Chapter 332: Chapter 332

Lila’s POV

We didn’t waste any time running in the direction of the screaming and growling. The closer we got the angrier the growling had gotten.

My heart was pounding wildly in my chest as we broke through the clearing and saw Jazzy standing before a large black beast with piercing red eyes. Hazel was standing between them, and she was the one screaming at the black wolf to stand down; tears were streaming from her eyes.

Jazzy looked messy; her long black hair was no longer in a tight bun at the nape of her neck, it was let down and loosely around her shoulders. She had dirt all over her face and her clothes were torn. She had scratches on her pale legs and arms and her eyes were dark with fury.

She no longer had darkness swirling around her and I noticed the sky was back to normal and no longer swirling with darkness.

What happened to the dark curse?

Had it been broken?

A large black beast was towering over Jazzy and Hazel and growling angrily at them.

“Alpha, what is going on?” My father said, stepping toward the black wolf who I knew was Alpha Jonathan.

“Get out of my way, witch,” Jonathan’s wolf sneered as drool dripped off his large white canines.

“She is powerless,” Hazel cried. “You can’t do anything more to her. She’s mortal now. Please.”

“She tried to kill my daughter,” Jonathan hissed. “I will have her head for that!”

“Alpha Jonathan, stand down,” my father ordered.

“We are on MY territory,” Jonathan growled, his voice booming across the forest and causing my skin to crawl. “You have no control over me here.”

“As head of the Alpha Committee, I order you to stand down,” my father said firmly, using his Alpha voice, which didn’t seem to phase Alpha Jonathan in the least.

His red eyes were fixed on Jazzy who was sneering at him in return.

Without thinking, I ran toward them. Enzo tried to grab my arm to keep me by his side, but I was too quick for him to grasp me and the next thing I knew, I was standing beside Hazel in between Jazzy and Alpha Jonathan.

“You don’t want to do this, Alpha,” I said breathlessly, staring into the eyes of his beast.

“Get out of my way,” he growled through his teeth, still fixing his eyes on Jazzy.

“If you take her life, you will never come back from that,” I told him, trying to keep my voice as calm as I could manage.

“I’ve taken lives for a lot less,” he scoffed.

My stomach tightened at his words.

“Alpha, Jazzy has done a lot wrong. Death would be an easy way out for her,” I said, trying a different approach.

Jonathan had fallen silent upon hearing my words and for a second, I thought I saw his body freezing.

“She deserves a lot worse than death. She hurt a lot of people and killed many in her path. She conjured darkness and tried to wipe out an entire race of wolves. Death would be too good,” I said firmly, folding my arms across my chest.

He stared at Jazzy for a moment longer and then his eyes flashed to me.

“She tried to kill your daughter, but she didn’t succeed. She tried to kill me and all the other Volanas in the world, but she failed to do so. She tried to take over this entire nation using darkness as her ally, and she failed. She is the cause of many deaths and now she must live with the fact that she was unable to avenge the death of her parents—”

“You fucking bitch!!” Jazzy hissed.

I turned in time to see Jazzy lunging at me, but Hazel was too quick and used her powers to freeze Jazzy in her spot.

I had Alpha Jonathan where I wanted him, but that one thing caused his attention to return to Jazzy and he growled loudly at her. His eyes were venomous, making a chill creep up my spine.

Enzo was quick to be by my side, protectively hovering over me.

“She’s right…” sounded a weak and familiar voice in the distance.I turned to see Sarah, being held by Brody who looked worn out.

Sarah was incredibly pale, and her face looked almost lifeless. She had blood on her face from when her nose bled after she used her abilities to get rid of some of the rogues earlier in the fight. She was holding onto her stomach as if it pained her and I noticed beads of sweat forming on her forehead and dampening her hairline.

“Sarah…” I breathed, my heart squeezing painfully in my chest.

Her eyes weren’t on me though; they were on her father.

“Jazzy tried to kill me… but she didn’t,” Sarah breathed. “Dad… I’m alive… for right now.”

Her voice faded once she spoke that last sentence and it snapped Alpha Jonathan’s eyes to his daughter.

I could tell speaking hurt her; she was sounding breathless, and her voice was nothing more than a whisper.

“Please don’t kill her because of me…” Sarah continued after a short pause.Alpha Jonathan finally stepped back away from Jazzy and turned fully to face his daughter. Within the eyes of his wolf, I could see the pure sadness and it broke my heart entirely.

“I’m really sorry…” Sarah whispered as she shut her eyes and allowed her body to go limp in Brody’s arms.

“Sarah…” Brody spoke in a broken whisper. His entire body began to tremble with agony and I knew his wolf was struggling to keep himself under control.

His mate was dying and there was no telling how long they had left.

Brody knelt to the ground, keeping Sarah in his arms, and I saw tears springing free from the corner of his eyes.

I found myself going to them and kneeling beside Brody, trying to provide him with some type of comfort. I placed a hand on his shoulder, trying to keep the tears from my own eyes.

Nobody dared to speak.

Alpha Jonathan was quickly by our side; he was no longer in his wolf form. I hadn’t even noticed him shifting back and getting dressed until he fell to the ground beside his daughter, fully dressed and breathless as if he had just run a marathon.

“Sarah,” he said, placing his hand on her forehead. “Let me see her.”

A growl emerged from deep within Brody’s throat, making Alpha Jonathan freeze and look at him with a raised brow. Brody kept his arms around Sarah, and she kept her face buried in his chest. Her eyes were still closed, but she was shivering like she was cold despite the sweat that was pouring from her face.

“Brody, he’s her father. He’s not going to hurt her,” I said gently. “Let your mate go.”

“Mate?” Alpha Jonathan asked, snapping me a look.

I ignored his look and kept my eyes on Brody.

“Brody…” I said again, trying to keep as calm as I could. “Release her…”

Alpha Jonathan looked between the two of us before he fixed his eyes on Brody.

“I just want to see my daughter,” Jonathan said, oddly calmly.

Brody’s breathing seemed to have lessened and his body relaxed slightly as Alpa Jonathan took a hold of Sarah and pulled her onto his lap. Sarah managed to bury her face in her father’s chest and let out a soft and weak cry.This was the first time I had ever seen them embrace and it tugged at my heart.

“I’m so sorry…” Jonathan whispered to his daughter. “I tried so hard to find a cure… but I failed you. This is all my fault.”

“A cure?” Hazel asked, furrowing her brows together as she stepped toward us.

Jazzy was being taken away by Beta Gamma Jack and Donovan, so Hazel was able to join us as we clustered around Sarah and Alpha Jonathan.

“A cure for what?” She continued to ask, eyeing Sarah carefully.

“She was cursed as an infant,” my father explained to her, keeping his eyes on Alpha Jonathan like he expected Jonathan to say something.

“Who in their right mind would curse an infant?” Hazel asked, raising her brows as she too fixed her eyes on Alpha Jonathan.

Alpha Jonathan stared at his daughter for a long while; she was no longer crying. Her eyes were closed tightly, and I knew she was trying to fight whatever pain was coursing through her body at that moment.

“The woman I had an affair with…” his voice drifted off leaving his words in the air.

We all stared at him dumbfounded.

“What?” I found myself saying, breaking through the silence that surrounded us.

“I cheated on Sarah’s mother with a witch…” Alpha Jonathan explained weakly, not looking at any of us. His eyes remained on his daughter’s face. “When the witch found out I had a family…. She placed a curse on them. She wanted me to suffer knowing that I was the cause of their suffering… the curse already killed my wife… now it’s going to take my daughter as well.”

My heart fell deep into my stomach and soon, Sarah’s eyes were opened slightly, and tears were clear within them.

“Dad….” She breathed, barely audible.

“I’m so sorry….” He said her. “I wish I could take it back… I wish I could take all of it back… I was the reason your mother died. I’m the reason you are hurting… I’m the reason you are—” his voice broke off; he couldn’t get the last word out and I couldn’t blame him.

“Do you know what curse she placed on your daughter?” Hazel asked, furrowing her brows together.

“I don’t know what it was called…” Jonatan admitted. “But every time she uses her powers, she gets sicker. The witch said it would be the cause of her death…”

“And I’m assuming this witch is no longer around if you hadn’t tried to find her to break the curse?” Hazel asked, looking between all of us.

“She’s dead…” Alpha Jonathan breathed. “Only the witch who cast the curse can break the curse.”

“That was the case at one point, yes,” Hazel agreed, simply. “However, I don’t think that’s the case now.”

Jonathan gazed up at her, narrowing his eyes.

“You mean there’s another way?” Alpha Jonathan asked, his voice rising.

“I’m saying Jazzy cast a dark curse on this entire nation and it certainly wasn’t Jazzy who broke the curse,” Hazel said glancing at Enzo before looking at me.

I don’t understand. Was she insinuating that we were the ones who broke the curse? Enzo didn’t seem as surprised by this as I was.

Did he already know?

Hazel didn’t wait for us to process this information before she continued.

“With Enzo and Lila’s love and light, I think they might be able to break Sarah’s curse.”