Chapter 262 - Shadow Meeting Kaiden's Wolf

Shadow stared at the wolf that was standing beside Emily with its deep blue eyes staring right back at him. Now, he finally knew why he couldn't reach Kaiden when he tried to inform him about his sudden visit through telepathy. It's because his wolf blocked the message from reaching him.

"Where's Kaiden?" He asked the wolf while keeping his eyes trained on it. Even though the wolf wasn't showing any kind of hostility towards him, it would still be a bad idea to lower his guards down considering that by now, the wolf would have already realized the truth behind the bond that Emily shared with him (Shadow).

'We need to talk, Supreme Lord.' The wolf replied telepathically and the way its voice sounded, it was pretty clear that it was not requesting or asking, rather informing Shadow that the two of them had a very important matter to discuss and clarify.

Realizing that there was no way out, Shadow decided to talk things out with Kaiden's wolf. If not, the consequences would create a lot of troubles for Kaiden and Emily. To make sure that their relationship would keep sailing smoothly, he had to first convince the wolf that he wasn't a threat to their bond with Emily.

Turning his attention at the girl, he asked, "Princess, if you don't mind, I'll like to have a few words with the Alpha. We will return in a couple of minutes." 

Emily quickly looked between Shadow and the wolf. Both of them were giving her an innocent look with a mix of assurance that everything was alright. However, it wasn't that easy to fool her. "Just don't end up fighting." Saying that, she stood up and headed upstairs towards the guest bedroom.

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The atmosphere of the forest was way more quite than usual, considering that the inhabitants of the place were afraid to catch the attention of the two powerful supernatural that were currently taking a walk through the woods at eight o'clock in the night.

While one was the powerful and well known Alpha of the Shifter Clan and the owner of the Sullivan Empire, the other was the famous Supreme Lord, or the well known Sire who ruled the Night City. The former was known for his great achievements and powerful connections throughout the human and supernatural world at a very young age, and the latter was literally known as the only True Immortal amongst the supernatural who had ruled the dark world for thousands of years.

A twitch appeared on Shadow's lips when he caught some of the thoughts of the little creatures that were hiding nearby. The way they portrayed him as the undefeated and supreme being who was blessed with Immortality, made him feel pity for himself.

He soon found himself standing on the edge of one of the high cliffs in the forest that looked down at the deep and vast valley which was currently submerged into the darkness of the night. The wolf came to stand beside him as both of them gazed at the moon near the horizon.

"I'm sorry..." Shadow apologized as he kept his eyes trained on the moon. He was not only apologizing to the wolf and Kaiden, but also to Emily and himself.

'Why?' The wolf asked in return as it turned its entire attention towards the powerful Immortal who looked kind of helpless and vulnerable at the moment, something that surprised the wolf.

Shadow finally turned his face to look at the wolf and realized that it wasn't asking about the reason behind the apology. Rather, it wanted to know why he, Shadow, let the things end up like they were at the moment.

"I never wanted a mate. The only thing I wanted was my freedom. That's why when the Deities gifted me with a mate in order to change my mind, I decided to break my bond with her as soon as possible. But when I met her on the day of her birth, things changed. While looking at the newborn baby, I got a glimpse of the beautiful future that the two of us were destined to share."

Shadow stopped to take a deep breath as he closed his eyes to not think about what he saw that day. It was a very beautiful future that he never deserved. "I realized just how powerful a soulmate bond could be. I was almost tempted to give in and that's what made me decide to keep my distance from her while I searched for ways to break off our bond. Considering that both of our real identities are unique and different from other supernatural, just refusing the bond wasn't enough to break it."

"What I failed to understand was that the moment I decided to stay away from her, I changed our future that I saw in the hospital. While I made sure to never heard a word of her until her eighteenth birthday, the day I was going to break off the bond, I made the first big mistake of my life. Because of that, I never realized that she was going through so much."

He stopped again to take in another deep breath as his emotions were creating a turmoil inside him. He had hated himself for years by now because of all that Emily had gone through because of his negligence and selfishness.

'Then why did you suddenly appear after her seventeenth birthday?' The wolf asked as it watched the Immortal struggling to keep his emotions in control. It seemed like this was the only time he was sharing all these details with someone, and the pain that he had been keeping inside him all this while was finally breaking through the barriers.

"Because of a dream..." Shadow answered as he opened his eyes and looked directly at the wolf. ".... I saw a very dark energy chasing her in my dream, and the fear of something bad happening to her made me search for her immediately."