"What do you mean by she is not here? If she isn't here, then where is she?" Azrael hollered as she stood to go and find Jasmine, however, before she could go and search for her, her hand was gripped by Damien, who looked at her with a cold smile.

"Not so soon, Azrael. I didn't say I was done with you." Damien said coldly before looking at the guards. ​​

"Guards, Chris, Sean, go find the girl. Miss Azrael, however, will be staying here to tell me the truth." Damien said with a cunning smile on his face.

"Damien, this is really not the time to be talking. We need to find her as soon as possible before her powers engulf her and hurt more people than she'll be able to take." Azrael said, her eyes pleading with Damien.

"Damien, let Grandma Azrael go. I am here. I'll tell you all the truth. Okay? But please let her go. You don't understand the severity of the situation because you don't know the real facts, however, once I'll tell you everything, you'll regret it, but till then, it'll be too late." Daniel said, pleading with his eyes as Azarel did.

Looking at Miss Azrael and then at Daniel with scrutinizing eyes, Damien sighed loudly before leaving her hand.

"It better be worth it." He said to Azrael, who nodded in agreement.

Nodding at Daniel one last time, Azrael closed her eyes before lifting her body in the air and disappearing.

"Now, about the truth, would you like to come to my room to tell it, or continue here itself? I am fine with both." Damien said, turning to Daniel, who sighed in defeat.

Though he was one of the strongest Alpha, he knew that he was no match in front of Damien, and now that Damien has seen Jasmine and their protectiveness towards the girl, he has surely become suspicious and won't leave things alone.

Reaching inside Damien's room, Daniel stood in the balcony before starting,

"Remember when I suddenly came to your door that night and told you that I was leaving Pearly Canines? It was because one hour before that, Grandma Azrael came to my door, knocking hurriedly. She was worried and well scared. That's when all of this started." He said remembering that night when he was balling his eyes, thinking that Victoria was dead.

He was still not able to unravel why did he felt such a connection and love towards her, and now that he knew she was gone, he felt this unending pain in his heart that was becoming unbearable for him,

Knock! Knock!

"Who's there?" He had asked, not in the mood of talking to anyone.

Knock! Knock! Knock!

Feeling annoyed, he stood from his sofa, feeling his wolf urging to come out and shred whoever it was on the door.

It better be important."

Opening the gate with a jerk, he was shocked when he saw a very scared-looking Azrael standing there with what looked like a coffin beside her.

"Step aside. Let me come in. I can't get caught." She said hurriedly before pushing him aside.

"Grandma? What are you doing here? And what is this?" He asked, looking at the coffin that looked exactly like the one in which they had buried Victoria.

"Don't ask anything. Pack your things. You're leaving the area with her." Grandma said before hurriedly picking up a random suitcase and rushing his clothes in it.

"With her? What do you mean by her? What is in that wooden box? Or, let me rephrase it, who is there in that wooden box? I am not leaving until you tell me everything." Daniel said with resolution-filled eyes as he inched closer to the wooden box to open it.

"Don't touch it!" Azrael suddenly yelled, throwing Daniel away with her powers, making him hit the wall before he landed on the ground with a thump.

"No one can see her, or the spells will stop," Azrael said, panicked.

"She… She is… She is Victoria. It looks like she was able to fall into the water before her soul left her body completely, however, the sacrifice spell has destroyed her body terribly. You can't see her, you won't be able to bear with her condition right now." Azrael said before falling to the ground and crying.

"Grandma, sshh…tell me about it. I promise I'll do as you say." Daniel said, hugging his Grandma.

"She… She sacrificed herself on the spell. The spell has destroyed her completely. Her body parts are barely intact, her insides have muddled. She is barely breathing with only half of her heart working." Azrael cried in the grief of her child.

"But, then the girl you brought-" Daniel asked.

"She was a dummy illusion that I had created at the last moment before taking control of Victoria to a safe place. If I had taken her out at that time, then she would've died on spot.

Inside the wooden cabinet, I have spelled the water to remain intact. It is damaging her body parts more, but till the sacrifice spell is over, I can't take her body out." She cried more, remembering her dismembered granddaughter.

"So what do you propose, Grandma. We leave with her just like that? I can take her out, but what about Alexander? He is her mate." Daniel said even though it painted him to say that.

"Let him be. He'll be able to survive without her for few months. He is a king. But if we take her to them, with her wolf trying to get back to her, she will die with the internal forces in her body. Even now, I am not sure, if she'll survive this. Also, it looks like she has thrown her wolf or rejected her body to her wolf." Azrael said, making Daniel look at her in shock.

'Just how much have you sacrificed, Victoria?' Daniel thought while looking at the coffin as he noticed black water coming out of it.

"I need to change the water again. Her powers are trying to heal her, but with the sacrifice spell in place, the more they heal, the more she is losing the hope of living. But if they don't keep healing her, she'll die within a minute." Azrael said before closing her eyes and filling the coffin with clean water, making the dirty water come out of the coffin.

Looking at the black water mixed with blood and traces of what looked like her body muscles and mass, Daniel gagged, feeling broken.

'The pain he was feeling or alexander was going through was nothing in front of what she was going through.' He thought, his heart aching for her.

"Grandma, let me tell Alexander about my leaving the pack. Till then, you arrange for how to bring her out of the pack without being noticed. Make necessary changes, and also, find a place where we can keep her hidden." Daniel has said at that time.

Hearing Daniel's words, Damien gripped the sheets of his bed clenching them in a fist.

His love was going through soo much pain, and he was not with her at such tough times. Even the thought of it was making him feel self-disgust.

"Then, what happened?" Damien asked, more like whispered.