Chapter 20

It's four a.m when I abruptly wake up. I saw Dakota in my dreams telling me to wake up and come immediately.

"Weird", I mutter and change from my shorts and sweatshirt to my ugliest pair of sweatpants and sweatshirt while taking the clothes that I just changed from in my hand as I go downstairs.

I go to kitchen first and hurriedly eat an apple before I unlock the door as quietly as I can and change. It doesn't take long before I reach oracle Dakota's cabin and I could barely make out the shape when I shift back to my human form.

Since it's dark, I change to the clothes I brought in peace.

"Seems like you're smart", I hear Dakota say somewhere in the dark.

"Where the fuck are you?", I whisper as I squint and look around.

"I have a lot to teach you", she says and i sense her presence behind me.

She smiles at me, "I thought you would go back to sleep thinking that it was just dream"

"How did you do that?"

"Star anise", she says and start walking away.

I follow her, "what is star anise?"

"It's an ancient herb that is used for good luck, dream psychic, travel charms and clairvoyance"

My eyebrows were pulled together in confusion but I don't say anything.

"Clairvoyance is the ability to perceive things or events in the future or beyond normal sensory contact and if you keep taking it for that reason,your werewolf sense will be very improved even in your human form"

"Oh", I mutter.

"Lesson 1", she states and leads both of us deep into the forest. She stops beside a lake in a clearing. She drops her basket and staff before bringing out a bowl and a plant before mixing it with the water.

"Lesson 2, always be prepared", she tells me before walking over to me with the bowl. She hands it to me "drink"

I look at the bowl unsure and purse my lips, "are you sure?"

She simply nods as I close my eyes and pinch my nose, blocking my sense of smell before hurriedly drinking up the mixture. Surprisingly, it wasn't weird tasting—it was actually a little sweet.

"Why did I take that?", I ask and wipe my lips with the back of my hand and hand the bowl over to her.

She doesn't answer me and washes the bowl in the river before putting it back in her basket. She sits down cross legged beside the bank and nods at the spot in front of her. I sit on the spot and stare at her.

"I can't train you if you have a lot of negative emotions blocking your pathways"

"What do you mean?"

"Mason"

My eyes widen, "how did you know?"

"I'm the oracle"

"Oh"

"He has you feeling so many emotions and it's blocking every growth in you.", She continues, "and we're here now to finally rid of every emotion and every thought about mason"

"The mixture I gave you is nettle and it's used for emotional healing"

I nod and she gives a reassuring smile.

"You have a future here and you're holding on to those strong negative emotions"

I suddenly feel the familiar lump in my throat and I squeeze my eyes shut.

"It's okay", she murmurs reassuringly, "I need you to close your eyes and just focus on mason"

"What?!", I whisper-yell.

"Just trust me and do as I say", I do as she says and close my eyes and focus on mason and only mason.

"I need you to recite these words as the nettle helps cleanse everything about mason and I assure you that you will feel mason fading away"

"Black salt of earth and fire

Grant my wish, listen to my desire

This memory which haunts my sleeps

Blind it here, let this ground be its keep."

I murmur this words continually and soon as I start to feel a sudden heaviness in my chest. After that, i start to feel like my insides are being cleansed. Oracle Dakota has a hand on my head and she's also chanting something but I don't listen to that instead I focus on my insides and my heart feeling lighter.

Like she said, the thought of mason was fading, pain no longer came with the thought of mason, regret, doubt no longer came with him and I no longer felt anything. This seems way too suspicious.

"How do you feel dear?", I hear her far away voice.

"He didn't want me and I'm okay. He rejected me and it's okay. He loved another more than me and I'm perfectly fine now. I've finally come to terms that he clearly didn't want me.", I murmur.

"But you can finally love, trust and feel happy", Dakota says and this time, her voice sounds nearer and clearer. I open my eyes and she's right in front of me.

"You have a purpose and you can finally fulfill it—do you know why?"

I nod, "because I finally let go"

"Do you know how this happened?"

She smiles when I shake my head, "the nettle cleansed your insides, it washed away all the negative emotions that grew in you all these years and the words you had recited were English translated ancient words"

"You were saying something while you had a hand on my head, what was it?"

"Tel tiagre novis tiagre scret curate,it means 'the cure and care of the grace of the ancients,it is for you'"

I nod and wipe my tears, "I'm going to keep note of this"

"Good cause that's lesson 3"

"But keep in mind that the spell just did more than half of the work because you also need to do the rest by yourself"

"How?"

She gives me the smile that Mary gives me when she she's cooking up something devious, "you have to love"

"Love who? because I don't know if I can look at Sebastian that way"

She frowns and rolls her eyes, "not Sebastian you nitwit, Alpha Casper"

I look at her in disbelief, "you must be joking", I deadpan. She rolls her eyes again, "your future with alpha Casper will still happen, the only thing you both are doing right now is delaying the process"

"What the fuck? I can't even say anything with him saying that I'm 'disrespecting' him"

"Deny it all you want, it's just a matter of time"

I shake my head, "I don't have to force myself to love him"

"End of that conversation because now we have serious matters on our hands"

Her face turns serious so fast and I match her face. "Now that your pathway is unblocked, you can finally start seriously training because what is coming is too big for me"

"What do you mean 'what is coming'?"

"Javier is needed, it would've been better if he got the gift of the oracle but it skipped him"

"I don't get your point"

"He's more special than that", she pauses, "he has phoenix blood in his vein like his mother, like me but the blood in him is stronger"

"What does it mean, what do you mean?"

"Your purpose is too learn everything from me and protect him when the time comes"

"Dakota can you just tell me already?"

"Alpha Casper will explain"