Chapter 21

Erin’s POV

My heart fell into my stomach as I stared into Henry’s eyes. He was looking at me fondly and had a faint smile on his lips.

He doesn’t find anything odd with what he had just asked.

He stared at me with such curiosity lingering on his face.

I glanced at Gavin briefly who was leaning back in his chair with his arms folded across his chest, finding amusement in what was going on in front of him.

It was obvious he had done this.

I touched Henry’s arm gently, keeping my eyes steadily on his.

“Henry?” I asked, keeping my tone low. “Are you there?”

“Of course,” he said, furrowing his brows together. “Is this your fiancé?”

I pressed my lips together and glanced at Gavin.

“Whatever you did to him, reverse it,” I say through gritted teeth.

Gavin smirked.

“I don’t know what you are talking about,” he said, a twinkle of humor in his eyes.

“Gavin, please,” I say, softening my tone. “Reverse this…”

He stared at me for a moment longer before sighing.

He turned to Henry, and I watched as his eyes darkened. Henry was captivated by Gavin’s eyes, staring into them with his body relaxing and his breathing softening.

After a moment, Gavin blinked and leaned back in his seat, breaking his hold on Henry.

Henry looked confused for a moment before meeting my eyes.

“What just happened?” He asked.

“Is it you?” I asked, keeping my eyes on his.

“What are you talking about?” He asked, glancing at Gavin.

“We need to go,” I said quickly, grabbing his arm. “Right now.”

He gave me a worried look, but I refused to meet his eyes this time. I slid out of the booth with Henry trailing behind me. He still looked confused, but I wasn’t going to explain to him what was going on in front of Gavin.

I knew it was a bad idea to meet with Gavin.

By the time we got back to the car, Henry snapped me a concerned look.

“What the hell happened? Did I erase his memory?”

“No,” I say to him, peering out the window at the coffee shop. I was expecting Gavin to emerge from the shop, but he didn’t. “He was too powerful.”

“I have never failed before,” Henry said, also staring at the coffee shop. “How had this happened?”

“He got to you before you could get to him,” I say to him, honestly. “He made you think I was your sister and that he was my fiancé.”

“What?” Henry gasped. “How could he be that powerful…”

“I don’t know, Henry. But we need to go.”

“Could he be a member of the Moonshadow? Or maybe a Killer?” he asked.

“I don’t know…” I say in return, peering over at his questioning face. I would hate to think that Gavin was a part of the Killer organization. But I don’t think he was a part of the Moonshadow either.

“You don’t think he’s a member of the Killers… do you?” I asked raising my brows.

He didn’t answer me as he threw his car and drive and began driving away from the coffee shop.

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Gavin’s POV

“You’re just going to let her leave?” Roman asked, annoyed.

“For right now,” Gavin said in return to his wolf. “I can’t just keep her hostage. But now I know that she’s way more special than I knew. They both are.”

“They have abilities.”

It was true; both Erin and Henry had special abilities. Which meant that they could either be members of the Moonshadow or the Killer organization. Erin most certainly wasn’t dangerous; she wouldn’t use her powers to terrorize those without powers.

Henry on the other hand…

“You are thinking she’s a member of the Moonshadow?”

“I am,” Gavin confirmed.

The member list is extremely private; not even Alphas are to know who members of the Moonshadow organization are. It made Gavin even more curious.

Gavin could feel Henry in his mind, trying to alter his memory and make him forget what he had seen at the restaurant. Making him forget that he saw Erin causing the sky to produce rain from the clouds.

Was that her power? Manipulating the weather?

Gavin was way too strong to be easily tricked by Henry’s memory manipulation though; as soon as he felt Henry wiggling his way into his mind, he knew he could have a little fun with this.

Gavin stood from the booth and made his way outside; Henry’s car had gotten smaller in the distance. He had to admit that his heart ached to know that Hannah went with that guy. There was something about him that Gavin didn’t particularly like, and he couldn’t figure out why.

“Because he has our mate,” Roman told him.

“Yes, but there’s something else,” Gavin said in return. “And I’m going to figure out what it is.”

…

Susanna’s POV

Susanna sat in her studio, painting the portrait she had previously ruined. She couldn’t stop thinking about how she randomly got to that restaurant. It wasn’t a restaurant she would have ever been caught dead in.

Her bodyguards also had no memory of getting there either.

She shook her head, trying to recall something, anything. But nothing would surface in her mind.

She placed her paintbrush down and went back to her desk across her studio, sitting down she glanced down at her hand. She had a vague memory of putting a ring on her finger and announcing to the kingdom that she was to be married to Alpha Gavin.

But the ring no longer occupied her finger.

Had she dreamt that?

The memory was so distant that it almost felt like a dream.

She furrowed her perfectly trimmed brows together as she opened her desk drawer; she placed the ring in there for many nights since finding it in Gavin’s nightstand last month; the last time they made love.

That was when Gavin cherished and ravished her, but he’s been different lately. He’s been distant and unlike himself.

She had a feeling it had to do with that she-wolf he had mentioned during their last encounter. He had called her by this she-wolf’s name.

What was her name again?

Erin?

She had to be mistaken; there was no way he would have fallen for another woman. There was nobody better than Susanna. The entire world knew that.

She grabbed her phone and dialed the number to Gavin’s office. It was in the middle of the day, and she knew he would be working.

“Gavin Pierce’s phone,” Beta Seth said on the other end.

“Hello, Beta. This is Susanna. May I speak with Gavin?”

There was silence on the other end for a moment.

“Miss Susanna?” Seth asked, confusion clear in his tone. “I’m sorry, but Gavin isn’t here at the moment. May I take a message?”

“I just wanted to speak to him about our engagement,” Susanna said, a frown deepening on her face.

Where had he gone to at this hour? She was going to ask, but Seth spoke first.

“Engagement?” He asked, even more confused. “I’m sorry for my confusion, Miss Susanna. But I was under the impression that your engagement ended…”

Ended?!