Adam didn't answer and looked at Ryan, and then at Leon, who was sitting on the floor, as if he didn't know there was a different movement in the house, and Anna followed his gaze and realized that Ryan was in chains.
"Tell that bitch to say the words, Adam, or those chains won't hold me. I'll do far worse to her than I did to all the virgins you sent me." Ryan growled.
"You should be more polite to those who are here to help you, Ryan." Anna said amused and felt a tug on her hair. She looked over and Adam was holding a lock of her hair in his hand, and suddenly, his fingernail grew and he cut off the red curl, and handed it to another werewolf who left immediately.
"Anna, repeat exactly the words I'm going to say, it doesn't matter if you don't understand them, but I need you to try and reproduce them exactly the way I'm going to say them. Can you do that?"
"I'm childish, Adam. Children like this game of imitating an idiot adult." She said sarcastically and Adam knelt down beside her.
"I dag begynner min reise som beskytter av varulver. Med min kraft, som er arvet fra mine forfedre, i dag, er trolldommen som hekser en gang dominerte og bandt varulver, og gjorde dem sårbare for deres vilje, brutt, og jeg vil være ditt bindeledd med fornuft, med selvkontroll, og jeg vil bruke min makt til å beskytte og hjelpe alfaen, for å opprettholde orden, uten behov for inngripen av hekser, og jeg lover at livet mitt vil være viet til denne omsorgen, og også de av barna mine, som genererer evnen til å gjøre magi, og hvis jeg en dag svikter, eller forråder løftet mitt, må personen jeg elsker mest dø. "
Anna repeated the words and with her eyes closed, she felt something begin to pass through her body, it was as if a gentle wind was hitting her and penetrating her flesh. After a while, Adam spoke again and she repeated.
"Jeg frigjør varulvene fra alle trollformler laget av vanlige hekser, og jeg gir dem min beskyttelseskraft, slik at de ikke bare ledes av dyre- og villinstinkter, noe som gjør det umulig for dem å leve i samfunnet uten å bli lagt merke til av mennesker Jeg påkaller kreftene til de syv tåkene, og fra nå av påtar jeg meg alle plikter og forpliktelser som er relevante for vår art. Nå er jeg tåken. Evigvarende ingen varulv vil bli utsatt for utpressing for å være fri fra å oppføre seg som dyr, når det ikke er deres vilje, erklærer jeg at jeg og mine arvinger alltid vil overta stillingen som beskyttere av varulver død, utført i hendene på Alfa Og når jeg dør, eller hvis jeg vender meg bort fra dem, selv om jeg opprettholder min beskyttelse, vil en av mine arvinger ta min plass, må min straff være en av barna mine. Jeg er tåken, og jeg erklærer det. Jeg aksepterer og proklamerer denne avtalen, og fra nå av er alle varulver knyttet til meg, og fri fra sin natur, og kan forvandle seg når de vil. Og hvis jeg mislykkes, vil dette oppdraget automatisk gå over til arvingen min."
Anna repeated the words with her eyes closed and when she opened them, Ryan was in his human form, and together with Adam and Leon, they were watching her with enigmatic smiles. She looked in the direction that was stealing their attention and noticed that the red tips of her hair were glowing. She turned with surprised eyes to Adam, but the sound of the claws sharpening each other was too intense, and she put her hands over her ears, seconds before fainting.
...
Anna woke up in her room at the mansion and Adam was looking at her, his face gloomy, his hands in his pants pockets.
"Are you feeling all right?"
"I... you brought me back?"
"Ryan brought you. I needed to stay and deliver the instructions to the werewolves who live in DreamStone."
Anna sat down.
"Why were the werewolves doing that with their claws?"
Adam stared at Anna sharply.
"What will it change your life to know that?"
Anna shook her head.
"You're an ingrate."
"That's the way werewolves recognize my family's authority."
"Was that so hard for you to tell me?"
"That tradition was created by Allister."
Anna was livid.
"Can't you change that tradition?"
"I'll think of something."
"Why do I feel like something came out of me when I said those words? It was as if I was making a pact..."
"You'll understand everything yet, Anna. When the time is right."
Anna stood up.
"I'm going to take a shower. I'm exhausted." She said and left, going into the bedroom bathroom and locking the door from the inside.
Adam then let the smile spring to his lips. Anna was forever linked to him. If she left, she would have to leave one of her children and he knew she would never accept anything like that. It was selfish what he had done, but now there was no going back and she would have her reward. Sarah could be killed without harm to the werewolves. She was a little girl, but she should have known that everything had a price. And the price of her revenge was her soul.
...
Adam went into Ian's room and couldn't stop his pride from shining in his eyes. That was his boy. He knew he had inherited his temper. He had shot Bonnie, as if it were his right, and at no point had he apologized for doing so. He had no regrets. That day had started to feel really good right then. He then called Alexandre to find out the details of what was happening to Bonnie, and after he told him that she was being held between life and death, he was indifferent, and instructed
Alexander to leave only one of the men there, and that the others should return to their posts. He also told her that when she got better, he would take her to one of his apartments in Nevada. She would never go back to that mansion again.
The werewolves asked him to give up the healing water, which they knew only the Alpha had access to, but Adam refused. Bonnie didn't know their secret, but she already suspected that there was something different about them. If she healed miraculously, she would no longer have doubts, but absolute certainty.