I swallowed hard, looking around corners of the room for cameras or anything that told me that the Fae Lords might be listening.
That’s when I noticed the thick golden chain bracelets that they each wore. An exact match to the ones on the Fae Lords’ wrists. Was that how they siphoned their powers?
They seemed to pick up on what I was doing.
“Natalie. Link us,” one of Brayden’s brothers snapped.
Natalie stepped forward and her eyes glowed yellow.She held out her hand and one by one they all reached forward to touch it like a team going in for a huddle.
Everyone looked at me expectantly.
“I don’t remember anything,” I said, and understanding broke out into their faces.
One of the brothers reached out and took my hand softly, laying it on the pile, and instantly I felt a pressure in my mind.
‘They can’t overhear us now.’ The voice of Natalie invaded my mind and my eyes widened.Her lips hadn’t moved.
‘Tell us everything, Lena. Where is my wife?’Brayden’s brother growled next to me.
Oh, that’s why he’d tried to hug me in the beginning.He must be Castiel.
‘I’m not sure I’m Lena either. I’m... my name is Averly. I’ve only been a werewolf for a few days but I displayed Greywolf powers and I’ve had some memories of Brayden and all of you so I’m either Lena… or Wren.’I thought the words and they must have gotten through because they all gasped, looking at me with emotions that ranged from excitement to shock.
Castiel reached out and stroked my cheek but I stiffened, causing his hand to fall away.
‘If you displayed Greywolf powers, you are my Wren. Lena’s powers were stripped.’
Hearing him call mehisWren made my stomach flip over. He seemed like a slightly shorter but still well over six foot, leaner and less grouchy version of Brayden. I couldn’t go wrong there, but he wasn’t Brayden.
‘But Wren doesn’t reincarnate into different bodies like Lena!’Natalie said into my mind.By the looks on all of the surrounding faces, they could all hear us no matter who spoke.
‘The night Wren broke out of here forty years ago, she met with the Elder Fae,’ I told them and they all went rigid.‘She told him she found a way to break Lena’s curse. To take it on herself. Then she showed up to Brayden and Lena and… Brayden woke up and they were both gone.’
Castiel whimpered next to me and his hand went stiff between ours.‘So now she reincarnates as well?’he asked, his deep blue eyes boring into mine.
I nodded.‘And we think she could be my best friend, Leah, that I grew up with who recently got bitten.’
Natalie shared a look with her sister.‘Two bitten wolves in one week by chance? That’s not normal.’
I wondered if it was fate that changed me into a werewolf or my stupid self for following blood into the forest.
‘She woke up from healing after her bite and… she remembered Brayden,’I told them.
They all went very still.
‘What did she remember?’Blake asked.
‘Brayden’s coronation, big events like that, but she can’t remember who she is.’
Natalie nodded.‘Doesn’t matter. She remembered Bray, which makes her our sister, and you have Greywolf powers and memories, which makes you our sister too.’She reached out with her free hand and squeezed my arm.
‘It matters to me. I want my wife!’Castiel snarled and I went rigid. The way he said it wasn’t in a scary way but in a way that made me think if I were to tell him I was Wren he would take me into the next room and deflower me. Heat flooded my cheeks.
One of the brothers with short-cropped hair shook his head and chuckled.‘You guys, she doesn’t remember us. You are totally freaking her out.’
Blake reached out and smacked him in the chest.‘Axel, that’s not helpful.’
He caught her hand midair and kissed the top of it, winking at her, which caused her to visibly swoon.
