"What?" Fenja furrowed her brows. "I didn't touch her!" She retorted.
What kind of rubbish had Nadia fed Rachel? It was so far from the truth.
"LIAR!" Rachel was furious. Fenja was scared; she had witnessed how fierce the former Luna Rachel could be. "GUARDS!"
It was a testament to her status as a luna. Even though she had stepped down, and Fenja was now supposed to be the luna of the pack, the warriors still listened to Rachel more.
Upon being summoned, four guards entered the room and held Fenja's body down to the floor. Out of instinct she retaliated, but one of them clasped a silver bracelet around her wrist, which hurt her beast and prevented her from shifting.
"What are you doing?!" Fenja screamed; she was in pain, and her wolf was on edge because of the silver.
As a shifter, silver was their weakness. They wouldn't be able to shift if they came in contact with the silver. It burned their skin.
"Luna, should we do this?" One of the guards questioned Rachel. Their conscience told them it was not the right thing to do, but it was the former luna that they were talking to. They had followed her for decades.
"All of you can leave now," Rachel said. "Leave!" She raised her voice when the four guards just stood there and didn't listen to her.
"All of you need to leave," Nadia said as she opened the door for them.
Having no other choice, the four guards left, and Nadia closed the door behind them, but not before telling them to keep this a secret from Alpha Shayne.
"Do you bring that?" Rachel asked, her voice filled with malice.
"Yes, here, Mother."
Fenja felt sick to her stomach to hear how Rachel allowed Nadia to call her 'mother' while she was not even permitted to look in her direction.
The previous year was a nightmare when she had to cope with Rachel ever since she moved to the pack house once they discovered that she was Shayne's mate.
"I should have done this a long time ago." Rachel's voice sounded creepy; one could see the malicious intention in her eyes.
Meanwhile, Fenja was in excruciating pain from the silver bracelet on her wrist. She was unable to mind-link anyone for help. She was very weak from everything Shayne and Nadia had put her through.
"Please, don't…" Fenja watched Nadia hand Rachel a small bottle of liquid. She didn't know what it was, but she was sure it was not something good.
"Drink this without making a fuss." Rachel knelt down so she could face Fenja and meet her eyes. "Drink it on your own, or I will force it down your throat." Rachel was serious when she said that. She made no effort to hide her disgust and hatred for Fenja at all.
The liquid inside the bottle could be poison for all she knew.
"No!" Fenja struggled; she tried to get to her feet and run away from this room, but the silver made her extremely weak, and Rachel managed to force her down to the floor with only one hand.
"You make things difficult for yourself! I should have done this a long time ago!" Rachel didn't have patience for this; she instructed Nadia to hold Fenja down while she made her drink the liquid forcefully.
"No! Let me go!" Fenja tried to push away Rachel's hand, but she opened her mouth and poured the liquid down her throat while Nadia held her body down. "Shayne! SHAYNE!"
Fenja kept calling his name. When the liquid moistened her throat, she could feel how cold it was, but the moment it fussed in her system, Fenja felt her body burning with so much pain. She was screaming and kicking, but she couldn't overpower these two people.
Right at that time, someone opened the door; it was Shayne.
"What are you doing?!" Shayne screamed at them and pushed them away from Fenja, but the harm was done, and now Fenja could feel her body being burned from the inside.
The pain was not like something she had ever felt before.
It melted her bone and burned her brain; her blood was boiling, and what was scarier was the fact that she could no longer feel her wolf!
She could feel her wolf before, even though she was very weak. But after she drank the liquid, she could no longer sense her wolf's existence!
What was going on? What liquid was that? Was that really a poison?
There were a lot of questions in Fenja's mind; she also heard Shayne arguing with his mother and Nadia, but she couldn't comprehend what they were talking about. Their voices sounded very distant.
"Sh-Shayne… It's painful…" Fenja whimpered, and now, after the burning sensation subsided, her body was freezing. It was so cold, as if she had just gotten out of frozen water.
The last thing she remembered before she lost consciousness was watching how Shayne's anger tapered down upon seeing Rachel's tears.
***
Fenja didn't know how long she had fainted, but when she regained consciousness, she felt extremely weak. She couldn't even move a finger.
More so, she was alone in her room.
She wanted to call someone, anyone, but there was no sound from her open mouth, and after some time, Fenja fell back to sleep. She was spent, exhausted mentally and physically.
The second time she woke up, she found Shayne sleeping next to her. He smelled like whiskey, as if he had gobbled down a few bottles of it. The smell was very strong, and he knew that she disliked this.
Fenja moved her body, which woke Shayne up. He looked around him groggily and found his mate was awake.
"Are you okay?" Shayne kissed her cheek, which made Fenja want to wince.
She found it unbearable to be so close to him. Probably because of the strong smell of alcohol, but his touch was no longer comforting.
"Wh-What happened?" Fenja looked around her, and she saw the sky had turned dark.