Alpha's Cursed Mate novel Chapter 47

Estelle's POV

"Estelle."

My consciousness wandered into a void, surrounded by chaos. In the midst of the chaos, a voice was guiding me. I followed the feathery, soft voice as it led me toward a point of light. As I walked into the point of light, its light slowly became blinding and I closed my eyes because of the intense light.

When I opened my eyes again, I was on top of a wasteland. It was a wilderness with no end in sight, only huge rocks and trees that had long since dried up stood in front of me. There was only a pale and huge, broken moon in the sky.

"Estelle." It was that soft voice again, and I ran after it. On the moor, a white figure appeared before me.

The figure in the long white dress had her back to me, her long light blonde hair falling around her waist.

"Mother." I subconsciously shouted out the phrase.

The woman turned to look at me, and I looked at her as if I were looking in a mirror. The woman's softly lined face had aquamarine eyes like mine, and the dark red of the outer edge of her iris loomed.

"He's back, you have to protect yourself and the people you love."

"When you say 'he', is that the man I ran into? Who is he?"

"You have connected everything to destiny. Time is running out, use your powers well."

The ground beneath my feet began to shake, and the ground cracked from the strong vibration. The cracks slowly widened, pulling the boulders and trees of the wasteland into the abyss below.

Mother looked up, and the pale moon seeped out of the blood, reflecting the entire sky into red. The distance between me and my mother was also distanced by the crack.

"I don't understand what you're talking about, how am I going to use my powers?" I shouted to my mother over the loud roar. There wasn't much ground left for me to stand on underneath my feet, and the rift swallowed everything up.

"Trust in the Moon God, the curse of the bloodline will end one day."

Those were the last words I heard before I fell into the abyss, and I awoke from the weightlessness of the fall with no forest or the man in front of me. I was lying on a large, soft bed, and the room was lit only by dim candlelight. It was as if I had been here before.

I finally ran my drowsy head, a windowless room. And the faint smell of blood in the air, this was Noah's territory.

The moment my bare feet hit the carpet, the door lock clicked and someone came in.

"Why am I here?" I asked the vampire in front of me.

"Don't be so wary. You should be thanking me that I found you in a restricted area of the vampire world." Noah's face looked paler than I'd seen it before, and his eyes weren't as brilliantly red. His breath smelled weak; had he been wounded by that strange vampire?

"Forbidden zone?" I asked Noah.

"You don't know? Don't tell me you got lost and broke in again."

"None of your business, didn't you just go into the restricted area too?"

"Of course I can, because I'm the leader of the clan."

"Wait, how do you know where I am? You tracked me?"

"The way vampires mark their prey. You really don't know anything, do you?"

"I have others with me, where are they?"

"Ah, your twin brother and the little she-wolf. They're all here, perfectly safe." I breathed a sigh of relief, but I definitely didn't trust this vampire in front of me. Forget Nathan for a moment, Mia must be in danger here.

"I'm going to go see them." I got up and headed for the door, and Noah immediately stopped in front of me.

"I saved your life, and you don't even say 'thank you'?"

"I haven't forgotten about your previous plans to imprison me."

Noah waved his hand, and the door behind him slammed shut. My nerves were on edge, lest he put another strange collar on me. But he just sat leisurely on the lounge chair, his long legs resting on it.

"First answer my question. Were you attacked in the 'forbidden place'?"

"So, you don't know what's in there either." I wrapped my arms around my chest; he should have only seen the unconscious us.

"I know not to be stupid and barge in."