Chapter 18 Betrayal

Ava's POV
A hand held me up and I looked and it was Adele.
"Adele," I felt a little unsteady on my feet and swayed to steady my weight. "When did you get here?"
"Just now." Adele grabbed my arm, her eyes full of worry. "I wasn't at practice, and our place was attacked."
Is it?
So this one was a pre-planned surprise attack?
The leader on the other side, seeing the growing number of rescuers, shouted with a wave of his hand.
"Retreat!"
In an instant, several smoke bombs exploded from all directions, and the forest was a white mist. The wolves that were attacking just now neatly stopped moving and started running around, Aaron immediately led the men to chase them, but only caught two of them.
"Stay alive." Sam shouted at him.
However these two were not breathing when they were brought over.
I took a break and went up to examine their corneas and tongues, which in just a few minutes had taken on a dissolved state, and there was a bitter almond taste in the mouth.
"It was suicide by taking poison." I said, looking up. "They should have hidden the poison in their teeth in advance."
This group is simply too organized and disciplined.
Aaron's chest rose and fell, stood in place for a moment in silence, turned and left in stride.
I looked at his back as he left and gritted my teeth and shouted. "Can no longer chase, they are scattered to escape, chase up may have an ambush."
But his footsteps only paused for a few seconds, and he soon walked forward again.
"Not to mention." I felt like I had a lump of coal in my throat and it was hard to make a sound. "The talent here needs even more protection!"
Injured children, and the elderly and pregnant women, these are the people who need his Alpha presence more now.
"Tom is dead." I finally couldn't stop my tears from falling. "Tom is dead."
I repeated the phrase, not knowing exactly what I wanted to say, but just feeling extraordinarily sad.
"Is your practice to take people all away and expose those who should be protected to danger?"
"Don't say that, Bertha."
Sam sighed and walked towards me. "We wolves are in a special situation, these guys have always been set up that way, and no one expected this to happen, did they? What needs to be done now is to find out who the killer is."
Just after these words, a cold laugh came from the crowd, sounding sarcastic and cruel, completely different from the current atmosphere, and everyone turned their heads, trying to find out who it was.
In the midst of an anxious silence, Edna slowly walked out of the crowd and came to me. "Wasn't it you who put everyone in danger?"
"What are you talking about Edna," Sam looked like he was already a little angry. "Is this how you treat a clan member who just came back from the war?"
Aaron frowned back and glanced at her impatiently before coming to me. "I'm sorry that this happened."
He was actually apologizing to me.
"It was a dereliction of duty on my part to put everyone and you in danger."
I opened my mouth, before I had time to speak next to another sentence.
"You don't need to apologize to anyone."
"That's enough!" Aaron was clearly on the verge of an outburst, heckling so loudly that even I was shivering with fear.
Edna looked even more aggrieved, and tears even welled up in her eyes. "But what did I say wrong?"
She said loudly, and I had never heard her voice so loud.
"It was obviously her who attracted the other wolves and caused everyone to get hurt." Saying that, she took a step closer towards me, and her tone became soft and pitiful once again.
"I just don't want to see people get scammed."
"You said not to continue chasing the people across the street," she said, looking at me, speaking one word at a time very slowly. "Was it fear that our wolves might encounter an ambush, or was it fear that their losses would be greater, Bertha?"
In an instant, everyone's eyes looked this way, everyone stopped all their movements, and all kinds of questioning and probing eyes like a knife enveloped me in the center.
But to my relief, the group of people who had just experienced life and death together turned their attention to Edna instead.
"You shouldn't talk like that, Edna," Anna said, holding herself up and staring at her. "You should apologize to Bertha for all the rude remarks you made."
"I don't think I'm being rude." Edna turned her head to speak and looked at me again. "All that matters is clear only in her own mind."
"Say your words clearly." I closed my eyes and quickly opened them again, staring at her while my heart raced.
Edna shrugged her shoulders with a helpless look. "I've made it so clear, and you still don't understand what it means?"
"Do you really not understand my words?" She took another step forward, her nose just two inches away from mine. "I guess it's not too late if you apologize now and quit the Blue Moon Pack immediately."
"No." I tilted my head gently and gave her a smile. "Why would I leave Blue Moon Pack, I'm doing fine here, I like everyone, and everyone likes me."
The words seemed to have angered her. She was like a cat whose tail had been stepped on and quickly took a step back, and her face turned ugly.
"All right, fine." Edna nodded and repeated mockingly. "People like you."
"Then I'll tell you now.Bertha," she said, raising her chin. "We found some letters in your room, just as the other side came to attack."
This can't be, I thought quickly, all the special letters I had exchanged with Bright Moon Pack were burned as soon as they were read, and I could guarantee that they wouldn't even have any ash left.
"Then why did you go to Bertha's room again and take something as personal as a letter?" Anna looked very angry.
"Everyone knows that Bertha is a doctor." Edna said. "The first sign of an attack should have been to protect important resources in the wolf pack, and Bertha's room should have been part of that, and we thought there might be some medicine in there."
This reason does not seem to have anything to criticize.
Edna saw that I hadn't said anything and thought I was being weak-minded, and continued. "It was an emergency and some letters were accidentally spilled. We noticed that the letters were not only from you and your sister, but also from the correspondence with Blue Mountain Pack."
The people around started whispering.
"Maybe it's just the letter from before." I heard someone whisper. "What is there to bring out and evaluate in these things?"
"Keep your mouth shut." His companion warned him in the same low voice. "It was the Blue Mountain Pack that just attacked us."
The other side stopped talking.
Blue Mountain Pack is a very special pack of wolves. Among the many wolves, they not only do not reject weapons, but rely on it to take a place in the pack.
They are used to fighting with knives, and daggers.
And from the attack just now, and the wound on the injured person is not difficult to see, the enemy that just attacked, is Blue Mountain Pack.
Gradually, the children who were still standing behind me were pulled behind by their parents. I looked around the week, Anna was still standing in place with one hand touching her stomach, looking at me very blankly, seemingly not understanding what was happening.
As for Aaron, he looked at me from the time Edna was saying her first words, and his eyes fell on my body without moving away, unable to see any expression.
I felt a little dizzy in my head and my throat felt like it was blocked by something. It took a long time before I took a few deep breaths. "What else, you finish at once."
It was probably because everyone's reaction made her feel that her words had gotten a surprising effect, and Edna's expression became richer and richer, and her tone was harsher.
"I've heard that Blue Mountain Pack has been recruiting wolf doctors lately. An organization that's been around for so long and there's a shortage of wolf pack doctors? Don't you think that's ridiculous?"
I don't find it ridiculous. I just find it pathetic.
Indeed, it is important to know how important the wolf pack doctor is to a wolf pack. Simply put, the wolf pack doctor holds the health condition of the whole pack, so it will definitely be a person from the clan.
No one would want to trust an alien wolf pack doctor to treat them unless there were special circumstances; everyone would choose the healer.
Yet the healers can only heal injuries, but cannot maintain the health of the clan.
That's why Aaron had to trust me. The Blue Moon Pack was made up of a mess of people, and there wasn't a single serious wolf pack doctor.
Aaron finally made a move and he looked over at Sam.
I can't quite grasp what that means.
But Sam understood immediately, and with a quick glance at me, he said. "Blue Mountain Pack did put out a recruitment announcement two weeks ago, and that recruitment was public and is now able to be seen."
The atmosphere began to freeze as Sam took a step back with his head down, standing behind Aaron's shoulder, and just as he did, everyone followed his movement and took a step back together.
Now they are all standing across from me.
With a person's distance between us, Aaron and I faced each other, neither of us averting our eyes first.
"Okay." I ended up with a fake easy smile, throwing away everything in my hands, Tom's belt knife, and the medical bag I'd been carrying. "It's time to choose."
"Do you trust her or do you trust me?"
It seemed like just a short moment when the leaves fell, or as long as a few months, and all I got was endless silence.
"You should have left a long time ago." Fog said without the slightest hint of emotion.
I laughed to myself and answered her. "You're right, it's long past time for me to go."
"I don't understand how one word out of her mouth can make you believe everything, believe that I save people before I kill them, believe that I'm some kind of Blue Mountain Pack doctor."
I stared at him with a deadly stare, my heart cold as a stone. "If I were a traitor, I should have just killed all of you inside and outside!"
"There is simply no need to spend so much effort to cure you, nor to do nothing for so many days until you come to ask me now!"