Chapter 58

Chapter 58: Chapter Fifty Eight

“You allowed him to win your trust quite fast, huh?” Aunt Marie raised her brow at the young hunter.

“He’s supposed to be my mate. What am I supposed to do rather than let him in... and what if...” she was stopped in the middle of her rant.

“Katie, you’re getting emotional. Is this an effect of you being off your meds or are you starting to get feelings for Cole?” Aunt Marie asked, getting concerned for Katie.

“Aren’t Hunters allowed to have emotions as well?” Katie whined. It was unusual to see her get emotional after training her whole life to keep everything in.

“They are allowed to have emotions, but they aren’t allowed to have outbursts that display weakness. I thought we’d taught you this. Is there something wrong with the way we taught you the ways of a hunter?” Uncle Tom asked.

“What about in my own house?”

“Breathe, Katie... Breath in twice, breathe out consequently. Destroy the images that attempt to crush your mental fortitude. Clear your mind of all negativities. Keep a smile on your face...” Aunt Marie recited. Katie did as she was told to try and clear her mind. The one thing she’d always done well is allowing the results of this exercise to get a hold of her.

.....

She stayed silent for a while thinking through why she’d allowed her mind to go off like that. “Is there a reason fewer people should know about me?”

“We realised something years ago... When we told the Sirius family of your whereabouts, it was then that rogues that increasing in number and it was also in that time that you began to grow. After you’d killed your first rogue and began learning to use your Prometheus abilities, you began to do the unthinkable. You began taking care of all the Rogues in the town that the other Hunters just gave up on that activity.

Your senses were sharpened and you could detect a werewolf before they even came to the patrol routes. You started to take them down so much that this town could no longer tell the difference from the time when it was just a remote town to the time when we arrived and started causing trouble for it,” Uncle Tom tried explaining.

“I know the story of how I earned the title, Rogue killer, but there haven’t been rogue attacks in a while now,” Katie said, “or my senses must be getting dull.”

“That’s beside the point... What we realised at the rogues were coming here to this remote town for a purpose and they had only started showing up after we had informed the Sirius family of our whereabouts. We couldn’t do anything about that and so the Hunter’s Agency decided to help us protect you. You grew up well and surpassed so many of the professionals. It’s still scary even for me who’s seen it all these years and watched it happen,” he said, “Anyway, there was no way of knowing who in the entire court of the Sirius family had caused the leak of this information to the rogues. That’s how we came to realise that the moon goddess herself must have had the same thing in mind when she set up the secret transportation of that newborn.”

“Wait, so you’re saying the moon goddess knew this as well?” she asked.

“Yeah, I wish you’d known of these suspicions so that you could have asked her,” Aunt Marie said.

“It’s okay. We have all the information we need to confirm that hunch. Who can you trust among the Royal family as well,” Katie asked.

“After trusting the Royals in the mission to rectify the errors that were committed by their ancestors, they lie below our radar of people we cannot clearly use our instincts on. It would be hard for us to find out who the traitor amongst them was,” Aunt Marie picked up from there, “We are sailing blind. We can’t tell them of our hunch and yet, we can’t do anything to unmask the villain. Accusing a member of the Royal family of such treason would bring about an uproar. The Chase family name would be stained and there would be yet another disastrous dispute.”

“I guess I understand where you’re coming from. However, it’s unsettling... It doesn’t answer my question clearly, why can’t I tell Cole?” I asked.

“I’m sorry to say this, but if Cole were to somehow know something about this and the information got to the Rogue king even without his intention, there would be a target on your head,” Aunt Marie said.

“Then what happens when I shift? Will no one know about my heritage then? Will you be able...”

“You can stop there. When you shift, we will have no trouble telling the world who you are. At that point, only a fool would dare go after the Rogue Killer with her reputation and face her knowing she was a Royal that possessed both Prometheus gift,” Uncle Tom said, a smirk forming on his face. He couldn’t look any prouder than he did at the moment.

“Then why does it feel like war is upon us?” Katie asked.

“Tomorrow must be an entertaining day... Don’t forget, you might be very powerful, but your union with Prince Cole means the rogues will no longer be able to multiply in number. Your very existence, dangerous or not, means the end of rogues...” this was a valid point. And as he said it, Katie was sure of what she wanted to say to him next. After what she’d felt when she’d stared Chandler straight in the face. His laughter when he felt so happy about having had Ash killed.

“Then I’ll kill all rogues... None of them will be left,” Katie said, passing her convictions on to her guardians. Aunt Marie smiled at the young girl, ‘The look in your eye... Keep that fire burning. You’ll need it to achieve this. You might have enough lives on your hands, but it’s nothing compared to what you’ve just said,’ the woman thought this while she watched her adoptive daughter continue to talk to her husband about the moon goddess.

‘What colour was her dress? Did she touch the ground? Was her skin really so flawless? What did her voice sound like?’ these were the questions that Uncle Tom asked along with any others. Some of them should have been inappropriate in the presence of his wife, but once he flew off the handle in his addictions, there was no stopping him. Tom’s fascination with the gods ruled his actions a lot and this was right where he wanted to be at the moment.

Katie described the goddess with utmost detail so as to indulge him while at the same time, she spoke of the moon goddess lightly that one would think they were childhood friends. Aunt Marie got back into the kitchen and got to work with preparing dinner. “How bad was it? The pain of shifting,” Aunt Marie asked once it looked like her husband was about to finish the conversation and was out of questions.

“The drugs were making it worse than it was supposed to be... suppressing a wolf that was only doing its best to come out. It was like I was being crushed from both the inside and out,” she said.

“Do you think you would have...”

“I don’t know. If she hadn’t shown up, I don’t know what would have happened. I still have aches from the experience,” Katie explained.

“So, if I have this right, you won’t be needing the pills until our designated time tomorrow,” Aunt Marie said, just to make sure she hadn’t misheard anything. She finally finished her cooking and started serving the family at the counter. None of them seemed to be in the mood to haul themselves all the way to the dining table, which was... right next to them...

“No, I won’t need the pills until then. What are you guys going to be doing in the meantime?” she asked.

“Oh, I had forgotten... Tomorrow before the commencing of the Founder’s ceremony, you will be required to give a speech that commences the event as the head of security... and yes, you’ve been elected as Chief of security of this event. Don’t get carried away,” Aunt Marie quickly curbed the girl’s excitement.

“You’re no fun...” she pouted before digging into the food.

“Honestly, why can’t you be like any other normal teenager that likes doing things that will inevitably get them in trouble?” the woman rubbed her temples, information of how much her daughter was going to have to deal with going through her mind.

“If I was a normal teenager, you would have a handful of things to deal with. I would be one of those kids that has their hands in a project with the hopes of earning a scholarship from one of the big people that will be here tomorrow,” she said.

“Yeah, that’s true. Although this year, we might just have fewer people than we did last year because of what happened. News travels fast... many people know of the rogue attack and when you add the boy that was murdered on school grounds. It’s no longer considered the safest school in the world because of that reason and it’s impossible for a school to get back up in those rankings...