Chapter 3 KEERA'S FALL

(ALANA'S POV)

"Thief" the distress sound sent a real shock crashing through my heart.

They must have been talking about another thief, right? It cannot...it shouldn't be Keera.

Deep down, I knew the truth but I subconsciously did not want to believe it. It seems too good to be true. The reverend Keera will one day be called a thief, whose life and death are now uncertain.

I couldn't control my legs from moving quickly with the other wolves. I was scared a bit deep in my heart, and a faint cluster of joy was rapidly spreading.

If she dies, no one will stand in my way with Mason.

(KEERA'S POV)

What the heck!

A distress sound for this bracelet, it ain't even costly. It's just wood!

I glanced at the woody but comfortable bracelet in my hand and my entire body was filled with shock. No matter how precious it was, surely it could not be more than my life?

Where am I even headed to? It suddenly occurred to me that I did not know where I was going. I was supposed to find a quiet place to place my blood on the bracelet for it to recognise me, but the distress sound shocked me to the core and made me start running.

"Ehhhh, a cliff" my steps braked immediately as I approached a dangerous cliff. From a distance, I could see the world faintly on the other side.

The world I have never been allowed to explore. The feelings of my childhood suddenly flooded back to me with even more vigour.

I wanted to go down the mountain, I want to explore, I want to be a free werewolf, not a trapped girl in some mountain living off her mother's name.

"Keera!" A deep voice resounded in my ears, numbing my entire body.

"First elder," I automatically responded. The first elder was basically my adopted father; he was the one who was always with me and the main reason no one could bully me to my face in the tribe.

I....I wanted to speak, but his face of disappointment scared me into silence. When have I ever been looked at like this?

"What's wrong? What did I do? I just took this lousy bracelet? Why the look?" I screamed, my heart hurt, my head hurt, and my fragile ego was crushed.

It seems no matter how good I want to be, how I want to prove myself, I will never compare to a bracelet from a dead lady, is that not so unfair?

"Keera, what are you doing here? Step away from the cliff?" Mason thundered right over, at his heels was Alana.

My heart was comforted a little on seeing Alana, and I tried to communicate with her, but she immediately shifted aside.

Huh!

Her behaviour irritated me. We were both in this together, so what was she trying to do?

"Keera, I will only say this one time, and that is because of your identity as a Lovebird, immediately return the bracelet to me and come to serve your punishment?" The first elder's voice resounded again.

I subconsciously wanted to agree but a flame in my heart refused. Why should I be punished?

I refuse!

My voice sounded loud and clear.

"Keera, do not be absurd!" Mason shouted at me. "No matter how wronged you feel, no matter what your reason is, you must come back to the tribe with us."

"No, why is this bracelet even a problem to start with? This belongs to my mother. I want what belongs to my mother; is that not allowed?"

"No one, absolutely no one, tells me anything around here. I have no clue what was mother was like, what she even accomplished, who my father even is or how I was even born. The only thing I know is that I am a lovebird, the person from the chosen bloodline and... I chuckled at the reality of the matter, that's it."

"You do not need to know anything else. The secrets of the world are more fragile than you think. A poke in the wrong place can unleash irreparable damage. Whatever was hidden was hidden for your protection. You have not even summoned your wolf. What makes you think you can handle the weight that comes with secrets?"

"That's the reason!" I screamed at the first elder, fully losing it. "Up to this moment, I have not even summoned my wolf; the reason lies here for all to see. How can I? How can I summon an entity when I am unsure of what I even am? Am I even truly a wolf, I ask myself most times?"

"I don't know who I am, I don't know my identity, this bracelet is the only thing, the only thing that can cause me to find that out." I took a brief moment to catch my breath.

"In fact, I want to go down the mountain? I have a strong feeling, a feeling that whatever it is, you are hiding is down there? In that other world, over there."

"Grab her", the first elder suddenly spoke, he could not be calm to talk nonsense with me anymore.

"Really, you cannot wik my reason so you chose brute force instead?" I screamed, inching closer towards the cliff.

Alana suddenly came so close to me, thinking that she was about to help me find a way to get out of this entrapment, and I even held her hands.

"Keera, each time, you prove to me just how incredibly stupid you are. Why were you even born?" A cold whisper of Alana brushed past my ears.

I almost couldn't believe my ears, almost stumbling from disbelief. I looked at Alana once again, this time closely, and I noticed she had hatred for me in her eyes.

It was so obvious I felt like a fool but not seeing it all this while. "Did you set me up?" I squeezed her hands so tightly.

"No, you did this to yourself?" Alana whispered.

(MASON'S POV)

I was beginning to get seriously worried and freaked out. Alana was just standing so close to the cliff with Keera.

Their body movement showed that something was going on between them but I could not relate.

"Guys, step away from the cliff to talk," I had to speak up. The cliff was so deep that no one could ever survive a fall from there, certainly not two rookie werewolves.

"Is it because of him?" I vaguely heard Keera chuckle, staring at me with wild eyes before reverting back to Alana.

"What is because of me?" I wanted to ask, but I couldn't get a word in because the next moment, Keera.... Keera fell.

What happened?

HOW DID KEERA, WHO WAS JUST TALKING, FALL OFF THE CLIFF?