Chapter 162

Dylan POV

They all came bounding up to us with a grave countenance, however every single expression shifted into pure confusion at the sight of me and my pure white locks.

"Ok... What the fuck happened to your hair?" Vee broke the silence and everyone's movements at once, while everyone who had come running up to us turned their attention to my now, pure white hair.

"Erm... stress?" I joked before being met with three flat looks of annoyance and chuckled at the expressions.

"She's been visited by the goddess Luna." I rolled my eyes at Oliver's interruption, but smiled when Lewis walked up to me and let his hands slide around my waist bending down to kiss my forehead.

"Are you ok?" He asked looking me in the eyes causing a smile to break out on my face... I turn up after what had basically been two weeks away, and I turn up with pure white hair, yet, the first question out of Lewis's mouth, was asking me if I was in fact alright. He was obviously curious about my meeting with the moon goddess, but he pushed his curiosity aside in order to determine my metal state.

"I'm just fine..." I stated, lacing my hand in his and relishing in the thousands of sparks that came from his touch. "Although I may try and find some black hair dye, I'm not sure the white hair is exactly... my style..." I chuckled looking down at my hair as it rested gently over my shoulder.

"I don't know... I think I could actually get used to it." Lewis's voice sounded almost lustful as he admitted his liking for my new locks.

"Did you say You've spoken to the moon goddess?!" Vee quickly asked as she looked at me, her curiosity was suddenly being covered by worry and I frowned deeply, thinking about how these three came running up to me and Oliver in haste. I nodded at her question waiting for her continuation. "Did she happen to mention my dad at all?"

"Your dad? The moon goddess is omnipresent she can't exactly go around mentioning every human that lives on this earth. Why would she mention Carlos?" Oliver was quicker than me in addressing his mate, he grabbed her hand in his own and tucked her hair behind her ear while she appeared to be on the verge of tears. "Wait... is he ok?"

"He's been bitten by the kings auntie. The palaces doctor, Lewis's uncle confirmed it." Now that one got me, Carlos had been subjected to even more than I had, how could lady Lorellia do something like that? "He said she marked him without consent."

"The moon goddess didn't mention anyone else..." I hadn't even asked about anyone else. I just didn't think. Maybe I could get her to speak with me again, if she could offer me a blessed transformation, then why couldn't she offer Carlos one? "I could try and speak with her about it? The moon goddess for whatever reason seems intent on acknowledging me." I didn't like the idea of demanding any more off the benevolent being, however I would if it was really necessary.

"You've already spoken to her this week, she is a powerful being, you don't want to push her generosity." Gilliard had stated exactly what I was thinking, she could after all cause more damage if she truly wanted to.

"We could just go to him together, so he's not alone when..." Oliver stated quickly, gripping Vees hand tightly while staring into her eyes. "You are my mate... I could easily take you back to the palace with me, Josh wouldn't be able to say or do anything about it." I didn't like the sound of that at all.

"Josh would still have plenty to say, you and I both know that much... besides he's currently on his stupid district tour." I stated rather abruptly if I'm being perfectly honest. "So you would be putting Vee in danger by taking her to the king, only for her to not see or be with Carlos anyway. Not to mention we don't know how his grace would even react when he finds out she's Carlos's daughter. Look at what he did to my mom to try and get me to comply... lady Lorellia is his family, he could even try to use Vee against him, and you."

"Dylan has a point..." Lewis chimed in, letting go of my hand so that he could talk using them, he did that quite often. "Besides, there wouldn't be anything you could do anyway, if he's been forcibly marked, then he's most likely going to..." he cut himself off looking at Vees defeated expression. "I'm really sorry, Vee."

That's it then... there was absolutely nothing we could do. I couldn't help but let myself become a little forlorn, I mean, me and Carlos had actually been through quite a lot together, and for some strange reason, I was the one who got out, while he was suffering more now than ever.

I couldn't help but allow guilt to consume me.

"You know... I've only just come to terms with him actually being alive, in my mind he died years ago, I don't know if I have it in me to grieve for him again." She admitted, pulling Oliver's side in to her own body, attempting to find comfort in his embrace.

"Carlos is stronger than we think, I mean he managed to survive years in the palace dungeons, he may come out of this..." Lewis was forever the optimist, but I was realistic, I'd already shot one man after he began to transform from the forced marking of his mate... no, it was inevitable...

Carlos was a dead man walking now, I knew that much.

"Stop giving her false hope." I heard the words of Gilliard and sighed at them. He wasn't wrong.

"I think we all need understand Carlos's possible outcome. Gilliards right, false hope isn't going to help anyone." My shoulders shrugged and my gaze met that of my feet, I was more upset over the news than I should have been.

The quiet that came from everyone at my comment however seem to thunder in my ears. It was Vee that shattered the quiet as she made her statement known... rather loudly I might add.

"Why are you all looking at her like that?!" I frowned at my fidgeting feet and looked up seeing the three sets of Lycan eyes staring at me in both shock and wonderment.

"What did you just say?!" Lewis asked quickly turning my body abruptly to face him, his eyes darting from my own left orb to my right.

"I said Gilliard is right?!" My frown deepened as the three wolves began a series of comical glances to and from each other then all attention landed back on me.

"Right about what?!" Gill was slow expressing his words, waiting with an eager appearance that had me more confused than ever.

"About Lewis's statement giving out false hope..." My ears were once again met with quiet as the men all stared at me in bewilderment while Vee just looked extremely confused, even I will admit that my own confusion was growing by the second maybe I needed to explain myself? . "I'm upset too, me and Carlos, we had bonded in the dungeon and after everything, but realistically he's not going to survive the next full moon..."

"What do you mean Gilliards statement? He  didn't say anything?" Vee looked more befuddled than upset now as my own head darted from one person to the next. Huh? I had heard him with my own ears.

"Yes he did! I heard it." I was not backing down, of course he said something, there's no way I was crazy enough to be hearing things that weren't said.

"No... I didn't." Oh great, were they trying to prank me or something? I finally met Gills eyes and raised my eyebrows at him, already bored of his little joke, however my jaw ended up slack in shock as he spoke once again, only his mouth didn't move at all and his eyes had glazed over as if blocked off from the world around us. "I never said anything... I just mind linked Lewis..."

Holy shit... holy shit. He was mind linking?

I swear his voice sounded as clear as day, it was as if his words were being physically vocalized. My eyes naturally widened quite comically I imagine as I stared at the alpha wolf in front of me. I could hear him... I really could both hear and understand his words, as if they had simply been spoken.

"You can communicate through mind link?!" Lewis basically shouted which caused Gilliard and Oliver to wince at the volume.

"Well, the moon goddess did say I could, but I haven't been able to yet..." I stared at Gilliard and tried to force my brain to conjure up its own sentence. Maybe Gilliard would be able to hear me too. 'Can you hear me too?"

No reply basically meant he couldn't. I slumped feeling a slight ache in my head at the pressure I had put in it.

"That will come in handy during the fight." Oliver entered the conversation as his hand clutched at Vees tightly.

"So does that mean your a wolf now? You haven't been marked or anything, but you're able to converse the way lycans do." I shook my head rapidly at Vees thought process, I wasn't a wolf, I would never accept being a wolf, but I guess this did mean I had certain abilities that put me on a much similar level as the lycans.

"I'm not a wolf... but I am definitely favored by their goddess, for some reason." It was fairly undeniable now, the moon goddess and half the population expected me to usurp the king and claim equality for the world, and honestly, for the first time in years, with the way I was feeling, I couldn't help but actually believe that both peace and diversity were finally attainable and actually within reach.

“Look, I really need you’re help Dylan, I need to see my dad, he’s been marked against his will, he’s going to die alone and isolated, can you please use your sway with the moon goddess, plead for his life. I’m begging you, Please?!” I couldn’t burden the goddess Luna yet again, I had already drew too much of her power when I took on some gifts, that not obviously included mind link, but I could understand where she was coming from.

My mother had been killed, and I know for a fact I’d I had known the kings intentions or had the chance to speak to her one last time, then I would have done anything to take it. Vee had that option. She was just too out of reach for her to do anything.

“Give me two days…” I stated finally after thinking over my options as quickly as I could in the span of the seconds I had in reality. “I will attempt to set up a viable phone call between us and him, if this fails then I will try to speak to the moon goddess again, but that is a last resort. I don’t want to anger her, she paired me with josh, and that was before I mouthed off to her, imagine what she’s do if I did genuinely piss her off.” I cringed slightly, she may have blessed me with god knows what, but I was still scared of her.

“How the fuck do you expect to open a phone link with a prisoner of the palace?” Ahh Oliver, I honestly thought he knew me by now.

“Haven’t you figured it out yet? Anything is possible with a bit of hard work.” I smirked and nodded my head cockily, finally, a job that I was good at.