Chapter 45 - New revelations

**Zandras pov**

It’s happening tonight, the unbinding. How I pray for it to be the last time. How I pray Luna through Hope this time will end the devil’s life.
I woke up this night, hearing him call to me. Visions showed his face as he spoke to me. He does that from time to time, especially when he gets stronger. I know he has this twisted idea that he loves me. He told me as much one time when he had his moment in front of the mirror. I remember the first time I saw him after the cave. On the battlefield with Aayla. He looked at me as if I was a vision, as if I wasn’t real. When my arrow hit him, a shiver of joy went through my body. As he went down, all I wanted was to hit him again and again, but his children dragged him away. It was after that he started to reach out to me, often through the mirror. I know I could do the same thing, but I never have. I will never let him see me, not until its time and that time is when he dies.
For me, it’s just a reminder of what he did. Charming me before destroying me in the worst way. But I know how to handle him and if given the chance, I will help her kill him. But for now, I try to ignore him.
I block him out of my mind and walk to the kitchen. I light a cigarette and inhale deeply. The nicotine does little for me but it sooths my nerves a little.
I check the time. Reece is picking me up to drive me to the packhouse in two hours. After smoking one more cigarette, I go up to my room. I look at my cane leaning against the wall. I don’t really need it, it’s just to make the picture of “the hag” more accurate. Ive been around for a long time. Aayla wanted me to stay with her children, to protect them. It was her dying wish. So I did. Over the years, many moved away, created their own packs and spread out over the globe. I couldn’t follow them, so I stayed, watching over the wolves of Great Falls, the last home of Aayla.
I take my cane and walk down and out of the house. I walk through the forest I ran in as a young girl, I pass the bat cave were Ambrogio broke my spirit. I reach my beautiful lake that healed my body after Ambrogio tore it apart.
I sit down by the trunk of a very old oak. I follow the inscriptions carved into the hard wood with my fingers.
***Aayla: Daughter - Warrior - Mother - Luna - Mate - Sister***
My fingers linger a while at the word sister, and I feel the familiar lump in my throat.
“I miss you so much. I long for the day when I can join you in Heaven. I think this time will be the one. The girl is strong and stubborn, just like you. She looks like you too, so much that sometimes I almost forget myself. Tonight, your wolf will be unbound. It’s gonna be so nice to meet her again. It’s been a long time... Let’s hope she doesn’t need to sleep again. If Hope manage to kill Ambrogio, I will talk to the Gods. Maybe Luna can stay with Hope if she has a child.
Oh well, time for me to get back. It was good talking to you Aayla. I'll see you soon.”

As I walk back home through the forest, I stop outside the bat cave.
The memory doesn’t bother me so much any more, its been a long time.
And I have lived a good life, several in fact. And I have had many lovers over the years, both real ones and casuals. Humans, warlocks and wolves. I have given birth to children, not immortals like me so I have seen them die but I still have great grandchildren alive. Many of those born as witches moved to packs around the world, to help keep my word to Aayla and look after her children. Those born as wolves has stayed here or moved to other packs after meeting a mate..
Callum is a great grandchild of mine, but he don’t know that. Not yet, if the time comes, I will tell him about his legacy.
As I stand in front of the cave, I suddenly feel a sharp sting in my left temple and I know its from Ambrogio. I fall to my knees and wait for the visual connection.
Sometime he connects with me without warning, usually when he is asleep and the dreams are about me.
The vision comes, and it’s a memory. It’s the first battle when I hit him with the arrow dipped in Aaylas blood. I saw and felt the vision from his eyes. He was watching me and his heart pumped faster, his chest got warm and something happened with his heart. The shield weakened!
The connection broke. I was still on my knees, panting. Under all these years, he manage to hide this from me. I was his weakness, I was the one who could make his heart penetrable. This is a game changer. I can help Hope and Luna to stop him once and for all, kill him. I get up on my feet and with a smile on my face I hurry home.

**Hopes pov**
I am standing in front of the mirror, Cathy and Maya did a real good job. My hair is flowing free in beautiful curls over my shoulders and down my back. My face looks completely healed, if you don´t concentrate on looking for the bruise. My dress is beautiful. It’s long and made of real silk, the color a mix of light green and silver, depending on how the light hits it. It has thin shoulder straps and a deep back. The fabric drapes loose over my breasts before it tightens around my waist and hips. A high slit makes it flow around and behind my legs as I walk.
“You look beautiful..” My mother says with tears in her eyes.
“Callum just linked, he is on his way to come get you” Cathy says while finishing her makeup. They all looked as beautiful as me. My mothers dress was in navy blue. It had short sleeves, a round neckline showing a little bit of cleavage, a broad belt and flowed loose around her legs. My mother was only forty-six years old and she was a very beautiful woman. Maya wore a dark pink off shoulder dress in Audrey Hepburn style that hugged her thin waist and showed her long legs. And Cathy, she was the prettiest little thing I’ve ever seen. Her dress vas strapless and long in a baby-blue color that went perfect with her short dark hair. She looked like a tiny princess rebel which would explain her next move.
“Gather around!” She said after walking over to the dinnertable and grabbing the schnapps bottle on her way. She poured four glasses, my mother tried to gently decline but Cathy wouldn’t hear it.
“A toast! To this quartet of awesome beautiful girls, may the dogs downstairs choke on their drool!” We all laughed before tilting our heads back, downing the strong, pink liquor.
A knock is heard before the door opens. Callum and Zandra comes in and Callums eyes find me immediately. They shift from dark to light and he doesn’t say anything. I walk up to him and give him a kiss, his arms goes around my waist and he pulls me closer. He was dressed in dinner jacket with black tie and he looked stunning.
“Hrm, snap out of it brother!” Cathy says, rolling her eyes. Callum leans his head against mine and closes his eyes. When he opens them, Beacon has calmed down.
“You look beautiful, I will have a busy night fighting off males I suspect” He smiles and kisses me one more time before letting me go and turning to the others.
“You all look beautiful ladies” He compliments
Zandra walks past us, in to the room. She is looking outstanding as usual. A dark burgundy dress with a high neckline and long sleeves would look chaste on anyone else, but on her..It made her radiating power, she looked regal.
“Okay, you can come in now” Callum is calling out to the hallway.
Thomas stepped in to the doorway, holding hands with his little sister.
He is wearing dark blue slacks, a white short sleeve button-up shirt and a cardigan for the evening is hanging over his arm. Stylish dark brown leather shoes makes him look a little bit older. Annas dress is pink with dark blue flowers draping her waist and flowing down her sides, she has dark blue sandals and a hairband in the same color.
I feel my heart swelling in my chest at the sight.
“You look adorable Anna, and you Thomas, are very handsome!” They both smile, happy with the compliments.
“Shall we?” Zandra asks and put her arm out for my mother to take, escorting her out of the room. Thomas and Anna followed, and after them the rest of us.
We heard the voices of the guests downstairs and as we started down the stairs, they all silenced as they looked up on us.
Callum introduced me to several Alphas, betas and others and it was soon a blur of names and faces. He could tell and wrapped his arm around my waist, kissing my temple.
“Alpha! Miss Hope!” Kevin called us, standing at the left wall of the room. We walked over and I was happy to see a face I recognized.
“Kevin! I’m glad you are back on your feet.” Callum said
“Yeah, I’m back to normal, feeling great actually. Let me introduce my brother! James, this is Alpha Callum and his mate, miss Hope.” He says, tapping the back of a big man standing beside him. When the man turns around, I cant belive it. My face splits in two when I smile and shout out “ Jesse?! Oh my God! I cant belive it!” I throw my self around his neck and he hugs me back, laughing,lifting me from the floor and spins me around.
It all happened very fast after that. I hear a load roar as I’m being pulled off Jesse and put with Kevin, as I turn around, Callum has Jesse pinned to the floor, claws and teeth out.