Isabella’s P.O.V.I expected a lot of things but nothing like what I was hearing right now. When I hastily ran like a mad woman from an on-going class, I made a dash for the main door and then to my car which was parked right in front of Mason’s; as expected his car was missing which did not help my situation. I was on the verge of a panic attack which was something new to me, I never freaked out about anyone except for my siblings and it was totally acceptable as I knew I loved them more than myself and it made me worry about them; but Mason’s absence was freaking me out just like that and it made me worry about myself.
The moment I reached my car, I realized that most of the car were missing since a lot of people were done with their classes for the day, but Mason wasn’t; so why was his car missing. There was this weird unsettling feeling inside my chest that was increasing by every passing second. I didn’t really know if he was okay or not, so I did what I thought would be the most predictable and rational thing to do; I called him.
His phone rang for a few minutes before disconnecting, he never avoided my calls and that made me worry even more about what was happening. I tried calling again, this time as if the Moon Goddess pitied on me, he picked it up after the third ring, sounding stressed when he asked, “Is everything okay Princess?”
I released the breath that I’ve been holding in for I don’t know how long, when I asked, “Are you okay baby? Please tell me that you are.”
I hear him take a deep breath before he answered, “Yes love. I’m fine but why do you sound so frantic? Is everything okay there? Do you want me come there?”
I shook my head, denying his request but when he didn’t say anything, I realized that he can’t see my actions which lead me to say, “Everything is fine over here. I just don’t know why but I’m not feeling so good since I got your message. I just had to check up on you whether you were fine or not.” I hear him chuckle at my words as he says, “You are worried about me?”
I can’t help the scowl that rises on my face as I murmur, “I don’t care if you think you’re inevitable, I just don’t have a good feeling about whatever is bothering you right now. I had to check god dammit.”
He leaves a loud sigh as he continues to say, “I’m fine love. Don’t worry about me. I’m totally fine, it isn’t me who was harmed but…” The pause in his statement tenses me as well, anticipating over the impression of what happened; I ask him curiously, “But…?”
“It was a pack member, a 17-year old girl” as soon as the words fall on my ears, the picture of an 8-year old Ava comes up to my mind. I can’t help but ask the question that was filling me with dread, “Was she raped too?” He doesn’t respond for a few seconds which feel like hours to me, after a very long pause, he speaks his voice shaky as he says, “She was attacked” His statement doesn’t give much of an idea about what really happened to the victim, I’m about to ask another question when he finally completes the statement by adding, “with Acid.”
“WHAT?” I shout out, loud enough to catch attention from a few passers-by. I’m lucky that most of the people already left and the remaining ones are in class, so that leaves a very small amount of people around me. I mumble a sorry, not directly towards anyone as I continue to ask, “What do you mean by acid? She is an Acid attack victim?”
All I hear is a hmm, I can sense his distress but what can I do to help him? I whisper-ask him, “Is there anything that I can do?” His reply comes to quick as he says, “No love. Just go home and rest. I’ll see what I can do. I have the culprit locked up in the basement, I just have to wait for Tyler to get back from his trip to his in-laws and then he will deal with him.”
I can sense a ‘But’ in that statement which I ask him about, “I sense a but in there, if you have the culprit, what has got you all wound up about?”
He sighs as he says, “I’m worried about the victim, Bella. She is severely hurt, and I don’t know if there is much, we could do to get her back to normal. She is traumatized and in pain, she is in our pack hospital now. But according to our pack doctor, she needs to be moved somewhere else for further treatment. She…”
His pause intrigues me as I ask, “She…?” He hears the desperation in my voice as he says, “She might just lose herself Bella. I saw the wounds and they are severe, there is hardly anything left of the right side of her face, half of her face is not even recognizable.”
“Isn’t there anyone who could help?” I ask him in hopes of helping him find an answer, as I ask again, “Did you talk to your ancestors? They might have said something?”
I expected him to answer that question and then me to help him find a solution but what he says makes me gape at his words, “I did baby. According to the ancestors, there is some special wolf known as the Mystique Wolf, only she can help heal her wounds. But the problem here is, no one has seen one since centuries.”
Did he say, the Mystique Wolf?
“Aurora, is it true? Can we help her?” I ask Aurora.
“Yes Bella. There isn’t much in this world that we can’t do, so yes we can” she replies.
“Wrong time to be an arrogant bitch and if you knew we could help, why didn’t you say so?” I grumble at her.
I hear her chuckle as she mumbles, “If I have to tell you everything, what are you going to do by yourself?”
Uhh. I hate her.
“No, you don’t” she mumbles before disappearing somewhere and at the same time I hear Mason shouting, “Bella… Bella, are you still there?”
“Yeah I’m there” I say, hearing my words Mason notifies me by saying, “I need to go, I’ll talk to you later, is that okay love.”
I smile at his concern as I say, “Yeah that’s totally okay, but I think there is something I can help you guys with. Would you mind if I come over?” I ask with plead in my voice, I know he isn’t going to deny me the right to be there since I’m their Luna and I’ve the right to worry about them just as much as he does. I hear him cough a little as he says, “I can’t stop you from coming over love, but I would like to know, what can you help us with?”
I smile at his cluelessness as I say, “You said, your warrior head isn’t here so maybe I can interrogate the guy in my own way and also I have some healing abilities, so I can try to heal her as much as possible. We can at least try, since I’m their future Luna I have too Mason and I want to.”
I hear him chuckle at my words and I can imagine the smile dancing on his lips at my last words as he informs, “I told you love, I can’t deny you your right. You can come over whenever you want but the interrogation part, I don’t think that’s a good idea.”
“I can handle myself baby, trust me. I know what I’m asking for” I request him, and I know he isn’t going to stop me from doing as per my will when I hear him sigh before saying, “Okay but I’m not leaving you for a minute alone with that asshole down there. Whatever you do, you do it in front of me, Deal?”
“Deal.”
“Great.”
“Send me your location and I’ll be there in a few minutes” I ask as well as inform him about the same. He doesn’t say much and I think he is already texting me the location, my thoughts are confirmed when I hear a ding sound from my phone after which I hear Mason say, “Sent. Check it out and please drive slow.”
“Yes daddy” I reply sarcastically, to which I hear him inhale a harsh breath and curse under his breath as he groans a few times. I am too tired to realize why is he doing, whatever he did; so I comprehend Mason by asking him to do something, “Macey by the time I come, I want you to tell someone to fill a bath tub with milk and then help the victim take a dip in it, whichever part came in contact with the acid should be rinsed properly with milk. Can you do that?”
“Milk?” he asks.
“Yes Milk” I say.
“Okay. I’ll get to it” I acknowledge his reply before saying my goodbyes as I disconnect the call and fix my phone on the stand by the car's stearing wheel as i put in the location, getting settled; I start the car, driving to my mate’s pack; with a thirst to make someone pay for their dirty deeds as well as help another victim to rise up above the evil all over again.