Chapter 324: Chapter 324

Enzos POV

As quickly as that dark cloud of smoke came, it disappeared, leaving us speechless in the middle of Hazel’s kitchen. We all looked at one another with large eyes and rapidly beating hearts.

My mother had jumped from her seat and wrapped her arms around me as soon as she saw the darkness leaking in through the window.

“Is everybody okay?” I asked after a few minutes of stunned silence had passed.

Selene glanced down at her body with a brown; she raised her hands in front of her eyes. She first examined her palms, and then the back of her hand. She was quiet and her face had gone pale almost immediately after darkness had passed through.

There was something else different that I couldn’t figure out.

“Selene…” my mother breathed, staring at her with dismay written all over her face. “Your eyes… they’re brown…”

My mother was right; Selene, who had one purple and one blue eye like Lila, now had two brown eyes.

“What does that mean?” I asked, looking at my mother and then at Hazel who was also looking rather pale.

“It means her Volana abilities are completely gone,” Hazel answered. “My powers are gone too… I can’t feel them.”

My heart sank deep into my stomach as I stared at Hazel.

“She had actually done it… Jazzy created a dark curse that makes everybody powerless, including witches.”

My mother stood.

“I’m going to make sure everybody is okay,” my mother said as she turned and quickly left the house.

“If I don’t have my abilities, how am I going to fight and get my daughter back?” Selene asked, glancing at me and then at Hazel.

“Everything is still going as planned,” Xander, who was standing in the corner of the kitchen said as he unfolded his arms and walked toward the table. “The curse has been placed just like Eloise’s vision.”

“What else did Eloise see?” Hazel asked, staring up at Xander curiously.

“She saw a war that everyone was fighting in. I wasn’t in her vision fighting in the war, but I will be there this time. Lila is a little more prepared for a battle as well. She’s a better fighter than she was. It’s to be assumed that she doesn’t have her wolf, so she will have to fight in her human form.”

“But in Eloise’s vision, she saw Lila die, no?” Hazel asked.

Xander nodded.

“As long as we make sure she doesn’t die, that vessel will never be born,” Xander explained. “That’s our main focus. Making sure she stays alive.”

Max began to growl inside of me at the mention of our mate. There was no way in hell that we were going to allow anything to happen to her. But we had to find her first.

I looked at Hazel who was staring down at her bowl.

“We have to figure out where Lila is being held,” I said, trying to keep Max under control.

Hazel lifted her gaze and met my eyes.

“I know exactly where she is,” she breathed. “My spell…. It worked.”

…..

Third Person POV

Jazzy barged into the clinic and stormed over to Hannah who remained very focused on Lila.

“Are you going to be able to save her?” Jazzy asked, peering down at a very pale Lila.

Hannah had tubes and wires sticking out of Lila’s small body. She looked very childlike on the clinic bed. The heart monitor was beeping slowly, but it was steady. It meant that Lila was still alive, which was good. She needed her to stay alive until the ritual tonight.

“Right now, I’m just trying to flush the Starlight out of her,” Hannah explained. “I won’t know for another hour. Maybe.”“The ritual is in 5 hours,” Jazzy said through her teeth. “Will she be okay before then?”

“Again… I won’t know if this is working for maybe another hour. If it doesn’t work, then no… her blood has been contaminated. It won’t be strong enough to work.”

Fury boiled through Jazzy as she clenched her fists. She wanted to punch something to relieve some of the anger and tension she felt.

Those stupid rogues could have ruined everything.

“Her pups are okay… if you even care about that,” Hannah muttered.

Jazzy whipped around to face her, not caring for her tone very much.

“I don’t give a shit about those pups. They aren’t going to live past tonight. What I care about is the Volana’s blood. Your job is to get it ready by sundown tonight,” Jazzy hissed.

Hannah didn’t even flinch at her cruel tone; she straightened her shoulders and stared at Jazzy with a look that almost appeared to be pity.

“I will do my best,” she said in the most expressionless tone she could manage.

Before Jazzy could say anything more, the door of the clinic opened, and Alpha Jonathan walked in.

“What’s going on? I went downstairs and there are 2 dead rogues and—” he paused when he saw Lila lying on the clinic bed. “What happened?” He asked, his tone dropping to a whisper and the color drained from his face.

“What’s going on?” Jazzy spat as she stepped toward him. “What’s going on is that your rogue helpers are incapable of doing simple tasks. They are stupid imbeciles and nearly ruined everything we had worked so hard to obtain,” she seethed, her face heating as anger continued to pour from her.

Jonathan narrowed his eyes at Jazzy, unsure of what she meant, but he didn’t like being spoken to in such an ill manner. Or at least, he wasn’t used to it.

“What are you talking about? What did they do?” Jonathan asked, trying to keep himself under control.

“They gave her Starlight to sedate her,” Hannah explained before Jazzy could utter another word. “Lila is allergic to it.”

“Her blood is contaminated,” Jazzy hissed. “Which means we won’t be able to use it for the ritual tonight… which also means your daughter is going to die from that curse.”

Jazzy could practically hear Alpha Jonathan’s heart falling into his stomach. He staggered backward and his breathing became rash.

“We can’t let my daughter die…” Jonathan said, shaking his head.

This was the first time he had ever shown this level of weakness and Jazzy wasn’t sure what to make of it.

She certainly didn’t like him acting weak. She needed strong allies on her team. This was why she had summoned her coven who should have been protected from the dark curse. It wouldn’t be long before they showed up to assist her.

“Then let’s hope that your rogues didn’t kill your daughter,” she said through her clenched jaw.

She spun away from him, not wanting to look at his pathetic face any longer. Jonathan stood frozen as he stared down at Lila. He didn’t know what to say in response. So, he decided not to say anything.

“I’m going to check on my daughter,” he finally murmured. “Then, I have others who are willing to help us. They are stronger and I’m positive they won’t fuck up.”

Jazzy rolled her eyes.

“More rogues?”

“We are going to need fighters if there is going to be a battle,” Jonathan said, turning away. “I can’t imagine Bastien and Selene are going to go down without a fight.”

Jazzy didn’t bother responding to him. She let him leave the clinic because if he didn’t walk away, she was probably going to rip his head right off his shoulders.

“I will let you know if I’m able to flush the Starlight,” Hannah said, glancing up at Jazzy. “But I can’t do this with you breathing down my back.”

Jazzy didn’t like the tone Hannah used with her and she was about to make it very clear that nobody speaks to her like that. But Zag stepped beside her.

“Let’s give the doctor some space, my love,” he said, wrapping an arm through hers. “We should check on the dark curse and set up for the ritual. Everything is almost complete.”

Jazzy took a deep breath and then nodded, turning away, and leaving the clinic.

They wandered into Jazzy’s new office on the very top floor of the warehouse.

“Everybody is powerless except for those who were inside this warehouse when it was placed and of course your coven,” Zag confirmed.“Excellent,” Jazzy said with a grin. “Once we bring Lila outside for this ritual, that stupid mate of hers will be able to smell her scent and then he will come to find her. We can’t risk anything happening that will ruin this plan.”

“Nothing will ruin this plan,” Zagreus assured her. “Not even this small setback.”

“It better not, or I’ll kill everyone in this warehouse including that doctor and that airhead Alpha.”

Zag snorted at her words.

“It’s ridiculous that he has no idea the true plan,” Zag said, shaking his head. “Does he truly think you care that much to save his daughter?”

“I’ll probably have her kill Alpha Jonathan too, just to get that annoying wolf out of my way. She’s going to be a powerful weapon who can kill anyone in her path with ease,” Jazzy said, chuckling.“You truly are an evil witch,” Zagreus stated with admiration in his voice.

“This entire nation is going to face the wrath of darkness in the form of a young girl, and they are going to lose.”