I know I haven't been able to post as fast as I used to, but hopefully, I'll be able to finish this work as well. I don't want to give up Rejected and Loved because of my lack of time!

But I'm really sorry for being so absent. I'll be back soon!

See you guys; I hope you all like this chapter.

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I screamed so much, my throat hurt. My limbs trembled uncontrollably as I stared at him. Adrian was a wolf. Not a simple one, actually, a powerful werewolf. How could I have let that pass? How could I have been so blinded by love?

Tears fell down on my face. He fastly turned back to a human being, which didn't help much now that I knew what he was.

"Syera..." he called my name delicately. His hand tried to reach me, but I cringed in fear, pressing my body against the tree behind me.

My lips trembled, I couldn't even say a word. I still loved him with all my being, I just... I couldn't deal with him being a wolf, the thing I feared and hated the most, the thing that could tear me apart in a second. I knew Adrian would never do something of the sort, but how could I trust a monster?

"Syera..." he repeated. His eyes were hurt and wet. "It's still me." Adrian's hand stopped in the air, but he didn't touch me as he realized how terrified I was.

It was not something I could control, it was not like I could just tell myself to not fear him. I just felt a growing and pang despair at the thought that I had been beside a wolf this whole time.

I should've known when we mated. It wasn't normal for humans to feel that way if there wasn't a werewolf on the pair. Back then, I was sure I couldn't be the werewolf of the equation.

"Syera, please, my love... I would never hurt you." He took a step toward me. I cringed even more to the tree. Adrian was crying now, as was I. "Don't do this to me, please."

It was all being sucked into a void inside my mind. Not only that memory but all of them. All that had Adrian in it. Soon, I would be free from...

Who was him again? That boy with beautiful black hair and soft hands that said he loved me so much... No, there was no boy. There had never been. I had never mated with anyone, I had never felt that way before. There was just this empty space inside me, proving me that something was missing. Something I hadn't even met yet.

"So...?", I heard and turned my face to the side. Abe was staring at me anxiously. I tipped my head and frowned.

"So what?" I looked down, there were a bunch of plants and flasks in front of me. What the hell was that? I couldn't perform magic anymore, I knew that. I glanced at my beta confused. "What the heck happened here?"

Abe opened his mouth a few times, before speaking. "I don't know, you didn't want to tell me...", he said, slowly, like I was some sort of child who needed to be patient when trying to understand something new. "I think it had something to do with Adrian."

"Who?" I asked. But soon it came back to me. "Oh right, the alpha of the Moonlight Pack. What would it have to do with him?" I got up, leaving all those things behind. Whatever I did or was trying to do, probably didn't work. "Clean up this mess for me, will ya'?"

And then I heard a scream. It was distant, so far I didn't know if I had really heard it. I turned to Abe again, he still stared at me like I was crazy, which I probably was anyway. "Did you hear that?"

"You mean your insanity? How can you ask 'who' is Adrian?"

Not the thing I wanted to hear really. Putting a hand on my chin, I walked to the closed window in my room, opened it and looked outside. My werewolves did training in the garden like nothing happened. "I heard a scream..."

Abe got up and came to my side. "I don't know what to say to you Syera. Are you really okay?"

Was he listening to what I was saying?

I closed my eyes and smelled the air, felt the breeze hit my skin. There was something wrong. It hurt so much, someone was wounded. So far from there and I still could feel it. It was not a werewolf thing, I knew that. There was a connection between me and... Something else.

Abe grabbed my shoulders and turned me to him, forcing me to stare at him. I felt tears wet my cheeks. Why...?

"Syera...", he was speechless, as soon as he saw my tears. "Why are you crying...?"

I shook my head. I didn't know why, just felt it, the pain, the hurt, the treason. "Someone is hurt..." I replied. "I don't know who it's, I just feel his pain."

"Who? You have to know who is that, Syera."

I got rid of his grip and walked around the room. There had to be something I could do instead of just keep feeling like that. And he... He was hurt, but who was him? And why I could feel his despair? Closing my eyes again wouldn't do, I still couldn't see him, not clearly, but what was happening. It had been so long since I last had a vision like that, I didn't remember how dizzy it felt in the end. Sitting down on the bed, Abe did the same next to me.

"They're attacking him. The Moonlight Pack... The mutts, somehow they got stronger. They will not resist."

Abe didn't have to ask me how I knew that, he just understood it and didn't ask anything else about the matter. He knew what we had to do.

"I have to go," I announced, getting up. They would meet me soon. We just couldn't stay there and do nothing. We were going to save that pack.