Chapter 17 : Get rid of the Bodies

Harley pulled over some meisters away from the gate of his pack and was shocked to the bones at what he was. He got out of the car and started running towards her pack. Marietta followed behind him, forgetting to close the car door or lock it.

He got to the pack's gate and was almost broken down at what he saw, dead bodies were on the floor, some he knew and some he didn't and assumed to be the rival pack members.

Upon seeing this, Marietta almost threw up the leftover food in her stomach, walked over to Harley's side, and gave him a bit of comfort.

They were scattered in a pattern that made up a magic circle causing both Harley and Marietta to look at it again before looking at themselves, trying to remember where they had seen it before.

"I was only gone for a day and this happened." Marietta hugged him even tighter, this time, not to comfort him, but herself because she felt like the more she looked and smelled the strong iron of blood and saw the brutal death of the wolves on the floor, she might do something without thinking it through.

She gently tapped him on the back, grabbing his attention. "Please take me away from here."

Harley immediately knew what she was trying to say. He picked her up and ran towards the pack house, trying as much as possible to avoid the dead bodies on the floor. While running, the stench of Wolfsbane is in the air, his brain already trying to remember the pack that has that type of Wolfsbane.

They saw a couple of people who were walking about and some whose houses were burnt down sitting around which pained him.

He pulled Marietta's head closer to his chest so she wouldn't see.

***

Lexy was icing June's back for her when she felt the presence of Harley and Marietta.

"They are back."

"Yeah, I sense it too," June said with a gowl trying to sit up holding her lower back but Lexy hit her lower back causing her to scream in pain and lay back. "Do you wanna kill me!?"

"Maybe."

"Violent bitch."

"Thank you very much, I really like that nickname. I think that's my new nickname." Lexy said with a smile indicating she was crazy.

"Crazy bitch." June whispered.

"I'll add that too."

"I give up."

***

Harley stopped in front of the pack house and was thankful it hadn't been burnt down. Both Harley and Marietta entered the pack house and were hearing voices and immediately knew who those voices belonged to.

"What are you guys talking about?"

"Nothing important, did you like the surprise we left for you?" Zack said with a smile.

"Ahh that, that was really touching," Harley said, placing his right hand on his chest with a playful smile. "What the heck happened while I was away?"

"There was a surprise guest who decided to surprise us with a surprise attack."

"Hmm, I see. So you're saying that this surprise guest came unnoticed, killed almost half of my pack, and made some of them who survived homeless and injured? Hmm, how satisfying to hear that." Harley said, walking over to the kitchen where Zack, Liam, Lexy, and June were. He pulled out a chair for Marietta and pulled out another for himself.

"Are you guys okay?"

"Let's see, our heads are still intact, both hands are here, both legs are fine too and our ears, eyes, and mouth are here so I'll say we're fine," Zack said, looking from Harley to Marietta.

"Good to hear. You wanna tell me who the surprise guest was?"

"Nah, I'll let you guess three times and if you can't guess right then I'll tell you."

"The Laufey pack?"

"Damn, you're good at this guessing game."

"Nah, he's actually terrible at it," Marietta said looking at her phone.

Harley didn't say anything and stared at her like she said something true but wasn't meant to say it. He looked back at Zack who looked like he was trying to find his laugh back.

"Who attacked?"

"Silas and…Lolla with some members." Zack looked at both Marietta and Harley with concern immediately he said those names.

"I'm sure Thalia was behind it and you guys already know about it."

"Yes, she even asked and paid June to spy on us."

Harley immediately looked at June, "Have you gotten back to her or did she tell you anything?"

"She only asked you to report back to her whatever you're planning or your next move."

"I don't know what to do, that's why I haven't done or said anything yet. What are we going to do?"

"First, we need to get rid of those bodies at the front gate and the burnt car outside the gate."

"What about the circle that looks like magic? Marietta asked, looking at everyone. "Did you see when they were doing it?"

"Nah, we were too busy killing them and trying to protect our pack to see what the others were doing."

Harley didn't say anything and kept nodding his head like he had realized something.

"So, what are we going to do?"

"I'm still thinking. How many survivors?"

"200."

"How many seriously injured?"

"90."

"How many died."

"30 both on the battlefield and in the fire."

"Damn, that was more than I expected." Both Marietta and Harley said.

"How many are on the enemy's side?"

"About 35."

"Huh," Harley said as if he realized something that was missing.

"What?"

"Hmm?"

"What, you said "Huh", which means you have an idea."

"No, I don't."

"Okay."

"Huh," Harley said again.

"That's it, the first time it was natural, while the second one means you know something, so spit it out before I break a cocktail glass cup on your head and stab you with the button," Zack said, moving closer to Harley.

Harley smiled and sat properly making the others move their chairs closer to Harley's.

"You recognize the circle pattern? No right, that's because we haven't seen it in years."

"What do you mean? Speak English please." Lexy said looking at Harley like he was some mad scientist.

"No, I'm speaking Spanish." He said, shoved her to one side, and pulled his chair closer to the table.

June took hold of her hand and pulled her towards her, making her sit on her lap and moved her chair closer to the table as well.

"Please continue, what about that pattern?"

"It's the sign of a witch who has been banished from Miranda's coven because the pattern looks a lot like her coven's but a twisted version."

Marietta's face lit up, immediately understanding what Harley was trying to say. Everyone looked from Harley to Marietta, hoping they would share what they just found out.

After waiting for a while, Lexy had enough. "Care to explain!" Lexy yelled, snapping the two lovers' attention back to them.

"Oh, right, sorry," Marietta said, bringing out her phone and swiping through it until she stopped at one and showed them. They looked at it and looked back at them. "This is a picture of the both of you kissing on the edge of a mountain," Liam said and crossed his arms together.

Marietta withdrew her hand and looked at the picture."Oh, sorry, wrong picture." she swiped her phone to the left and looked at the picture well before showing them again.

" I guess that lady must be Miranda, she's beautiful."

"Yes, she is but that's not what I'm saying, look at the pattern carved on the stone behind us."

Liam took the phone from her and they all looked Into it properly. "It does kinda look like the one outside but a little different at the same time."

"Yes, it does but in that one, there's no line in the middle of the star drawn in the circle and there's a triangle and little eyes in the triangle."

"So, our theory is."

"The witch who helped the Lafuey's pack was from Miranda's coven."

"Yes, but she said that they haven't been able to live in that Coven for years, more like centuries."

"What the fuck, she's even older than our grandparents!"

"Nah Zack, let's just say she's our grandparents' age," Lexy said, going to the fridge and taking out a bottle of water.

"Yes, but it's only a theory, it's not confirmed yet."

"What should we do about… Everything?"

"Like I said earlier, we clean everything up."

"Yeah, but who is going to get rid of the bodies?"

"You."

"What, why me?"

" You know how to dispose of bodies well, don't act like you haven't killed some wild wolves when you went out in the woods for runs and hit their bodies.

"Oh come on Harley, didn't it help? There were less and less reports of wild wolves in the pack sides."

"But what if the bodies are cursed or worse, our pack is cursed?" Liam asked, hugging Zack's arm.

"No, it's not, otherwise I would have felt it."