Chapter 38

Xavier's pov.
I knew there was no way I could convince Lsabella, I didn't even dare to ask her if she loved me, I could only pray that my love, which didn't mean anything to her, would be enough for me to get a little hesitation from Lsabella.
But she simply looked me in the eye and I knew she had made up her mind.
Sure enough, everything is not as simple as I thought, although I was given the opportunity to chase Lsabella, but she is not going to stop and wait for me, the gap between us will have to be crossed by my own efforts.
I looked up in the night, I had decided that whether or not Lsabella would be angry with me for taking the liberty, but her purpose was clear, a moonstone.
I decided to try the cliffs on either side this evening, and if I could pull it off, Lsabella could have an extra helping hand.
Of course, the best case scenario is that I get the moonstone in advance, I make such a big feat, Lsabella will have no reason to blame me.
I showed up at dinner time and Lsabella was sitting around with the Alpha's. She didn't say anything after seeing me.
Lsabella seemed very stable, but I couldn't do it. I left the campfire with my share of dinner and I planned to go to the tent area to eat and then wait a little before heading out.
I met the Charlotte in the tent area next to Jasper, the woman flashed a very inexplicable smile towards me, but my instincts had long ago told me she was not a good person.
I grabbed my dagger and blocked Charlotte's hand that tried to touch my arm: "Stay away from me and Lsabella."
"Oops!" Lsabella immediately showed a surprised expression, but her attitude was still frivolous: "You're so loyal, Lsabella may not pity you either."
"Just mind your own."
I watched indifferently as Charlotte left the tent area and headed off into the wilderness outside the camp.
Where was she going with this? Was she also thinking about the moonstone? Or is she also part of the people who have been messing around with Lsabella more?
I'd better get the moonstone first.
I climbed up through the gentle slope in the dark on both sides of the cliff above the cliff on both sides of the crevice, the deeper I went, the deeper my heart sank.
Although the crevice is only a short distance away, after that there is a huge space, but no matter how far you go, this cliff is steep enough that it is difficult to reach the bottom of the valley safely unless you are a creature with wings.
So this time the information passed back by the explorers of the joint forces was accurate enough.
Undeterred, I kept going forward until I went down another slope, and I found myself surprisingly walking to the exit of this river valley.
It was wider than the gap and could be passed normally. But on both sides of the road, the walls are covered with a dense vine plants, full of leaves in the night can actually see all the eerie green light.
Intuition told me that these plants are not simple, I stood at the door and hesitated.
Just when I was assessing the consequences of my rash entry, I noticed a sudden dim glow at the end of the road.
It glowed dimly in the night and seemed to be some kind of lamp, swaying slightly.
I drew my dagger in a flash.
It was a person, and she was wearing a cloak as dark as the night, with a pointed horn at the end of her hat.
I suppressed the anger that burned in my heart for a moment, and the urge to transform my form.
This was a witch, and the one I hated most, and I would never forget her for the rest of my life.
She stopped a long way from me.
This witch seemed to be scrutinizing me, her face hidden in the shadows of her cloak and the overlay of the night, but I remembered her scent, which was a mixture of evil and malice.
"Young man, not only have you survived, you've grown up quite well."
What a light tone, as if the change in my life had nothing to do with her.
I forced myself to calm down from the tremors of anger and excitement, and if my remaining sanity hadn't driven me to calm down, I might have rushed up and bitten the witch's neck.
But I couldn't be so impulsive, I had Charlotte behind me, and I needed to think about her.
"Why are you in this valley? Is the moonstone your plot? Was that werewolf sent by you too? What do you really want?"
A series of questions were thrown at me, but this witch would not answer any of them, instead she inclined her head to look at the vine plants around her.
"These plants are called blood vines, carefully cultivated with ancient secret techniques, and if you don't know how to avoid its spell, you can only get out, not in. Otherwise these plants suck away your consciousness."
Sure enough, the witch bred the malevolent creatures, but I didn't know what she was telling me this for.
"I asked you if the moonstone was real or not! What exactly are you plotting?"
"What does it matter if it is or isn't real? Aren't you or that woman, or your brother, all going into this valley?"
"The woman? What does all this have to do with Lsabella!"
I was afraid of the trauma this witch had caused me by throwing me off the cliff, but I could not tolerate her involvement in Lsabella, and I would never allow her to be harmed.
The witch began to say something vague: "It is her fate and her choice, what does it have to do with me?"
I sneered: "Then it was my fate and choice when I was thrown off the cliff by you?"
The witch fell into silence after a short while before she spoke slowly: "...what happened back then was indeed my mistake, I did not understand how to treat a pair of brothers...I have since reflected on this issue and also took in the brother of a pair of brothers, but it seems that I did not rely on on the crystal ball to make much right decision.
But will not apologize for my actions, now oriented to the outcome is our inherent destiny. Believe it or not, the moonstone is here, but I advise you in advance, the blood vine poisoning time is about three hours, you want to play the wrong idea also need to consider the time."
The witch suddenly said such a big paragraph, and then just turned around and left.
I didn't have time to digest all the information and stepped forward to catch up with the witch, and at that moment, the blood vine at the entrance suddenly reached out towards me as if it were alive.
I jumped back violently and fortunately was able to avoid it.
Moonstone and consciousness-sucking blood vines, I silently thought about what the witch had told me, and actually had an idea in mind.
By the time I returned to the camp, it was almost dawn.
One by one, warriors began to prepare the equipment needed for today's operation.
I immediately noticed Lsabella in the crowd, I don't know why she looked very bad, but her eyes were still firm.
I wanted to go up and care for her, but she was standing next to Jasper, I remembered what Lsabella and I said, I silently stopped in my tracks.
Lsabella was already wearing her equipment, and I noticed that she had several daggers with her, so it seemed that she had already considered the possibility of a rebellion.
I wanted to tell her the information I now had, but I was afraid Lsabella would ask me why I knew this.
Lsabella suddenly noticed me, she did not have any expression, just a deep look at me, but I noticed her tired face and the red blood in her eyes in this glance.
My heart seized hard, Lsabella has been working so hard for the moonstone, what am I still concerned about?
I immediately linked up with Lsabella's mind link, and then the link was broken in my head in a flash.
I looked at Lsabella in disbelief, and she refused to link with me in the first place.
This was the first time this Lsabella had ever done this, and I had never experienced anything like it before.
But why was this? Fear came back to me, was it because of our argument last night? Or was it because I hadn't been back all night and had made Lsabella angry?
Why was it? I was so anxious, I felt like rushing up and asking for clarification.
But it was too late. I watched Lsabella enter the crevice.
I covered my heart button, suppressing the pain that flared up here, and I told myself over and over again that Lsabella had just gone to get the moonstone, and that she would not abandon me.
But I was also turning away, damn the witch, she really seems to have calculated everything, including Lsabella into the crevice, but also my crossing the blood vine bush.
This could really be our destiny.
Jasper's pov.
Too much time had passed, and I waited anxiously outside the crevice, but Lsabella seemed to have disappeared without any news.
It doesn't take much energy to play a calm figure, but I was repeatedly in this outward calmness and inner torment, and I wondered in many moments what the point of doing so was.
Perhaps I had never met someone like Lsabella before, and in my previous experiences, both the suffering and the joy were all mine alone.
Although Olivia has been by my side since she saved me, she really has no talent for this kind of thing, and she hides behind me most of the time, so much so that I always thought that my mate should be this kind of existence.
But Lsabella was so special and so vivid that she broke all my previous perceptions, and even though I had resisted it all so hard at first, I was surprised to find out now that I had long been changed by her.
"Mr. Aaron? Have you heard anything from your Beta?"
Hearing my question, Aaron made a meditative state, and soon he looked up again.
"It seems Vincent knows witchcraft, and he is casting a spell on the thorn bush."
My mood, which I had sorted out, cracked at that moment, why was this matter related to witches? This search for the moonstone was really full of surprises and risks.
Although every Alpha present hated witches, none of them had what happened to me.
Ten years ago, the witch destroyed a life that I could have scraped together.
My parents still wanted to protect me at the time, but only if they could find my brother under the cliff. But the moon goddess did not give them what they wanted, and their wonderful son was left with only a pool of blood and no remains at all at the bottom of the cliff. Surrounded by the tracks of wild animals and signs of struggle, there was absolutely no way my poor brother could have made it through on his own.
I had never hated a person like that before, and our parents succeeded in making me vicious. Let me not feel love, let my heart only calculating.
So why does this place have to do with witches? Is it still the woman? She's back again?
I laughed softly, she should not have come back to die, because I must kill her this time.
So where was my brother? I looked up for a moment, and it occurred to me that I hadn't seen him in what seemed like forever.
"Mr. Jasper?" Aaron suddenly came up.
I withdrew my attention, "What's up? Is there anything new?"
"Nothing yet," Aaron glanced up at me, then said vaguely, "Maybe they've gone in."
This vague attitude made me feel nauseous, and it was more effort to communicate with an Alpha than with my Gamma.
The good thing is that although there are differences in our goals, all the Alpha's attitude towards this matter is the same, that is, to achieve it as quickly and smoothly as possible.
Felix looked seriously at Aaron in front of him, and I think he even felt some regret now, after all, Aaron and the warriors he sent in were so unreliable.
"It's come to this, I hope there is nothing hidden between us. Now what exactly is happening inside leaving?"
Hearing Felix say this, those who had noticed Aaron's abnormality and those who hadn't, now came together.
"What's going on in front of you, Mr. Aaron, just tell us."
Aaron's sweat was already about to drip down, and my heart was seized, did Lsabella suffer an attack?
Damn! Lsabella has to be worthy of my trust to do so.
Aaron took a few deep breaths, then delivered the horrifying news: "The captive has turned against me.
"The captive has revolted...he attacked my Beta and Miss Lsabella! Miss Charlotte seems to have passed out!"
"What?!"
Nothing is worth holding back and covering up anymore, I grabbed Aaron's arm.
"What else? Is your Beta still alive, is Lsabella injured? Didn't that rogue just get injected with inhibitors? Why did he still have the strength to attack them both?"
This barrage of questions sent the stupid Alpha into an even greater panic, and he seemed to have given up thinking, looking at me blankly, then shaking his head sluggishly.
I raised my hand and slapped him, a crisp slap that focused the others: "You'd better clear your mind and tell us what you know. the Blood Moon Pack Alpha and the only captive we've captured who knows the Moonstone's secrets are in there!"
"My Beta is badly injured and the breath I feel is very weak...so I don't know about Miss Lsabella's condition..."
I no longer had any hope for Aaron, I was blind to believe that his Beta could have protected Lsabella at the critical moment.
But the question now was why would the rogue who had just been injected with an inhibitor have the strength to attack them both?
But this thought was just a flash, now rescuing Lsabella was the most important thing.
This will have to rush to send someone to enter? Would they encounter the hooligans who had ambushed them...
"Report!" A soldier guarding the side of the crevice suddenly ran over.
"The captive is now about thirty meters into the crevice! He wants to see Alpha!"
That captive actually came back?
I rushed out at once, what did it mean that he was the only one?
Only to see a man standing far away in the narrow gap, the bright red color of his body and the smell of blood wafting with the wind told me he had just experienced a vicious battle, when the gap went in four people, he fought with who did not even need to think. The thought of it made me want to rush in and crush his neck.
"Where's Lsabella?"
Vincent is back against the wall, hearing my hiss, he immediately tilted his head and laughed: "You are really affectionate, everyone else cares about the moonstone, only you think about your MATE first."
I was about to bite my mouthful of teeth: "Tell me! Where is she!"
A rock-like object was thrown out by Vincent, landing on the ground and rolling all the way out of the crevice.
I immediately bent down to pick it up.
"Be careful, Mr. Jasper!"
The caution of the man behind me disturbed me.
It was a piece of cloth with a piece of stone wrapped inside.
I opened the small package with a shaking hand, the stone fell down, a Beta reached out and caught it, and the others gathered around.
I recognized the cloth from Lsabella's coat, and the bloodied strand of hair on it was the same red as Lsabella's flame.
I clutched this strand of hair in my palm, I have been an Alpha for so many years, it has been a long time since I have experienced such a feeling. vincent simply does not understand that he has completely angered me, my ensuing retaliation, so cruel that no one in the entire east continent can protect him.
But I really couldn't move Vincent now either, at least not until I knew the state of Lsabella, and I couldn't even let him know that he was a dying man.
"She's dead?"
"Not yet, but I can't drag her."
My fist clenched tighter, Lsabella's hair about to blend into my palm.
"What's your deal?"
What Vincent had just thrown over was just an ordinary rock, but the greed of the human heart was already starting to show at this point.
They, the Alpha, were the same as the three old men from the Blue Moon Pack, guys who were obnoxious but had to get along with them.
Their attention was now focused on Vincent again.
The crowd peering at Vincent through their analysis irritated him, and he threw back his head and laughed wildly, his head hitting the rocks behind him several times.
"How wonderful, I feel so honored that the high and mighty Alpha's of the continent are paying such attention to me!"
He suddenly put away his maniacal laughter and, with a tilt of his head, fixed me with a deadly cold stare: "I want Jasper to come in alone, no henchmen allowed. You do me a favor and I'll let Lsabella go. do you dare?"
What's so daring about that? Have I ever really feared anything?
"First you say what favor you want me to do for you, what if I can't do it?"
"You can do it."
All right, since the other side is so sure, I don't need to say anything more.
I removed the things on my body that were in the way and threw them to Declan.
"Sir!"
He tried to persuade me, but was stopped by my raised hand.
I sidled into the narrow gap that I couldn't see the end of, and moved forward little by little. I actually expected that I would enter this place, and something as valuable as the moonstone would never be so easy to get hold of.
I don't know how long I've been walking, the scenery around me hasn't changed much, and Declan outside told me that I've been in for half an hour.
But we were moving so slowly that I'm afraid we hadn't advanced much in half an hour.
"How much longer?"
Hearing my inquiry, Vincent in front of me perfunctorily said, "Soon."
Vincent suddenly lunged sideways in front.
I had no time to react and raised my hand to catch the arrow that had been flying over.
Unfortunately, the arrow cut the palm of my hand.
Vincent laughed maniacally on the ground again, "Not bad for Mr. Jasper! I can't believe I wasn't shot."
I broke the arrow in my hand with one hand, my voice low and smooth.
"You want to kill me?"
"How come, this arrow is so thin that it can pierce you in one shot? We just coated the arrow with inhibitor."
I looked at him coldly, as if I were looking at a corpse: "You are not sincere."
"Is Lsabella's life not worth this price?"