Reclaimed By My Alpha (Natalia and Andrei) novel Chapter 566

Chapter 566

“It’s no use!” I heard her voice call after me. “He’s already gone, you stupid bitch! He’s not who you think he is anymore! You’ll all die here!”

Her words struck me somewhere deep and painful, but I kept running. We didn’t stop until the hovel was well out of sight. Only then, once we were certain we weren’t being followed, did we rest.

I leaned against a rock and put my hands on my knees, gasping.

He’s already gone.

You’ll all die here.

I hoped those were just the words of a madwoman, but I still couldn’t shake them.

Max sat beside me, panting. I looked at him and opened my mouth to scold him for entering the hovel, but the words wouldn’t come. Truthfully, I was glad he’d done it. And sort of impressed.

“Where did you learn to do that?” I asked.

He looked at the knife in his hand, then folded it and tucked it back in his pocket. “The rope thing or getting through the door?”

“Either. Both.”

He was quiet for a second. “I used to watch Mila and the senior warriors train. In the mornings, before everyone was up. I’d sit up on the wall where no one could see me.”

My eyes narrowed.

“I know you told me I had to wait,” he said before I could respond. “But I figured watching wasn’t the same as joining in. And then I started practicing on my own. In the woods, mostly.”

“For how long?”

“Two years, maybe.”

I felt my brows lift. Two years. He’d been sneaking out and training in secret when I’d specifically told him to wait until he was older.

He was so much like his father that it was almost funny.

“Well. You’re still in trouble,” I said.

“I know.”

“A lot of trouble. When we get home, we’re going to have a very long conversation.”

“Okay.”

“And you’re joining the training officially. I’m not having you learn bad habits sneaking around on your own.”

He looked up at me then, and despite everything, the expression on his face was worth it.

“Really?”

“Don’t make me regret it.”

He pressed his lips together, obviously trying not to smile, and looked away. I looked away too, because I was dangerously close to doing the same thing, and I couldn’t have that right now.

We rested for a short while before I found us a better place to camp. It was about a mile’s hike closer to that dark castle,

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concealed behind more rocks. It wasn’t ideal, but it was witch–free, and relatively sheltered. It would do.

Max was asleep within minutes. I sat with my back against the rock and stared at that castle in the distance.

It was still there on the horizon. I could just make it out from this angle, a dark shape against the red sky. I had no idea how far it was, or what was inside, but somehow I knew that it was where we were supposed to go.

The witch’s words kept echoing in my mind, though, no matter how much I tried to brush them off. She’d said that he was already gone, that he wasn’t who I thought he was, and most of all, that we would all die here.

Was she talking about Andrei?

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