked out from there and walked to the intended place, which Deidra had told me about.
It was deeper in the forest, just like she had mentioned. A smile appeared on my lips out of excitement. Glowing and ready to be plucked. Jumping over the underbrush and tall grass, I reached for it and quickly started plucking it. Soon I had a full basket.
I was so engrossed in my excitement over finding it that I dismissed a soft rustle behind me, thinking it was a squirrel.
“Excited about Goldenseal, aren’t you Vicky?”
Stunned, I spun and found myself staring at Aaron’s cold face. “You?” Goosebumps lined my skin as dread plummeted to my stomach. How did he find
me?
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