"What?" Fenja furrowed her brows. "I didn't touch her!" She retorted.
What kind of rubbish Nadia had fed Rachel? It was so far from the truth.
"LIAR!" Rachel was furious. Fenja was scared, she had witnessed how fierce the former luna Rachel could be. "GUARDS!"
It was a testament for his status as a luna. Even though she had stepped down and now Fenja was supposed to be the luna of the pack, those warriors listened to her more.
Upon being summon, four guards entered the room and held Fenja's body down to the floor. Out of instinct she retaliated, but one of them clasp a silver bracelet around her wrist, which hurt her beast and prevented her from shifting.
"What are you doing?!" Fenja screamed, she was in pain, her wolf was on edge because of the silver.
As a shifter, silver was their weakness. They wouldn't be able to shift if they came in contact with the silver. It burned their skin.
"Luna, should we do this?" One of the guards questioned Rachel. Their conscience told them it was not the right thing to do, but it was the former luna that they were talking to. They had followed her for decades.
"All of you can leave now," Rachel said. "Leave!" She raised her voice when the four guards just stood there and didn't listen to her.
"All of you need to leave," Nadia said, as she opened the door for them.
Leaving with no other choice, the four guards left and Nadia closed the door behind them, but not before she said to keep this as a secret from alpha Shayne.
"Do you bring that?" Rachel asked, her voice filled with malice.
"Yes, here, mother."
Fenja felt sick to her stomach to hear how Rachel allowed Nadia to call her 'mother', while she was not even allowed to look at her direction.
The last year was a nightmare when she had to cope up with Rachel, since she moved to the pack house once they discovered she was Shayne's mate.
"I should have done this long time ago." Rachel's voice sounded creepy, one could see her malicious intention in her eyes.
Meanwhile, Fenja was in so much pain because of the silver bracelet on her wrist. She couldn't mindlink anyone to help her. She was already very weak because of what Shayne and Nadia put her through.
"Please, don't…" Fenja watched Nadia handed Rachel a small bottle of liquid. She didn't know what it was, but she was sure it was not something good.
"Drink this without making a fuss." Rachel knelt down so she could face Fenja and meet her eyes. "Drink this on your own, or I will force it down your throat." Rachel was serious when she said that. She didn't hide her hatred and disgust toward Fenja at all.
The liquid inside the bottle could be poison for all she knew.
"No!" Fenja struggled, she tried to get to her feet and run away from this room, but the silver made her extremely weak, and Rachel managed to force her down to the floor with only one hand.
"You make things difficult for yourself! I should have done this long time ago!" Rachel didn't have patient for this, she instructed Nadia to hold Fenja down, while she made her drink the liquid forcefully.
"No! Let me go!" Fenja tried to push away Rachel's hand, but she opened her mouth and poured the liquid down her throat, while Nadia held her body down. "Shayne! SHAYNE!"
Fenja kept calling his name when the liquid moistened her throat, she could feel how cold it was, but the moment it fussed in her system, Fenja felt her body was burning with so much pain. She was screaming and kicking, but she couldn't overpower these two people.
Right at that time, someone opened the door, it was Shayne.
"What are you doing?!" Shayne screamed at them and pushed them away from Fenja, but the harm was done and now Fenja could feel her body was being burned from inside.
The pain was not like something she had ever felt before.
It melted her bone and burned her brain, her blood was boiling and what was scarier was the fact she couldn't feel her wolf!
She felt her wolf before, though she was very weak, but after she drank the liquid, her wolf's existence was gone!
What's going on? What liquid was that? Was that really a poison?
There were a lot of questions in Fenja's mind, she also heard Shayne argued with his mother and Nadia, but she couldn't comprehend what they were talking about. Their voice sounded very distant.
"Sh- Shayne… it's painful…" Fenja whimpered and now after the burning sensation subsided, her body became very cold. It was so cold, as if she just got out from a frozen water.
The last thing she remembered before she lost her consciousness was watching how Shayne's anger tapered down upon seeing Rachel's tears.
***
Fenja didn't know how long she had fainted, but when she regained her consciousness, she felt extremely weak. She couldn't even move a finger.
More so, she was alone in her room.
She wanted to call someone, anyone, but there was no sound from her opened mouth and after some time, Fenja fell back into sleep. She was spent, exhausted mentally and physically.
The second time she woke up, she found Shayne was sleeping next to her. He smelled like whiskey, as if he had gobbled down a few bottles of it. The smell was very strong and he knew that she disliked this.
Fenja moved her body and this woke Shayne up. He looked around him groggily and found his mate was awake.
"Are you, okay?" Shayne kissed her cheek, which made Fenja wanted to winch.
She found it was unbearable to be so close with him. Probably because of the strong smell of alcohol, but his touch was no longer comforting.
"Wh- what happened?" Fenja looked around her and she saw the sky had turned dark.