Chapter 144

• Oliver continued with gestures, "I was part of a dark, human group, in fact, I was born there. I was trained on how to assassinate from a young age by my late adoptive dad but was more interested in stealing. One day, I was assigned to steal a unique pendant from a lady in the next country. But reaching there, I shifted into my wolf for the first time, with nobody to walk me through. I did that in the hotel I lodged. There was a grand event that day there and so I guess it might have overshadowed my screams. Of course, the next day I found myself in the forest, I dunno how I got there. But I was nude in the middle of nowhere. No phone, no weapon and no one to ask.
• I was afraid that wild animals would find me and devour me but when I did come across a lion, it ran away from me instead. Same thing as other wild animals, even snakes that I was usually afraid of. That's when I heard Ray, my wolf's voice for the first time. Wasn't easy for me to accept that I'm his host, but I eventually came to terms with it. He showed me the way to the hotel and of course, the shy me stole a few clothes. I didn't want to believe him when he told me about the blur thing that some moon goddess gifted werewolves. I reached the hotel and though everything about the werewolf thing was new to me, I decided, I won't let it interrupt my way of life.
• The thing I wanted to steal actually belonged to an Alpha female of the 59th-ranked pack who was out of her usual abode in the human territory for some important business. I was to steal the pendant that she always carried around. She, however, turned out to be my mate. She had me thrown in prison after she caught my smell in her room. I was careless also since I was relishing the smell of my mate. She took me to her pack where I saw more people who could shapeshift like me and in the pack's prison, she rejected me and called a date for my execution."