Reborn- His Scarlett Moon

” Why is this place so crowded? Who are all these people? ”

Sherry asked as she made her way towards the store room.

Josh was right behind her.

” They are not normal people Sherry. They are like us… ”

Sherry had not been coming for work for about a week.

Ever since her night with Ryan, she had been feeling some strange discomfort.

Ryan had specifically asked her to stay home and rest. He went to check on her every night and came back with the morning sunrays.

She was back that day, after her little break.

” All of them? ” She asked, looking at a hall room full of werewolves for the first time in her life. Ryan and his boys never felt that alien but it was different for those present there.

Each had distinct features. Each had a different kind of eye.

” Is something happening? Like do you have any festivals or something? What’s the reason for the gathering? ”

Josh, chuckled.

” Nah! Not a festival. We are preparing a party. A different kind. ” Josh winked.

Sherry ignored the stares and the whispers that some of them gave her as she walked by.

Ryan had already briefed them about the entire situation and also about Sherry.

Some left immediately. They said they didn’t want to have anything to do with packs or the past, they were happy in the life they were leading.

As for the others who stayed, they were more than happy to finally get reunited with their long lost family. They said the only regret they had was not getting searched for earlier.

The ones that stayed were definitely lucky.

Little did they know that Sarah and the rest of Helo’s minions were being mobilized every night.

They were part of a sinister search party that was tasked with gathering the souls of as many werewolves as possible, but silently. They targeted the scattered ones and they fell immediately.

Helos himself was hibernating.

He was replenishing himself for the final showdown before his rise again.

He had lost his strength significantly with the unplanned events in the last battle.

He had been waiting eagerly for Sherizad to be born again. He was waiting till she was old enough to reclaim her fate. He was waiting for her to fulfill her curse and reverse the wheels of destiny. Helos took her away from her biological parents, the moment she was born. The man she had always been calling dad was nothing but a mere puppet under Helios’s hand. He had saved Midnight, her best mate as his card of ace and re-baptised her soul as a human and forced her proximity to Sherry’s innocent soul.

Over the years, Helos had been busy, subtly disrupting and disturbing Ryan’s peace but with the entry of Sherry into his life, Helos got a new leash of life. He used up every bit of strength left in his dead breast, to conjure up the deadliest of plans, which was yet to unfold.

Ryan had been fighting with his inner thoughts about whether or not, to let Sherry know about the past that he had. About the look alike that he died and lived for.

He wasn’t very sure how she would take in all that but it was very clear that Sherry was already included in the game of wits that he and Helos was playing at the moment.

Under the normal circumstances of the curse that Helps placed on Ryan and Sherizad’s soul, it was forbidden for them to get intimate. But Helps let them loose for this instance. He let the curse loose for a few couple of times at the expense of himself, which he aimed to recuperate from with the souls that Sarah and her team collected.

His aim was to intensify the curse. Trigger it to the maximum level. Ryan and Sherry had no idea what their proximity was going to cost.

After getting her job done at the storeroom, Sherry went inside Ryan’s cabin.

” You called? ”

She asked, her eyes glistening with the excitement of seeing him all alone, after the entire day.Ccontent © exclusive by Nô/vel(D)ra/ma.Org.

It was already evening.

The lights in the office were on.

Ryan pointed to the chair in front of him and said,

” Sherry, please have a seat. I have something very important to tell you. You must listen very carefully. ”

Sherry looked concerned but she listened immediately.

” What happened? Is everything alright? Did something happen?”

Ryan shook his head. He came forward and sat below her, his hands over her knees as he began.

” Nothing happened Sherry. I just wanted to clear things with you. I wanted to talk about the past. My past. ”

And then he slowly began narrating everything, from his first encounter with Sherizad to their adventures, her marriage, the battle and finally her departure.

Sherry listened to every detail with wide open eyes and ears.

It was like she could finally connect the dots of deja vu and flashbacks. Finally it made all sense. A thousand scattered dreams, all sewn together. Sherry had no idea how she got the glimpses from the life of that great werewolf queen, her lookalike. But now she knew that her visions and thoughts had some meaning, they were not random fragments of her imagination.

However, despite the realization of that fact, Sherry strangely felt a sting of jealousy. Jealousy towards that unseen love rival.

Her eyes naturally moistened as she looked up at Ryan and asked,

” So that was the reason you liked me. That was the reason for your infatuation. ”

Ryan didn’t know how to react as she stood up to leave.

He didn’t know if it was Sherizad that he loved when he fell for Sherry. He, himself, had no clue.

He tried to catch her arms and pull her into a hug as her foot took a step outside. He was about to reassure her with a kiss when she suddenly said,

” Is it me you are kissing or is it Alpha Sherizad’s face that you are thinking of in your head? ”

Ryan immediately let go of her hand as Sherry ran home.

She ran home as her eyes burnt and it kept getting hazy from the tears that were rolling.