Chapter 15 Monoberry

I smiled at miss Bella, I had heard from Vincent of her act of bravery, I was really indebted to her I didn't even know to begin to thank her, if she hadn't given the clue about Lydia who knew what would have become of me all kinds of thought swirl in my head.

I ended up rushing up to hug her, I didn't know why, but she felt rather familiar to me, Bella went stiff under my hug. He hadn't expected that I'd hug her. I patted her back gently before she relaxed and hugged me back.

"Thank you" was all I could say, I was trying very hard to hold back my tears, which threatened to spill any second.

"It's alright Miss Rachel".

I let her go and looked into her eye's, it felt somewhat familiar like I have seen it somewhere before but I just couldn't remember.

"Just call me Rachel please".

She smiled at me, her attention moved from me to the mini room she was in, the look of fascination in her eye's made me want to hug her more, she walked around and stopped in front of a rare flower and stared at me.

"Wow, is Moon flower seed?".

"Yes, you're correct"

"This is one of the rarest flowers known to man, it is quite expensive and very hard to obtain".

I was so surprised when I heard it was quite expensive and hard to come by, I already knew it was rare, I didn't even think it would be really expensive.

"It could be used In making a lot of things like, sleeping tonic, alleviating difficulty in breathing, nerves calming, above all it is used to create monoberry".

I just stared at her as she spoke. I was really fascinated by her knowledge of plants and their uses, but when she spoke of monoberry my expression darken a little and she stopped talking afraid she might have offended me with her talks.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend you", her voice was a little shaky.

"No no It's not you dear, about the monoberry, it's a poison right?".

"Yes, it is made with moon flower seed as its finishing ingredient".

"It does have a cure for it right?" I needed to know it was really important, it would solve a big problem for me, but a sad look appeared on her face, I already knew the answer to my question.

"Too bad, there hasn't been one I too have tried servally to create a cure but I failed countless times".

So whoever was the culprit behind my mother's death, knew that monoberry had no cure, it was a very deadly poison, mother wouldn't have died if it was a normal poison, hot tears flowed down my cheek when i remembered how she died.

*Flash back*

It was a few weeks to my coming of age ceremony, all preparations were being made, I was finally going to be complete I ng 18, I wanted to find my mate, I had this secret crush in Leo so I just couldn't wait.

I had just finished making a new perfume for my mum. She doesn't really sleep well at night. It had taken me exactly 3 days to finish it. I rushed into her room that afternoon to find her lying on the ground.

I rushed to her side shaking her but no response, I screamed out my lungs, my father arrived and they called the physician of our pack, I saw the black veins on her neck, he diagnosed my mother.

"The lady was poisoned by monoberry"

*Present*

Bella hugged me tightly, patting me gently while I had been sobbing. We had been standing so she slowly led me towards the sofa that laid by the side of the room and we both sat down. I stopped crying and raised my head and looked into her eyes.

"I want to create the cure".

My declaration shocked her but she saw clearly the determination in my eyes, and she smiled at me and nodded her head in agreement to me.

"I will assist you and show you the directions on how to do it".

"Thank you, wanna grab a bite i'm famished".

She smiled at me, seeing how I pulled myself together so fast.

"Me too" she grabbed my hand and we both left the room heading outside the company.

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"He's alive" Peter said in anger, his rage was strong filling the entire room, he was very angry with the witches, they had earlier told him that Zech was dead, but he had seen him in the hospital.

"I.. I don't know how he is alive, it was revealed to us that he died".

The witches shivered in fear, of what he might do to them in his fit of rage, they were scared, he had brutally murdered any one among them who dare to go against them or spoke up to him, he paced around in his study which looked like a room for a king, he stopped and turned to the oldest witch Luisa, he grabbed her by the throat.

"If you don't start speaking the truth, I'll have to snap her neck, and I'll do that to each and Everyone of you if you don't speak".

They all shivered in fear that he would really kill the oldest witch they had.

"Alpha, please we really didn't lie, it what was revealed to us we told you, we wouldn't dare lie to you, please please spare her.

Pearl, the second oldest, spoke, and they all went on their knees, pleading on behalf of their oldest witch. He had already wiped out their clan; what was left of them was not more than twenty, still he wouldn't spare them.

He slowly left the old lady, and she dropped on the floor coughing Hardly due to the impact of his strong hands on her neck, the look on his face was grave, he gritted his teeth in anger.

"So you mean to tell me, the God's deliberately lie to you, to protect that trash, well I just need to end with my own hands"

He walked out of the room in anger, the rest of the witches felt relief when he left.

"You did well for not telling him, I'd rather die than tell him where he is, no matter what he does to you do not tell him".

"But Luisa you almost lost your life" the youngest one among them spoke with tears in her eyes.

"Do you understand me?"

She asked with a scared look on her face, she couldn't risk telling him anything.

"Yes Luisa" they all answered in unison before leaving the room, heading back to their house.

Peter entered the training ground and gathered a few trained assassins among his men, he explained a few details of who they were about to kill.

"I want you to end him once and for all".