Chapter 44
Maximus pov
Over the next few days, Fallen left before I woke up but always comes back. The more time I spend with her the more I fall in love with this tiny woman. I can see the women inside her waiting to come out. The force she once was was now locked away. Ambrose tells me once back home she will slowly break out of this shell she's living in. He said the polars of the north were once a proud strong breed. The desire to blend in with everyone was their downfall. You see polars are born and raised in the snow everything about them is camouflaged human and bear forms. Their pale skin almost white hair and eyes so light blue they almost look white. The villagers first thought them to be snow spirits. In an attempt to fit in the bears started to reject mates for darker colored mates. But what happens when you try and breed one thing out you breed other things in. So the bears started moving south due to not being able to handle the cold as well and not blending in in bear form. Since humans do not have a dual nature they only have one set of genes to pass on making the bears shifted form no longer white. This made hunting harder for the bears. They started moving south to blend in and hunt again.
Fallen's line was one of the true polar lines they only took fated mates. So up here is the only place you could find a true polar but these impostors took that from them. Looking me over Ambrose's eyes keep shifting and its starting to get rather unsettling. “boy if your mate only produces polar bears with you how would you feel to never produce a wolf?” he asked me with all the seriousness of the world in his eyes. “are they healthy?” I ask tilting his head and looking at me “besides the point.” he waves his hand “I beg to differ dude that's all that matters. If I was mated to a human and only had human pups but were healthy then that's the will of the goddess. Having a wolf almost always ensures healthy pups. So again I ask are they healthy?” I sneer what does this man not understand? My pups are my pups human dog wolf hell they could be spiders for all I care just as long as they are with fallen and healthy. With a nod, he gets up and starts pacing the room. When the door opens and a sad-looking fallen walks in my hackles rise. “what is wrong?” I rush out stopping myself from rushing to her. “I overheard lord Loki and alpha wren talking they are planning to leave soon and go to the winters castle taking both your alpha and kai.” the tears start to fall from the corner of her eye breaking my heart.
“go check the pots girl and hurry back sounds like we are even shorter on time.” Ambrose huffs out before he rushes back to the kitchen grabbing the last of the jars and sinking them in some salt before he jams one end in his arm and the other through the cork on the top of the bottle. An odd silvery red orange black goo starts to drop into the bottle. Fallen rushed out but were back within the hour. While gone Ambrose finished filling the jar yanking the tube out of it taking the last of the candles and melting it over the jar and salt before it hardened he dumped more salt over it. That is gonna be a mess to clean up. Flying through the door with red cheeks and nose fallen rushes “there are twelve pots now and um sir the box is kinda glowing now” with a glance at her he smiles brightly. “good then the salt worked the magic from the blood you all carry is still in there. Now, child, this is gonna be a long night for you but much is done before the moon rise it will need the full strength of the moon as it's still days from a full moon.” with a nod we all wait with bated breath for him to continue. He grabs the shirts he had laid out to dry a white crust that appeared as it dried. He starts tearing them into strips. Then looks up at us.
“Okay, you are going to take this bowl wipe it with one of these clothes then toss it away you don’t want to use it again. Then take this jar and dump it in the bowl. Dip twelve strips in each leaving the last to soak in as you move about for the rest. Place one strip in each pot with one jar from the box. Then spread them around the whole border equally. Once placed open the jar dump it over the cloth in the pot and move to the next spot. Once you make it back take the bowl with the last jar the one with the black cap and the large pickle jar to the center between the two closest pots to you. Place the bowl on the ground and dump the jar in then opening the pickle jar dig out the beta and gamma blood open it and dump it in the bowl. Now, this is the most important to start the reaction the blood of a child of the cold needs added. But it has to come fresh and not from any blade it must be from your claw a true sacrifice.” fallen nods but I look around confused.
“once your blood hits the mixture it should react immediately sparks and hisses with start. Then once it catches flame come back.” with a nod she silently gathers what he says looks at me then launches kissing me. So lost in what happened I don’t stop I react back. wrapping her up in my arms pulling her to me tight. Her lips are the sweets thing I have ever tasted. I am so lost in her that it's good I don’t care how long. Not wanting to stop touching her but the sudden smashing on the back of my head breaks the kiss. Looking around I see a sheepish-looking Jas with a chair in her hands and an annoyed Ambrose.
“plenty of time for you two to make offspring. Right now to save our loved ones we have limited time. Now go child of the cold return fast. And remember your blood must drop in the bowl at moonrise or it won't so the faster you do this the sooner we can save this pack.”
With that fallen rushes through the door, Jas and I are ready for a battle we know is to come. Ambrose ushered us to the room with Kaleb and Freya.
“be ready they will not wake gently”
